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Jackson Makes SEC History with Head Baseball Coach Appointment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He also served in an administrative position in Major League Baseball. In 2019, Jackson led the Southern Jaguars to winning the Southwestern Athletic Conference championship in 2019 – the team’s first SWAC championship since 2009 – and Southern's first 30-win season since 2012. 500 record in six years.

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Pushing to No Longer Keep Meredith College a ‘Best-Kept Secret’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jo Allen, the retiring president of Meredith College, enjoys the administrative part of higher ed. Spurred on by this interest in universities’ inner workings, Allen went on to eventually lead in an administrative capacity as senior vice president and provost at Widener University before returning to Meredith as its leader in July 2011.

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Broadening the Scope of Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education

Faculty Focus

Learning About, For, and Through Enterprise Pittaway and Edwards (2012) provide classifications in forms of enterprise and entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship education is presented as an academic discipline, much like history or sociology, with teaching, learning, and assessment methods aligned accordingly, such as lectures and essays.

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Brown to Use All Union Labor on Building Projects Over $25M

Inside Higher Ed

“This new agreement formalizes Brown’s commitment, and we look forward to building on our history of support for career development among construction laborers and seeing even more local residents thrive and succeed.” Paxson said in a university news release announcing the agreement to use all union labor. Hide by line?:

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After “exhausting all avenues” to avoid going under, Notre Dame College closes

University Business

Administrators from Notre Dame College in Ohio have announced that the century-old Roman Catholic school in Ohio will be closing its doors at the end of the semester. Aside from enrollment challenges, administrators cited inflation and a “significant drop” in fundraising. The university was 126 years old.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Philosophers like Descartes and Leibniz speculated on machine cognition, while 19th-century pioneers Babbage and Lovelace laid computing’s foundations (Copeland, 2012). The 18th-century Jaquet-Droz automatamechanical dolls mimicking human actionsfurthered this vision (Riskin, 2016).

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Broadening the Scope of Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education

Faculty Focus

Learning About, For, and Through Enterprise Pittaway and Edwards (2012) provide classifications in forms of enterprise and entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship education is presented as an academic discipline, much like history or sociology, with teaching, learning, and assessment methods aligned accordingly, such as lectures and essays.