The PIE News

APRIL 30, 2025

In 2017, when GEMS first started the co-development of the new British International University (BIU) in the Kurdish region of Iraq, it was crystal clear that the major attraction of a British TNE offering would have to include medical education.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Boston University (BU) announced Wednesday that Melissa L. Gilliam, PhD, has been named the school’s 11th president, making her the first woman and first African American to serve in the role. Her appointment concludes a year-long search at BU that drew nearly 400 candidates worldwide, the university reports. The post Melissa L.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A London medical school has signed a merger agreement with one of the capital’s leading universities, bidding to create a “world-class institution”. City St George’s, which combines City, University of London and St. In 2021/22, of the university’s 4,825 total students, 285 were international.

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The Higher Ed Marketer

JUNE 14, 2022

In this episode, Dr. Michael Rice details his next exciting opportunity: Director of Admissions at the Osteopathic Medical School at Duquesne University. The school is currently being built from the ground up and will start matriculating students in 2024.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Hollingsworth had always dreamed of attending an historically Black college and university (HBCU). Hollingsworth ended up attending and getting her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work from the University of Northern Iowa, which has a relatively small Black population. Iowa native Juana D. For her Ph.D.,

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The PIE News

MAY 16, 2024

As policies restricting international student inflows take hold in Canada , Australia and the UK , “there is ample room for the international student population to grow” in the US, it said. To maximise this capacity for growth, universities “could offer more scholarships and run targeted marketing campaigns in key regions to help with brand awareness (..)

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HEPI

JUNE 12, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Naimat Zafary, a PhD researcher at the University of Sussex and a former Afghan Chevening Scholar. Today, 13 June 2024, marks 1,000 days since girls’ education was banned in Afghanistan. My sister was supposed to sit for her final medical exit exam, yet remains a doctor without a certificate.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2023

Governor Glenn Youngkin's proposed budget amendments for the 2023-2024 biennium includes a plan to merge two Hampton Roads schools into one. Youngkin's budget includes a framework and timeline to merge Eastern Virginia Medical School and Old Dominion University.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Several colleges and universities across the U.S. Arkansas State University, Indiana University Bloomington, and Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine stand out as examples of how institutions can promote Hispanic and Latino students and studies by showcasing their commitment to diversity, cultural understanding, and student success.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Bess Brennan, Chief of University Partnerships at Cadmus. Post pandemic, how can universities maintain the benefits of digital delivery of exams while preserving academic integrity in an online environment – and do it at scale? Students can also pre-book a university laptop if they prefer.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

Image: Belmont University, a private Christian institution in Nashville, Tenn., University leaders recently announced they’re specifically recruiting Jewish faculty members to teach in three of its graduate programs, hopefully as early as this spring. It’s one of the things that makes Belmont great.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Salcedo is the director of the Center for Community College Partnerships at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Prior to starting this position in April 2024, Salcedo spent two years as assistant director for administration of the Academic Advancement Program working with Alexander, who has directed AAP for over a decade.

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HEPI

JULY 23, 2024

This long read was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. From the inherent right to grant degrees to requiring permission The power to permit the award of degrees began as an inherent right of the first English universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

For the first time in nearly 50 years, the number of Black medical schools in the country is growing. The fourth and newest, an independent four-year medical program at the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU) in Los Angeles, opened in early July with 60 students. Dr. John W.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The firm, which officially relaunched in January 2024, has already completed nearly 50 searches in its first year of operation far exceeding its initial goal of 10. Despite earning a biochemistry degree at Lamar University with parental expectations of medical school, Doman found his true calling in student affairs.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

It is promising studies in English and French, two languages widely used in African schools, with the option of also studying in Russian after a seven to 10 months of pre-university language course. It is well known that Russian medical schools are the best in the world.

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University Business

JULY 24, 2024

For college leaders, the one piece of news that might be most relevant is the possibility of a Kamala Harris presidency after President Joe Biden announced the end of his 2024 bid. “There are going to be people who are going to try and shut you up,” she told students at Hampton University last fall. Who is Kamala Harris?

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HEPI

MAY 22, 2025

At a recent roundtable discussion of university leaders convened by HEPI with Elsevier, the focus was the concept of the Fourth Generation University. One former head of a medical school said that he had never been asked what society needed of his institution.

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