Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2024

Charity Watchdog Tells Oxford Colleges to Modernize Governance Marjorie Valbrun Fri, 03/15/2024 - 03:00 AM The move, following a four-year battle at one college to oust a dean and the mishandling of an alleged rape of a student at another college, is provoking internal controversy, a source claims.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 11, 2024

Higher Education leadership is facing a dilemma in addressing the systemic dysfunctions within shared governance. We explore the challenges and solutions for revitalizing shared governance, offering actionable insights for presidents, boards, and leaders seeking to enhance institutional effectiveness.

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2024

Colleges continue to face significant obstacles as they try to diversify their governing boards, a new report from the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) finds.

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University Business

MAY 10, 2024

All told, the independent art college in Louisville could see $6 million in government funding. The post Independent art college in Louisville to get millions in government funding appeared first on University Business. The majority comes from the state’s budget. Read more from Louisville Public Media.

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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

APRIL 13, 2024

But measures introduced by the former Morrison government that doubled the price of some degrees to incentivise students into other courses didn’t dissuade him, nor did recent cost-of-living increases. Continue reading.

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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 Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2024

The increased cost of borrowing has left the government with an £11bn annual shortfall, according to the IFS Student loans in England are expected to cost the government an extra £11bn a year as a result of higher interest rates massively increasing the cost of borrowing, according to analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

McGill and Concordia Universities sued the government of Quebec Friday over its decision last fall to significantly increase the tuition for English-speaking students at institutions in the Canadian province starting next fall, The Gazette of Montreal

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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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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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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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AIFS Abroad

MARCH 1, 2024

During Summer 2019, she participated in a Government internship at an NGO in Washington, D.C. Read about Tovah’s unforgettable Government internship experience and watch her video to see what one of her days looked like interning abroad at an NGO! Tovah shares a day in her life as a Government intern at an NGO in Washington, D.C.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MAY 19, 2024

According to one sector leader, it’s because they are losing money on two of their three income streams, while their third source is under attack by the government. “We

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Ministers were poised five years ago to offer a route to a reprieve for thousands of international students who may have been wrongly accused of cheating , but the plan was derailed by a government reshuffle, the Guardian has learned.

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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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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

All government ministers and departments now agree, as Higgins says, “The arts are one of Britain’s strongest suits.” Frankly, we are in a different universe from 14 years ago.

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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

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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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

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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Collegis Education Data Management

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Data governance has a number of definitions, but I like Google’s definition best. This definition does two things: It provides a strategic view of data governance, and it stresses the importance of the role of principles that apply to data throughout its existence.

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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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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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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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University Business

OCTOBER 9, 2023

believes government officials are waging “coordinat[ed] efforts to unjustly target GCU” in response to its lawsuit against the Department over its nonprofit status. ” The post This for-profit believes it’s being “targeted” by the government appeared first on University Business.

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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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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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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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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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Ray Schroeder

OCTOBER 10, 2023

West Virginia State University was recently notified by the federal government that it had been underfunded to the tune of $852 million over the course of thirty years. It is also one of the nation’s historically black colleges and universities. It is not known if this was done intentionally or was just an oversight, but it’s quite costly.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Hilary Crow The foundation’s national survey examined responses from 2,000 registered voters and revealed that Americans lack basic understanding of government. It found that more than 70% of Americans fail a basic civic literacy quiz on topics like the three branches of government and the number of Supreme Court justices.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Blogs Key takeaways from government guidance on SCOTUS’s affirmative action ruling The Department of Education finally issued its eagerly anticipated follow-up guidance on the Supreme Court’s SFFA ruling in September. Did it deliver on enrollment leaders’ hopes and expectations? The answer is complicated.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The post ‘Board governance continues to be a problem’: North Idaho College trustees pick new board chair appeared first on University Business. Representatives visited the campus in October. NIC president Nick Swayne said NWCCU’s final report should be out this week. Read more from from KREM.

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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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