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Fierce Advocate for Community College Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Walker-Griffea’s career in academia began at age 21. Her undergraduate degree is in radio/television/film: news and public affairs. People have chosen to attend Mott, because they believe that they can succeed, because we have care and concern for everybody.”

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Black and Hispanic Students Far Less Likely to Receive Race-Matched Instruction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“There’s literally a dozen different inflection points along that path to becoming a professor, obstacles that require early interventions that won’t show any results for a long time,” said Dr. Seth Gershenson, a professor of public policy at American University’s School of Public Affairs.

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Lunchtime Reading: Communicating the value of higher education to government in a new political era

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25 years later that project which uniquely brought together academia, industry, national and regional government is a flagship advanced manufacturing research campus of the kind every government in the UK and beyond wants. And so we joined forces. Projects it inspired are found in Wales and Scotland. Didn’t expect to see us here?

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Autonomy Scorecard

HESA

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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HEI Resources 2025

Higher Education Inquirer

Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education. Public Affairs. [Editor's Note: Please let us know of any additions or corrections.] Books Alexander, Bryan (2020). Johns Hopkins Press. Alexander, Bryan (2023). Universities on Fire. Johns Hopkins Press. Johns Hopkins University Press. Princeton University Press. Cappelli, P.

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