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Colleges hire directors to tackle student basic needs

Inside Higher Ed

College administrators nationwide were already starting to tackle the issue in recent years but homed in on it after the pandemic revealed stark economic disparities among students. A month after she graduated in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in history and global culture, she was hired by her alma mater to do just that.

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

HEPI

Then of course there are ‘events’ which can swipe an administration from the side like an unexpected storm. For higher education, a political affairs reset began long before the polls concluded. We make our own history but not in the times of our own choosing. Who would bet against at least a few ‘unknown unknowns’.

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Enrollment trends new and old emerge from pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

Administrators at colleges that had modest gains are being more circumspect and have adopted a wait-and-see attitude. The overhaul came in 2021, with a new president and a slate of fresh administrators. It also enrolled more than 1,000 international students, the most in the institution’s 123-year history.

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Two Calls to Defend Our Universities

Academe Blog

If our research and teaching mission is compromised, what future discoveries will be lost, and at what cost to the public health and welfare of all Californians? The Academic Senate is one of the pillars of shared governance of the University of California, along with the Regents and the administration.

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What is Higher Ed Community Looking for in State of the Union Address?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Supreme Court, to indicate that his administration will not give up on relief for student borrowers. “It DeSantis is doing in a way that stigmatizes those who are genuinely concerned about parental rights or who care about teaching history the way that they learned it.” I don’t want him to come out and condemn everything that Gov.

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Hamline reviews policies that set off academic freedom dispute

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Hamline University has been engrossed in an academic freedom debate this year over the actions of an adjunct instructor at the private Minnesota institution who was teaching global art history. The idea that any one student’s beliefs can trump the honest teaching of art history is a chilling idea indeed.

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HEI Resources 2025

Higher Education Inquirer

Public Affairs. 2017) For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America Cornell University Press. Women and Higher Education in American History. The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All Administrative University and Why It Matters Gleason, Philip. American higher education: A history.