Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 25, 2024

Arizona GOP Bill Would Stifle Faculty Power in Governance Ryan Quinn Mon, 03/25/2024 - 03:00 AM The legislation, nearing passage, would bolster the power of presidents and regents while reducing faculty members to merely “consulting” on governing, academic and personnel decisions. Byline(s) Ryan Quinn

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

government, alleging that it has historically discriminated against Black military veterans, denied them access to housing and education benefits, and rejected service-related disability claims at far higher rates than other veterans, Task & Purpose reported. A Marine Corps veteran is suing the U.S. The suit – filed Nov.

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The Guardian Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Universities UK ‘holding back’ on requests to restart Erasmus programme, but hopeful amid talks on youth mobility British universities are urging the government to find a way to restart the flow of EU students to Britain after Brexit, including a possible return to the Erasmus student exchange programme.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 4, 2023

Goldrick-Rab also noted that government programs to feed people often exclude students. “Their estimates are wrong,” said Goldrick-Rab. “If If I’m meeting someone who’s going to go to college, I say add $10,000 a year to what you think it’s going to cost.” It’s a lot harder to get SNAP if you’re in college,” she said. That’s by design.”

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SRHE

MAY 28, 2024

By Michael Shattock Editor’s note: Michael Shattock is the guru of governance studies in HE; SRHE Blog is delighted to bring you his invitation to researchers in HE to expand their work in governance – a definitive statement about the many contributions that governance research can make to our understanding of higher education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 13, 2023

A state commission proposed overhauling UNC governing board appointments to reduce partisanship, but some say lawmakers have few incentives to remove politics from the system.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 22, 2024

Education secretary acknowledged crisis in sector with many institutions facing severe financial difficulties Universities in England facing severe financial difficulties should not expect a government bailout, the education secretary has said, despite warnings from the sector of thousands of job losses, course closures and even bankruptcies.

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Higher Education Whisperer

JUNE 2, 2023

GovHack AGM OnlineThis is to suggest GovHack hackerthons be used to quickly get the new federal government internal consultants up to speed. GovHack is a non-profit organization which organizes an annual hackerthon using government data sources. This happens at sites around Australia (

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Meharry Medical College and Nashville Metro government have come to an agreement that will give millions of dollars to the college for housing Nashville General Hospital, The Tennessean r eported. The plan – pending Metro Council approval – involves the city paying Meharry $6.3

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2024

Charity Watchdog Tells Oxford Colleges to Modernize Governance Marjorie Valbrun Fri, 03/15/2024 - 03:00 AM The move, following a four-year battle at one college to oust a dean and the mishandling of an alleged rape of a student at another college, is provoking internal controversy, a source claims.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JUNE 21, 2024

Ministers left with unpalatable options of raising tuition fees, making grants or capping student numbers, says IFS The next government faces “unpalatable” choices between raising tuition fees, making direct grants or capping student numbers to rescue universities in England from their financial black hole, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned. (..)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2024

Colleges continue to face significant obstacles as they try to diversify their governing boards, a new report from the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) finds.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In this episode of Changing Higher Ed, Drumm welcomes Lauren Zalaznick, author of "Letters from the Corporation of Brown University: Lives of Usefulness and Reputation," to explore the evolution and future of university governance. Strategies for adapting governance structures to meet modern challenges while honoring institutional traditions.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2024

The increased cost of borrowing has left the government with an £11bn annual shortfall, according to the IFS Student loans in England are expected to cost the government an extra £11bn a year as a result of higher interest rates massively increasing the cost of borrowing, according to analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 11, 2024

Higher Education leadership is facing a dilemma in addressing the systemic dysfunctions within shared governance. We explore the challenges and solutions for revitalizing shared governance, offering actionable insights for presidents, boards, and leaders seeking to enhance institutional effectiveness.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MAY 19, 2024

According to one sector leader, it’s because they are losing money on two of their three income streams, while their third source is under attack by the government. “We

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: Twenty-three Lafayette College department heads and program chairs say there are serious issues with governance at the college, according to “points of concern” four of them shared with the president and provost. It’s adding them July 1. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?:

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Higher Education Whisperer

JANUARY 29, 2023

According to media reports, the government of China has placed restrictions on its citizens studying online at foreign universities (Australian universities welcome snap decision by China to ban online studies, The Guardian, 29 January 2023). Australia's universities were already preparing for

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The Guardian Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2024

But measures introduced by the former Morrison government that doubled the price of some degrees to incentivise students into other courses didn’t dissuade him, nor did recent cost-of-living increases. Continue reading.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Most notably, it has a unique governing structure: Richard Bland shares a board of visitors with the College of William & Mary and is governed by a committee of William & Mary board members. But Richard Bland College, while autonomous, continued to be governed by William & Mary’s Board of Visitors.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

White, discuss changes in higher ed governance and governing boards, and strategies for aligning trustees with the CEO’s strategic mission and strategies. Their experience is both higher education and corporate; this is important as higher education governance is becoming more and more like that of corporate governance.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Ministers were poised five years ago to offer a route to a reprieve for thousands of international students who may have been wrongly accused of cheating , but the plan was derailed by a government reshuffle, the Guardian has learned.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This fall, the Oregon State University professor is teaching Political Science 110, “Governing After the Zombie Apocalypse.”. Students in the honors college class meet twice a week to figure out how to form a new government in the wake of a fictional pandemic that has wiped out 98% of the population. Read more on The Seattle Times.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

McGill and Concordia Universities sued the government of Quebec Friday over its decision last fall to significantly increase the tuition for English-speaking students at institutions in the Canadian province starting next fall, The Gazette of Montreal

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2023

The government is refusing to fund a single place at Three Counties Medical School, University of Worcester, despite health bosses in the area saying they are spending £70m a year on agency staff to plug a chronic shortage of doctors.

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The Guardian Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Almost all will experience bouts of loneliness with nearly half being worried they will be judged if they admit to it, according to a sample of 1,000 students, collected by YouGov for the government.

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University Business

MAY 10, 2024

All told, the independent art college in Louisville could see $6 million in government funding. The post Independent art college in Louisville to get millions in government funding appeared first on University Business. The majority comes from the state’s budget. Read more from Louisville Public Media.

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Collegis Education Data Management

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Data governance has a number of definitions, but I like Google’s definition best. This definition does two things: It provides a strategic view of data governance, and it stresses the importance of the role of principles that apply to data throughout its existence.

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Higher Education Whisperer

JULY 2, 2023

Ruth Lewis, workshop facilitatorGreeting from the Australian Computer Society Canberra office, where I am taking part in an IEEE AI Ethics and Governance Workshop. Over the next few days we will be looking at ethics and technological development. Obviously AI is going feature prominently in this.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

But what is effective governance? Editorial Tags: Career Advice Governance Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Flash vector/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter? Given today’s demands, most colleges would benefit from higher-performing boards, writes Peter D.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Editorial Tags: Career Advice Governance Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Olga Kurbatova/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Renshaw offers a practical model based on his expertise in couples’ therapy as an analogue for thinking about how faculty and administrators might best work together.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 12, 2023

North Carolina governor Roy Cooper released the preliminary findings of a state commission to investigate the state’s public university governance on Monday, with recommendations for broadening political representation on the UNC system board of governors and on the boards of trustees of its 16 campuses.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

All government ministers and departments now agree, as Higgins says, “The arts are one of Britain’s strongest suits.” Frankly, we are in a different universe from 14 years ago.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 11, 2023

Last week I passed along an observation from a reader about the seeming absence of business acumen among academic leaders and the consequent gaps in shared governance. Informing the voters. Karen Novick, an associate dean at Rutgers, offered the following response, which deserves to be quoted at length.

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The Guardian Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

White paper to be released on Monday promises new policy initiatives including national skills passport Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The Albanese government will spend an extra $41m in a bid to double higher apprenticeships in the care economy, digitisation and net zero, three priorities identified by the (..)

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The Guardian Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2023

Education minister writes to university employers and union as tens of thousands of students are left without degree results Both sides in a university pay row that has left tens of thousands of students without their degree results have been urged by the government to enter negotiations to settle the dispute.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Oregon State University and Washington State University, the two remaining members of the Pac-12 Conference, initiated legal action today to confirm the governance structure of the conference, gain access to business information, and protect the conference’s assets. Read more from Oregon State University.

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