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Scholar-Practitioner Helps to Promote Inclusivity at Alma Mater

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“I remember riding the bus home from work one day and I saw someone with the Central Michigan University bumper sticker, and so I applied because I recognized the bumper sticker,” says Patterson-Stephens, who graduated in 2003 from CMU with a degree in sociology. Their children still go to this institution. They work here.”

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It was NEVER about Deion: HBCU Realities VS. Perceptions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Engram Specifically, in the context of the Deion Sanders online discourse, several references have been made about the lack of alumni giving and inadequate athletic budget people believe would have retained such a high-profile coach. Jackson State has ranked within the top 15 in all of FCS since 2003 when the NCAA started publishing the data.

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College presidents move to cultural institutions (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

And what does it tell us about leadership today, both for these prominent cultural institutions and for higher education? Particularly so when—for the first time in modern memory—the role and value of higher education today are not only disputed but often discredited in public discourse. Why is that?

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The Future of Public Funding in Higher Education: The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 6

The Change Leader, Inc.

The aftermath has led to ugly financial battles involving policymakers, faculty, staff, students and alumni. This blog, the sixth in a series, will discuss where weve been and where were going in terms of public funding of higher education. 2003, the average cost of college increased 14 percent in one year.

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A public university wants to privatize advancement jobs

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Massachusetts law allows public sector employees to spend up to 25 percent of their time on work for private foundations, a carve-out created specifically for public higher education institutions. Jason Johnson, an advancement employee of seven years who helps produce the alumni magazine and website, doesn’t buy it.

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Dr. Sylvester James Gates, Jr.: Pioneering Theoretical Physicist Bridges Mathematical Worlds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Professor Gates has been strongly supportive of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) which my colleagues and I founded in 2003, says Dr. Neil Turok, who holds the Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh. Im the first person in my family to go to college.

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Coronavirus COVID-19 Webinar: What higher education leaders need to know right now

Higher Ed Connects: News

Here at the Center for Higher Education Leadership , we are dedicated to providing a space for community, sharing of resources, providing vital content and disseminating information that higher ed administrators need to know, along with mentoring, online courses and webinars. But then, he continued, in 2003 the SARS virus hit.