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President moves: End of the line for this president’s remarkable 25-year career

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Shari Olson, Northland Community College Shari Olsen has been promoted to permanent president of Northland Community College, effective immediately. Kalamazoo College President Jorge Gonzalez is retiring after serving at the top post of the liberal arts institution for 10 years. She has served in the interim since July 2024.

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The Art and Science of Higher Ed Leadership

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Embracing Leadership Opportunities From department chair to interim chancellor, President Stokes served in leadership positions at three institutions before joining UNM. When I left for a provost job at University of Missouri , I was excited about a new opportunity at a Midwestern university.

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Colleges used these 3 strategies to spark big enrollment rebounds this Fall

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Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberal arts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year. While the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s enrollment overall is down from Fall 2022, it has seen an 11.5%

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Harvard University Names First Black President

Insight Into Diversity

Harvard University’s 30th president will be the first Black leader and second woman to hold the position. On Thursday, the university announced Claudine Gay, PhD, will take office in July 2023, succeeding Lawrence Bacow. Gay is the current dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

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University of Austin, the self-proclaimed antidote to college campus ‘illiberalism,’ is now accepting fall 2024 applications

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After announcing its founding in 2021, the University of Austin has won approval to issue liberal arts degrees and is now accepting undergraduate students for fall 2024, The Texas Tribune reports. I mean that quite literally…” the university stated on X, formerly known as Twitter.

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Disruption, Evolution, and Leadership

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A Conversation With Paul LeBlanc, President, Southern New Hampshire University. When President LeBlanc began his first higher ed leadership position in 1996, the year of the dotcom boom, he saw a role for digital technology at Vermont's small, struggling Marlboro College. "I I couldn't get them to do fully virtual degrees.

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Pros and Cons of Higher Ed Mergers and Alliances: with Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Ricardo Azziz | Changing Higher Ed Podcast 031

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The most complex merger involved Georgia Health Sciences University and Augusta State University, which created one larger and more comprehensive institution than either had been separately. The University System of Georgia has had waves of mergers. What are the pros and cons of Higher Ed Mergers and Alliances?