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PROOF POINTS: 861 colleges and 9,499 campuses have closed down since 2004 - Jill Barshay, Hechinger Report

Economics and Change in Higher Education

Thirty-five colleges and universities shut down in 2021, a 70 percent decrease from 2016, when a peak of 120 colleges shuttered, according to an analysis of federal data by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO).

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Notre Dame College Rugby Moving to Walsh University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Walsh University will be the new home of Notre Dame College men’s and women’s Rugby teams the university announced. “I I cannot express enough how happy we are to find a home at Walsh University as a Rugby program,” said Notre Dame College Director of Rugby Operations Jason Fox.

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Universal Write Publications Marks 20-Year Milestone

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Universal Write Publications (UWP) was founded in 2004 by Dr. Ayo Sekai and has flourished from a passion project publishing fiction and children’s books into a respected publisher of rigorous, peer-reviewed academic literature.

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New York University will divest from fossil fuels in win for student activists

University Business

The move from one of the US’s largest private universities, whose endowment totals over $5bn, represents a significant win for the climate movement, organizers said. Students have been pushing NYU to divest from fossil fuels since at least 2004 but were previously rebuked. Read more from The Guardian.

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Finlandia University is the latest private college to fall

University Business

Michigan’s only private university in the state’s upper peninsula, Finlandia University, announced last week it will not enroll students for fall 2023, officially marking its closure at the conclusion of the current academic year. In November, The Hechinger Report found 861 colleges had closed since 2004.

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Phylicia Rashad Appointed Inaugural Toni Morrison Endowed Chair in Arts and Humanities at Howard University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Phylicia Rashad will become the inaugural Toni Morrison Endowed Chair in Arts and Humanities at Howard University. Rashad became the first Black actress to win a Tony Award for best actress in a play in 2004 for playing Lena Younger in a revival of “A Raisin in the Sun.” The chair was established in May 2021.

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Lady Henig obituary

The Guardian - Higher Education

A former magistrate and an expert on criminal justice, she spent the next two decades at Westminster seeking to secure greater public protection through improving the regulation of the burgeoning private security industry.