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Dr. Condoleezza Rice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bush’s national security adviser from January 2001-2005, the first woman to hold the position. Rice served as Stanford University’s provost from 1993-1999, during which time she was the institution’s chief budget and academic officer. As provost, she was responsible for a $1.5 Rice also served as President George W.

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Life and Learning, the Washington Way

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jamie Washington Washington connects all these responsibilities and commitments with a very simple but unifying approach: find the humanity inside everyone. “I I try to spend my days choosing love, choosing hope, choosing patience, and choosing humanity,” says Washington, adding that by doing so, he is “honoring the power of choice.”

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Optional attendance policies ill serve students (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

They engage in more of the daily interactions for which humans have an innate biological need. COVID dealt a blow to humankind; its lingering effects now threaten our humanity. An optional attendance policy with no concessions for human conflict or growth lacks accountability on both sides. Two decades ago, Frank H.

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Why I gave $25M to a small liberal arts college (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Professor of Teaching and Learning at Harvard University, led a research effort involving in-depth interviews with more than 1,600 undergraduates for his book Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds ( Harvard University Press, 2001 ).

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. Guttman recently institutionalized its Lavender Graduation, a pre-graduation ceremony for LGBTQ students which the president, provost, and members of the faculty attend. Dr. Luis A.

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

The Change Leader, Inc.

The Human Cost: Emotional and Professional Toll The report and subsequent discussions shed light on the significant emotional and professional impact these developments have had on faculty and students. These changes speak to the human cost of political interference, affecting the very heart of educational institutions.