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Fellowship Program Highlights the Work of Disabled Scholar-Activists

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Throughout the following 10 months, the fellows participated in meetings with their faculty mentors and optional monthly cohort-wide calls to discuss their progress. One of the fellows, Bowen Cho, had been attempting to complete their project since early 2020, but had struggled to find collaborators — as disabled scholars often do, they said.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Dr. Erika D.

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Are latest layoffs at this university a first look at the FAFSA fiasco’s consequences?

University Business

Lindenwood University recently announced it’s letting go of 12 staff members and two faculty members and may decide not fill up to 50 positions in order to help cut its operating budget by 10%, St. Other mid-sized private universities have made similar moves. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Very similar.”

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Unions organizing in states that lack collective bargaining

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Public university employees in states lacking collective bargaining rights aren’t letting that exclude them from the current wave of union organizing and action in higher education. “What’s happening now is a new regeneration of that concept, that wall-to-wall organizing,” said William A.

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This for-profit believes it’s being “targeted” by the government

University Business

Additionally, GCU bachelor’s degree graduates in 2019 and 2020 incurred less debt on average than the reported national average for 2019 graduates at public and private universities, according to data pulled by GCU from The Institute for College Access and Success. Feeling snubbed, GCU sued the Department in Jan.

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President moves: New hires abound, 1 retires following a 20-year stint

University Business

Cantor is wrapping up her nine-year term at Rutgers University-Newark following the chancellor of Rutgers deciding not to renew her contract. The chancellor was so appreciated in Newark that faculty, students and even the city’s mayor deeply disapproved of the university system letting her go.

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Opening International Branches of US-Based Higher Ed Institutions: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 153 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Olgun Cicek

The Change Leader, Inc.

Highlights Colleges and universities must ensure that their international branch campuses provide the same quality of services beyond the institution’s name, including the faculty, curriculum, qualifications, credentials, and reputation. at the same university and received the title of Assistant Professorship in 1998.