EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

When Mark Lombardi took over as president of Missouris Maryville University in 2007, a communications and digital transformation was knocking at the sectors door. The teams response brought about one of the most comprehensive connectivity- and technology-focused initiatives in higher education at the

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2024

Columbia University President Dr. Minouche Shafik resigned her post effective Aug. Dr. Minouche Shafik The university has been embroiled in controversy since antiwar demonstrations reached a fever pitch in the spring of 2024.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 22, 2023

West Texas A&M University students protested Tuesday after the school’s president, Walter Wendler, canceled a campus drag show for promoting “derisive, divisive, and demoralizing misogyny.” On Monday, Wendler sent an email to students, faculty, and staff announcing that the event would not be permitted on campus.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Harrisburg University of Science and Technology president Eric Darr announced his resignation Friday afternoon, according to a statement from the university that offered no details about the decision. “On

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

Hamline University President Dr. Fayneese S. Miller, who has received backlash for the university's treatment of a faculty member who showed images of the Prophet Muhammad in an art history class, will be retiring next year in June, The New York Times reported. Hamline later backtracked.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

[Editor's note: This essay, written for elite university presidents, is intended as a rhetorical device rather than a statement of facts. Elite universities, long considered the pinnacle of higher education, have become increasingly entwined in a broader conversation about privilege, access, and power.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2024

Lincoln University President Dr. John B. 8 suicide of Lincoln vice president Dr. Antionette "Bonnie" Candia-Bailey. Victor Pasley, president of the Lincoln Board of Curator, wrote in a statement about the school's commitment to prioritize the mental health and dignity of Lincoln employees. Dr. John B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The UNCF (United Negro College Fund) and Robert Kraft’s Foundation brought a diverse group of Black and Jewish students, faculty and administrators together for a series of Unity Dinners across the nation. The dinners - which kicked off at the National Civil and Human Rights Museum in Atlanta before moving to George Washington University in D.C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2024

Some members of the faculty at Columbia University have lodged a vote of no-confidence for the university’s president, Dr. Minouche Shafik. Law enforcement made several arrests and the administration issued suspensions of students involved in the on-campus demonstrations.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 3, 2023

On Monday, Hamline University President Fayneese Miller revealed her intention to retire following controversy surrounding Islamic artwork that brought attention to the school earlier this year. The instructor has since filed a lawsuit against the university for defamation and religious discrimination. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 27, 2023

Savannah State University President Dr. Kimberly Ballard-Washington will step down from her role at the end of the fiscal year, after four years at SSU’s helm, Savannah Morning News reported. Although I am leaving the presidency, I will not be leaving the work,” Ballard-Washington wrote. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

For example, in 2020, the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) found that Black/African American employees comprise less than 10% of higher education professionals. Black university leaders had a deep desire to serve as the mentors and role models that many of them never had.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

We’ve also seen a succession of extremely short-lived presidencies, at universities including Auburn, Central Florida, Colorado, Louisville, Oklahoma, Oregon State, Tulsa and Wyoming, no doubt partly because fewer presidents are hired without sufficient vetting or due diligence or faculty and student input.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2023

Bob Jones University President Dr. Steve Pettit will resign at the end of the current school year. Dr. Steve Pettit “It has been one of the greatest privileges of my life to serve as the president of Bob Jones University,” Pettit said. “My Pettit submitted his resignation to the college’s board of trustees Mar.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2025

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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University Business

JANUARY 3, 2025

In the whirlwind of change occurring in college academics and athletics, Linda Livingstone has her hands full as president of Baylor University and board chair of the NCAA. “It takes a community to do jobs like this,” the seven-year president says.

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University Business

MARCH 28, 2024

There’s new momentum building on college and university campuses to rescue and reinvigorate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, vital initiatives that have been the target of a coordinated national assault for over a year. Think about how best to support all marginalized students. Remember the why. Consider the mission.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Smith University (JCSU) President Clarence Armbrister will retire in June. Armbrister – the 14th president of the historically Black college and university (HBCU) – broke the news in a message to students Jan. He will stay on as senior adviser until early 2024 to help the incoming president, he said.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Frederick is the 17th president of Howard University, one of 107 historically Black colleges and universities in the U.S., serving some 11,000 students across its undergraduate, graduate, and professional student programs. Drew Professor of Surgery at the Howard University College of Medicine.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2023

By Julian Roberts-Grmela Illustration by The Chronicle, photo by Michael Cuviello/Amarillo Globe-News The head of West Texas A&M University has drawn criticism for calling off the event. Critics say his action is a form of censorship that disregards students' rights.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A Lumina Foundation convening brought together leaders from historically Black colleges and universities to engage with researchers, policy experts and the philanthropic community to strategize on the future of these storied institutions.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

By Kate Hidalgo Bellows Keith Birmingham, The Orange County Register, AP Pro-Palestinian protesters barricade the entrance to the student-services building at California State U. at Los Angeles.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

Langston University President Dr. Kent J. Smith, the leader of Oklahoma's only historically Black college and university (HBCU), has announced his retirement, KOSU reported. My family and I have thoroughly enjoyed the years spent at Langston University. We wish Dr. Smith and his family only the best in his retirement.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 5, 2023

” Made up of observations on everyday minutiae and life at a university, his tweets are both simple and profound. On the second day of the Kyiv blackout, he posted a video of students doing their work from a shelter and queueing at the university cafe. “But students are here, and classes are at full speed (8.30am).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Jarvis Christian University President and CEO Dr. Lester C. I called this meeting today because I wanted my students, faculty and staff to hear it from me first.” Newman will retire in June. Dr. Lester C. Newman Newman has served for 47 years in higher education and for the past11 years has helmed Jarvis.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In this episode of Changing Higher Ed, Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with Dr. Jeffrey Robinson, Interim Chancellor at Rutgers University-Newark and Graduate of the PhD Project, and Blane Ruschak, President of the PhD Project and Consultant with KPMG. Community Building: Master strategies for creating lasting support networks in academia.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MAY 31, 2023

Brown, who's retiring from Boston University in July, said the "unruly" protest was representative of "the cancel culture." By Kate Hidalgo Bellows Robert A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) President and CEO Dr. Paul J. Dr. Paul LeBlanc During his tenure as SNHU’s fifth president, the school grew from 2,500 students to the largest nonprofit higher ed provider in the U.S., LeBlanc has announced that he will step down from the role on Jun.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 24, 2022

President Biden, while speaking at Delaware State University Friday about his plan to forgive student debt, briefly went back a few years to when he left the vice presidency in 2017. degree from the University of Delaware.). He said his wife, Jill, was the reason he didn’t follow through. Hide by line?:

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FIRE

DECEMBER 13, 2023

HR927 threatens freedom of expression on college campuses by admonishing the presidents for rightly standing up to calls for blanket censorship of students.

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University Business

APRIL 11, 2025

AI advancements thatstreamline user experience and administrative workflow could revolutionize student accessibility, enrollment and workforce outcomes, according to leaders attending Ellucian Live, the annual conference hosted by the global higher education software company.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Jewish college students are expressing in a new survey increased frustrated with the lack of response from university presidents and leadership to ongoing antisemitism on campus. It found that 57% of students are not satisfied with the response of their administration to acts of violence and hate on campus since Oct.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2025

Jonathan Holloway Dr. Jonathan Holloway has been named the new President and CEO of the Henry Luce Foundation, following his five-year presidency at Rutgers University. The Henry Luce Foundation announced on Friday, that Holloway will become its seventh President and CEO in the organization's 89-year history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2023

Vermont State University (VTSU) President Parwinder Grewal has resigned. Grewal for all his hard work in support of the colleges, the system, its faculty, students, its staff and its communities, and we wish him all the best in his future endeavors,” said Eileen Dickinson, chair of the Vermont State Colleges Board of Trustees. “We

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University Business

OCTOBER 23, 2024

It seems like a strange moment to degrade the job of college or university presidents by imposing a cloak of silence on them when leaders of corporations and other institutions are called upon to engage in public discourse. The post University presidents should not silence themselves appeared first on University Business.

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University Business

JANUARY 30, 2025

Colleges and universities already worrying about maintaining their relevance to prospective students and the workforce are also now entrenched in a new drama few are adequately prepared for: the increasing litigation and compliance involved in the sector. The symposium, hosted by Touro Law, was recorded and published on its website.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2025

Belmont University President Greg Jones may have crafted the most authentic initiative for the Tennessee-based liberal arts college after striking a unique partnership with global superstar legend Dolly Parton. While the technology can enhance students preparation for the future, it must be combined with human interaction, Jones says.

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