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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I like being able to work with students, faculty, and colleagues in a different kind of way [that] made me more aware of the community of higher education and not just a department, class, or advising relationship with a student. From 2012 to 2018, Meredith also carried out its largest fundraising campaign yet, raising more than $90 million.

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Lieberman Expected to Lead La Verne to Next Stage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When Dr. Devorah Lieberman became president of University of La Verne in 2011, a private institution of approximately 8,000 students about 35 miles east of Los Angeles, she was in many ways seeing life come full circle. This includes creating new means for retention.

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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. Faculty filed a class-action lawsuit against the university for only providing the community a seven-day notice. Year founded: 2011 Goddard College (Vt.) A record $1.5 Year founded: 1946 University of the Arts (Penn.)

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President moves: Wave of retirements opens opportunity for new hires

University Business

Under McNulty’s tenure, the Christian liberal arts college saw applications hit a two-decade high, and endowment and fundraising levels doubled, TribLIVE reports. John Sygielski, president since 2011, is credited for increasing student retention rates by 6% and graduation rates by 11%, per WITF.

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How a Utah university boosted women's enrollment and retention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

As recently as 2011, for instance, 43 percent of UVU students were women, and the university noticed particularly high rates of women dropping out after their sophomore years. Seeking to address these disparities, UVU in 2011 created a Women’s Success Center. Share here.

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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

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. Before Alverno College, Foy served as Dean of the Faculty at Marian University in Wisconsin from 2018 to 2020.