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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. The former engineer proved a natural as president.

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Meet Some of this Year's MacArthur Fellows

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Marr, for one, is a civil and environmental engineer with a specific focus on air quality, airborne pathogens, atmospheric science, and public health. Since joining the field in about 2007, I felt that there are certain aspects of the world and its problems that were largely neglected.

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Fall books from university presses on digital life

Inside Higher Ed

Johns Hopkins University Press, November ), while Gerd Gigerenzer reassures humanity of its nonobsolescence with How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms ( MIT Press, August ). The age of intelligent machines is far enough along that now they, too, can groan at the time/banana conundrum.

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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. Alongside the analytics revolution cam a series of other ed-tech innovations.

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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

The Change Leader, Inc.

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.

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How CSCU is Building Strong Institutional Foundations: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 176 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. Terrence, welcome back to the show.

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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.