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Burwell Announces She’ll Step Down from American University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, she had worked at high levels of the federal government, as a former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the former U.S. In 2017, 17% of an administrative group called the president’s council were people of color. secretary of health and human services under President Barack Obama.

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Burwell Announces She’ll Step Down from American

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, she had worked at high levels of the federal government, as a former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the former U.S. In 2017, 17% of an administrative group called the president’s council were people of color. secretary of health and human services under President Barack Obama.

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College presidents move to cultural institutions (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In addition to Decatur at the Museum of Natural History, Daniel Weiss at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Tony Marx at the New York Public Library; Karen Lawrence at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in California; and Dan Porterfield at the Aspen Institute all served as liberal arts college presidents.

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Let’s Partner with Agriculture to Address Food Insecurity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When she recently visited the Free Library of Philadelphia, I asked Stephanie how she wanted colleges to respond to that problem. These schools and their leaders have an extraordinary opportunity to work with the federal government to support those students—and it doesn’t require new institutional spending or a new Higher Education Act.

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Rural-Serving Institutions: Innovative Lessons for Higher Ed Success: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 147 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Andrew Koricich

The Change Leader, Inc.

To help reduce costs, a significant role of boards and administrators includes identifying what programs are no longer by realizing if they align with local industries, for example. I was a physics major undergraduate and ended up getting into board governance. The federal government alone uses dozens of definitions.

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College 2023

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Ill-functioning systems of campus governance. ” Parents, prospective students, accreditors and government need more data, not less. The state and federal governments should defund programs and penalize institutions that fail to meet certain gainful-employment standards. Narrow self-interest. Misguided incentives.

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College Students Are Hungry to Learn Everywhere

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But finally, in spring 2020, the federal government asked undergraduates if they had enough to eat or a safe place to sleep. Now Congress and federal agencies have a full picture of the problem. We must ensure that federal data collection continues so that policymakers know what they are dealing with.