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Experts Gathered to Discuss Challenges Facing Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Paul Getty Trust, which funds research and visual art preservation, and Dr. Josef Sorett, dean of Columbia College at Columbia University and vice president for undergraduate education. Public universities and private universities all have very different kinds of funding allocations,” said Dirks.

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Is this the first college closing announced in 2025?

University Business

The online university blamed other institutions’ adoption of online learning modalities at the onset of the pandemic for stripping away its enrollment base. Full-time student enrollment dropped 69% between 2017 and 2021. However, Union seems to have been struggling before the pandemic, WCPO reports.

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Unions organizing in states that lack collective bargaining

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“It’s literally an old-school form of labor organizing,” said Herbert, whose center is at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York. In a 2017 history published in the Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy , he wrote about what he calls “the little-remembered United Public Workers of America.”

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Fundraising During Uncertain Times: What Not to Do

EAB

A large private university reported to EAB that their donor counts in FY’20 had been closely tracking their 2019 numbers. However, when the university decided to stop all solicitations four months before the fiscal year end, their donor counts dropped so dramatically that they finished 2020 with 17% fewer donors for the year.

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The livelihood of some rural colleges depends on this 1 unlikely federal agency

University Business

Why does the Department of Agriculture now own the 60-acre tomb of a now-defunct, 181-year-old private university in rural southeast Iowa? Still, the USDA sees how universities like Wesleyan closing their doors can eventually lay detriment to a community, especially in the economic sector.

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These 2 colleges avoided closings in March by merger, acquisition

University Business

The online university blamed other institutions’ adoption of online learning modalities at the onset of the pandemic for stripping away its enrollment base. Full-time student enrollment dropped 69% between 2017 and 2021. However, Union seems to have been struggling before the pandemic, WCPO reports.

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Reflections on 2018 and Predictions for 2019: with Drumm McNaughton | Changing Higher Ed Podcast 012

The Change Leader, Inc.

This also goes for boards of private universities. This is up from 34% in 2017. Furthermore, two-thirds of CFOs at the privates say the same thing. However, just because one is a political appointee to a board doesnt remove their fiduciary duties as a board member. This is huge.