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How to do good on social media, according to 2 leaders

University Business

As the president of Hollins University, an all-female private university, she is especially cognizant of how some content places unrealistic pressure on young women. ” Keep it positive: “ I try to only post when it’s something joyful, exciting or informative.

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2022 Delphi Award Winners Share Practices to Support Part-Time Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

IPTFES provides part-time faculty with informative resource guides and staffed resource centers that come with lockers, computers, and copiers/printers. The private university houses a faculty forum instead of a faculty senate for shared governance, wherein adjuncts get a percentage of say (20% of full-time faculty), Behmand said.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Excelencia in Education works to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. The dashboard is available through the Office of Student Success. “By

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The college closings of 2024—and what lies beyond

University Business

Aside the usual culprits ailing small private universities, administrative leaders also cited issues with last year’s FAFSA rollout, NBC Philadelphia reports. Founded: 1938 Oak Point University (Ill.) Year founded: 1997 Wells College (N.Y.) Year founded: 1914 Birmingham-Southern College (Ala.)

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One university’s answer to the FAFSA fuss: Making their own forms

University Business

However, one university isn’t interested in working off a schedule. Assumption University , a Massachusetts private university, plans to dodge the headache of the new FAFSA implementation with its own form that it promises to provide applicants as early as next week. “Early is better,” he says.

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Boldly Future Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He has achieved national recognition and has been named chair of the Science Advisory Board Clean Air Status and Trends Network, a rural ambient air monitoring network that works with the EPA to provide information on air pollution in national parks, in rural states, and on tribal lands. Dr. Paula E. This is a $1.5

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These are the top 10 colleges for cybersecurity education

University Business

Spiceworks , an information technology company, recently released its rankings in August of the best colleges in terms of cybersecurity education. Carnegie Mellon University (1). Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (3). George Washington University (4). University of California Berkeley (9).