June, 2022

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Digital Transformation at UMBC – How the pandemic created an opportunity to reimagine student services

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The pandemic forced us to transform this in-person experience in two short months. This enabled us to accelerate our rollout plan as we shifted to remote. Digitizing student orientation and advising did more than allow us to deliver services remotely. Engage all stakeholders early!

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A Thousand Flowers Blooming

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When you work in industry," he explained, "deadlines and critical path and quality and deliverables, all those things are a part of your job in such a way that you really emphasize them. We’re scholars," he reminded us. A Thousand Flowers Blooming. A Conversation With M. Brian Blake, President, Georgia State University. Weekly Wisdom.

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Celebrating Baltimore’s Rich Local Heritage of Black Culture + Tradition

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As we take this day to reflect on the victories, struggles, and continuous fight to end racism and inequality, we’ve compiled a list of resources and content highlighting authors, artists, events, and work that advances the cause of Black liberation in Baltimore (and beyond). Juneteenth in Baltimore. Exploring Black Art and Culture.

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This Pride Month, let’s celebrate and continue the fight for equality

UW Presidential Blog

It’s a chance to honor the work and achievements of LGBTQIA+ people who have led the long — and ongoing — fight for dignity, safety and equality. Across our University, you will find celebrations of Pride, including works by UW faculty, students and alumni , and opportunities to learn about the trans equality movement.

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How campuses engage with the climate crisis: a taxonomy (Bryan Alexander*)

Higher Education Inquirer

This question is the subject of much of my work now, as you can see from these posts. Further, as humanity revises its energy production basis to get away from carbon dioxide, all kinds of ripples can work through society, from changes to economics, human spaces, and gender roles. That’s a different response category.)

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Ruling overturning Roe v. Wade will have significant impacts, but won’t change rights in Washington or at the UW

UW Presidential Blog

But, we are fortunate to live in a state that recognizes that whether to access abortion services is an individual choice to be made between the person who is pregnant and their doctor and/or family, and that this choice is essential to the welfare and dignity not only for those able to bear children, but for us all.

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How organisations should improve data synthesis to avoid being ‘data rich’ but ‘information poor’

QS (Quacquarelli Symonds)

The biggest barrier to organisations making more use of their data to inform future direction and strategy is that most are data rich but information poor. In fact, if you think about a hierarchy of how data evolves as it’s used, we start with data, and we process or summarise it to create information.

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