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President moves: Recent resignations show 3 reasons why a leader steps down

University Business

Two presidents have been hired at small private colleges in the past two weeks and one leader is choosing to retire after four decades in higher education. Hired Trevor Bates – Mercy College of Ohio Trevor Bates Mercy College of Ohio has announced Trevor Bates as its next president.

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What it Means to Sit at the Intersection of Blackness, Queerness

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There, she worked with students academically underprepared for college, she says. And from 2002 to 2006, she served as academic adviser for Temple University. in African American studies and sociology from EIU; and an Associate of Arts in African American studies from Olive-Harvey Community College.

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How College Transforms Students

Inside Higher Ed

For the first time in history, substantial numbers of young women lived outside of a family home, not as servants but as mill girls, earning an independent income and living with other young women. Today, college serves, for many late adolescents and young adults, a somewhat similar function. It leaves them a changed person.

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Struggling law school seeks to reinvent itself

Inside Higher Ed

Many came to the sleepy village in central Vermont because of the college’s sharp focus on environmental law and policy, as well as its progressive outlook on justice. Now, the only college in Vermont that offers a J.D. He said the college’s innovative restructuring plan and progressive history drew him to the job.

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Sustainability actions students take and want their colleges to take

Inside Higher Ed

“You can create a net-zero campus pretty easily by just shutting it down,” quips Jay Antle, executive director of the Center for Sustainability and a history professor at Johnson County Community College, in Kansas. “Across many college campuses, sustainability took a back seat,” Nelson says.

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Indigenous Ways of Knowing, a Faculty’s Journey to Redesign Native American Art Online Course

WCET Frontiers

Today we showcase Nicolet College’s Native American Art Course Redesign. Artist and Art Instructor Nate Wilson discusses the inspiration for the redesign, the partnership between course instructor, instructional design team, and an Elder from one of the Native American tribes in the area.

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Tough Times Ahead for Higher Education Enrollment: Changing Higher Ed Podcast with Host Drumm McNaughton and Guests Bob Massa and Bill Conley

The Change Leader, Inc.

These changes are reshaping how colleges and universities must embrace an adaptive approach to student recruitment and retention. The Shifting Landscape of Higher Education Enrollment Enrollment patterns in colleges and universities are undergoing significant transformations.