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Johanna Bond Appointed Dean of Rutgers Law School

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Johanna Bond Bond is currently the tenured Sydney and Frances Lewis Professor of Law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law and an affiliate faculty member in the university’s Africana Studies and the women’s, gender, and sexuality studies programs. “An

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The human toll of rampant college closures

University Business

has decided to significantly downsize after falling short of its $12 million fundraising goals to avoid closure at the end of the academic year. As painful as it may be for higher education leaders, stakeholders and alumni to bid farewell to historical institutions, current students and faculty have the most to lose.

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President moves: Recent resignations show 3 reasons why a leader steps down

University Business

He earned the 2024 Outstanding Educator Award from the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers’ Association and the 2022 Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Applied Health Sciences. He has served at Nichols since 2006, mainly in positions that revolved around fundraising and advancement.

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Goldman Sachs: HBCUs play central role in Black student excellence

University Business

Source: Goldman Sachs Research: Investing in HBCUs Inclusivity driving student support—and success Black students at HBCUs reported higher rates of support from professors and related faculty than Black students at non-HBCUs. Continue to make endowment-building and fundraising an institutional priority.

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Grad Students Should Consider Administrative Work

Higher Ed Connects: News

students who are no longer are attracted to faculty careers are still interested in working in higher education. A previous “Carpe Careers” column did an excellent job outlining the variety of teaching roles in the higher education landscape beyond tenure-line faculty positions. Colleges and universities are great places to work.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

I’m not referring here to faculty salaries or reduced teaching loads or class size or breadth of programs or extensive support services—all of which are good things (within limits). The awful truth is that the wealthiest institutions are so flush with resources that they are deforming the entire system of higher education.

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How do colleges hit record-level fundraising? It’s all about the alumni

University Business

Say what you want about the state of the economy and how it’s creating headaches for higher education institutions, but that doesn’t stop those who have mastered the art of fundraising. Two things: persistence and alumni. Yet the potential to connect with alumni continues to grow. What makes them so successful?