Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

To Dr. Linda Burnes Bolton, the profession of nursing is about accountability. “We’re accountable to the patient, first and foremost,” Burnes Bolton says. “And we keep that in mind in everything that we do.” Burnes Bolton, chief nursing officer emeritus at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, dedicated her life and career to the nursing industry, having joined the healthcare organization in 1971 and retiring at age 72 in 2022.

Healthcare 260

Healthcare Industry Utilities Medical 260

Proctor Academy

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The Winter Term often finds us diving deeply into our own worlds. Perhaps it is our instinctive nature as the days get short and the weather colder, to pull into ourselves. We put our nose down, and, too often, our blinders up so that we can concentrate on that which lies before us: our classes, our teams, our dorms, our advisories. We can easily overlook the complexity of all that is happening on this campus until weekends like this one put the fullness of who we are on display.

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IT 79

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Sanath Kumar Sanath Kumar has been appointed director of marketing and public relations at Central Ohio Tech and Ohio State University at Newark. The mechanical engineer has a bachelor’s degree from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka in Suratkal, India; a master’s from Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada; and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Engineering 246

Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Billions of dollars are needed to fully repair, maintain and renovate academic buildings and facilities across the 23 campuses in the California State University system, according to a legislative report. But that is money that the system, and the state, don’t have readily available. Meanwhile, some students have complained about unbearable heat waves in classrooms without air conditioning and canceled classes due to flooded buildings.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

A USF audit found $8.6 million in excess fees collected for distance learning courses over the last three fiscal years. The University of South Florida collected $8.6 million more in fees than state law allowed from students who signed up for remote classes, a recent audit found.

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