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Pollard to Receive Dr. Dorothy C. Yancy Vanguard Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Pollard Oakwood University President Dr. Leslie N. Yancy Vanguard Award, bestowed upon HBCU presidents who demonstrate steady and transformative leadership. “It Yancy left Georgia Tech in 1994 to become the president of Johnson C. Smith in North Carolina, and she accepted the presidency at Shaw University in 2009.

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Narcissistic presidents linked to “deterioration” in performance, study shows

University Business

The British study published on Research Policy examined the performance of higher education institutions by collecting data from the National Student Survey (NSS) website, the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) and others over 10 years beginning with the 2009-10 academic year.

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Harvard Biological Engineering Institute Receives $350M Gift

Inside Higher Ed

Entrepreneur and philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss has donated an additional $350 million to Harvard University to support the research center that bears his name: the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Wyss, a graduate of Harvard Business School, donated $125 million to establish the institute in 2009.

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3 Initiatives That Nurture Student Success and Unlock Higher Enrollments

University Business

According to Deloitte, one in three students reported a mental health disorder in 2020, and rates of major depression on campus doubled between 2009 and 2019 (from 8 percent to 18 percent). Just consider the topic of student mental health. Make career preparation your priority .

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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2009, he returned to his undergraduate alma mater, Xavier University in New Orleans, an HBCU and the only Black Catholic institution in the world. Williams took a pay cut leaving the corporate world, but he knew it was worth it. From there, Williams’s career took off. For Williams, his goals are more modest, at the moment.

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The 100th Innovating Together Podcast

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Citing just one memorable moment of a leader voicing a powerful, eloquent truth, Dr. Burns recalled a 2020 conversation with Arizona State University President Michael Crow : "He talks about that we're just sailing, that these are choppy winds, these are intense seas, but it's just sailing.

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Leadership at All Levels of Higher Ed

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Prior to these positions, she was Assistant Provost at Colorado Community College System from January 2009 to December 2016. Co-Host: Bridget Burns , Executive Director, University Innovation Alliance Dr. Bridget Burns is the founding Executive Director of the University Innovation Alliance (UIA). Dr. Sacks holds a Ph.D.