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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

Universities—bastions of inclusion and community—can thwart trends of disengagement by leaning in and not back. 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. Two decades ago, Frank H.

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

Inside Higher Ed

Cartter Professor of Higher Education Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of 23 books on higher education, reinforces this fact. The University of Southern California certainly did right by both me and my husband. Research by the late Alexander W. Astin , the Allan M. Light, the Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr.

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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. remembers the joyful opening of the LGBTQ+ Resource Office on the main campus of Prairie View A&M University. In 2022, the university finally launched an official LGBTQ alumni affinity group, ARC.

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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.

Unpacking the AAUP Report: A Critical Look at Political Interference in Florida’s Higher Education The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) recently released its comprehensive report titled “ Political Interference and Academic Freedom in Florida’s Public Higher Education System.”