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JENNIFER ECCLES

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There she served as vice president of development and external relations since 2017. Eccles holds a bachelor’s degree in public communication from the University of Idaho and a master of executive leadership from the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy.

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Legends Henry and Shirley Frye Honored with Renaming of A&T Building

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bluford Library Archives at A&T. Shirley Frye received the 2022 Triad Business Journal’s Outstanding Women in Business Special Achievement Award, the (Greensboro, North Carolina) News & Record Woman of the Year Award for 2017, and the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, one of North Carolina’s highest civilian honors. and Shirley T.

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Burwell Announces She’ll Step Down from American University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Burwell, the institution’s 15 th president and its first female leader, has been in the post since 2017. In 2017, 17% of an administrative group called the president’s council were people of color. Burwell has announced that she will step down as president of American University at the end of the upcoming academic year.

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Burwell Announces She’ll Step Down from American

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Burwell, the institution’s 15 th president and its first female leader, has been in the post since 2017. In 2017, 17% of an administrative group called the president’s council were people of color. Burwell has announced that she will step down as president of American University at the end of the upcoming academic year.

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3 Questions on Academic Library Spending to the Scholar Who Wrote the Book on University Budgets

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation Professor Andrew Comrie reached out after reading my piece, How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? In his book, Like Nobody's Business: An Insider's Guide to How US University Finances Really Work (Open Book Publishers, 2021), Andrew digs into academic library budgeting. then versus about 1.5%

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Have Academic Library Staffing Numbers Really Declined That Much Over the Past Decade?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation The first draft of this blog post was written before I published a post on 1/22 titled How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? The idea that academic library budgets are fungible shows ignorance of how these budgets work. Probably some change in how library staff are counted. What is going on?

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My 2025 Higher Ed Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

I link to the final versions of the articles whenever possible, but those without access to an academic library should note that earlier versions of many of these articles are available online via a quick Google search. Happy reading! The higher education finance landscape and data sources Burke, L. Dans & S. Groves (Eds.), link ) Ma, J.

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