Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

In his book, Like Nobody's Business: An Insider's Guide to How US University Finances Really Work (Open Book Publishers, 2021), Andrew digs into academic library budgeting. Q2: Can you help us understand academic library budgets within the broader context of university budgets? then versus about 1.5%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Testy served as Dean and Professor of Law at University of Washington School of Law from 2009 to 2017 and at Seattle University School of Law from 2005 to 2009. She began her career as a law professor at the University of Puget Sound in 1992, which then became Seattle University.

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HEPI

JUNE 6, 2023

On the website of nearly every university, you will find an explanation that the institution is a charity. And why are universities not generally talked about as charities, in the same way as, say, Oxfam or Macmillan Cancer Support? Of course, the fundamental question is whether all our not-for-profit universities are charities at all.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A new report is calling for internationalisation at home to be a central part of the UK’s next higher education strategy, as it warns of a decline in international diversity within universities. The post Commission warns of international diversity decline for UK universities appeared first on The PIE News.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Sandeep Mazumder, Berry College The Berry College Board of Trustees has tapped first-time president Sandeep Mazumder , dean of Baylor University’s business school beginning in July. Unclear: He became dean at Baylor in July or he becomes president of Berry in July? Hired Sandeep Mazumder – Berry College (Ga.)

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University Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Cantwell – Washington State University Elizabeth Cantwell, after less than two years at the helm of Utah State University, has accepted an appointment elsewhere. In April, she becomes the first female president at Washington State University. Marie Hardin – Quinnipiac University (Conn.) Elizabeth R.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Burwell has announced that she will step down as president of American University at the end of the upcoming academic year. Burwell, the institution’s 15 th president and its first female leader, has been in the post since 2017. That experience was critical as she led the university through the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Image: Like many institutions aiming to better serve student mental health needs, Wright State University in Ohio is redesigning its counseling center. Rando had worked at Wright State for 24 years; in 2017 he received a lifetime achievement award from the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD).

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Robert MacIntosh, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Business and Law at Northumbria University. Whilst UK traditions dictate an academic year which starts in the autumn, many universities now offer postgraduate degrees with start dates in January for international students. Their opinion is clear.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Image: A professor who accused Auburn University officials of retaliating against him for blowing the whistle on the athletics program intervening in academics prevailed in court last week—in part. While we disagree with the [trial’s] outcome, the university respects the judicial process. I’m going to hear about this.”

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Liaison International

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Back in 2017, I had a “eureka” moment. I was leading recruitment at the “New Jefferson,” the result of the recent merger of Philadelphia University and Thomas Jefferson University. We called the program Jefferson RISE and partnered with University Marketing to promote it. We wanted to make it a big deal.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

We’ve also seen a succession of extremely short-lived presidencies, at universities including Auburn, Central Florida, Colorado, Louisville, Oklahoma, Oregon State, Tulsa and Wyoming, no doubt partly because fewer presidents are hired without sufficient vetting or due diligence or faculty and student input.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2024

The University of South Carolina has announced that former South Carolina Gov. The mission of the law school is to educate lawyer leaders for their communities, our state and nation,” said William Hubbard, dean of the Joseph F. Between 2017 and 2023, he served as executive director of the U.N. Rice School of Law.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

Image: When Andrea Mora enrolled at University of California, Irvine, in 2012, she was a low-income, first-generation student. Mora now has professional counterparts at all 10 campuses in the University of California system. It was also a way for the university to make the position permanent.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

“Even though there are wonderful colleges and universities across the states and country, they can’t find enough students to enroll, and every year there are headlines about colleges folding or being acquired.” Josef Sorett, dean of Columbia College at Columbia University and vice president for undergraduate education.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 2, 2023

Image: When Ruth Simmons assumed the presidency of Prairie View A&M University in 2017, it was considered a major boost to the historically Black university. “I will support the efforts of faculty, staff and students who seek the best for themselves and their university.

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University Business

DECEMBER 20, 2023

received the most Chinese students of any country , anchored by a 41% increase from the 2017-18 academic year to the 2021-22 academic year. During Ulrich’s recent visit to a university in Australia, an entire new dormitory had been built to accommodate their increased number of international students. In 2021, the U.K.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Sniegowski holds a bachelor’s degree in music from the Indiana University School of Music; an M.A. in biology from Indiana University, Bloomington; and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

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HEPI

MARCH 12, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Dr Harriet Dunbar-Morris, Dean of Learning and Teaching at the University of Portsmouth, and Tom Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at the University of Portsmouth. What has changed?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Wim Van der Stede , LSE’s new Academic Dean for Extended Education, graciously agreed to answer my questions about these new programs. LSE, with University of London, has been leading the charge in terms of online undergraduate degrees for quite some time with 2U. Why now and why this route? Are economic forces at play?

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

His last academic appointment was at Mercy from 2017 to 2020 as the vice president of academic affairs. Prior to that, he served as the president of Wilmington College (Ohio) and the founding associate dean of health sciences at Heidelberg University. Cloud State University (Minn.) Robbyn Wacker – St.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Image: Harvard University announced its 30th president Thursday, drawing from within to hire Claudine Gay, the first Black president in the institution’s nearly 400-year history. Gay, currently the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was hired after a search that began in July to replace Lawrence S.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). Harkins (Monaco), EdD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Special Education, Professional Counseling, and Disability Studies at William Paterson University. Ong-Dean, C. Valle, J.W.,

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Here is what it looks like: Full+Part-Time 2020 38,510 2019 40,884 2018 41,479 2017 41,490 2016 41,993 2015 42,782 2014 43,610 2013 44,677 2012 67,074 Not sure why there was such a significant drop between 2013 and 2012. The data available spans from 2012 to 2020. Probably some change in how library staff are counted. What is going on?

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HEPI

JUNE 23, 2024

This blog was kindly authored by Professor Robert Dover, Interim Dean of the Faculty of Business, Law and Politics, University of Hull. The domestic tuition fee in England has been capped at £9250 since 2017 (having been £9,000 since 2012). Here he writes in a personal capacity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne PHOTO COURTESY OF CUNY Becoming Dean of Macaulay Honors College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), enables Dr. Dara N. From December 2016 to July 2022, when she left to begin her new position, she served as associate provost for undergraduate retention and dean of undergraduate studies.

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University Business

JANUARY 10, 2023

Woo, a former University of Virginia dean, took over in 2017 shortly after alumnae, students, faculty and others successfully fought attempts by the board of trustees to shut the college down. The post After spearheading Sweet Briar’s revival, President Meredith Woo will step down appeared first on University Business.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Mills’ extensive involvement with the university since 1999 put her at the forefront of the race. The president-designate was NYU’s Vice Chancellor and Senior Vice Provost for Global Programs and University Life for the past decade and is a lifetime member of the school’s senior leadership team.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

But Dougherty Family College (DFC), a two-year associate degree program at the University of St. DFC has graduated an average of 56% of its students since its formation in 2017. That’s just how Dr. Buffy Smith, DFC’s dean, intended it. How has the college pulled this off? By smothering its students with support.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Many colleges and universities have struggled to prepare for generative AI on campus, for instance, by providing guiding policies or pedagogical support. Discord between these three camps, combined with slow university governance procedures, could force the AI waves to a Himalayan height. What can be done?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For a decade prior to coming to Claremont Graduate University (CGU), she worked as a clinical therapist in DePauw University’s counseling center. CGU’s former dean of students and campus life, she arrived on campus in 2017 and became the school’s chief student affairs officer in June 2023. “So, Carter holds a B.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Image: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill leaders have given mixed messages about what sounded, at least initially, like the university is trying to resurrect plans for a conservative campus center. David Boliek, chairman of Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees, was rather specific in a Jan. 28 interview on Fox and Friends.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Many colleges and universities have struggled to prepare for generative AI on campus, for instance, by providing guiding policies or pedagogical support. Discord between these three camps, combined with slow university governance procedures, could force the AI waves to a Himalayan height. What can be done?

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

That was the first such dip since 2017, and experts said at the time that COVID-19 was probably a factor. “This is both because universities were freezing job searches and because students were delaying graduation,” Stewart said. That’s 2,974 fewer than in 2020. Last year’s survey report showed a slight, 0.7

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

This journey begins not only on the Martian surface but right here on Earth, in our universities. Research suggests that high school and university students who employ interdisciplinary approaches tend to achieve as well or better academically (Campbell & Henning, 2010). 2017; Liu et al.,

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Cady Short-Thompson of Northern Kentucky University is returning to the university that kickstarted her career in faculty and administration, tasked with pulling it out of a budget deficit and enrollment hole. Hired Agenia Walker Clark – Fisk University (Tenn.)

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