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New policies guide removal of controversial building names

Inside Higher Ed

But both men also enslaved people, which drove students to push the university to change the buildings’ names. Amid a wave of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, Towson administrators announced they would appoint a committee to research the two men’s legacies and determine whether they aligned with the university’s values.

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Cost allocation in the research university and what it tells us

Changing Higher Education

Lombardi , in How Universities Work. This somewhat cynical observation by Lombardi was informed by his broad and sometimes painful experiences as Provost at Johns Hopkins University, President of the University of Florida, Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and President of the Louisiana State University System.

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Venezuelan Higher Education

HESA

Institutionally, there has been furious controversy as the government has tried to reduce institutional autonomy and control institutions directly through political means. Universities – and their students – have as a result become one of the government’s biggest institutional barriers to one-party absolutism.