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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Outreach efforts include education on financial aid options, including grants, scholarships and aid for undocumented students. Dr. Dolores Duran-Cerda, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, says administration believes in being student-ready, not expecting students to be college-ready.

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The Growing Role of Artificial Intelligence in College Admissions

Insight Into Diversity

Particularly for those with smaller admissions offices, this frees up admissions officers to focus on the other, necessarily nuanced aspects of the application process, like awarding scholarships and financial aid packages. “If

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Librarians should stand with the Internet Archive (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

They describe the Internet Archive as a “pirate site” and its business model as “parasitic and illegal” and characterize controlled digital lending as “an invented paradigm that is well outside copyright law.”

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Dr. Kimberly Andrews Espy Named First Woman President of Wayne State University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Kimberly Andrews Espy Espy – a licensed clinical psychologist – is currently provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). Kimberly Andrews Espy will become the first woman president of Wayne State University, effective Aug.

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President moves: What happened for these 3 leaders to resign?

University Business

They credited her for jumpstarting the institution’s new model for fiscal sustainability, breaking records in research expenditures and leading its athletics department into the Pac-12 Conference. Prior to that, she was vice provost at Utah State University. Marie Hardin – Quinnipiac University (Conn.)

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University of Vermont Launches Open-Access Academic Press

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bryn Geffert The move by UVM Press – overseen by UVM Libraries – is meant to eliminate financial hurdles and barriers to peer-reviewed research that traditional publishing and access models impose. The press – it employs a “diamond open-access model” – is open to all scholars, including those not affiliated with UVM.

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3 Questions for a Retired Academic Librarian

Inside Higher Ed

A: The academic library is, at its core, about making scholarship available to students and faculty and preserving it for future generations. The transition of scholarship from print to the digital network is fundamental and it will change many things in the academy beyond libraries. It is a revolution and it is only the beginning.