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MARCH 20, 2023

Olaf College, Macalester College and Carleton College, all members of the Minnesota Private College Council, don’t have graduate degree programs, said John Manning, the council’s director of marketing and communications. ” While some private colleges in the state have added graduate degree programs, others have not.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Staff members and students were represented by their formal elected councils. Participants in the search process had to check an online box saying they had read the principles, but “we tried to use the honor code—it was not enforced in blood, to appeal to people’s better nature,” said Brock, the search committee chair.

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JANUARY 13, 2023

It was also inspired in part by Mental Health First Aid , a program by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing that teaches people how to identify and address various mental health and substance abuse issues. ” Editorial Tags: Mental Health Image Source: Sarah L. “College students have this need,” he said.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

And NMSU tries to give all its products—which include wine, whiskey and some nonalcoholic consumables like pecans and coffee—a story that connects it to the university or to the history of New Mexico, in an effort to make the product about alumni pride rather than about alcohol and drinking.

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MARCH 14, 2023

The agreement was unanimously approved by the district’s Faculty Executive Council last Monday and will now go to the Board of Governors for review this month and final approval in April. Some librarians favored the agreement, while others, like her, strongly opposed it. We’re not going to just stop.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Several campus councils and stakeholder groups will submit questions to the interested systems, which will be asked to respond by Oct. ” Editorial Tags: College administration Texas Image Source: Courtesy of Stephen F. Adding Stephen F. Austin State University Image Caption: Stephen F.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Stephen Trachtenberg, president emeritus at George Washington University and a board member at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, explained that college presidents have severance agreements for roughly the same reasons people sign prenuptial agreements. And it sounds like that’s what happened in this case,” Hamm said.

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I’ll be developing and calling out tags I use for these themes so that you can go to an archive page on each one. This one will be listed under the “ changing-enrollment ” and “ future-of-academic-work ” tags. Several articles caught my eye this week.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Students at Union College in Kentucky reportedly tried to start their own service but had disagreements with administrators over logistics, Fox 56 News reported. Amanda Staggenborg, chief communications officer at the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, said she was moved by such a public display of faith among students.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The lack of HBCUs on the R-1 list has not gone unnoticed by the stewards of the Carnegie classifications, which are now housed at the American Council on Education as of this spring. Meanwhile, scholars are attracted to colleges already flush with resources and equipped for high-level research. ” Self-Reflection at Carnegie.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

KerryAnn O’Meara is a Distinguished Scholar Teacher at the University of Maryland and served as an American Council on Education fellow in residence at Towson University in spring 2022. What would it objectively add to our mission? Are we trying to mimic the flagship? Kim Schatzel is president of Towson University.

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MARCH 28, 2023

” An American Association of Community Colleges analysis of an upcoming report by the American Council on Education shows that 36.6 Editorial Tags: Race Women Image Source: Stephanie Reyna Image Caption: Julianna Barnes, chancellor of the South Orange County Community College District. percent between 2010 and 2022.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

years in 2006, according to the most recent American College President Study by the American Council on Education. The turnover was “constant,” but he tried to quickly install permanent presidents, he said. The average tenure of a president in their current job was 6.5 years in 2016, down from seven years in 2011 and 8.5

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MARCH 15, 2023

” Online and Blended Learning Technology Editorial Tags: Accreditation Online learning Technology Image Source: University of the People Image Caption: University of the People president Shai Reshef is a volunteer faculty member, too. The New England Commission of Higher Education] is getting more comfortable with pilots, for examples.”

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

” The University of California’s Academic Council, part of the system’s Academic Senate, also approved new recommendations for departmental statements in May. ” Vernon continued, “This discourse of civility and community is a way of trying to limit free speech on campus.

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MARCH 27, 2023

Image: As demand continues to grow for colleges and universities to serve students with intellectual disabilities, a recently formed accreditation council is focused on ensuring that programs meet quality standards. Programs can be choosy in which students they enroll, often bringing only small numbers of students to campus.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The American Council on Education’s comment cited limitations on existing program-level data, discrimination in earnings and employment, and the diversity of postsecondary programs as reasons that “it would be almost impossible to establish criteria that work equally well in evaluating each program.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

A 2022 report by the Kentucky Jewish Council details a variety of incidents, including threats to a synagogue and Jewish community center. An Anti-Defamation League report released in April found antisemitic incidents were at an all-time high in 2021, at an average of seven daily incidents in the U.S. Kentucky is no exception.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Before she was nominated to the chair position by President Biden in October 2021 and confirmed by the Senate in February this year, she was appointed by President Obama to the NEH’s advisory board, the National Council on the Humanities, in 2015. The following is a transcript that was edited for length and clarity.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

“Historians who were being hired in academic positions to act as public historians were essentially, you know, serving two masters,” said Gregory Smoak, immediate past president of the National Council on Public History. Smoak said their work as public historians “simply did not count for promotion and tenure.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

“The broadened definition of a [third-party servicer] appears to cover entities that are beyond the common understanding of that term,” the American Council on Education and other higher ed groups said in their letter last week asking the department to delay implementation of the guidance. What Was the Department Trying to Do?

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Image: A tenured University of Texas at Austin professor is suing business school leaders there, alleging they threatened his career because he denounced the university’s funding and support of “left-wing” causes—and tried to draw state lawmakers’ attention to it. “These people are shameless and awful.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

Then two trustees—Christie Wood and Ken Howard—resigned in May, a strategic decision to force the governor’s office to appoint three new board members, which the remaining trustees unsuccessfully tried to block via a lawsuit. Contacted by phone, Banducci hung up when Inside Higher Ed tried to ask questions.

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JANUARY 3, 2023

Mark Berkson, chair of the Department of Religion at Hamline, tried to explain the situation in a letter to the editor of The Oracle , the student newspaper. Editorial Tags: Academic freedom Religion Image Source: Wikimedia Commons Image Caption: An image of the painting that upset some Muslim students at Hamline U.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Still, Fresno Pacific is one of the few Council of Christian Colleges and Universities member institutions to explicitly support the debt-relief plan and break down how it would affect students and alumni. The council didn’t respond to a request for information about its stance on the debt-relief plan or what other members have said.

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DECEMBER 7, 2022

And through campus staff advocacy with receptive third-party vendors, the concrete improvement in trans inclusivity happened at a larger scale than had one institution simply tried for a local workaround. Jessica Taylor (she) is a research fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies. What is a respectful way to ask?

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JANUARY 17, 2023

“Given the ubiquity of Islamophobic depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, it hardly makes sense to target an art professor trying to combat narrow understandings of Islam,” said a statement from the Muslim Public Affairs Council. “There is an unmistakable irony in the situation, which should be appreciated.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

” Editorial Tags: Student life Unions/unionization Image Source: Courtesy of Libby Eggert Image Caption: Unionized undergraduate student workers at Grinnell College, including community advisers, attend a bargaining session for their first contract Thursday. “This is our livelihood,” said Eggert, the Grinnell CA.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

As early as 1937, the American Council on Education published the “Student Personnel Point of View,” which explicitly stated that higher education had an “obligation to consider the student as a whole. New Books About Higher Education Editorial Tags: College administration Is this diversity newsletter?:

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JANUARY 13, 2023

” Jon Fansmith, assistant vice president for government relations at the American Council on Education, said the department’s request seems to take into account limitations of the data currently collected and the need to compare programs rather than institutions. ” Measuring Value.

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MARCH 31, 2023

Although our universities are funded by the country’s Council for Higher Education, a body that is run by educational professionals rather than by politicians, this situation could conceivably change overnight. We do this through our coordinating body—the Committee of University Heads of Israel.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

Image: The Biden administration is moving forward on a sweeping plan to overhaul how student borrowers can repay their loans, though advocates want the Education Department to go further in its plan, while critics cite the price tag as an area of concern. He estimated the price tag is in the range of $300 to $400 billion.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

During public comments before Sasse’s interview with the board, Paul Wassel, president of UF’s Graduate Student Council, questioned the search process and said the former senator was not wanted at UF. “[On] our campuses, we often do the same thing now, which is we try to equate speech that you might differ with as violence.

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JANUARY 3, 2023

” Student Voice Editorial Tags: Facilities Sustainability Beliefs and Behaviors Sustainability Image Source: Franklin Pierce University Image Caption: Franklin Pierce University’s science building, Marcucella Hall, includes a publicly accessible greenhouse. It cuts across all these other disciplines.”

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Polling data from the American Council on Education showed a similar shift. ” Editorial Tags: Federal policy Image Source: Douglas Rissing/iStock/Getty Images Plus Is this diversity newsletter?: In the 2018 election, the gap was about five percentage points. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?:

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

Some trustees had tried to push Stanley out last month, initially asking him to retire but stay on for a year as they searched for his successor. Outside the state, Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, issued a statement questioning the board’s actions in pushing Dr. Stanley out: ?“President

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Last week, Bharat Ramamurti, the deputy director of the White House National Economic Council, told reporters, “We believe we’re on strong legal ground.” The state of emergency is currently set to lift on Oct. Confidence in Biden Administration. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?

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