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

University Business

He will replace the long-reigning president, Phil DiStefano, who has overseen the campus for 15 years. Schwartz’s current duties at Penn State have made him an indispensable candidate for a university president who beat out over 90 other applicants for the job at CU Boulder.

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Venezuelan Higher Education

HESA

I’m thinking particularly of the engineer strike at Petroleos de Venezuela. What did Hugo Chavez want to do with universities initially? Not unanimously as a sector, but certain parts of certain universities start to become very active. And I would say the most striking moment was the constitutional referendum in 2007.

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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

The Change Leader, Inc.

This advice is critical, regardless of whether you’ve been a president or chancellor before. This is probably one of, if not the most critical, relationship a university president can have. That is probably one of, if not the most critical relationship a university president can have. Every campus is different.