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Ohio Lawmaker Lied About MIT Degree

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Republican lawmaker Dave Dobos has stepped down as vice chair of the Ohio House Higher Education Committee after Cleveland.com revealed he lied about earning a degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which he attended in the 1970s and 1980s.

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After “exhausting all avenues” to avoid going under, Notre Dame College closes

University Business

Nine schools have guaranteed admissions for NDC’s remaining students with more than 60 credits completed. NDC had 1,248 total students in 2021-22, according to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. Founded in 1922 as a women’s college, NDC became coeducational in 2001. If it fails, it shuts its doors.

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Christopher Edley, Prominent Legal Scholar, Passes Away

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Edley spent more than two decades as a professor at Harvard Law School, where he and Orfield founded the Civil Rights Project in the aftermath of a 1996 court ruling that squelched race-conscious admission policies at many universities. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled against the UT practices.

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Harvard Names Dr. Claudine Gay to Presidency

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ruth Simmons, who served as president of Brown University from 2001 to 2012. Experts in higher education, diversity, equity and inclusion celebrated the news, hoping it could signal to other institutions that it is time for more diverse leadership. Gay’s appointment comes on the heels of the U.S

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Artificial Intelligence and Higher Education

Higher Ed Connects: Technology

One of my favorite movies of all times is 2001: A Space Odyssey , in which an artificial intelligence, HAL, is the star. Even before I moved back to Silicon Valley four years ago, I was intrigued with some of the claims being made about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education. by Terri E.

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How colleges can balance their gender parity without relying on ‘affirmative action for men’

University Business

As higher education lost 1.5 There was definitely a thumb on the scale to get boys,” said Sourav Guha, assistant dean of admissions at Wesleyan University from 2001 to 2004, according to The New York Times. “We Admissions offices do have a strong incentive to take that tack.

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HEI Resources 2025

Higher Education Inquirer

Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education. Johns Hopkins University Press. : A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education. The Great Training Robbery: Education and Jobs." Native American Higher Education in the United States.