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Burwell Announces She’ll Step Down from American University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Burwell also steered the campus through several racial controversies, including a 2019 incident in which campus police officers forcibly removed a Black student from a university apartment, and the 2023 discovery of a racist message written on a library whiteboard. Burwell has developed an increasingly diverse group of advisors.

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Burwell Announces She’ll Step Down from American

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Burwell also steered the campus through several racial controversies, including a 2019 incident in which campus police officers forcibly removed a Black student from a university apartment, and the 2023 discovery of a racist message written on a library whiteboard. Burwell has developed an increasingly diverse group of advisors.

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Museum Studies Program Seeks to Diversify the Field

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of the core goals of the program – it was launched in 2019 – is to diversify museum staff, which then may affect museum curation, said Dr. Valerie Paley, Senior Vice President and Sue Ann Weinberg Director of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library at New-York Historical.

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My 2024 Higher Education Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

I link to the final versions of the articles whenever possible, but those without access to an academic library should note that earlier versions of many of these articles are available online via a quick Google search. Public Administration Review, 78 (4), 626-639. 2019, December 9). Friedman, J. link ) Ducoff, N. Denning, J.

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How Vermont is winning the fight against falling enrollment

University Business

Last month, full-time faculty filed a motion of no confidence to school leadership when it announced a transition to a fully digital library, which would have eradicated roughly 300,000 books across its five campuses. University leaders also added that the decision would save the school $500,000 annually.

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Facility reinvestment, bogged by inflationary costs, manages upswing in 2024, report

University Business

Plus, how current students, faculty, administration, and overall staff engage with the campus has changed. Research takes place just as often in a student’s room as in the library,” the report reads. Specifically, the cost of building supplies and construction services has increased by nearly 20% since 2019.

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Grad Students Should Consider Administrative Work

Higher Ed Connects: News

This article originally appeared on Inside Higher Ed on August 5, 2019. I want to talk about a third path: the wide range of interesting jobs that have a largely administrative element. The word “administration” encompasses a wide variety of kinds of work and content areas. Colleges and universities are great places to work.