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

University Business

More from UB: The human toll of rampant college closures Retired Bradley Creed – Campbell University (N.C.) 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.

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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. Unquestionably, the past 40 years have brought many steps forward in terms of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights, visibility, and consciousness, but in academia it is still a work in progress.

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Landscapes of Learning for Unknown Futures: Reflections on the Assemblages Symposium

SRHE

Assemblages In this final symposium, we shifted the focus by using the lens of ‘assemblages’ to examine the expanding range of contemporary HE learning spaces and the heterogenous collection of material and non-material, human and non-human elements that compose them. 2007) Meeting the Universe Half-way. References Barad K.

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Fun and games – nurturing students’ ‘being’

SRHE

It is widely known that skills required by employers today are focused less on discipline specific skills and more on personal skills (also referred to as soft skills or human skills). This is because the skills required to address such issues are often human-centred. by Lucy Gill-Simmen and Laura Chamberlain.

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Protecting Tribal Sovereignty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Together with NARF, we planned this event to engage youth, especially high school and college students, around human rights and environmental wellbeing,” says Carpenter. Carpenter and her law students are visiting reservations and together with NARF doing workshops about the United Nations Declaration (passed in 2007).

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A Deeper Study of Higher Education Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

In academia, I've always been enamored with folks who can work the art of leadership in a really clear way, all kinds of models, all kinds of people who've inspired me to think, 'If I could just steal a little of that, a little of that.' He was inducted into the United States Distance Learning Association’s Hall of Fame in 2013.

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A Global Shift in Higher Education Requires a New Business Model: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 180 with Drumm McNaughton and Catherine Friday

The Change Leader, Inc.

The implications of the work she does are far-reaching, delivering the best outcomes for citizens across education, health, human services, defense, transport and infrastructure, and central agencies. the iPhone was released in 2007. And that, that human connection is so important. It really is. And that is when we feel valued.

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