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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. The Benedictine president-elect holds a Ph.D. Presidents stepping down Frederick G.

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Incidents on AU campus prompt look into policy

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The reaction was swift when an anonymous student wrote “Black people suck” on a library whiteboard at American University in February. “This incident is particularly harmful to our Black community members during this important celebration of Black History Month.”

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SCOTUS, Affirmative Action, and the Future of University Diversity: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 174 with Host Drumm McNaughton and Guests Thomas Parham and Dilcie Perez

The Change Leader, Inc.

Prior to that role, Perez served as dean of student life and judicial affairs at the MiraCosta Community College District in Oceanside and for 13 years in a myriad of leadership positions at her alma mater, CSU San Marcos. Drumm McNaughton 01:55 Doing very well, sir. It’s really an integrated environment. And yourself?

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How to Attract and Inspire Underrepresented Students: Lessons from Lucy Cavendish College: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 152 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Madeleine Atkins

The Change Leader, Inc.

Bridging Week also provides additional networking opportunities and helps communicate where certain places are on campus so they can feel empowered to make their university work for them. and post-doctoral research contracts at the University of Nottingham. In the meantime, I have held several senior positions at universities.

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AGB Board of Directors Statement: A Conversation with the EVP: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 188 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Dr. Mary Papazian

The Change Leader, Inc.

” This document, a noteworthy publication in AGB’s 110-year history and only the 13th such statement, addresses crucial issues in contemporary educational governance. 01:04:19] Mary: Well, I would say, well, it’s a pleasure and I’d love to come back and talk to you about the board chair president relationship.

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Columbia President Shafik’s most contentious moments at yesterday’s House hearing on antisemitism

University Business

Columbia University President Nemat Shafik appeared before Congress in a hearing with the potential to shape the rest of her career as a higher education leader. “This [guidebook] is handed out on your watch … It fosters an environment of antisemitism in your university,” Banks said. 7 Hamas attack.

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Acting in the Best Interest of the Institution

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Don't wake up one day and find yourself in that exigency environment.” While many of our guests name leadership books when asked for reading recommendations, President Welch went in a different direction: “I'm a huge believer in learning from history and experience. But that's what I keep talking about to our campuses.