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KRISTIE BOWERS

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bowers holds a bachelor’s degree in human development and a Ph.D. in community and public affairs from Binghamton University as well as a master’s in teaching from Western Carolina University.

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A free, online, global university seeks seal of approval

Inside Higher Ed

That’s why Saleema, a young Afghan woman studying at University of the People , now presents as Madison from California in her online Principles of Business Management course. Still others are climate refugees in search of land that supports human life.

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Fierce Advocate for Community College Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After graduating from Oklahoma State University, she accepted a job there for which she was perfect because she was already helping friends graduate in four years as she had by sharing skills and practices. “We Her undergraduate degree is in radio/television/film: news and public affairs. I’m a great facilitator.

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

HEPI

University policy briefings written, risks registered and manifestos and speeches scrutinised. But how should universities speak to the Government now the campaign is over and they are faced with an increasingly brutal financial context? And here universities have a crucial asset, if we recognise it. No contest.

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A sectorwide approach to higher ed's future (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Individual universities cannot be all things to all people and should not rely on small changes at the margins with the hope of squeezing out incremental gains. For example, AU partnered with Martha’s Table and Trinity Washington University on an early childhood education program that meets a new Washington, D.C.,

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Communicating Effectively in a Presidential Search

Inside Higher Ed

It needs to recognize the college or university’s past in relation to its future. At this point in the process, it’s useful to remember the primacy effect , the human tendency to be influenced disproportionately by first impressions. The community needs to see its desires for the next leader reflected in the selection.

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Two Tri-C professors sue administrators for retaliation

Inside Higher Ed

” “Our motto is ‘Tri-C is where futures begin,’” Gaston, an associate professor of philosophy, humanities and religious studies, said in the interview. First of all, students of color, students who lack technology, it’s poor students.”