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Fundraising During Uncertain Times: What Not to Do

EAB

Blogs Fundraising During Uncertain Times: What Not to Do The first two decades of the 21st century have already witnessed several major disruptions with significant economic impacts, from three recessions to the pandemic to today’s hiring crisis. But there are also significant risks to halting solicitations altogether.

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Is this the first college closing announced in 2025?

University Business

million fundraising effort provided by over one thousand donations saved the school from closing last spring. The pandemic occurs, steepening downward trending enrollment and shortening administrators window to adjust operational strategy. A record $1.5 Lower enrollment breeds lower tuition revenue.

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Iowa Wesleyan University announces closure

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Iowa Wesleyan University is closing, citing rising costs, shifting enrollment trends, declining fundraising and the governor’s rejection of a proposal for federal COVID-19 relief funds. With the pending closure of Iowa Wesleyan, Plunkett will have led two colleges that shut down. Is this diversity newsletter?

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Presidential Evaluations: How University Boards Strengthen Oversight: Structured evaluations strengthen governance, accountability, and institutional success

The Change Leader, Inc.

2 states The institution has an effective system of leadership, staffed by qualified administrators, with appropriate levels of authority, responsibility, and accountability who are charged with planning, organizing, and managing the institution and assessing its achievements and effectiveness. The NWCCU standard 2.A.2

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Presidential moves: Strong appointments and 2 headscratchers

University Business

Rhonda Phillips – Chatham University (Pa.) An academic administrator, a scholar and now president. Rhonda Phillips is an esteemed honors college dean, serving the position for the past decade at Purdue University. Previous to that she served as the associate dean for The Honors College at Arizona State University.

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

University Business

University of New Haven President Jens Frederiksen (Source: University of New Haven) The University of New Haven has bestowed some lofty expectations on its incoming president, Jens Frederiksen, after his recent success at Fisk University in Tennessee.

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Rising need and falling enrollment shut down another small private college

University Business

Holy Names University, a 154-year institution in Oakland, California, is the latest small private college to announce that it will close at the end of the 2022-23 school year. The COVID pandemic severely hindered the college’s recruiting and fundraising efforts. Cazenovia administrators said. .