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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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Librarians' "new normal" includes pain points

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: DENVER—As snow fell from gray skies on Tuesday, higher education professionals, publishers, librarians, information technologists, government researchers and others met this week for the Coalition for Networked Information spring membership meeting. Budget cuts—real or imagined—are not the only challenge.

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First Doctoral Program at a TCU Will Contribute to Native Sovereignty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Wafa Hozien, university academic affairs administrator at NTU, was instrumental in the development of the program and its accreditation. We were chartered by the Navajo national government, and Navajo law says all schools have to teach native language and culture,” says Guy. Dr. Siri G. Tuttle “We are a tribal college.

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Back-and-forth over faculty agreement divisive at Maricopa

Confessions of a Community College Dean

While a proposal to lower pay for one group, which includes librarians, didn’t come to pass, at least in its entirety, faculty continue to feel divided in the aftermath of the process, and some worry the new agreement may still negatively affect campus libraries and relations between professors. This is like an age-old thing.”

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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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Admissions Counselor on the Mission of a Liberal Arts College

Great College Advice

Government and economics also were part of the mix, as were the general sciences. Finally, liberal arts students are required to take a certain number of elective courses, for which there are very few constraints, intellectually or administratively. Electives also comprise 25-35% of a student’s course load over four years.