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AFT Prez Sends Letter to WVU Board Over Proposed Cuts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

in higher education administration, master's program in math, and master of public administration. Instead of discontinuing programs, the AFT argues, the board of governors and administration should appeal to the state legislature to make up the financial gap and to adequately fund the university going forward.

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Leadership Potential

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dominique Turner Institution: Morgan State University Graduate Program: Higher Education Administration Education: B.S., Government/Political Science, Bowie State University; MPA, Management and Public Policy, Bowie State University; Graduate Certificate, Project Management, Bowie State University Mentors: Rev.

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Webinar: How to Build Culturally Validating and Affirming Relationships Between Educators and Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Foundational to these relationships is trust, which may not be freely and equally given by different communities due to historical oppression, leading some to view educational institutions as part of the state, McCall said. Educators will do well to also consider students’ parents, he added.

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Embracing a New Model for Higher Education Governance Part 2: The Updated Board Duties

The Change Leader, Inc.

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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Choosing an Executive Leadership Coach: What Matters

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After more than four decades of executive leadership in the academy, I am now privileged to serve as President-in-Residence with the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), and Senior Consultant with the Association of Governing Boards (AGB).

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Academic freedom policies should mean something (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Litigation Over Florida’s Stop WOKE Act—‘Positively Dystopian’ In litigation challenging the Stop WOKE Act’s application to public higher education, a federal district court issued a sharp rebuke to Florida (the case is currently on appeal). Florida looked to a 2006 U.S. Florida looked to a 2006 U.S.

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Iowa Wesleyan University announces closure

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Reynolds added that if the state had “provided the federal funding as requested and it was used to finance debt or other impermissible uses according to US Treasury guidelines, the state and taxpayers could have been liable for potential repayment to the federal government.”

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