Today's Learner

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

State Department. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, the George Mosse Program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Stanton Foundation Applied History Program. She earned her Ph.D. in American history at Stanford University. She received her B.A.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Here at American University, we doubled our externally funded research over the last five years, and we opened a new Hall of Science that stands alongside our historic strengths in public affairs and international service. Burwell has been president of American University since 2017. She is the first woman to lead the institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Alex Boekelheide “When you’re in the four-year world, especially among the elite institutions, $30 million is certainly notable, but it wouldn’t necessarily garner national headlines,” says Alex Boekelheide, executive director of public affairs at PCC. For us, this was the largest donation that we had ever received. [It]

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 19, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation With all the conversation about the Department of Education (ED) review of the bundled services exemption , I thought it would be instructive to hear from a university leader on the subject. Kent Syverud , Chancellor and President of Syracuse University, graciously agreed to answer my questions.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was kindly authored by Helena Vine , Policy and Public Affairs Officer at the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA). The Department for Education’s impact assessment outlines a very optimistic view of the time, cost and resource required to adapt courses to be delivered as standalone modules.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

” Harnessing Bots Emily (not her real name) is an American who is saddled with student loan debt totaling six figures from associate and bachelor’s degrees at other institutions, according to Dan Kalmanson, vice president for public affairs at UoPeople.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 9, 2024

Eubanks Davis notes that her organization’s most likely connection point is the career services department: “Career services are often so under-resourced. In January 2013, she began overseeing the Public Affairs and Communications teams. How Leaders Find Braven While anyone on any campus can reach out to Braven, Ms.

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Academe Blog

APRIL 11, 2025

The government has deployed its Homeland Security Department ICE agents to baselessly revoke student visas in order to arrest and detain international students as punishment for exercising their First Amendment rights. Executive Orders and Dear Colleague letters seek to censor speech and mandate programming at publicly funded universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I think they could establish a new set of guidelines or procedures that really requires the Department of Education to comply. A Republican Congress’s prime educational target might be President Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness program, which has attracted close to 26 million applicants so far. There are different ways to do it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 19, 2023

It raises a lot of anxiety and fear because it’s much less publicized.” Although the specifics of how students are selected for verification by the Department of Education are secret, research has shown that low-income and ethnic minority students are more likely to be picked. “It’s a surprise for many students.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Terry Hartle, the senior vice president for government relations and public affairs at the American Council on Education, said his association was not asked to submit a brief. Right now, it is just involving the people who are suing to block it and the Department of Education.

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HESA

APRIL 13, 2023

Not only does it use an active research program to back up it’s public affairs and government relations agendas, it actively tries to use comparative public policy analysis to help its members – who hail from over 40 countries – to pursue reform agendas in their respective states. So that’s the organizational part.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Department of Education with a goal of setting up the Republican Party to win in 2024. “The department simply cannot continue to kick this can down the road.” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona has said the department will propose a separate set of regulations governing transgender students’ involvement in athletics.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Yolanda Watson Spivas 25+ year career in postsecondary education spans a range of executive leadership, general management, federal government, public affairs, operations and academic officer positions. Department of Education in Washington, DC, and Atlanta, GA. Watson Spiva has also held various positions with the U.S.

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GlobalHigherEd

APRIL 5, 2017

It’s worth noting that Cole is author of The Great American University: Its Rise To Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected (Public Affairs, 2009), one of the seminal texts about state-society-economy conditions and associated policies and programs that enabled U.S.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 6, 2025

Public Affairs. The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money. Princeton University Press. Cappelli, P. Will College Pay Off?: A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You'll Ever Make. Carney, Cary Michael (1999). Native American Higher Education in the United States. Transaction.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The Biden administration released a legal memo from the Justice Department that outlines its authority to cancel student loan debt through powers listed in the HEROES Act of 2003. “I don’t know if anyone is thinking about it or what they’re thinking about it in terms of their own legal actions,” he said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Code is unambiguous: No provision of any applicable program shall be construed to authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over curriculum. Phelton Moss expressly prohibits federal involvement in local education systems.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 29, 2024

Politicians heavily funded by Israel’s premier lobbying firm – the American Israel Public Affairs Committee – are more than happy to conflate criticism of Israeli policy with anti-Semitism. On May 2, the Los Angeles Police Department broke up an encampment of UCLA student protesters. His crime – filming the police action.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Department of Education (ED) issued guidance for how schools can navigate admissions and still consider other factors in evaluating applicants, including neighborhood and high school data, life challenges, and experiences of racial discrimination. In response to the decision, the U.S. She is the 20th president of the Ivy League titan.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 24, 2025

Department of Education today announced a team of senior-level political appointees who will support the implementation of President Trumps vision for an America First education. Department of Education after most recently serving on the Trump-Vance Transition Team. WASHINGTON The U.S. Prior to rejoining the U.S.

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