Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 13, 2023

A state commission proposed overhauling UNC governing board appointments to reduce partisanship, but some say lawmakers have few incentives to remove politics from the system.

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The Guardian Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Almost all will experience bouts of loneliness with nearly half being worried they will be judged if they admit to it, according to a sample of 1,000 students, collected by YouGov for the government.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Meharry Medical College and Nashville Metro government have come to an agreement that will give millions of dollars to the college for housing Nashville General Hospital, The Tennessean r eported. The plan – pending Metro Council approval – involves the city paying Meharry $6.3

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The Guardian Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

White paper to be released on Monday promises new policy initiatives including national skills passport Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The Albanese government will spend an extra $41m in a bid to double higher apprenticeships in the care economy, digitisation and net zero, three priorities identified by the (..)

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Higher Education Whisperer

JUNE 2, 2023

GovHack AGM OnlineThis is to suggest GovHack hackerthons be used to quickly get the new federal government internal consultants up to speed. GovHack is a non-profit organization which organizes an annual hackerthon using government data sources. This happens at sites around Australia (

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

White, discuss changes in higher ed governance and governing boards, and strategies for aligning trustees with the CEO’s strategic mission and strategies. Their experience is both higher education and corporate; this is important as higher education governance is becoming more and more like that of corporate governance.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: Twenty-three Lafayette College department heads and program chairs say there are serious issues with governance at the college, according to “points of concern” four of them shared with the president and provost. It’s adding them July 1. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?:

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Oregon State University and Washington State University, the two remaining members of the Pac-12 Conference, initiated legal action today to confirm the governance structure of the conference, gain access to business information, and protect the conference’s assets. Read more from Oregon State University.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Most notably, it has a unique governing structure: Richard Bland shares a board of visitors with the College of William & Mary and is governed by a committee of William & Mary board members. But Richard Bland College, while autonomous, continued to be governed by William & Mary’s Board of Visitors.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This fall, the Oregon State University professor is teaching Political Science 110, “Governing After the Zombie Apocalypse.”. Students in the honors college class meet twice a week to figure out how to form a new government in the wake of a fictional pandemic that has wiped out 98% of the population. Read more on The Seattle Times.

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Higher Education Whisperer

JANUARY 29, 2023

According to media reports, the government of China has placed restrictions on its citizens studying online at foreign universities (Australian universities welcome snap decision by China to ban online studies, The Guardian, 29 January 2023). Australia's universities were already preparing for

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2023

The government is refusing to fund a single place at Three Counties Medical School, University of Worcester, despite health bosses in the area saying they are spending £70m a year on agency staff to plug a chronic shortage of doctors.

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The Guardian Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2023

Education minister writes to university employers and union as tens of thousands of students are left without degree results Both sides in a university pay row that has left tens of thousands of students without their degree results have been urged by the government to enter negotiations to settle the dispute.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 11, 2023

Last week I passed along an observation from a reader about the seeming absence of business acumen among academic leaders and the consequent gaps in shared governance. Informing the voters. Karen Novick, an associate dean at Rutgers, offered the following response, which deserves to be quoted at length.

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Higher Education Whisperer

JULY 2, 2023

Ruth Lewis, workshop facilitatorGreeting from the Australian Computer Society Canberra office, where I am taking part in an IEEE AI Ethics and Governance Workshop. Over the next few days we will be looking at ethics and technological development. Obviously AI is going feature prominently in this.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 12, 2023

North Carolina governor Roy Cooper released the preliminary findings of a state commission to investigate the state’s public university governance on Monday, with recommendations for broadening political representation on the UNC system board of governors and on the boards of trustees of its 16 campuses.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Editorial Tags: Career Advice Governance Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Olga Kurbatova/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Renshaw offers a practical model based on his expertise in couples’ therapy as an analogue for thinking about how faculty and administrators might best work together.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

But what is effective governance? Editorial Tags: Career Advice Governance Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Flash vector/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter? Given today’s demands, most colleges would benefit from higher-performing boards, writes Peter D.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2023

Issue blown out of proportion, says Matt Cook, after appointment of ‘free speech tsar’ for higher education Oxford University’s new professor of LGBTQ+ history has accused the government of “fanning a culture war” over freedom of speech, insisting it is alive and well in higher education.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 17, 2023

Endorsing language that is gratuitously insulting to academics, Mr Sunak has pledged to cap numbers on what his government describes as “rip-off” university degrees that don’t lead to a well-paid, highly skilled job. This is a dismally narrow and instrumental view of higher education.

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Hanover Research

MAY 30, 2023

The post Government Technology: Opinion: Automation Can Be a Useful Disruption for Higher Ed appeared first on Hanover Research.

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University Business

MAY 31, 2023

The post House kills constitutional amendment to ensure representation on higher ed governing boards appeared first on University Business. “It’s upsetting that LSU continues to fail to provide the resources for LSU Shreveport to thrive,” Pressly said in an impassioned floor speech. Read more from the Louisiana Illuminator.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

AUGUST 3, 2023

Higher education institutions are incorporating data analytics to make all kinds of decisions on campus. From maximizing learning outcomes to tracking enrollment and preparing students to enter the Big Data workforce, institutions are using the seemingly boundless information at their fingertips to make smarter choices.

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Higher Education Whisperer

MARCH 26, 2023

The Australian Government response to the Future of Work and Workers report, has been released. Unfortunately, despite the titles, this is not a response to the report, just a statement of what the government was already doing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Researchers from the University of Oregon (UO) have earned a $3 million grant from the federal government to help tackle global warming, while incorporating the insights of rural and Indigenous communities which are often left out of decisions about what happens around them. The Coquille have enjoyed a longstanding relationship with the UO.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

UCW is not a bargaining unit on campus or university governance group, and we will continue to address employee concerns through our established shared governance groups,” CU said in a statement. “CU

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute : Anna Amirkhanyan, professor of public administration and policy at American University, explores how different populations around the world perceived their governments” responses to COVID. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Economically developed countries have created a “triple helix” of collaboration between academia, government, and industry, according to panelist Dr. Vincent Idemyor, a professor at the University of Port Harcourt. Omikunle argued, however, that primary financing for colleges must come from the government.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

In this episode of Changing Higher Ed podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. Richard “Dick” Chait, two leading experts on governance and management in higher education, discuss how the governing structures of colleges and universities have changed over the years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 1, 2023

Overseeing the Department of Community Affairs, she also headed efforts to expand affordable housing and local government services. Murphy honored Oliver Tuesday on social media, saying in a post that he was “incredibly saddened to learn of the passing” of a “dear friend, colleague, and partner in government.” Sheila Y. "We

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Ray Schroeder

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The Government Accountability Office recently reported that there are more than 100 federal broadband programs at more than a dozen agencies. The focus should be on reducing costs for the private companies that provide most of the investment, rather than propping up sickly projects. The GAO declared bluntly: “The U.S.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JUNE 22, 2023

If college applicants and potential teachers have anything in common with current students and tenured professors, it’s this: They’re one more piece of data in an ever-growing mountain of it. There was a time when higher education data was largely limited to things like enrollment numbers, demographic information and revenue.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Judge Andrew Hanen of the Southern District of Texas determined that a Biden administration rule to codify the policy into a federal regulation violated the Administrative Procedure Act, which governs how agencies can make regulations. The ruling will not change the status of current beneficiaries of the program. “To

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2021

In this second post of our five-part series on Embracing a New Higher Education Governance Model , we discuss the updated board duties in higher ed and how boards can embrace their new roles and responsibilities as they work to meet the challenges facing colleges and universities today.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2021

In this second post of our three-part series on the New Higher Education Governance Model, we discuss the updated board duties in higher ed and how boards can embrace their new roles and responsibilities as they work to meet the challenges facing colleges and universities today.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2023

However, for the question of who is responsible for paying for college—parents and students or the government—American beliefs have shifted in a comparative blink of an eye. Only 9% believed that the government should be mainly responsible. But when they repeated the survey in 2015, their results shocked them.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

In our series Embracing a New Model for Higher Education Governance, part 1 discussed raising the bar for college and university leaders. This new model for higher education governance extends to the board of trustees. In part 2 we covered the updated board duties.

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