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Strong Networks Help Turn Black Faculty into University Presidents

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For example, in 2020, the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) found that Black/African American employees comprise less than 10% of higher education professionals. They also participated in networks dedicated to Black professionals in their discipline, such as the National Society of Black Engineers.

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Idaho university presidents: Are their travels essential, or extravagant?

University Business

Idaho’s four college and university presidents spent about $150,000 traveling, over a 12-month span. Boise State University President Marlene Tromp and University of Idaho President C. While there, she signed an international agreement, engineered by Boise-based Micron Technology Inc.,

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Harvard Biological Engineering Institute Receives $350M Gift

Inside Higher Ed

Entrepreneur and philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss has donated an additional $350 million to Harvard University to support the research center that bears his name: the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Wyss, a graduate of Harvard Business School, donated $125 million to establish the institute in 2009.

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How CIOs can take advantage of the AI revolution

University Business

CIOs and their network support engineers constantly have to find creative ways to improve their network configurations to support the ever-growing number of devices on campus. Most importantly, CIOs must foster an innovative and experimental culture that will enable the network engineers to try out new AI solutions on the network.

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Flagship public universities likely to cut more humanities, staff — especially in rural states - ELAINE S. POVICH, Kansas Reflector

Economics and Change in Higher Education

No, we will have a new normal,” said West Virginia University President Gordon Gee in an interview with Stateline. “We And they very much want to see universities, particularly land grant institutions like ours, become engines of creativity and economic development.”

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Bridge Programs Over Troubled Water

Inside Higher Ed

Rice University president Reginald DesRoches launched his career as a civil engineer–turned–higher ed administrator back in the early 1980s, when he joined a summer bridge program for students from underrepresented backgrounds before his freshman year at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Flagship public universities likely to cut more humanities, staff — especially in rural states - ELAINE S. POVICH

Economics and Change in Higher Education

No, we will have a new normal,” said West Virginia University President Gordon Gee in an interview with Stateline. “We And they very much want to see universities, particularly land grant institutions like ours, become engines of creativity and economic development.”