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Pushing to No Longer Keep Meredith College a ‘Best-Kept Secret’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jo Allen, the retiring president of Meredith College, enjoys the administrative part of higher ed. Spurred on by this interest in universities’ inner workings, Allen went on to eventually lead in an administrative capacity as senior vice president and provost at Widener University before returning to Meredith as its leader in July 2011.

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Is this the first college closing announced in 2025?

University Business

million fundraising effort provided by over one thousand donations saved the school from closing last spring. The pandemic occurs, steepening downward trending enrollment and shortening administrators window to adjust operational strategy. Year founded: 2011 Goddard College (Vt.) A record $1.5

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President moves: A narrow no-confidence vote results in this leader’s exit

University Business

His career as a higher education professor began in 2011, and his first role in a leadership and administration position began in 2015. One of his last tasks at the helm of Rider will be completing its $100 million comprehensive fundraising campaign. Retiring Gregory G. Dell’Omo – Rider University (N.J.)

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President moves: hearty welcomes and rocky goodbyes

University Business

A tenured professor of English, he has served in other administrative roles for the past 20 years. He was the first president to leave the school with a positive enrollment rate since Hurricane Katrina, and he was also the first president to lead a major comprehensive fundraising campaign in the school’s 65-year history.

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Franklin & Marshall College Names Dr. Andrew Rich as 17th President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

During his six-year tenure at the Colin Powell School, Rich demonstrated exceptional ability in institutional growth and fundraising, according to officials at the private school located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The initiative's success earned the 2023 Exemplary Model Award from the American Association of University Administrators.

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Student Lifecycle Strategies for Enrollment and Retention: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 150 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Amrit Ahluwalia

The Change Leader, Inc.

Loyalty” should not be based on fundraising. The higher ed fundraising model is broken since it essentially involves asking graduates to donate because they graduated. The perception that the administration had versus what the people working there had was night and day. That’s three Ls. Amrit Ahluwalia I don’t doubt it.

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2023 wrapped: The biggest trends in higher ed—and the most read stories

University Business

Boosted by the largest federal R&D spending increase since 2011, leaders invested in math, science, and engineering. ” President Bergeron also dismissed the dean’s advice to avoid hosting a fundraising event at a Florida venue known for its history of racism and antisemitism. In a surge of innovation, U.S.