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College Completion Rates Edging Upward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jorge Silva-Puras, the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Student Success at Lehman College, which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY), noted that the six-year completion rate at Lehman is around 51%. It was a 30-percentage point gap in the 2010 cohort between the highest income students and the lowest.

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President moves: This Florida university has finally selected its next leader

University Business

John Butler, who has been involved with administrative leadership since 2010. Serving on the president’s senior leadership team since 2010, Boston College considers Butler an architect of its revamped core curriculum. He routinely partnered with the provost and vice president of student affairs.

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Excluding Level 7 modules from the LLE is a huge, missed opportunity

HEPI

Elsewhere on the site, Professor Harriet Dunbar-Morris, Pro Vice-Chancellor Academic and Provost at The University of Buckingham, highlights what is, in her view, a critical flaw in the LLE: the unfair funding gap facing students on accelerated two-year degree programmes, despite their clear benefits for employability and skills development.

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Dr. Cady Short-Thompson Appointed President of Northern Kentucky University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She previously served as provost at Hope College and dean at Cincinnati Blue Ash College. From 1996 to 2010, she taught at the school as a professor of communication, graduate program director, and department chair. This appointment marks a return to NKU for Short-Thompson.

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Cruzado Wins 2024 Council of Fellows Mentor Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Cruzado, who has served as president of Montana State since 2010, has a storied career in higher education leadership. “Each one was a teacher and I learned from them as much as I gave. They are all remarkable people and I cherish the time we shared on this pursuit that is higher education.”

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The Erosion of DEI in Higher Education: A Threat to Progress and National Strength

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Page in a book published in 2010 concluded diversity created “better groups, firms, schools and societies.” For presidents and provosts in challenging states: In states where anti-DEI legislation has been enacted, collaborate with legal counsel to explore lawful avenues for fostering inclusive workspaces and learning environments.

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Librarians should stand with the Internet Archive (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In The Librarian’s Book of Lists ( ALA, 2010 ), George M. is the Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway University Librarian and vice provost for library affairs at Duke. MacKenzie Smith is university librarian and vice provost of digital scholarship at University of California, Davis.

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