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DECEMBER 13, 2022

Bob Jones University is facing scrutiny from its accreditor related to a fast-track master’s degree awarded to Ellen Weaver, South Carolina’s newly elected superintendent of education. Ad keywords: administrators executive Editorial Tags: Accreditation State policy South Carolina Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?:

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

With 26 percent of the vote in last month’s election, Giorgia Meloni’s far-right Brothers of Italy (FdI) Party is set to lead a center-right coalition, making her the front-runner to be appointed Italy’s next prime minister after Parliament returns on Oct. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?:

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

Image: Key federal lawmakers on education and appropriations committees in the House and Senate will likely be re-elected this November, but their decision-making power will depend on which party takes control of either chamber. Election forecasters don’t consider those races competitive and expect both lawmakers to win.

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APRIL 7, 2023

His resignation came only a few months after the board re-elected him. Ad keywords: administrators executive Editorial Tags: Live Updates Is this diversity newsletter?: Last week, Bob Jones University president Steve Pettit announced his resignation. He will leave office at the end of the academic year in May. Hide by line?:

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APRIL 6, 2023

Dobos was elected to the Ohio House last year and had previously served on the Columbus City School Board from 1993 to 2001, including a stint as board president. ” Editorial Tags: Degree scandals Ohio Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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MARCH 8, 2023

Image: Though the 2024 presidential election is still more than 600 days away, a handful of well-known Republicans have already entered the primary race. Often, he noted, politicians craft policy as a means to another end—whether that’s getting re-elected, or pursuing a higher office such as the presidency.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Image: Brazilian academics hope the country’s upcoming presidential election will bring an end to Jair Bolsonaro’s “war on science” but have admitted that, even if the populist leader loses, his influence will be slow to fade. Global Editorial Tags: Brazil Times Higher Ed Is this diversity newsletter?:

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Image: In order to cast their ballots in last Tuesday’s midterm elections, students at the University of Michigan waited for up to six hours in lines that stretched hundreds long outside the campus’s polling sites. “More discussion and activism begets more interest in voting, and I think that showed in this election.”

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APRIL 4, 2023

Like the majority of community colleges in this country, Lansing Community College’s Board of Trustees is comprised of citizens who were elected by local taxpayers. It is the locally elected board of our college that voted—again unanimously—to devote college resources to staffing and programming in DEI.

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

Image: Advocacy groups and researchers are expecting high voter turnout among college students during the midterm elections this fall, but they will still have to overcome skepticism among younger voters who question the impact of their vote and who face a series of logistical hurdles imposed by several Republican-led states.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Three candidates for the City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees are poised to shake up the status quo on the much-criticized governing body, according to preliminary election results posted by the San Francisco Department of Elections. “People are frustrated and want to see some change.” Hide by line?:

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Image: On the eve of today’s midterm elections, a crack team of political organizers assembled in a “war room” at the Washington Marriott in Georgetown in D.C. In January 2021, young voters in Georgia’s special election were crucial in handing Democrats the slim double victories that gave them control of the Senate.

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MARCH 21, 2023

The for-profit college, owned by Ambow Education, has been accused of misleading students and has attracted the attention of elected officials, including Democratic Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren. Bay State lost its accreditation due to ongoing financial and organizational issues. Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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MARCH 15, 2023

And the number of petitions filed for new labor elections grew by more than 50 percent from the previous year. Unions were winning more than three out of every four elections in the first half of last year, mirroring a greater–than–70 percent general approval of labor unions in the country at large.

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JANUARY 6, 2023

Image: Two years ago today, a group of insurrectionists, whipped into a frenzy by former President Trump’s false rhetoric about a stolen election, waged an attack on the U.S. 6 and that he has “condemned the violence and lawlessness that took place” in the aftermath of the election. Constitution.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

A change to UVA’s Faculty Senate bylaws, such that instead of being sent a single, faculty-elected representative, the board could pick from a slate of three or four faculty-backed candidates. In 2020, in a 52-to-4 vote, the Senate passed a bylaw formalizing the practice of electing one rep.

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MARCH 27, 2023

“Vote tallies in 2022 and 2023 in graduate assistant elections have been overwhelming in favor of representation.” She said she didn’t think she could answer whether organizers will contest the election or try to form a professional employees–only union. ” No.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

Rodrigues—who has sponsored legislation to require intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity surveys and to reshape tenure—announced in June that he would not seek re-election to Florida’s State Senate. ” The full board will consider the recommendation at its next meeting on Sept. Hide by line?:

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MARCH 23, 2023

Researchers at the University of Washington and Stanford worked with two other organizations to form the Election Integrity Partnership, which worked to identify and counter misinformation during the 2020 election cycle. Centers at the three universities research disinformation online and how to stop it from spreading.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Image: The recent midterm elections highlighted the growing educational divide between voters as well as the increasing political polarization in the country—both of which are areas of concern for higher education but not ones that colleges and universities can address on their own. ” Policy Implications.

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APRIL 6, 2023

In February 2021, roughly 12 months into the pandemic, the military overthrew Myanmar’s democratically elected leaders. ” Global Editorial Tags: Times Higher Ed Is this diversity newsletter?: Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

Tenured associate professors have long been allowed to serve on the committee, which is made up of three elected representatives from each of the university’s academic divisions. A minimum of two candidates are nominated per each open TPAC seat, he said, and they are forwarded to the full voting faculty for election.

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

In 2019, one of my former students emailed me an article suggesting that Qatar would move forward with legislative elections that had been repeatedly postponed. The elections were postponed yet again (it turns out that Qatar did hold its first symbolic elections in 2021 ). But they never came. Both professor and student alike.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2022

And we said we think it’s important to be outside, so that two days before the [upcoming midterm] election, the whole nation knows that the voice of health workers nationally supports reproductive justice.” They were concerned with anything being outside of the conference center.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Some media outlets reported before the election that she might not be successful in receiving a waiver, but several lobbyists expect her to prevail. Hartle said representatives of House Republicans met with higher education associations on Election Day to hear about their priorities.

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MARCH 8, 2023

Colin Johnson, a tenured associate professor and president-elect of the IU at Bloomington Faculty Council, signed the letter. Five Indiana University faculty leaders, plus one past Faculty Council president and one president-elect, signed the letter, which was addressed to students, staff and faculty.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

But this report confirms a grim reality: some elected leaders are marching schools backward, and trampling on students’ free expression in the process.” ” Editorial Tags: Live Updates Is this diversity newsletter?: “Vibrant learning opportunities are essential for democratic citizenship to flourish.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

That warning comes amid dramatic change at the college driven by a new board majority that formed after the most recent election in November. Ad keywords: administrators communitycolleges executive Editorial Tags: Community College Presidents Trustees/regents Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?:

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JANUARY 3, 2023

After three contentious board meetings, NIC’s elected trustees faced a group of angry constituents in the public comments portion of its fourth meeting, on Dec. The 3-to-2 split has been consistent since three new board members were elected in November and installed in December, joining holdovers Banducci and McKenzie.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

” He vowed that if elected, he would appoint the former head of the CIA to chair an investigation into the institution. Since his landslide re-election last year, the Florida governor has heightened his long-standing attacks on the state’s colleges and universities. Disable left side advertisement?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Recent moves to eliminate any opposing voices echo Tehran’s strategy in 2009, when protests erupted over what many regarded as a rigged presidential election, Hashemi noted. Global Editorial Tags: Iran Times Higher Ed Is this diversity newsletter?: Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?:

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APRIL 3, 2023

With only two members of the elected board present, the meeting did not take place due to the lack of a quorum, The Coeur d’Alene Press reported. Ad keywords: administrators Editorial Tags: Accreditation Legal issues Presidents Trustees/regents Is this diversity newsletter?: A decision will be rendered at a later time.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

However, the most high-profile higher education ballot measure this election cycle—a vote to allow undocumented students in Arizona to receive in-state tuition—remains too close to call. Editorial Tags: Federal policy Image Source: John Moore/Getty Images Image Caption: An election worker in Arizona sorts ballots Nov.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

CAFT members are elected by the general faculty for three-year terms. One was to continue following the faculty bylaws for all eligibility on committees because “unsubstantiated information about candidates was presented at meetings by a non-elected support staff.”

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Immigration legislation is hard, but it might be easier to do now before we start getting into the presidential election cycle.” Republicans will take control of the House in January after winning a small majority of seats in the midterm elections. Is this diversity newsletter?

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

” A successful legal challenge could upend Biden’s plan, which is expected to give both the president and the Democratic Party a boost heading into the midterm elections. ” Regardless of legal action, Republicans will likely use student loans as a massive talking point this election season. Who Could Sue?

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

But the union election at GW was ultimately canceled , and despite the groundbreaking precedent, no undergraduate RA union campaign succeeded for the next five years. In 2021, the administration successfully filed for a motion to postpone NLRB-mediated union elections. “This is our livelihood,” said Eggert, the Grinnell CA.

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