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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. Is this diversity newsletter?: Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Edward’s University St. Edward’s University, a private university in Austin, Texas, enrolls 2,766 undergraduate students, 51% of whom are Latino and 40% are Pell Grant recipients. Many of those move to healthcare providers that deliver care in Spanish.”

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Unions organizing in states that lack collective bargaining

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Unions for Private University Grad Students Under federal law, private university employees can unionize—except, generally, tenured and tenure-track faculty, following a 1980 U.S. But Matthew Thomas, a Duke University Ph.D. ” “We become a union by acting like one,” she said.

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D'Youville struggles with network reliability for a month

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“I would characterize this as highly unusual,” said Bonnie Fox Garrity, president of the university’s Faculty Senate and a faculty member for 24 years. Faculty members said they resumed teaching after the private university in Buffalo, N.Y., canceled classes from Feb. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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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. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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When a college president is also a tech entrepreneur

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“I know that the president has said the company is not making him any money, but it doesn’t matter—he is still representing two things, which is a private company and a private university. And that’s always going to be in conflict. Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Sustainability actions students take and want their colleges to take

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“Professors need to stop making it mandatory for students to print out their reading and writing assignments,” wrote one student at a private college in Washington State. ” Another student, at a private university in Pennsylvania, has even been required to print out essays for the peer-review process.

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