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Kenyon College President Dr. Sean Decatur to Depart for American Museum of Natural History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Under Decatur’s leadership, Kenyon will conclude its most successful fundraising campaign, growing its endowment to over $520 million. Decatur has been on the pages of Diverse across the years, and was recognized by the publication in 2007 as an Emerging Scholar. . 6 message to the Kenyon community.

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President’s corner: Trust is the bedrock of progress at High Point University

University Business

Qubein’s rise to the highest ranks of higher education despite his lack of administrative experience seems as farfetched as HPU managing to continually improve enrollment since his tenure began in 2005, surviving the blows of the 2007-08 Great Recession and the pandemic. “I believe in this work.

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President moves: End of the line for this president’s remarkable 25-year career

University Business

Gonzalez, Kalamazoo College Gonzalez also raised over $200 million in a fundraising campaign that supportedexperiential and interdisciplinary learning, campus facility renewal projects and the revival of its mens and womens track and field. She has served in the interim since July 2024.

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President moves: This state flagship finds its next president amid heap of retirements

University Business

Montana State University President Waded Cruzado Altmann is credited with leading Franklin and Marshall’s biggest fundraising campaign, scoring $220 million for the institution, Lancaster Online reports. She will have served the liberal arts college for seven years when she steps down.

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Central Oklahoma’s first female president to step down mid-year

University Business

Neuhold-Ravikumar became president of the university in July 2019 and has been with the university since 2007. Fundraising at the university has grown by 170%. .” Her plans are to move to Kansas City, Missouri, to be with her wife who serves as president of the Kansas City Art Institute.

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

The Change Leader, Inc.

For example, states allotted nearly $2,000 less per student in 2017 than they did in 2001 and $1,000 less than in 2007, according to a report by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, forcing states to rely increasingly on tuition hikes to pay for institutional costs. billion (21 percent) over that period.