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President moves: hearty welcomes and rocky goodbyes

University Business

Presidents picking up at new schools John Nicklow While the jazz-playing Dr. Cole takes his talent to New Orleans, civil engineer Dr. John Nicklow is on his way out of The Big Easy to The Sunshine State. in civil engineering from Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. We are excited to the moon.”

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President moves: Resignations and early retirements reigned in July

University Business

Faculty expressed deep disappointment in the lack of transparency over the negotiation process—which saw McElroy’s offer dwindle from a tenured role to a one-year, at-will position—and the involvement of outside political pressures on the contract fiasco. I don’t trust the administration in their ability to have the best.”

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Who You Gonna Believe?

Inside Higher Ed

Some law schools admit less qualified students on a part-time or probationary status to exclude them from the rankings that look exclusively at full-time students. Anscombe’s quartet: Very different data distributions can produce identical descriptive statistics. There are things that are worth measuring.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

It provides students, faculty, staff, and alumni with a single place to report nonemergency complaints or concerns, including those involving harassment and sexual misconduct. The university also administers Diversity 360, a three-hour diversity education program required for all incoming students, staff, and faculty.

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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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College 2023

Inside Higher Ed

I find it remarkable that leading law schools decided to attack the ranking system by denying U.S. Faculty should resist initiatives that degrade the academic experience and undercut academic quality. Faculty should require their institutions to collect and act upon data involving equity and disparate outcomes.

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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.

Post students have access to a locked closet with gently used professional men’s and women’s attire that have been donated by staff and faculty members. As a faculty member, Camille developed and taught courses for her alma mater, Iona College, in the health services management graduate program. These are all live streamed as well.

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