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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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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

Image: When Andrea Mora enrolled at University of California, Irvine, in 2012, she was a low-income, first-generation student. Mora now has professional counterparts at all 10 campuses in the University of California system. It was also a way for the university to make the position permanent.

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Enrollment trends new and old emerge from pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

University of Arkansas enrollment is booming,” Charles Robinson, interim chancellor at Arkansas, said of the university’s preliminary numbers in a press release. Grawe, the author of Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education and The Agile College (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018 and 2021 ).

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But the world of higher education will be listening carefully for what Biden may say about the many issues America’s colleges and universities are facing, several of which have assumed national prominence in recent months. Rebecca Natow, assistant professor of educational leadership and policy at Hofstra University. 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. “To suggest that the university does not respect academic freedom is absurd on its face. This is one of those times.

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