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To accomplish the goals that the fundraising will enable, she sees it as essential that the faculty, staff and board work collaboratively on the visioning for the university. She oversaw a Campus Master Plan that reflected the institution’s core values, such as diversity and inclusion. “I This includes creating new means for retention.
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Who can you team up with on campus to collaborate on this identification? Academic advisors, faculty, and department chairs often have this insider knowledge and can help narrow down the list or cut down on time doing pre-interviews. Get your faculty involved, too. Start identifying those grads to highlight now.
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But rather, it's the elimination of opportunities to retain faculty and students [who] this country and its universities has historically never served,” McCune said. And so, part of what we are seeing is an elimination of offices that help retain faculty that have historically not been included in the university culture.
In it, the organization objected to language that equates protesters at Columbia University with terrorists and rebuked university leaders who have responded to “largely peaceful” on-campusactivism by inviting riot-gear clad law enforcement to make arrests.
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