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Colleges hire directors to tackle student basic needs

Inside Higher Ed

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. Student affairs administrators at UC Irvine used a one-time grant to create a new position for a food access and security coordinator.

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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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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.” The public will have an opportunity at that stage to provide another round of input by commenting on those proposed rules.” Harvard’s first Black president Dr. Claudine Gay broke new ground in July and made history at the nation’s oldest higher ed institution.

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Strategic Presidential Communication in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 192 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Erin Hennessy

The Change Leader, Inc.

I helped oversee the public affairs work and worked very closely with the government relations team there. Because the primary task of any Dean or president is to deal with the most spoiled pigheaded interest groups imaginable.” I previously served at the American Council on Education. 00:56:49] Erin Hennessy: Amen. [00:56:50]