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The Art and Science of Higher Ed Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

She joined us on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast to talk about the mindset of accepting new leadership challenges, the responsibilities of institutional leaders as employers, required skills for effective leadership, and navigating the small world of higher ed. Florida State had a lot going on at that time. I hadn't thought about it.’

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President moves: Recent resignations show 3 reasons why a leader steps down

University Business

The three presidents to step down demonstrate a variety of reasons for making a change: to reengage in academia, pursue other professional opportunities or make way for new leadership during trying times. In July 2025, he will depart for a one-year sabbatical and return to the life of academia. The new president isn’t a newcomer.

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English majors earn similar salary earnings, life quality than other degree holders, report

University Business

government resources and contributions from independent research centers, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Humanities Alliance and the Hamilton Project. The majority of data was pulled from records between 2018 and 2021. for physical science and history majors.

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Report: English Majors Employed at Comparable Rates, Educators Can Do More to Prepare Students for Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In fact, this rate for English majors puts it below the unemployment rate for computer and information services majors, 2.8%, though still higher compared to a number of other majors – business, engineering, philosophy, physical science, and history. But for women, that number falls to around $61,000.

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Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Faculty Focus

Moreover, neurodiversity in academia illustrates the paradoxical rhetoric in uniform instruction. From a cultural perspective, Jocson (2018) determined that ethnographic application supports racially and cultural and minority student learning. As such, one approach to teaching does not work for all students.

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Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Faculty Focus

Moreover, neurodiversity in academia illustrates the paradoxical rhetoric in uniform instruction. From a cultural perspective, Jocson (2018) determined that ethnographic application supports racially and cultural and minority student learning. As such, one approach to teaching does not work for all students.

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Harvard’s next president: Claudine Gay will be first Black leader of the Ivy League school

University Business

in government from Harvard in 1998 and earned the Toppan Prize for best dissertation in political science. “The idea of the ‘ivory tower’—that is the past, not the future of academia,” she said. “The idea of the ‘ivory tower’—that is the past, not the future of academia,” she said.