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President moves: Administrators prove popular picks as next leader on the job

University Business

More from UB: The human toll of rampant college closures Retired Bradley Creed – Campbell University (N.C.) Bergman was the first woman to lead the private liberal arts college when she stepped in in 2014. Prior to her 18 years of executive leadership, Bergman had no career in academia.

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Presidential moves: Strong appointments and 2 headscratchers

University Business

John Dozier’s resounding leadership quality is his passion for people and their power to foster strong communities in higher education. He also has prior leadership experience as Kennedy-King College’s former president, according to the school website. John Dozier – Columbia College (S.C)

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

The first, which initially arose in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent a millennium ago, offered professional training in law, medicine, and the church and later in such fields as architecture, business, engineering, and the sciences. These four traditions co-exist uneasily within the contemporary college and university.

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Lafayette dept. heads, program chairs raise governance concerns

Inside Higher Ed

” Lafayette, a private Pennsylvania liberal arts college with roughly 2,700 students, currently has no deans supervising its four academic divisions: humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. It’s adding them July 1.

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(Podcast) #22-How Technology Could Impact the Future of International Education? Part I- With Hanna Lee

ACPA

However, if seasonal staff or leadership at educational institutions are not interested in new technology, and don’t consider possible applications to the classroom or offices, the gap between where and how our students spend their time learning outside of school and inside the educational building will be deepened.

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New book argues education shouldn't be the key to a job

Inside Higher Ed

Johnson’s a really good example of that; Barack Obama and Bill Clinton—they didn’t start off as elites, but it was elite educations that brought them into positions of leadership. The book traces how that idea changed. Q: Your book is more about the failures of U.S. government policy than of higher ed per se.

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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

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To what extent is the university’s leadership aware of the paper? So we reject solutions that involve replacing teachers by robots, taking all lessons online, or demoting the humanities. The focus of NEI will be on majors such as computer science and business, and eventually, broader areas of engineering and design.