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President moves: Administrators prove popular picks as next leader on the job

University Business

Three college administrators—including one president—will be coordinating goodbye parties at their current institutions as they prepare to move on to bigger opportunities elsewhere. Stephenson is currently the president of Northwest Florida State College, a community college.

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Leadership Potential

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dominique Turner Institution: Morgan State University Graduate Program: Higher Education Administration Education: B.S., Government/Political Science, Bowie State University; MPA, Management and Public Policy, Bowie State University; Graduate Certificate, Project Management, Bowie State University Mentors: Rev.

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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Eroding public confidence in higher education. Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission. Not only has enrollment declined 37 percent since 2010, but the figures would be much worse were it not for high school students who now make up a fifth of all community college students. Grave threats to tenure.

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Johns Hopkins Grad Students Successfully Unionize

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“As the birthplace of doctoral education in America, we recognize this as an opportunity to ensure JHU continues to build on its legacy of not only providing world-class doctoral education and training but developing innovative new approaches to supporting our Ph.D. students in achieving personal and professional success.”

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Temple Grad Students Start Strike

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Temple University graduate students began striking Tuesday for the first time in that union’s history, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. ” The union’s news release said, “Temple administration’s current proposal increases the base salary for graduate employees to just $22,500 by 2026.”

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St. Joseph’s Cuts 4 Programs Acquired in Merger

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Joseph’s recently announced another merger agreement , this one with the Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences, which will allow St. Ad keywords: administrators executive Editorial Tags: Graduate education Medical education Mergers Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?:

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New graduate program at Gustavus Adolphus College

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Kelly, also an associate professor biology and chemistry, joined the college 21 years ago and became interim provost in 2016 and permanent provost in 2018. “In the early-2010 years, we had some of our largest-enrolling classes ever in the history of the college,” she said. “It’s not a decision to make lightly.