Higher Ed Connects: News

AUGUST 28, 2019

I want to talk about a third path: the wide range of interesting jobs that have a largely administrative element. Although some faculty members speak disparagingly about administrators, staff members are responsible for much of the work done in higher education institutions. What drew you to administrative work?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

“The University will submit a plan that necessitates ensuring that the UMass Amherst Foundation, not UMass Amherst, performs most of the advancement and fundraising work to maintain legal compliance moving forward,” Duffy wrote. Advancement employees, some of whom have been at the university for decades, were shocked and upset.

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University Business

JULY 17, 2023

Continue to make endowment-building and fundraising an institutional priority. Choose board members who specialize in winning charitable donations and build more systemic engagement with all alumni rather than a network. Still, HBCUs can maintain their mission with a few guidelines detailed in the report.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

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?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

Nor am I referring to the wealthiest institutions’ lavish amenities and outrageous administrative salaries, though I do feel that those salaries and the size of the administrative staff are unconscionable at a nonprofit campus. The 35 most prestigious U.S. Over time, as Howard R.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

I completed a master's in Higher Education Administration and a Juris Doctor with the goal of helping donors put universities in their estate plans. But in doing that, you may be missing unique opportunities to earn donations outside of alumni majors. It seems obvious to reach out to business grads for donations to business programs.

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Campus Sonar

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Alumni aren’t receiving perceived reciprocal value from their alma mater nor bought into why their dollars matter. However this work requires expertise that is typically fairly new to campus administrators. What systems do you have in place to measure alumni outcomes, campus employment stats, or industry research and grants?

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EAB

OCTOBER 9, 2023

These enhancements build on recent product innovations—including expanded student recruitment features and AI technology—that enable advisors to spend less time on routine administrative tasks and more time with students. EAB is also extending its CRM to support alumni engagement and fundraising.

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University Business

APRIL 28, 2023

An academic administrator, a scholar and now president. The board voted to place Swayne on administrative leave in December, and in his place, appointed Greg South. He also facilitated the private liberal arts college’s largest fundraising campaign, which raised more than $80 million. Still, he remains acting president.

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EAB

OCTOBER 10, 2023

These enhancements build on recent product innovations—including expanded student recruitment features and AI technology—that enable advisors to spend less time on routine administrative tasks and more time with students. EAB is also extending its CRM to support alumni engagement and fundraising.

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Campus Sonar

AUGUST 24, 2022

Beginning with their first experience of your campus’s brand, you can chart their journey as they decide to apply to your institution, matriculate, graduate, and ultimately become alumni and donors. Complete a degree and become a campus alumni. Alumni magazines Fundraising solicitations. Development, Alumni Relations.

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University Business

OCTOBER 16, 2023

. “We’re seeing all kinds of votes of no confidence, all kinds of faculty uproar about changes due to business factors,” says Andrea Young, vice president for finance and administration at DePauw University (Ind.). But spending more money than one currently has is easier said than done, says Young.

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University Business

JULY 31, 2023

I don’t trust the administration in their ability to have the best.” “Dean Muhl has alienated students, faculty and alumni and offered convoluted and untruthful information to the public in an attempt to obfuscate the devastating impact of her actions and the failure of her administration,” read the letter.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

“I think I may be the only dean that has been a student, a faculty member and now in administration. “Colleges are complex institutions, and so the ability to empathize with alumni, current students, faculty and staff really puts me in a unique position this year.” It’s all about the alumni.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

She has been credited with improving fundraising and student outcomes at Prairie View A&M. ” Armand Alacbay, chief of staff and senior vice president of strategy at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, offered a similar perspective. Prairie View A&M’s next president, Tomikia P.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Students and administrators alike are asking the same questions: how can students best prepare for the future? More from UB : How do colleges hit record-level fundraising? It’s all about the alumni . The educational and career landscape is shifting fast. How can they access the best education?

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University Business

AUGUST 25, 2023

More from UB: USC will reinstate alumni status to 1,600+ graduates. This asset was most likely garnered from Allen’s record-setting fundraising campaign from 2012 to 2018, which raised over $90 million and subsequent campaigns that earned the college over $10 million per year despite the pandemic. Why was it ever revoked?

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University Business

APRIL 4, 2024

Colleges and universities interested in ramping up their fundraising and donation targets must update their strategies to meet pace with a digitized age, according to a report from Salesforce. Now may be the perfect time to ramp up fundraising strategies. As the U.S. As the U.S. Fleming Puckett.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Additionally, university presidents find themselves compelled to allocate even more of their time to fundraising efforts, a task that was already demanding in its own right. It doesn’t take a Ph.D. to see how politics has affected presidential tenure.

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Edu Alliance Journal

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In 2016, The Institute for the International Education of Students (IES), founded in 1950, conducted a comprehensive survey of 1205 of its alumni. Their priority in fundraising for such programs is lower than other needs. Additional studies support that studying abroad helps employers and helps students get jobs.

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Creatrix Campus

DECEMBER 7, 2022

8 reasons why you need an Alumni Management Platform. Linkedin and Facebook do an excellent job of connecting with college pass-outs and keeping information up to date, but what is the true value of owning a dedicated alumni management platform in higher education institutions? Reasons why HEIs need an alumni management platform. .

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Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

JANUARY 15, 2020

Two higher education administrators and an academic consulting firm shared their visions on tailoring their programs to meet student and operational needs: Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts. In his interview with WBUR, the President discussed a $60 million fundraising campaign over five years.

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Campus Groups

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This starts with enrollment through to graduation, and beyond with alumni management. Our suite of solutions serves the entire Higher Ed community, helping students, staff, and alumni: ? Fundraising ? Using student-initiated automated workflows , administrators can check the pulse of their students during the academic year.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 8, 2022

Furthermore, both the board and administration need to agree that innovation and growth are critical for the survival of the institution (and higher education). The board can then offer direction, which then falls to the administration to implement. are diverse).

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EAB

JUNE 30, 2023

Edify serves as a data hub for all of the systems that higher ed already uses, from enrollment and fundraising CRMs to student success platforms. Improve Advancement efforts through more intelligent fundraising As Advancement gets more targeted in its approach to fundraising appeals, it has become more reliant on data.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 11, 2023

Amrit discusses the most effective ways in which schools can engage with students and alumni and how to define specific tactics and priorities that will improve enrollment and retention. Most of the time when alumni think back about their college experience, they remember the relationship that they had with a professor or multiple professors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

As a generation that puts everything on social media, pictures of these poor living conditions can easily become public knowledge, and cause the exact kind of virality that keeps university administrators up at night. Administrators must be more creative in generating new revenue, as well. Dr. Adriel A.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

Image: The administrative building at Connecticut College is finally quiet, emptied of the students who gathered to protest President Katherine Bergeron. King had warned Bergeron against holding the fundraiser there, but she reportedly ignored the advice, prompting his resignation and the last-minute cancellation of the event.

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