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Peyton Manning Appointed Professor of Practice in University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“I look forward to working with the college’s talented faculty and directly with students in an effort to ensure they are well prepared for their future careers.”

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Kudos to Black/Diverse Issues for Four Decades of Truth, Insight, Vision, and Integrity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

1994-2004 – Institutional Adjustment and Affirmative Inaction Affirmative action was expected to result in substantially larger numbers of African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans as students and faculty members in historically white colleges and universities.

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Fostering Connectedness in the Asynchronous Online Environment

The Scholarly Teacher

Faculty can make a difference by creating opportunities to engage in transformational educational experiences in the online discussion board. Faculty must deliberately plan to enhance the opportunity for connectedness in the asynchronous online environment; as we have seen, it does not happen by chance.

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Addressing Failures of Implementation

Confessions of a Community College Dean

digital transfer conversation with the inception of SPEEDE (Standardization of Postsecondary Education Electronic Data Exchange) in the 1970s. Most institutions accept some third-party serviced electronic documents, but the majority consume that digital delivery in an analog fashion. AACRAO began leading the U.S.

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New IT strategies for solving higher ed’s biggest challenges

University Business

Spread across three campuses in Northern California, The University of the Pacific recently faced a familiar dilemma for higher education: How to provide secure network access to an increasingly dynamic, diverse and distributed community of students and faculty while meeting regulatory requirements.

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Ohio State Emeritus Professor Wins Nobel in Physics

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Pierre Agostini, who has been a member of OSU’s physics faculty since 2005; Ferenc Krausz, who is affiliated with two German institutions; and Anne L’Huillier, of Lund University in Sweden, received the honor for developing new strategies to understand the rapid movements of electrons.

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3 Questions on Academic Library Budgets for an Assessment and Planning Librarian

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Libraries are buying less print and more electronic materials as print circulation declines. 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. Donors sometimes also make ongoing commitments to support collections.

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