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

University Business

Two presidents have been hired at small private colleges in the past two weeks and one leader is choosing to retire after four decades in higher education. Bates has a proven track record as a higher education leader around Ohio, as well as in the private sector. The throughline of Bates’ career is his passion for healthcare.

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Writer-Professor Explores the Voyage of ‘Becoming'

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In her 2019 poetry collection, A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland , Hill expresses her concerns about Black women in confinement. “I'm And then I'm interested in complicating them with the other truths of American history.”

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A Commitment to Help Others

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Elizabeth Armstrong-Mensah She said her work has covered public health matters such as global health, HIV/AIDS, water and sanitation, maternal and child health, and girls’ education. I don’t know that there’s been a point in time in history where we haven’t concerned ourselves with any of these.” Armstrong-Mensah holds a Ph.D.

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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. The institution has a storied history. In New York City?

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Designing outreach with people of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller heritage – a lesson in critical unlearning

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This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Emily Danvers, Lecturer in Higher Education Pedagogy (Education), School of Education and Social Work, University of Sussex. These experiences have taught us some important lessons in how to work inclusively with groups who have been marginalised in, and excluded by, higher education.

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Dominican University VP builds hope for first-gen students

Inside Higher Ed

My grandmother, who only had a seventh-grade education, never lost faith in me. How can you talk about education when you’re hungry, scared and not sure where you’re going to sleep from one night to the next? In 2019, Dominican redesigned our alert system to help new students stay on track academically.

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Sustainability school faces backlash over fossil fuel funds

Inside Higher Ed

billion from private equity billionaire John Doerr, the second-largest donation ever made to an institution of higher education. Oreskes, a professor of the history of science at Harvard University, earned her Ph.D. “Fossil fuel companies have the same kind of history as Big Tobacco in this regard.”

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