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In this episode of Changing Higher Ed, Drumm welcomes Dan Oppenheimer, Director of PublicAffairs for UT Austin's College of Liberal Arts, to discuss the university's groundbreaking "Civil Discord" symposium that was held in March of this year. Vision for the future of civil discourse initiatives in highereducation.
Axis Education Group, which brings together The Dublin Academy of Education , Independent College , International House Dublin , and PublicAffairs Ireland , has unveiled plans for a 7 million investment in a state-of-the-art, 28,000-square-foot campus in the area.
For highereducation, 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 highereducation a priority issue — too difficult, too many other priorities. The mantra is Actions Not Words.
Cadmus is running a series of collaborative roundtables with UK university leaders about the challenges and opportunities of generative AI in highereducation. Mary Curnock Cook CBE chairs the Emerge/Jisc HE Edtech Advisory Board, and Bess Brennan is Chief of University Partnerships with Cadmus.
Postsecondary education provides graduates with greater access to job opportunities and higher earning potential throughout their lifetimes. But highereducation isn’t the only provider of communal uplift. Eighty-two percent of HBCUs are located in broadband deserts.
In a closing members’ discussion, we noted that highereducation is connected to all of the big political topics of our moment, but rarely seems to be acknowledged by politicians as such. Either way, we inevitably found ourselves wondering what role highereducation will play in these parties’ campaigns – if any.
Sewell serves as president and managing partner of The Empowerment Group, a consulting firm that provides educational services to a broad network of highereducational institutions. He also serves as director/chief academic, research and student affairs officer to the Atlanta University Center Consortium Inc.
Melinda Spaulding Chevalier Melinda Spaulding Chevalier has been named vice president for publicaffairs at Rice University in Houston. She served as vice president of communications and advancement at Texas Southern University. Spaulding Chevalier holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Howard University.
That, says Perry-Johnson, vice president of external affairs, has come with amassing nearly three decades of communications and publicaffairs experience, with most in highereducation. She joined Kennesaw State in 2006 when she was appointed special assistant to the president for external affairs.
Sermons holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from Temple University and a master’s in broadcast journalism and publicaffairs from American University. She served as vice president of strategic communications and marketing at Spelman College.
in community and publicaffairs from Binghamton University as well as a master’s in teaching from Western Carolina University. Kristie Bowers Kristie Bowers has been named associate vice president and director of athletics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
Garry holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Richmond and a master’s in publicaffairs reporting from the University of Illinois. Kate Garry Kate Garry has been appointed executive director of academic communications at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
Verkamp holds bachelor’s degrees in journalism and Spanish and a Master of PublicAffairs degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Tory Verkamp Tory Verkamp has been named vice chancellor for university advancement at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Paul Angrave , Associate Director of PublicAffairs at the University of Leicester. Few would argue with the statements above, least not me as those who know me would testify, but the same could be said of UK highereducation. billion through international highereducation exports.
in highereducation management from the University of Pennsylvania; a Master of PublicAffairs with concentrations in nonprofit management and public policy analysis from the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs; and a B.A. vandenBerg holds an Ed.D.
Minor holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of PublicAffairs degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Minor has been appointed interim vice chancellor for strategic partnerships at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
As a UNCF-HBCU president, I am confident that this program will have major impact on HBCUs and minority-serving institutions of highereducation,” said Dr. George T. French, Jr., president of UNCF-member Clark Atlanta University.
Lapeyrolerie previously served as vice president at the publicaffairs and political consulting firm SKDK. Olivia Lapeyrolerie Olivia Lapeyrolerie has been appointed chief communications officer at the NYU McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research.
He retired this winter after 30 years as senior vice president for government and publicaffairs at ACE, the higher ed association that tries to present a coherent front in advocating for highereducation. Listen to this episode here , and find out more about The Key here. Is this diversity newsletter?:
She served as a government relations and publicaffairs executive. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Benjamin N. Vargas Aimee J. Vargas has been named senior advisor to the dean at the NYU Silver School of Social Work. Vargas is a graduate of Syracuse University’s S.I. Cardozo School of Law.
Michelle Hernandez Michelle Hernandez has been appointed assistant vice president of communications, marketing, and external affairs in the Office of PublicAffairs at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY.
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris has been named interim dean of the Luskin School of PublicAffairs at the University of California, Los Angeles. She served as a distinguished professor of urban planning and associate dean of academic affairs.
Her undergraduate degree is in radio/television/film: news and publicaffairs. She earned a Master of Education degree in guidance and counseling and a doctorate in child development (the doctoral program defined child development as continuing until age 21). This is the work that matches who I am,” she says. “To
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Kim Eccleston, Head of Strategy and Reform – Strategy, Policy and PublicAffairs, at UCA S. million students to explore opportunities and over 700,000 students from 200 countries and territories around the world to apply to highereducation in the UK. What are we doing?
Johnson School of PublicAffairs at the University of Texas at Austin, and a J.D. Abrams holds a B.A. in interdisciplinary studies (political science, economics, and sociology) from Spelman College, a master's degree from the Lyndon B. from Yale University.
This could negatively impact a student’s self-perception of belongingness and readiness for highereducation. “We Following the onset of COVID, the predictive power of the HSGPA has decreased.”
Milhoan, assistant director of the FBI’s Office of PublicAffairs. “We “I am honored to sign this agreement on behalf of the FBI and to acknowledge the vital work of the HACU on behalf of Hispanic students,” said Cathy L. Our employees will be enriched through exposure to the broad cultural spectrum these students represent.
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Eve Alcock, Head of PublicAffairs at the Quality Assurance Agency for HigherEducation (QAA). Even in conversations with highereducation providers, it is clear there is a range of views and approaches in play.
Hillary Clinton will become a professor of practice in Columbia University’s School of International and PublicAffairs (SIPA), effective Feb. Hillary Rodham Clinton Clinton – a former senator, First Lady, presidential candidate, and U.S.
These are challenges all of us in highereducation face today. We have to think differently about the future of highereducation. And rather than limit our work to what one type of institution or program can achieve, we should look across the entire highereducation sector. Affordability. Social mobility.
She brings more than a decade of experience in highereducation leadership roles that have required strategic planning and execution of diversity-related efforts.
Supreme Court should allow colleges to consider race as part of the admissions process, but few believe students’ race should be a major factor, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for PublicAffairs Research. 13% said they think race is very or an extremely important part of the admissions process.
Griffin, associate professor of highereducation and student affairs at the University of Maryland “Our country is diversifying quickly,” she said. These obstacles include everything from discriminatory funding of public schools to personal biases. But only 16% of professors were Hispanic and 10% were Black.
Highereducation has been a top beneficiary of earmarks, which returned in 2021 after Democrats reversed a decade-long ban and made several reforms to the process. Over all, 540 institutions, including community colleges, public and private colleges, and university hospitals and medical centers, received more than $1.73
Many highereducation leaders are worried that including PhD and master’s students in the cap will damage Canada’s ability to attract global talent. The legislation can be broadly split into two categories; limits on temporary residents including international students and workers, and changes to the asylum system. million in 2023”.
Image: Arizona voters will decide next month whether to allow undocumented students in the state to receive in-state tuition—one of three statewide measures on the ballot this November related to highereducation. Harnisch said Arizona’s Proposition 308 is “the marquee highereducation ballot measure this year.”
Blog: Call to Action: Marketing and Communications in HigherEducation A presidential search and the launch of a new administration are among the highest-visibility occasions in the life of an institution. Unfortunately, communicating around a presidential search is something for which organizations are often underprepared.
Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing highereducation, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. The New England Commission of HigherEducation] is getting more comfortable with pilots, for examples.”
A good portion of those donations were given to various kinds of institutions of highereducation, many serving students from underserved backgrounds. According to her philanthropy website, Yield Giving, Scott has gifted more than $16 billion to approximately 1,960 nonprofit groups.
We’re still in the early days of “post-pandemic” highereducation. Terry Hartle, senior vice president of government relations and publicaffairs at the American Council on Education tells us that selective schools have done well, as have schools in states with growing populations.
This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Paul Angrave, Director of PublicAffairs and Engagement and William Wells, Deputy Director of Research & Enterprise at the University of Leicester. This blog is part of series of HEPI publications marking twenty five years of devolution.
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 highereducation,” Mora said.
Image: After a bruising year of pandemic-related enrollment declines, highereducation 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 highereducation.
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