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What’s Really Wrong with the College Rankings

Inside Higher Ed

Brian Rosenberg, president emeritus of Macalester College and a visiting professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has written the best article that I’ve read on the recent decision by leading law schools to boycott the US News ratings. College ratings take various forms. Each approach has its limitations.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education (ED) issued guidance for how schools can navigate admissions and still consider other factors in evaluating applicants, including neighborhood and high school data, life challenges, and experiences of racial discrimination. In response to the decision, the U.S.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

This academic and professional development initiative encourages and assists students from underrepresented groups to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math. . Department of Education to support rural student success. Minority Male Initiative — Broward College. In addition, SVSU recently received a $1.2

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

The Change Leader, Inc.

And what is most striking about New College is that, as you say, this board engineered coup, if you will, or some have called it a hostile takeover, has allowed the Governor to use New College as the model for what he and his minions would like to see all of higher education become. [00:13:36] That’s been a real mess too. [00:28:19]

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How Post University’s Career Readiness Model Can Help Not-For-Profit Universities and Graduates: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 172 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Camille Dumont

The Change Leader, Inc.

After earning her bachelor’s degree, Camille’s professional life began in the Sales and Marketing Department at the famed Plaza Hotel in New York City. Since then, I’ve been building the department. A year ago, I took over this role, and we’ve been reimagining the department. I was so blessed to get it.

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Universities on Fire

HESA

Think about Lewis and Clark College, out in the west coast of the US for example or the Vermont Law School, in Vermont, which is explicitly very green. It may also require the ability to redesign an entire curriculum perhaps overall an undergraduate curriculum or at least individual departments.