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Lunchtime Reading: Communicating the value of higher education to government in a new political era

HEPI

For higher education, a political affairs reset began long before the polls concluded. Yet throughout the election, the Labour Party like the previous government held back from making higher education a priority issue — too difficult, too many other priorities. The mantra is Actions Not Words.

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Muhammad Leaves Harvard, Accepts Tenured Post at Princeton

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad Muhammad is the Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. History from Rutgers University. Muhammad is expected to begin his appointment as Professor of African American Studies and Public Affairs at Princeton in January 2025.

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OLIVIA LAPEYROLERIE

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Lapeyrolerie previously served as vice president at the public affairs and political consulting firm SKDK. She received her master’s in modern history from the University of St Andrews.

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Students Increasingly Don’t Remember the 9/11 Attacks

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brown, who was vice president of government relations and public affairs for New York University (NYU) on that day, climbed to the roof of Bobst Library when she heard that an airplane had hit the World Trade Center. Twenty-two years on, the memories don’t come quite as readily as they once did for Dr. Lynne Brown.

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Colleges hire directors to tackle student basic needs

Inside Higher Ed

She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education. “All of those intersectionalities opened my eyes to a lot of inequity in higher education,” Mora said.

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Enrollment trends new and old emerge from pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

Image: After a bruising year of pandemic-related enrollment declines, higher education leaders across the country are anxiously waiting for this fall’s national enrollment picture to emerge. As the fog of the pandemic’s impact clears, those numbers could reveal the contours of a new landscape for higher education.

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What is Higher Ed Community Looking for in State of the Union Address?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But the world of higher education will be listening carefully for what Biden may say about the many issues America’s colleges and universities are facing, several of which have assumed national prominence in recent months. Wong also said calls to make investments to keep American higher education No.

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