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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As his reputation grew, Williams was recruited by Northwestern University, where he served as assistant dean of diversity and inclusion between 2017 and 2021, and then until 2022 as the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion lead of Northwestern’s Public Health Program. If you’re not ready to disrupt it, you’re not ready to do it.”

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Helpful summer homework: Are you ready for Congressional reckoning?

University Business

Congress already created an excise tax on certain endowments in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Higher education administrators should be ready to discuss their programs—and face tough questions about them. The current environment will only spark further conversation on taxing these funds.

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Things have changed—has your Annual Giving strategy?

EAB

I completed a master's in Higher Education Administration and a Juris Doctor with the goal of helping donors put universities in their estate plans. From that moment forward, I wanted to learn everything I could about university advancement. appeared first on EAB.

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Zoom and Gloom: The effects of screen fatigue and what to do about it

Higher Ed Connects: Technology

Since COVID-19 arrived, record numbers of higher-education administrators and staff working remotely have been inundated with web conferences, online meetings, and webinars using various online conferencing software such as Zoom, Google Meets, Google Hangouts, Facetime, Skype, Adobe Connect, GoToMeeting, Jitsi, and more.

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Why You Should Be A Member of the American Association of University Administrators

Edu Alliance Journal

April 11, 2020 by Dean Hoke – When I came back to the United States in 2017-18 I wanted to re-engage with the US university community. Individual : An active Membership (Open to any person interested in the administration of higher education) is $100.

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All Ain’t Fair in Love and Basketball for Black Women

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Chayla Haynes Davison is an associate professor of higher education administration at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on critical and inclusive pedagogies, Black women in higher education and critical race theory- and intersectionality-informed research methodologies.