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Stancia Jenkins

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She brings more than a decade of experience in higher education leadership roles that have required strategic planning and execution of diversity-related efforts.

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Communicating Effectively in a Presidential Search

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Call to Action: Marketing and Communications in Higher Education A presidential search and the launch of a new administration are among the highest-visibility occasions in the life of an institution. Unfortunately, communicating around a presidential search is something for which organizations are often underprepared.

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Study Shows that FAFSA Verification Doesn’t Lead to Lower Enrollment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Previous studies have indicated that students chosen for verification were 2-6% less likely to immediately enroll in college, in line with a substantial literature showing that the higher the administrative burden of a program, the less likely it is that people will get its benefits.

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Colleges hire directors to tackle student basic needs

Inside Higher Ed

She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education. “All of those intersectionalities opened my eyes to a lot of inequity in higher education,” Mora said.

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Fraternities cut ties with USC

Inside Higher Ed

John Hechinger, author of True Gentlemen: The Broken Pledge of America’s Fraternities ( Public Affairs, 2017 ), said that, crucially, disaffiliated fraternities also lose out on access to free educational training in Title IX regulations and sexual assault prevention. “It is very difficult to rein them in.”

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A free, online, global university seeks seal of approval

Inside Higher Ed

Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. One might guess this presents an administrative challenge. The New England Commission of Higher Education] is getting more comfortable with pilots, for examples.”

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Hillary Clinton to become global affairs professor at Columbia University

University Business

Columbia University announced Tuesday the hiring of Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as a professor focusing on international affairs. She will serve as a professor of practice at the School of International and Public Affairs and as a presidential fellow at Columbia World Projects, according to a statement from Columbia U.