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Agriculture Department Attempts to Keep Rural Colleges and Universities Afloat

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Secretary Tom Vilsack “Beyond the educational prospects, these institutions support small businesses who depend on the student and faculty population, and they make their communities a more attractive place to live,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. They generate opportunity.”

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Advocacy group survey: Faculty fear backlash for free speech

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: The authors of a new survey and report on faculty members’ free speech views concluded that they generally oppose punishing free expression. Faculty members also express more support for what the report, released Tuesday, labels “soft authoritarianism. four-year public and private nonprofit universities.

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A better way to address revenue sharing and online marketing (letter)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

At this point, nearly every nonprofit university in the U.S. Further, and accelerated by the pandemic, faculty are also calling for more agility in terms of how to best deliver instruction and maximize student success and equity. The strategy worked.

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3 Enrollment Boosting Strategies for Accredited Institutions: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 178 with Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. David R. Decker

The Change Leader, Inc.

So if it’s healthcare, or if it’s accounting, or if it’s criminal justice, we have a program advisory board that meets at least quarterly with the program chairs and faculty of the program to provide context and input on curricular developments and expectations of that profession so that they can be incorporated.

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Report: U of Arkansas system may buy University of Phoenix

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A few years later, in 2020, the University of Arizona, a public land-grant institution, purchased for-profit Ashford University in a deal that included roughly 35,000 students—all online. They also questioned why they had largely been sidelined in discussions.