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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. Yet the university managed to hang on by securing philanthropic gifts and a USDA loan.

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

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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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Lesley Faculty Vote No Confidence in President—Again

Confessions of a Community College Dean

private university’s 167 faculty members with full-time or prorated faculty contracts. “We had to get us operating within our means,” Ferris said. “So that very much felt like code for pending layoffs.” ” Ferris said the assembly includes the Cambridge, Mass., Lesley doesn’t offer tenure.

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Casino project opposed By Hofstra, supported by others

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The coliseum sits just north of the Hempstead Turnpike, a major thoroughfare that also bisects the Hofstra University campus. The private university enrolls about 6,000 undergraduates, and about 41 percent of them live in university-operated housing, according to self-reported information.

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Presidential worries: What’s keeping these Northeastern presidents up at night?

University Business

President James Herbert, University of New England (Biddeford, Maine) After the pandemic offered students a taste of what the online college experience is like, students and staff alike are questioning what the future holds for it despite campuses opening back up. according to an email.

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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.