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President moves: Resignations and early retirements reigned in July

University Business

Following the California State System’s high-profile hire of Mildred GarcĂ­a as chancellor over two weeks ago, two major university presidents at Texas A&M and Stanford caught the national radar following their high-profile resignations. Saint Mary College In a more peaceful leadership transition, Jason Adsit of Mt.

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Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Named Provost at Western Michigan University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Julian Vasquez Heilig The selection of Vasquez Heilig as provost is a game changer for WMU, say higher education leaders who point to his tenure at UK where he strategically increased student enrollment in the College of Education by 63 percent, noting that his efforts have focused on increasing diversity among teachers.

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Higher Ed Lessons in Interim Leadership

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He spoke with us on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast about his leadership style, expectations he's faced, lessons he's learning from the experience, and how future administrators might best prepare for this kind of leadership. If you have a hospital and college of medicine , it adds an important dimension to the job that's hard to visualize.

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Post-Traditional Students are the New Premium Students

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First, post-traditional students being recruited aggressively by a surprisingly broad swath of colleges and universities. One could argue this trend started with the MOOCs and with OPMs like 2U moving upmarket, if you consider employed white-collar college graduates as post-traditional. Enrollment shifts. million in 2000 to 3.8

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Guide to the pros and cons of outsourcing online education

Inside Higher Ed

The report from UPCEA and Louisville, in contrast, is designed to be a playbook of sorts for college and university leaders at a time when many of them expect online education and other forms of technology-enabled learning to play a more central, fundamental role in their strategies going forward.

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A Deeper Study of Higher Education Leadership

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Lessons of Board Membership For President Milliron, leadership goes beyond sitting at the top of a hierarchy. Now I'm on the board of Civitas , I'm vice chair at Bennett College , and I'm also chair of the board for CityU at National. It's been fundamental to how I've approached leadership. I love that frame.

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Florida's college presidents stay silent on major reforms

Inside Higher Ed

But one group has remained conspicuously silent: Florida’s college presidents. Given their shared silence, Inside Higher Ed asked all 40 presidents that lead the institutions that comprise the State University System of Florida and Florida College System for comment.

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