Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Laurel Littrell is a faculty librarian at Kansas State University. Almost all of the materials budgets are tied up in subscriptions and access fees for online resources, often with multi-year contracts with vendors that provide these services. computer sciences, business administration, education).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

A: Doctoral-granting university libraries in ACRL spend about 37 percent of their budgets on salaries, 13 percent on fringe benefits, 40 percent on materials and 11 percent on operations. As with other faculty, whether librarianship is a secure job depends on whether you have tenure track or a tenure-like protection at your institution.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 16, 2018

What is the future role of faculty for institutions of higher learning? Colleges and universities are not known for making rapid changes, although many who work in higher education especially faculty members — have strong feelings about the ways others need to change. The Challenge to Tenure Is tenure dated?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

No matter one’s views on CRT or related lines of critical inquiry, current efforts in Florida are an attempt to subvert academic freedom and assert complete governmental control over faculty speech in public college and university classrooms. Florida looked to a 2006 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Garcetti v.

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Higher Ed Connects: News

AUGUST 23, 2019

Lots of higher-education leaders and faculty members should be paying attention to that, even if they don’t care about the future of OPMs, or even know what those initials mean. Following up on Pell Grants for the incarcerated. If the investors were surprised, that’s their problem. Department of Education.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Boards are charged with overseeing an institution’s mission, vision, values, strategic direction, financial health, academic quality, student success, community engagement, diversity, inclusion, research, faculty development, campus safety, and more. Those responsibilities do not stop with the university administration.

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

When I broke with all expectations and accepted a faculty position at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1982, I figured I would likely teach there 2-3 years before returning to more familiar territory in the United States. To some extent, this is inevitable when, say, a faculty member assumes administrative responsibilities.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2023

New presidents can accomplish this by identifying a seasoned individual or a consultancy to interview administrators, faculty, staff, students, board members, and members of the community to understand the institution’s aspirations and challenges. Tier one includes representative bodies of faculty, staff, and students.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

A driving force behind this rise in tuition is that some administrators and presidents prioritize rankings and performing well vis-à a-vie their competitors. There are also more administrators per student than before. Bring in a consultant or have faculty figure out ways to increase revenue without raising tuition.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By 2032, according to a new report from Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics in partnership with CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen), college sports revenue, including college football playoff revenue and new lucrative conference media contracts, is projected to reach $16 billion annually for 54 schools with the most lucrative football programs.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

In addition, RSIs receive fewer donations and competitive federal grants because reviewers from federal agencies don’t understand them. To help reduce costs, a significant role of boards and administrators includes identifying what programs are no longer by realizing if they align with local industries, for example.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This balancing act becomes even more complex as they endeavor to address the expectations of faculty members, a substantial portion of whom advocate for inclusivity within the curriculum and campus environment. Similarly, at Chapel Hill, the board declined to grant tenure to a highly distinguished journalist. It doesn’t take a Ph.D.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Prior to his presidency, he was a member of the University of Maryland mathematics faculty for 24 years. In 2009, he received the Carnegie Corporation Leadership Award, which included a $500,000 grant to support USM academic priorities. And of course that upset the faculty. [00:12:43] 00:12:29] Brit Kirwan: Yeah. [00:12:29]

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

Student, faculty, and public protestors come together at Washington Square Park near New York University on April 23, the day after NYU leaders directed the NYPD to arrest over 130 protestors. In total, more than 2,400 arrests reportedly have been made on campuses, including students and faculty members of all races, genders, and religions.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

This success story underscores the crucial role of technology in not only supporting administrative functions but also in driving institutional growth. This technology might simplify content creation to meet academic standards while keeping faculty in control of what’s taught.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Dual rules This situation is equally upsetting for many members of the faculty and staff. “As Trump’s administration and its less tolerant immigration policies. “At As a UCLA professor, I would love to have the opportunity to treat all of my students the same way,” says Arulanantham. “I But then in 2016 came President Donald J.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

He told Inside Higher Ed , by email, he is “unaware of any perks” and declined to discuss payments he received as a faculty member. Administrators must STOP minimizing what has happened at MSU — and what happens still. Penn State, for its part, is unwilling to share any details of Spanier’s exit agreement.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

But the contract was ratified with a split vote , with only about 62 percent of teaching assistants and 68 percent of graduate student researchers supporting the deal, compared to a 98 percent vote earlier in the fall in favor of striking. New contracts take time to implement. This cohort of student workers asked for more.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 27, 2025

We believe that Purdue under Mitch Daniels, a former George Walker Bush administrator and Governor of Indiana, is becoming a high profile and influential spokesperson for the transformation of public higher education in the 21st century in directions that we find dangerous and that go against how we value higher education.

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Goucher DEI

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Hugh Dennis, director of risk management and contracts joins the Committee for this coming academic year. Faculty Work to Advance DEIJ Initiatives Goucher faculty have been advancing DEIJ in several ways, including reviewing and strengthening the guidelines for all Race, Power, and Perspective (RPP) courses.

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University Business

DECEMBER 12, 2023

His interest in divorcing higher education from what he perceives as a far-left agenda antithetical to American democracy has invited judges, faculty and administration, and similarly skeptical conservatives across state lines to deliberate on the current state of higher education. “He is taking names.

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University Business

APRIL 26, 2024

Forward to today, she has secured a new contract at Hollins University that extends her role as president until 2030 and was elected chair of the board of directors for the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. Mary Dana Hinton believes she’s earned the right to be an optimist.

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Robert Kelchen

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

I had stepped in as the department chair at Seton Hall just a few months prior, but I immediately stepped into action by trying to prepare my faculty and staff as much as possible for a period of remote operations. The higher education field still bears scars from the pandemic, and one key one is the need for financial liquidity.

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University Business

JANUARY 23, 2025

.” President moves : A Texas-sized hire and a controversial severance package highlight this list Exempt from the furloughs are full-time teaching faculty, H1B visa holders, those in positions fully funded by grants, those with athletic contracts, part-time employees and contract employees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2025

million in contracts between Columbia and the federal government and conduct a "comprehensive review" of more than $5 billion in federal grant commitments to the institution. Since October 2023, Columbia has been at the center of pro-Palestinian student protests, drawing federal scrutiny, especially from the Trump administration.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

As the new administration goes even more energetically after academia Id like to share some data about our sectors standing. approximately 46 university faculty both tenured and adjunct will receive notice that their contracts will not be renewed for 2025-26. million of administration and staff.

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The Guardian Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2025

Harvard weighs costs of standing up to president as other elite schools, such as Princeton, signal they wont concede The day after the Trump administration announced a review of $9bn in federal contracts and grants with Harvard due to what it claimed was the universitys failure to combat antisemitism on campus, the universitys president, Alan Garber, (..)

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University Business

MAY 1, 2023

When Georgia’s Board of Regents approved a new policy at the end of 2021 that allows its state colleges’ administration to punish tenured faculty without pushback, AAUP President Irene Mulvey called the state an “outlier.” ” It seems as though eliminating tenure is slowly moving closer to the mean.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

And since then, most faculty members and students have been thriving with either a hybrid model or in-person classes. Biden Administration U.S. Using the authority Congress granted to the Department of Education, we will forgive $10,000 in outstanding student federal loans. Some good news came in late summer as U.S.

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The Guardian Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Six days earlier, she had convened an emergency meeting with 75 faculty members after the university had cravenly surrendered to the demands of the Trump administration in the hopes of recovering $400m in federal grants and contracts.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 24, 2025

His administration pushed for expanded funding for charter schools and private school vouchers, which would allow families to use public funds to pay for private education. Trumps administration took several steps to curb what he described as left-wing bias in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Per the one-time federal student loan debt relief effort, Pell Grant recipients who earned within a certain amount of income during the pandemic — less than $125,000 for individuals and under $250,000 for married couples or heads of households — would have had up to $20,000 in debt forgiven. million borrowers enrolled as of Oct.

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Higher Education Inquirer

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Additionally, the government would “require institutions, faculty, and fellowship recipients to certify that they intend to further the stated statutory goals of serving American interests,” although it’s unclear what that would mean in practice. 332) Burke also wants to encourage new accreditors to start up.

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