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Ripe for poaching: Will DeSantis’ higher ed policies drive out Florida faculty?

Higher Ed Dive

One university provost has already publicly promised to recruit Florida students and professors amid the state’s political strife.

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Johns Hopkins Grad Students Successfully Unionize

Inside Higher Ed

programs will be represented by TRU-UE in collective bargaining with the university,” university provost Sunil Kumar announced in a statement. The union is called the Teachers and Researchers United–United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers. “Approximately 3,200 student workers across JHU’s 65 Ph.D.

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AAU task force to build US-India HE partnerships

The PIE News

University at Buffalo president Satish K. Tripathi and Johns Hopkins University provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs Sunil Kumar, who is joining Tufts University as president in July are also co-chairs.

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US: ISU partners with University of Havana

The PIE News

He also expressed his eagerness to move forward on research collaboration “with University of Havana faculty”. Starting in Fall 2023, research is projected to be conducted between the College of Health and Human Services at ISU and Cuba’s highest ranking university.

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How Vermont is winning the fight against falling enrollment

University Business

Following the widespread pushback, Vermont State University conceded, promising to keep 10% of its current collection. Books will be salvaged based on the frequency of specific checkouts and their proscribed academic value according to department chairs and the university provost. Recent philanthropic efforts between the J.

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Consolidating touch points for retention

Inside Higher Ed

“We know that students, for them to be successful … [they] need to be able to take advantage of all the resources available to them,” Wichita State University provost Shirley Lefever says. A secondary element, once the resource is established, involves making the one-stop visible to the student and utilized.

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What Faculty Know (and Don’t Know) About Transfer—and Why It Matters

Inside Higher Ed

She is a former provost of Hunter College and former executive vice chancellor and university provost and interim chancellor of CUNY. From 2008 to 2014 she was executive vice chancellor and university provost of the CUNY system. Alexandra W. Vita Rabinowitz Alexandra W. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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