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OLIVIA LAPEYROLERIE

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Lapeyrolerie previously served as vice president at the public affairs and political consulting firm SKDK. She received her master’s in modern history from the University of St Andrews.

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U.S., Other Countries Issue Statement Supporting Academic Freedom

Inside Higher Ed

“It is intrinsically linked to the effective enjoyment of other rights and freedoms, such as participation in public affairs, freedom of opinion and expression and the right to education, demonstrating the indivisibility of all human rights.

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Students Increasingly Don’t Remember the 9/11 Attacks

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brown, who was vice president of government relations and public affairs for New York University (NYU) on that day, climbed to the roof of Bobst Library when she heard that an airplane had hit the World Trade Center. Twenty-two years on, the memories don’t come quite as readily as they once did for Dr. Lynne Brown.

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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.” “I don’t want him to come out and condemn everything that Gov. Instead, Pasquerella believes that an appeal to shared values could succeed. “I Dr. Kenneth K.

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Autonomy Scorecard

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Not only does it use an active research program to back up it’s public affairs and government relations agendas, it actively tries to use comparative public policy analysis to help its members – who hail from over 40 countries – to pursue reform agendas in their respective states. So let me just end on this.

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