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5 tips for college and university presidents to support diversity, equity and inclusion

University Business

The following five tips will help college and university presidents remain committed to supporting DEI on their campuses: Don’t assume. First of all, the most helpful piece of advice a president can take at this moment is to not make assumptions about where DEI currently stands on your campus. They are clear and mission-driven.

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Wayne State to Establish Center for Black Studies, Increase Faculty

Insight Into Diversity

Mellon Foundation, Wayne State University will create the Detroit Center for Black Studies and recruit 30 new humanities faculty. The faculty-led, multidisciplinary center will connect Black Studies faculty from institutions across the state of Michigan, the university announced in December. The Andrew W.

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Presidential worries: What’s keeping these Northeastern presidents up at night?

University Business

Most college or university presidents to have recently taken the helm might have had a grasp of their job expectations before the turn of the decade—or even when the pandemic went into full swing. No cohort of presidents might be more familiar with this than those leading small private colleges or universities in the Northeast.

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President moves: Administrators prove popular picks as next leader on the job

University Business

Schwartz’s current duties at Penn State have made him an indispensable candidate for a university president who beat out over 90 other applicants for the job at CU Boulder. More from UB: The human toll of rampant college closures Retired Bradley Creed – Campbell University (N.C.)

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5 higher ed thought leaders we are following

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Thought leaders to follow Anant Agarwal Anant Argarwal ’s mantra is direct: “education is a human right–everyone should have access to it like the air we breathe.” 4 Lessons from University Presidents on Crisis Thinking and Resilient Leadership Nathan D. Here are a few people we are following. Grawe Nathan D.

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These schools re-tooled their enrollment playbook using data to drive growth

University Business

” Before North Texas had any analytics software suite, the administration’s only way to assess future recruitment and enrollment trends was by backtracking minute details and analyzing the only results they had – the ones that had already happened. This is the most data-informed they’ve ever been in their entire lives.”

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Mobility trends for US international students a “mixed picture”

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. “We still have fewer international students than we used to have” In terms of future trends, Manning indicated that many stakeholders are paying close attention to Saudi Arabia as well as countries in the LATAM region as potential partnerships, collaborations and recruiting efforts in those areas proliferate.