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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. “I like the problem-solving,” Allen says. “I To me, it felt bigger.”

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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. I’m looking very carefully at where I can continue to add value in higher education,” Lieberman said.

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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. Centuries of serving higher education erased. Year founded: 2011 Goddard College (Vt.) A record $1.5 Those that continue to face financial exigency may escape a closure through a merger or acquisition.

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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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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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Surfacing and accelerating learning: introducing the Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The Award was piloted in 2011-12 and the beginning of our work on the Edinburgh Award was prompted in part by the development of Higher Education Achievement Reports (HEARs). We wanted to engage pro-actively with the HEAR and use it to benefit student learning from co- and extra-curricular activity.

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President moves: hearty welcomes and rocky goodbyes

University Business

Over the past two weeks, the higher education landscape has seen a handful of shifts in school leadership. 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.