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Conway-Turner: From First-Gen Student to 43-Year Career Retirement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It has been part of my focus to really engage our students in civic and community work.” During her presidency, she established a day in September called Dare to Care, during which hundreds of Buffalo State students, faculty, and staff members perform community service together. Engaging the university’s alumni has been deliberate.

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

University Business

The private nursing school will officially welcome its fifth president on May 6, according to school communications. 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.

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Leadership Strategies for Rebuilding Trust on Campus: Part 2

Campus Sonar

Now, it’s time to apply those insights on campus with strategies to help you begin rebuilding trust with prospective and current students, alumni, and the public at large. Engage in community outreach. Make sure you read the other two recommendations we shared. Emphasize “doing” more than “telling.”

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How 1,000+ prospective HBCU students conducted their college search

EAB

This trend is likely related to the large role that family connections, word of mouth, and community and alumni events play in HBCU recruitment. Recommendations Reach Students Early Through Events and Alumni Connections. Early outreach and brand-building play a significant role in HBCU student recruitment.

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The Ongoing Fight for Diversity in Higher Ed

Higher Ed Connects: Diversity

Continuing community outreach initiatives including those that create pathways from pre-academic readiness efforts to higher education. Expanding multicultural philanthropy and alumni engagement. It is important to keep in mind that policies that emphasize diversity change lives. One of them was Eric Holder, Jr.,

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Museums and College Campuses as Community Hubs and Cultural Centers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Meanwhile, public expectations about the kind of diverse, immersive, interactive, participatory, and technology-enhanced exhibits museums should offer escalate, while their educational and community outreach responsibilities mount. ” Certainly true, but, as written, insufficient. A recent book by Daniel H.