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How Vermont is winning the fight against falling enrollment

University Business

Vermont’s public four-year institutions in fall 2022; however, hit a whopping 12.2% University leaders also added that the decision would save the school $500,000 annually. Following the widespread pushback, Vermont State University conceded, promising to keep 10% of its current collection.

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University of Rochester Black Studies Department to Accelerate Cluster-Hiring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Building off of its decades-old Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African American Studies, the New York state private research university established its Black studies department in late 2022 , an endeavor headed by McCune, an associate professor of Black studies.

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Consolidating touch points for retention

Inside Higher Ed

“I think that’s the next evolution: How do we engage these areas of campus that are the glue and consolidate those services in a way that it’s easier to use, easier to find and easier to manage,” asks Sine, who spent 15 years as a higher ed administrator.

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What Faculty Know (and Don’t Know) About Transfer—and Why It Matters

Inside Higher Ed

She is a former provost of Hunter College and former executive vice chancellor and university provost and interim chancellor of CUNY. From 2008 to 2014 she was executive vice chancellor and university provost of the CUNY system. Alexandra W. Vita Rabinowitz Alexandra W. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Field of study not key to new academic program success

Inside Higher Ed

An Inside Higher Ed survey of college and university provosts published earlier this month found about 75 percent agreeing that politicians and the institution’s board members are prioritizing STEM and professional programs over those that support general education. “A working group was convened in Spring of 2022.

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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Western Michigan University Provost Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Lori Gottschling For Vasquez Heilig—a prominent public policy researcher who has carved out a national reputation both in and outside academic circles for his scholarship on equity and innovation—the pendulum at WMU is swinging in the right direction.

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