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

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Hired Devin Stephenson – Florida Polytechnic University Devin Stephenson has been selected to become Florida Polytechnic University’s next president, the second in the institution’s 12-year history. More from UB: The human toll of rampant college closures Retired Bradley Creed – Campbell University (N.C.)

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Fall books from university presses on digital life

Inside Higher Ed

Binder’s Language and the Rise of the Algorithm ( University of Chicago Press, December ) looks into the history of efforts to bridge the differences between communication and computation. The book’s description notes that boosters and doomsayers alike anticipate that “machines will soon do everything better than humans.”

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Carnegie Mellon–Africa receives $275M investment

Inside Higher Ed

The graduate school has offered two-year master’s degrees through CMU’s renowned college of engineering since 2011. ” But CMU-Africa has been followed by a cloud of controversy over its partnership with a Rwandan government led by president Paul Kagame, who has been accused of a litany of human rights abuses.

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Moving Teaching Forward, Post-Pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

The first was the Great Recession, the financial crisis that began in December 2007. Of course, the most important outgrowth of the financial crisis was to accelerate the shift away from traditional humanities fields toward STEM fields. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Building a Sustainable Higher Education Model: CSCU’s Partnership for Workforce Readiness: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 175 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Terrence Cheng

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He has also held several academic and administrative leadership and faculty roles which include associate provost/assistant vice president, Academic Programs at Brooklyn College; and associate dean, School of Arts and Humanities, and chair, Department of English at Lehman College. By the data, it should have been happening in 2007-08.