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

University Business

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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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. It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. In 2022, the university finally launched an official LGBTQ alumni affinity group, ARC.

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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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Study finds true faculty diversity is possible by 2050

Inside Higher Ed

This is the upshot of a new analysis in Nature Human Behavior that challenges the persistent idea that faculty diversity amounts to a “pipeline” problem. from 2007 onward from underrepresented groups were not hired into tenure-track positions, with the number increasing by some 3,300 people year on average during that time.

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ACPA Statement of Upcoming PSLF Deadline

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1, 2007, regardless of loan program, repayment plan, or whether the payment was made in full or on time. We encourage members to read through the information provided via a number of resources as well as to follow-up with your respective Human Resource (HR) offices as they will need to certify your employment history.

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Community College Leader Recognized as 2023 Diverse Champion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The rest is history. And I said, ‘No, you’re just a human being that’s never gone to college.’” Despite other opportunities available to him, he decided to pursue a degree in mathematics secondary education. The district comprises 10 independently accredited colleges in Arizona serving over 94,000 students. Because I had no idea.

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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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