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

University Business

Ward, president since 2019, will retire at the end of June 2025, the conclusion of Luther’s 2023-25 strategic plan. The work was done in collaboration with the provost. His $125 million philanthropic campaign helped Alma undergo a series of campus renovations involving student housing, athletic facilities and an opera house.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

After the nearby College of New Rochelle closed in 2019 amid financial woes, Manhattanville hired its dean of nursing and launched its own School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Manhattanville also opened a Center for Design Thinking in 2019, in what had long been the president’s cottage. Geisler last summer. Focus on the Future.

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Ontario’s university financing is a house of cards

The PIE News

This is very, very serious,” said Queen’s provost Matthew Evans earlier this month. In 2019, the Ontario government, under premier Doug Ford, cut tuition fees by 10% and then froze them ever since. It doesn’t offer the same facilities as the main Algoma campus in remote Sault Ste. These deficits total a whopping $175m.

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Presidential habits: How a track record of successes (or failures) has shaped their careers

University Business

These qualities make her a great fit for one of the nation’s top 10 research facilities. “I Prior to Minnesota, Gabel served as executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of South Carolina from 2015 to 2019. Dr. Wayne P. Webster – Albion College (Albion, Mich.)

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The push for more active learning spaces on campus

Inside Higher Ed

Elfring, associate vice provost of instruction and assessment at Arizona, said recently that she and others involved in the pilot have since “capitalized on positive instructor and student feedback to continue building out active learning spaces across our campus.

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Two-year colleges strain to hire instructors in technical fields

Inside Higher Ed

Nate Southerland, provost of Coconino Community College, said the college started the automotive technology program in response to local workforce needs. A local Honda dealership let the program use its facilities at night. “There’s been a demand for automotive techs in our area for a long time,” he said.

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How U.S. Colleges and Universities are Responding to Declining Enrollments

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The arrangement between the two schools dissolves the University of the Sciences and brings all of their programs, students, employees, and facilities under the St. When taken as an aggregate group, enrollments at religiously-affiliated schools have dropped by 9 percent between 2019 and 2020. Joseph’s University brand.