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Employee retires after 70 years

Inside Higher Ed

She was also a living witness to events big and small at King and the larger world: from the desegregation of Bristol and King and the broader civil rights movement to an expansion of student enrollment and programs at King and the COVID-19 pandemic. “She was also a help to anyone who walked through that office.

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Sports betting contracts should be rethought (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

23 article in The New York Times , “ How College and Sports-Betting Companies ‘Caesarized’ Campus Life ,” which chronicled how universities have signed lucrative contracts with sports betting companies to promote online gambling to their students and campus communities.

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U of Arizona professors say they're blackballed from service

Inside Higher Ed

The Senate chair and university president are supposed to be consulted on nominees for CAFT, but a faculty nominating committee prepares the final list of nominees. Another allegedly blacklisted professor says he’s talking to a lawyer about his situation. CAFT members are elected by the general faculty for three-year terms.

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Pragmatic Optimism and Managed Transformation

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

It's literally a hemispheric event if we can't protect this lake. Well, one of the things we've done with the research universities in the state is, for the first time ever, we convened all the researchers and said, 'What do policymakers need to know about the dynamics of the lake to protect it and make it thrive?'

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President moves: hearty welcomes and rocky goodbyes

University Business

He was the first president to leave the school with a positive enrollment rate since Hurricane Katrina, and he was also the first president to lead a major comprehensive fundraising campaign in the school’s 65-year history. He was the university’s first Black president. Located in Melbourne, Fla.,

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Showing the Human Face of Higher Ed Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Sorrell is the longest-serving President in the 151-year history of Paul Quinn College. While in law school, he was a founding member of the Journal of Gender Law & Policy and served as the Vice President of the Duke Bar Association. He grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and graduated in 1984 from Princeton University.

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Lessons for Higher Ed Leaders of Color

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Willis began her educational career in 2007 teaching at Florida A&M University before transitioning to Tallahassee Community College. Starting in 2010, Dr. Willis served as an Assistant Professor of History, department chair, faculty senate president, and Executive Dean of Centers at Lone Star College (Houston, Texas).