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Stacey Abrams Appointed Inaugural Ronald W. Walters Endowed Chair for Race and Black Politics at Howard University

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She was also the first African American woman to win a major party nomination for governor as the Democratic nominee in Georgia, though she lost both gubernatorial elections in 2018 and 2022. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, and a J.D. from Yale University.

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A sectorwide approach to higher ed's future (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Here at American University, we doubled our externally funded research over the last five years, and we opened a new Hall of Science that stands alongside our historic strengths in public affairs and international service.

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Enrollment trends new and old emerge from pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

Grawe, the author of Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education and The Agile College (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018 and 2021 ). That makes the numbers we’re going to see really interesting,” said Nathan D. Some stories are more disheartening than others.

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Fraternities cut ties with USC

Inside Higher Ed

John Hechinger, author of True Gentlemen: The Broken Pledge of America’s Fraternities ( Public Affairs, 2017 ), said that, crucially, disaffiliated fraternities also lose out on access to free educational training in Title IX regulations and sexual assault prevention. “It is very difficult to rein them in.”

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Autonomy Scorecard

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Not only does it use an active research program to back up it’s public affairs and government relations agendas, it actively tries to use comparative public policy analysis to help its members – who hail from over 40 countries – to pursue reform agendas in their respective states.

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Central European University’s Complicated Legal Geographies

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It’s worth noting that Cole is author of The Great American University: Its Rise To Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected (Public Affairs, 2009), one of the seminal texts about state-society-economy conditions and associated policies and programs that enabled U.S. academic programs through KEE.

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HEI Resources 2025

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Public Affairs. Graeber, David (2018) B t Jobs: A Theory. and Kelly Nielson (2021) Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities Hampel, Robert L. Lukianoff, Greg and Jonathan Haidt (2018). Cabrera, Nolan L. Teachers College Press. Cabrera, Nolan L. Rutgers University Press. Cappelli, P.

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