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OLIVIA LAPEYROLERIE

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Olivia Lapeyrolerie Olivia Lapeyrolerie has been appointed chief communications officer at the NYU McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research. Lapeyrolerie previously served as vice president at the public affairs and political consulting firm SKDK.

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Colleges hire directors to tackle student basic needs

Inside Higher Ed

A month after she graduated in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in history and global culture, she was hired by her alma mater to do just that. Student affairs administrators at UC Irvine used a one-time grant to create a new position for a food access and security coordinator.

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Enrollment trends new and old emerge from pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

“There are roughly 4,500 colleges and universities in the United States, so there are roughly 4,500 stories about fall ’22 enrollment,” said Terry Hartle, senior vice president of government relations and public affairs at the American Council on Education. Some stories are more disheartening than others.

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What is Higher Ed Community Looking for in State of the Union Address?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DeSantis is doing in a way that stigmatizes those who are genuinely concerned about parental rights or who care about teaching history the way that they learned it.” When community colleges are mentioned in the State of the Union address, it elevates our sector across policy circles,” said Dr. Walter G. Dr. Kenneth K.

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Autonomy Scorecard

HESA

This week’s guest on The World of Higher Education podcast is Enora Bennetot Pruvot, Deputy Director Governance, Funding & Public Policy Development at the European University Association and she joins me today from Brussels to talk about the EUA’s recently-released University Autonomy Scorecard, of which she was a co-author.

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Hamline reviews policies that set off academic freedom dispute

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Hamline University has been engrossed in an academic freedom debate this year over the actions of an adjunct instructor at the private Minnesota institution who was teaching global art history. The idea that any one student’s beliefs can trump the honest teaching of art history is a chilling idea indeed.

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Museums and College Campuses as Community Hubs and Cultural Centers

Inside Higher Ed

opened with a searing attack that is at once ferocious and amusingly sarcastic: “Recent visitors to the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum were greeted with some unpleasant news: the museum was contaminated. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Inquiring minds would like to know.

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