University Business

AUGUST 11, 2023

However, the motivation behind these presidents’ break from university leadership is markedly cooler than last month’s more dramatic falls from grace. Burwell – American University (D.C.) American University’s Sylvia M. Burnett – University of Mobile (Ala.) Retiring Dr. Lonnie A.

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The PIE News

MARCH 10, 2023

At University College Dublin, International Women’s Day was even more significant this year with the historic appointment of the university’s first woman president in its 169-year history. UCD is Ireland’s largest university with over 38,000 students and is ranked within the top 1% of higher education institutions worldwide.

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The PIE News

MAY 8, 2024

We do a lot of work in secondary, middle and high school students, and have even worked with some primary students in our history. “In the college and university area, a lot of students aren’t even familiar with what study abroad means” Getting to engage with students at a younger age, I think is really powerful.

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University Business

APRIL 27, 2023

Leaders at Temple University in Philadelphia can’t seem to catch a break. More than 800 union members (81%) cast a vote of no confidence in their ability to lead one of the state’s leading research universities. In January, Temple’s graduate student union went on its first-ever strike in school history.

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Echo Delta

JANUARY 20, 2023

For years, we’ve felt like every problem at a college or university has been blamed on the enrollment department, and the enrollment department has been expected to solve all of the college’s or university’s problems. Are colleges and universities starting to commoditize themselves? What if the problems reside elsewhere?

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2023

Nigel Thrift, The Pursuit of Possibility: Redesigning Research Universities – The former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick takes aim at research universities for being too big, too focused on students and too uninterested in grand ideas. And if the government won’t do it, universities should.’

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Community college leaders with extensive experience in and knowledge of the community college serve as one of the most diverse faculties in a national university leadership program. of the history and organization of COD) and a broadened perspective that facilitated communication. Roueche and Margaretta B. Mathis of the John E.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 24, 2023

I was on the early board of trustees of Western Governors University and was a part of the group that helped envision what that could be. Recommended Reading for Leaders We always like hearing about leadership-themed books that inspire our guests. Nothing was more instructive than watching five years of those.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The longest sit-in protest in Stanford University history has ended peacefully. Sit In to Stop Genocide” began their student-led protest more than 115 days ago with demands the university leadership publicly support a ceasefire in Gaza, as well as a boycott, divestment, and sanction of Israeli companies, among others.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 5, 2023

In response to relentless anti-DEI measures, over 200 former college, university, and system heads have joined forces as the Champions of Higher Education coalition, an initiative created by PEN America , an organization that unites writers and their allies to celebrate free expression and defend the liberties that make it possible.

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University Business

APRIL 23, 2024

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik’s testimony on Capitol Hill last week , followed by the arrest and suspension of over 100 pro-Palestine student demonstrators, has ignited a new wave of fiery campus protests across some of the country’s most reputable schools, including Yale, MIT and NYU.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

That’s how the University of Virginia’s student government, student newspaper and a student group, the University Democrats , have described a new member of the university’s Board of Visitors, Bert Ellis, in separate but critical statements over the last several months. Image: Reckless. Reprehensible.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 30, 2022

These commonalities between academia and journalism, universities and print/digital publications, provide all the motivation required to recommend Newsroom Confidential to our Inside Higher Ed community. Newsroom Confidential can be read as something a journalistic companion piece to What Universities Owe Democracy.

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