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Richard Bland College Seeks Independence from The College of William & Mary

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

"This has been evolving for quite a few years now," Sydow said, adding that serious discussions and planning started in 2014. The transition itself would be seamless, and daily campus activities would continue as normal with no interruption in educational or student-support service, Sydow said.

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Mini-series: Belonging in the new biology curriculum

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

The activities will also allow flagging of the support services available within the university and more broadly re-enforce the value of positive wellbeing. Heather was a finalist for the HE UK Bioscience teacher of the year 2014 and received an honourable mention in the 2015 Turnitin Global Innovation awards.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

link] Black male student veterans enter postsecondary education with three intersecting identities that should be acknowledged through the academic and student support services provided by the institution they attend. Black boys report experiencing more school-based racial discrimination than any other group ( Butler-Barnes et al.,

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President’s corner: President Elizabeth Davis crunches the numbers on new molds of student support

University Business

As demanding as the work may be to address students’ developing needs and alleviate a skeptical public’s concerns, President Davis hasn’t been more eager to serve since she stepped into Furman in 2014. It’s well-documented that institutions have difficulty communicating important support services to their students.

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Higher Ed Braces for Impact of Third-Party Service Regulation Expansion: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 149 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Mike Goldstein

The Change Leader, Inc.

By 2014 when his firm merged with the global law firm Cooley LLP, the higher education practice he headed was the largest and one of the highest regarded in the country. He founded the law firm Dow Lohnes in 1978, which merged into Cooley LLP in 2014, and was a senior partner there for seven years before moving to Titan.

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The Power of Relationships in Undergraduate Education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A Gallup and Purdue poll of 30,000 college grads from 2014 found that students who had a rich, robust relationship with a faculty member were twice as likely as peer graduates to report high levels of well-being. But only 14 percent of graduates said they had experienced such a relationship.