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Department of Education Resumes Federal Student Loan Collections After Four-Year Pause

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But millions of Americans were hoping for student debt relief, as outlined in the forthcoming book The Student Debt Crisis: America's Moral Urgency written by Dr. Jamal Watson, a Diverse editor and professor and associate dean of graduate studies at Trinity Washington University. The book is scheduled to be released in September 2025.

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Mount Holyoke Taps Howard University Law Dean to Lead College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Howard University law professor and dean has been named Mount Holyoke College’s first permanent Black female president in the institution’s 186-year history. This is a full-circle moment for me, because Dean Holley was my very first hire as president of Howard in 2014,” said Dr. Wayne A. Danielle Ren Holley is breaking ground.

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Value Entrepreneurs – Driven by Mission

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I argue in my book Capitalizing on College that the way forward for these value entrepreneurs must include recognizing they are not alone and that their similarities are greater than their differences. The founders came here on an ox-pulled cart and developed all this, one administrator told me, pointing across the campus.

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New book links teaching critical thinking to student success

Inside Higher Ed

Newman argues in Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success (Radius Book Group). Newman, whose book will be published March 7, is former dean of academic advising at Stanford University and John M. Newman’s new book is ‘Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success.’

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3 Questions on Academic Library Spending to the Scholar Who Wrote the Book on University Budgets

Inside Higher Ed

In his book, Like Nobody's Business: An Insider's Guide to How US University Finances Really Work (Open Book Publishers, 2021), Andrew digs into academic library budgeting. It is possible that library deans or the Association of College and Research Libraries know of a study aimed at exactly this issue.

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First African American Dean Blazes Trail for Northwestern Music

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The dean of Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music was the first woman in the role and first African American dean at the university in general. Montgomery, who joined Northwestern in 2003, said she was also the first African American dean at the University of Kansas, serving in its School of Fine Arts. “I

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Tamym Abdessemed, Excelia Business School

The PIE News

With my diverse background as a professor, researcher, director at multiple levels, and as Dean for years, I have a strong commitment to quality improvement and processes enrichment, both nationally and globally. Book or podcast recommendation for others in the sector? What makes food good is very often the company!

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