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Succession Planning in HBCUs Ensures Long-Term Sustainability

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Succession planning in universities typically involves multiple levels, including: • Executive leadership: Identifying and grooming potential successors for critical executive positions, such as the president, provost, and vice president. Christine Johnson McPhail serves as president of Saint Augustine’s University. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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Community College Students’ Expectations for Service Have Risen Since the Pandemic

EAB

Ninety-nine percent of respondents agree better customer service is essential to student retention, which creates an urgent need for institutions to become more service-oriented and responsive to students’ concerns and questions. 62 percent recognize that students must take time away from their families and jobs to resolve college issues.

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Guiding Community Colleges Toward Mission Fulfillment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When helping colleges with their data infrastructure, there is a template that ATD provides that colleges build systems around. The metrics include course completion, retention, program completion and program completion with wage gains. You may be having a conversation on data with a group of senior leaders.

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Are the Benefits of OPM Partnerships Worth the Risk?

EAB

And so this is a very important strategic decision that the university or college leadership team needs to make, is how does online delivery, online education fit into our larger mission and strategy as an institution and what is driving our plans for growth, right? CH: Oftentimes Deans can figure this out on their own.

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Are OPM Partnerships Your Ticket to Online Growth?

EAB

And so this is a very important strategic decision that the university or college leadership team needs to make, is how does online delivery, online education fit into our larger mission and strategy as an institution and what is driving our plans for growth, right? CH: Oftentimes Deans can figure this out on their own.

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Author discusses his new book on Black LGBTQ students

Inside Higher Ed

Jeffries, the dean of academic affairs, Class of 1949 Professor in Ethics and professor of American studies at Wellesley College. He interviewed students at more than a dozen colleges, some of which were historically Black. They didn’t feel especially supported or seen by college leadership.

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