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Burwell Announces She’ll Step Down from American University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, she had worked at high levels of the federal government, as a former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the former U.S. American also launched an Antiracist Research and Policy Center in Burwell’s first year. secretary of health and human services under President Barack Obama.

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Burwell Announces She’ll Step Down from American

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, she had worked at high levels of the federal government, as a former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the former U.S. American also launched an Antiracist Research and Policy Center in Burwell’s first year. secretary of health and human services under President Barack Obama.

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Let’s Partner with Agriculture to Address Food Insecurity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When she recently visited the Free Library of Philadelphia, I asked Stephanie how she wanted colleges to respond to that problem. These schools and their leaders have an extraordinary opportunity to work with the federal government to support those students—and it doesn’t require new institutional spending or a new Higher Education Act.

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College Students Are Hungry to Learn Everywhere

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The surveys I and many other researchers fielded to try and put numbers to the challenge could only shed partial light, since most colleges and universities refused to participate. But finally, in spring 2020, the federal government asked undergraduates if they had enough to eat or a safe place to sleep.

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What the Reinstatement of Net Neutrality Means for Higher Education

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Washington has gone from negative to positive to negative to positive again on network neutrality, and advocates for educators say they need to see the federal government commit to making open networks a policy priority. “It

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College presidents move to cultural institutions (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In addition to Decatur at the Museum of Natural History, Daniel Weiss at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Tony Marx at the New York Public Library; Karen Lawrence at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in California; and Dan Porterfield at the Aspen Institute all served as liberal arts college presidents.

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

The Change Leader, Inc.

Editor (2009-15) and Associate Editor(1982-2009), American Library Association Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom. About the Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton, host of Changing Higher Ed ® , is a consultant to higher education institutions in governance, accreditation, strategy and change, and mergers. And what standards will be applied.