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Temple gets $11 million gift for students with disabilities

Inside Higher Ed

Zweig passed away in April 2015 and left detailed instructions in her will for how Leshner should distribute money Zweig made from investing and the sale of her firm—to donate to a cause focused on students with physical disabilities. “It’s something that will spur Temple to continue to build strength in this area.”

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A free, online, global university seeks seal of approval

Inside Higher Ed

Still others are climate refugees in search of land that supports human life. Two-thirds of the institution’s revenues hail from student fees, and the rest comes from donations, Reshef said. Some, for example, are former wards of the state or undocumented immigrants living in the United States. ’ 10,000 times.

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President moves: Tried and true academics take charge

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Previous to her position as CEO for the Girl Scouts, she served as the the vice president of human resources for the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation, senior director of human resources at Vanderbilt University, and is a trustee emerita for the Haslam School of Business board at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, The Tennessean reports.

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Thoughts on Stanford's academic freedom conference (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

I will be a better dean for having attended and participated in the conference, hosted by the Classical Liberalism Initiative of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. What is a dean to do? As a dean I may not be in the loop when a complaint is lodged in another office. I share the frustration.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Many of the programs that we put into existence are things that I wish that I had had,” says Watford, associate dean of equity and engagement and executive director of CEED. They donate their time to create age-appropriate, hands-on activities for these students that come to our camps,” says Watford.

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Rural-Serving Institutions: Innovative Lessons for Higher Ed Success: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 147 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Andrew Koricich

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In addition, RSIs receive fewer donations and competitive federal grants because reviewers from federal agencies don’t understand them. People are not donating to rural-serving colleges as they do to the larger and more urban institutions. He started as a faculty member in the math department and moved up the ranks.

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UT Southwestern settles long-running discrimination case

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She says she hopes to be able to donate some of the money back to UT Southwestern, to fund transparent, criteria-driven programs for off-boarding senior faculty members, and that negotiations to this end are ongoing. Yet even then, she says, she was denied lab space in the immunology department. Things changed in 2012, however.