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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Vernon Dunn, director of The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering at the National Academy of Engineers, first met Williams at one of the summer programs Williams ran at Xavier. Dunn says he speaks with Williams daily, seeking advice on managing people, navigating spaces, and how to best lead his program of young engineers.

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Experts Gathered to Discuss Challenges Facing Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When Dirks first arrived at the University of California, Berkeley in 2012, where he served as chancellor, the state’s allocations amounted to 12% of the university budget. Dirks said t hat percentage shrunk to 10% by the time he left in 2017, which resulted in increased tuition.

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Capital Funding Strategies in Higher Education: How Universities Are Solving Infrastructure and Student Housing Challenges: Changing Higher Ed podcast 256 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Brent Miller of HED

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Three Takeaways for University Presidents and Boards Match Funding Models to Mission: Ensure any capital projectregardless of funding sourcesupports the institutions long-term vision. They actually had a university that was part of General Motors that they would be training people on how to engineer automobiles.

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President moves: hearty welcomes and rocky goodbyes

University Business

He discovered his passion for student affairs first serving as a resident advisor and as a graduate hall director at Miami University Ohio, and he went on to develop his craft in a pair of institutions in Maryland. in civil engineering from Arizona State University. He was the university’s first Black president.

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Pros and Cons of Higher Ed Mergers and Alliances: with Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Ricardo Azziz | Changing Higher Ed Podcast 031

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Therefore, much of the planning for the merger that resulted in Augusta University was done by the board and the administrative level of the University System of Georgia. He co-authored a 2017 report for the TIA Institute and a book, Strategic Mergers and Higher Education, published by John Hopkins Press.

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Venezuelan Higher Education

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I’m thinking particularly of the engineer strike at Petroleos de Venezuela. What did Hugo Chavez want to do with universities initially? Explicitly, the idea was that the previous university system had excluded many students, and that they now had to be given access to higher education. That’s the status.

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The Impact of Crushing Student Debt on American Society: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions: Changing Higher Education Podcast 164 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest David Linton

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However, in 2017, Professor Douglas Webber of Temple University roughly found that for every $1,000 in state budget cuts, students pay an extra $300 – $315 more per year in tuition and fees. In 2017, Professor Douglas Webber of Temple University tested that hypothesis. What can presidents do? What can boards do?