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Have Academic Library Staffing Numbers Really Declined That Much Over the Past Decade?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation The first draft of this blog post was written before I published a post on 1/22 titled How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? The idea that academic library budgets are fungible shows ignorance of how these budgets work. Probably some change in how library staff are counted. What is going on?

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Bryn Mawr to Remove Name of Former President From Library

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Carey Thomas from the campus building known as Old Library, the Board of Trustees announced Tuesday in an email to the community. ” Thomas’s name was initially inscribed over the library entrance in 1935 to honor her role as Bryn Mawr’s first dean and second president.

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Burwell Announces She’ll Step Down from American University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Burwell, the institution’s 15 th president and its first female leader, has been in the post since 2017. In 2017, 17% of an administrative group called the president’s council were people of color. Burwell has announced that she will step down as president of American University at the end of the upcoming academic year.

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Burwell Announces She’ll Step Down from American

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Burwell, the institution’s 15 th president and its first female leader, has been in the post since 2017. In 2017, 17% of an administrative group called the president’s council were people of color. Burwell has announced that she will step down as president of American University at the end of the upcoming academic year.

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How Vermont is winning the fight against falling enrollment

University Business

Higher education enrollment at Northeastern schools has collectively fallen into a downward spiral since at least 2017, a phenomenon that has plagued every region since the pandemic, according to National Student Clearinghouse Research Center data. Vermont’s public four-year institutions in fall 2022; however, hit a whopping 12.2%

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My 2024 Higher Education Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

This spring, I get to teach my PhD class in higher education finance again—the eighth time that I have taught it in my eleven-year faculty career. As a department head, I typically only teach one class per year. Here is the reading list I am assigning my students for the course. Friedman, J. Turner, N., & Yagan, D. Working paper.

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4 Online Teaching Strategies To Promote Collaboration and Community

The Scholarly Teacher

Gallery Walks are an active and cooperative learning strategy that promotes movement and discussion within the classroom (McCaffery & Beaudry, 2017). Upon returning to whole group instruction, the faculty can share each group's Jamboard and encourage students to make observations, connections, or expand upon their peers' work.

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