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Vickie Cook Champions Microcredentials and AI as Keys to Higher Ed’s Future

MindMax

In a conversation with MindMax CEO Lee Maxey, Vickie Cook, Vice Chancellor for Enrollment and Retention Management at the University of Illinois Springfield, shares her insights on navigating budget constraints, leveraging AI in education, and the critical role of microcredentials in addressing current challenges. Watch the full conversation.

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Montana State's Dr. Waded Cruzado Makes History as APLU's First Latina President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Montana State University President Waded Cruzado has been named the next president of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), marking a Dr. Waded Cruzado historic appointment as she becomes the first Latina to lead the organization.

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Student Affairs Practitioners Must Rest to Resistance

ACPA

By: Yulissa Chavez Tena Grind culture has made us all human machines, willing and ready to donate our lives to a capitalist system that thrives by placing profits over people. In monthly meetings, we made personal connections with our ancestors who taught us to rest and gained clarity in our purpose as humans to simply exist.

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3 Questions KSU’s Laurel Littrell on How Academic Library Budgets Really Work

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation Laurel Littrell is a faculty librarian at Kansas State University. At a public university such as Kansas State University, where I am employed, budget and salary information is public, and understanding about budget decisions and functions is important to our constituents and communities.

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CU Boulder Chancellor DiStefano: Lessons learned from 50 years in higher ed

University Business

As I prepare to step down after 15 years as chancellor at the University of Colorado Boulder, the higher education landscape looks much different than what I encountered as a new professor in 1974. Universities face increasing scrutiny from politicians who would like to dictate what students may learn in the classroom.

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Education's future: A choice between complicity and resistance

Campus Sonar

Actions that stop applications for income-driven student loan repayment plans , cut funding to public schools , eliminate Head Start and universal access to quality early childhood education , and limit knowledge of the broad spectrum of the human experience , will be catastrophic for higher education. Download the white paper.