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Dr. Francine G. McNairy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title: Retired President, Millersville University As the 13th president of Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Francine G. The university has been nationally ranked as one of the top regional public institutions of higher education by U.S.

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Report Shows the Shift Away from Tenured Faculty in the U.S. Academic Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That's according to a new report from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)which provides data depicting the shift away from tenure to contingent faculty at most U.S. colleges and universities. colleges and universities were employed part-time. “If That puts institutions in a difficult place.”

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The U.S. News exodus never happened. How did the top ranking service outlast naysayers?

University Business

News & World Report released its latest college rankings yesterday, and colleges are touting their improvements, prevailing against the barrage of criticism it received at the turn of the year. News found itself in on the back heel. News a “false altar” to which the public worships. all dropped out.

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President moves: A historic hire, a retirement and 1 leader on leave

University Business

Hired Lynne Coy-Ogan – Husson University (Maine) The board of trustees at Husson University has selected Lynne Coy-Ogan as its next president, marking the first female to lead the institution in its 125-year history. The number of degrees awarded has more than doubled, The Dallas Morning News reports.

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How Does U.S. News Rank Colleges?

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

News Best Rankings? News & World Report released its first list of annual college rankings in 1983. Many of these experts are scoring institutions without knowing much about them, making their opinions — and the scores — difficult to take seriously. News in the hopes of generating more interest from prospective students.

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Today’s college rankings still measure the wrong things. It’s time to reinvent them

University Business

News & World Report ’s college rankings, the list of universities proclaiming they want no part of the rankings reads like a “Who’s Who” of American higher education. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, who called college rankings a “ joke ,” urges other institutions to stop worshiping at this “ false altar.”

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Pursuit of R-2 status can expand opportunity (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

As universities “ascend” from one Carnegie Foundation classification to another, alarm bells often go off—particularly among those who study higher education. But institutions of higher learning are recreating what it means to be a publicly engaged research institution.

Research 101