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Higher Ed Leaders Rally to Protect DEI Initiatives

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Coleman, who has over three decades of experience in inclusion work, emphasized the importance of strong communications and media representation in defending DEI efforts. We've been under attack around the federal government. Pickett drew a parallel to current DEI challenges that these frontline administrators are facing.

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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While there are many undergraduates and graduate students aiming for careers in banking or finance, there are also entrepreneurs, innovators, people interested in hospital administration, and others seeking positions at nonprofit organizations. Recruitment is done through professional organizations and media.

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College applicants dispel 3 narratives currently hounding higher education

University Business

Higher education leaders frequently cite the pressure they have to deal with from a caustic public, the media and even state and federal governments that are skeptical about their offerings. institutions. An average of 55% of students and parents said financial aid would be “extremely” necessary.

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Iowa Wesleyan University announces closure

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Reynolds added that if the state had “provided the federal funding as requested and it was used to finance debt or other impermissible uses according to US Treasury guidelines, the state and taxpayers could have been liable for potential repayment to the federal government.” Is this diversity newsletter?

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Five ways to help students take smart sustainability actions (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Confronted with the apocalyptic climate narrative dominating popular media, ignorance has been replaced by a gripping fear of the future, particularly among young people. ” In today’s media environment, the rhetoric of doom is only a click away. Partner with local governments. Yet today we face a different problem.

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College presidents move to cultural institutions (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Among them: intense political polarization, the cancel culture of social media (across the political spectrum), the general coarsening of public discourse and even a fear of physical violence. Georgia Nugent is president of Illinois Wesleyan University. She served as president of Kenyon College from 2003 to 2013.

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What universities should do now in the uncertain OPM landscape

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February Department of Education (ED) Dear Colleague Letter massively increases ED oversight (for now) In the last year, the federal government has taken several key actions that sowed confusion among Professional, Continuing, and Online (PCO) leaders, made worse by the February 2023 ED Dear Colleague Letter.