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President’s corner: David Decker embraces tech trends to keep enrollment rolling at Franklin U

University Business

In the academic year 2022-23, growth returned to double digits, according to Decker. However, being a predominantly online institution comes with a price tag. We view it as a content and academic structure question.” “You have to be engaged with their structures to be effective.

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Lafayette dept. heads, program chairs raise governance concerns

Inside Higher Ed

” Lafayette, a private Pennsylvania liberal arts college with roughly 2,700 students, currently has no deans supervising its four academic divisions: humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. ” Hurd, who became Lafayette’s president last academic year , didn’t provide an interview last week.

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New curricular modules will highlight role of race in health sciences

Inside Higher Ed

Lead investigator Gabriella Torres, associate provost for academic administration and faculty affairs and William Isaac Cole Chair in Anthropology at Wheaton, says, “We’re really trying to create adaptable, student-centered teaching modules that could be used in the humanities or the natural sciences, or even the social sciences.

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Career Q&A: UT Knoxville's vice provost for student success

Inside Higher Ed

Her main responsibility is broad: to serve undergraduate student scholars and their unique academic goals. Doing that helped me understand their stories and needs [and] the systems and structures they needed to navigate our campus. This opportunity taught me a lot about leadership and helping students succeed academically.

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Survey: What flexibility means to college students

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Many students think more flexibility on classroom deadlines, attendance and participation would boost their academic success, a recent Student Voice survey found. Another strategy for helping students manage deadlines is the comprehensive syllabus , used by academic coaches at Wake Forest University.)

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UNC board takes bold step for viewpoint diversity (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

UNC Chapel Hill recognizes that the academic freedom of its faculty is essential to the university’s mission. Do they wish to pass up the opportunity to have new colleagues and a new academic unit? Existing faculty structures have done a poor job of maintaining intellectual diversity.

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China fails in effort to get top expatriates to return

Inside Higher Ed

“Although designed to improve China’s prospect of becoming a global STEM leader, the program’s effectiveness in attracting top talents and nurturing their productivity is unclear,” write academics in the journal Science. ” Luring top talent back to China will require deeper structural change, he said.