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

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The newly appointed president also serves as a state representative on the Southern Regional Education Boards’ executive council. His contract is still pending approval from the state’s higher education system. The former engineer proved a natural as president. Lisa Coleman – Adler University (Ill.)

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A Thousand Flowers Blooming

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From a childhood of pumping gas and bookkeeping for the family business to a career in software engineering, he developed a strong entrepreneurial spirit. We asked him how the college-to-careers pillar might have drawn on the unique vantage point of his software engineering background. Very similar to software engineering.

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What Academic Tenure Is and Why It Matters

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The tenure process varies across higher education. The tenure materials move up the chain to the provost, who makes the final tenure decision based on recommendations from others who have reviewed. To push the bounds of research forward, to come up with new ideas, and to dissent from systems in place are vital for higher education.

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Leadership at All Levels of Higher Ed

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Department of Education. Most industry lobbies have PACs and do things differently than we do in higher education.” I'm teaching people welding and diesel mechanics and electrical engineering, and those things are wonderful, but those students aren't reading a lot of classic literature. They don't even like horses.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2023 has been a year notable for its ups and downs on the higher education landscape with the elimination of affirmative action and the implosion of President Joe Biden’s student relief program. According to Roberts, mass debt cancellation was under the purview of Congress, not the Secretary of Education.