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President moves: Administrators prove popular picks as next leader on the job

University Business

She was no stranger to Gustavus; she served on the Board of Trustees from 2007 to 2014 following the enrollment of her eldest son in 2003. Prior to her 18 years of executive leadership, Bergman had no career in academia. The former engineer proved a natural as president.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He joined the faculty of Connecticut College in 2003, and was an associate professor of history, director of the African American studies program as well as interim dean of institutional equity and inclusion, chair of the history department and director of the Center of the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity.

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A Thousand Flowers Blooming

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Similarities Between Industry and Academia. So by the time I got into this perspective of being in academia, that piece was part of how I operated. My favorite term is 'a thousand flowers blooming,' because what you can do in academia which works out really well is that you can literally start a lot of things going.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003.

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The Art and Science of Higher Ed Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

But I know in academia, management is considered the dark side. Doug was managing editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education from 1999 to 2003, after working at The Chronicle since 1986 in a variety of roles. President Stokes assured us that management needn’t be a bad thing: “Some people do enjoy it. That's what attracted me.

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China rising in 2023 Shanghai Rankings

The PIE News

“Even in those complicated times for the Israeli academia, the Weizmann Institute has jumped up in the Shanghai Rankings from the 83rd place last year to the 67th place this year—another reason to be proud!” I’m pretty sure the 2003 ranking was too kind to the Americans, but that’s still a hell of a drop over 20 years.

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Scholar Fuses Advocacy and Scholarship to Move Equity Needle Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After three decades in academia, Dr. Janet R. At that event, colleagues from early in her career in academia spoke about how when they were young faculty at University of Arizona, Jakobsen built a sense of queer community. Jakobsen is the Claire Tow Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College in New York.