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Fox Transitions From 20-Year Transformational Career

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It was really to lift up, determine where investment was needed, begin to raise funds to do that. Mary Baldwin is not a wealthy institution, but Fox said she believes in the power of ideas and loves to raise money. Within two months, she had raised $15 million and the board approved the project.

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A small college needs $2.6M to survive. It's raised $178K

Confessions of a Community College Dean

million to meet immediate needs, warning that the small evangelical institution located in the heart of Wall Street is at risk of closure if it can’t quickly fundraise its way out of a dire situation. The deadline to raise the $2.6 Fundraising is stagnant. million was Feb. While officials have described Feb.

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President moves: Announcing a surge of hires, including this state flagship

University Business

In 2023, President Gee announced academic program mergers or cuts, tuition raises and layoffs. Edmonds currently serves as Lycoming’s executive vice president and chief external affairs officer,where he oversees strategic and institutional planning, program innovation, fundraising and financial management and other tasks.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

By way of contrast, consider the University of Pennsylvania’s 2020 pledge to contribute $100 million over 10 years to the Philadelphia School District to renovate decrepit schools. Iler, assistant director of the University of North Carolina’s School of the Arts—answers itself. The top 3 percent holds 80 percent.

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A small college is failing. Is a rich Canadian to blame?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Earlier this year, the college announced a funding gap of $2 million that it needed to close quickly in order to remain open. As fundraising fell far short of the goal , Chung stepped in with a $2 million loan. Now another billionaire, Peter Chung, may hold the key to the fate of the King’s College.

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Top ten most read Teaching Matters blog posts of 2019

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

For our first post in 2020, we are celebrating the top ten viewed Teaching Matters blog posts in 2019. Happy New Year from Teaching Matters! This post generated great interest on Twitter, ‘travelling’ to an international audience.

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It’s time for wealthy colleges to share the wealth (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The competition for revenue and wealth began 130 years ago among elite colleges and universities that devised now-conventional practices such as annual alumni funds , national fundraising campaigns and aggressive endowment investing. During the Great Recession of 2008–09, Harvard raised liquid funds by issuing $2.5