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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. A shared vision among differences The tuition-driven sector is as diverse as the American population it serves.

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Why did U of Florida suddenly fire its honors director?

Inside Higher Ed

Mark Law, the director, also says he was told that the university’s Board of Trustees insisted on his ouster, against the will of the university’s president and provost. “The Board of Trustees of UF fired me effective August 15. That administrator did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.).

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Why did Allegheny cut its Chinese program?

Inside Higher Ed

million in faculty salaries while increasing its student-faculty ratio, Allegheny College in Pennsylvania charged a task force with reviewing its academic programs. ” Shi continued, “I wasn’t interviewed or consulted by the president or the provost throughout [the] process, or ever, actually.

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

The Change Leader, Inc.

Hank Reichman, co-author and co-chair of AAUP joins the Changing Higher Ed podcast to discuss the report and provides details about Governor DeSantis’s legislative efforts to control what can be taught, how it’s taught, and who teaches, particularly attacking faculty rights and tenure.

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How to Win Faculty and Influence Staff (and Athletics)

Higher Ed Marketing Lab

And getting them for example, to understand what their role is, especially at a small private liberal arts college, in the mid market, at a price point that is awfully high, that competes with state flagships as their number one competitor. So that’s simple nugget of data really was the impetus for us to get our faculty involved.

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Honoring the Promise of Higher Ed

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

She went on to explain how this has been detrimental to institutions’ ability to deliver on the promise of public higher education: “We do not have full transferability at most institutions, so students leave behind on average 40% of their credits when they go from a community college to a four-year institution.

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UT Southwestern settles long-running discrimination case

Inside Higher Ed

That year, her lawsuit says, David Russell, who was then UT Southwestern’s new vice provost and dean of basic research, met with Vitetta for the first time to say he was planning on shutting down her manufacturing practice lab—where she made vaccines for clinical trials—in order to give this space to a younger male professor.