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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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Higher Ed Lessons in Interim Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Building institution-wide trust is essential, especially on the accelerated timeline of an interim leadership position, so Chancellor Reyes described his shortcut: "I immediately asked the president to allow me to get a provost colleague, Karen Colley , to become the interim provost. I think it's very valuable.

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SOULS: The Academy’s Recipe for Transformation, Retention, and Creating a Better World

Insight Into Diversity

Interestingly, the veil that Du Bois wrote about still exists today, especially in the American Academy — the network of colleges, universities, associations, and organizations that provide and support higher education — despite the fact that some of America’s most illustrious educational institutions are headed by Black provosts and presidents.

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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. But he says that he apparently became a problem for the university following that role, around 2018.

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Newly named president of College of Saint Mary backs out

Inside Higher Ed

Fitzgerald’s intentions to depart the university” and noted that Fitzgerald had “been transparent about her ambitions” to become a college president since arriving in 2019. Fitzgerald will begin serving as president-elect today and will formally become president on July 1.

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The Art and Science of Higher Ed Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Embracing Leadership Opportunities From department chair to interim chancellor, President Stokes served in leadership positions at three institutions before joining UNM. I think that's what they were looking for when they named me as interim president. He grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and graduated in 1984 from Princeton University.

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A Thousand Flowers Blooming

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Brian Blake was appointed President of Georgia State University in June 2021. Prior to joining Georgia State, he was Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at George Washington University , where he oversaw academic programs across the ten schools and colleges, three campuses, and 28,000 students.