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Student journalists sue district over record requests

Confessions of a Community College Dean

are suing the Peralta Community College District for failing to adequately respond to public records requests. District officials say they comply with the law and do their best to handle the administrative burden of repeated requests. Image: Student journalists at Laney College in Oakland, Calif.,

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College Sports: A Work in Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Each fall, Charmin Smith, head women’s basketball coach at University of California, Berkeley, welcomes three other Black female Division I head coaches and their teams to campus for the Raising the B.A.R. University of California, Berkeley, Head Women’s Basketball Coach Charmin Smith, second from left, hosts the annual Raising the B.A.R.

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Recognizing Great Work in Assessment: 1st Ever SAAL Awards!

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

You can also watch the full recording of the award ceremony by visiting our YouTube page. 2023 SAAL Award Recipients SAAL Legacy Award individual award to highlight a professional that has made substantial and lasting contributions to the field of Student Affairs assessment over time Recipient: Dr. Joe Levy, Excelsior University “Dr.

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A clash of viewpoints at a struggling college

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“It’s still an open investigation,” Oubré told Inside Higher Ed regarding the threats. “It’s not our practice to discuss open investigations.” Some critics have expressed doubt about the validity of the threats cited, dismissing them as a fabrication of leaders who fear facing protests.

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A legal blow to Internet Archive, controlled digital lending

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The publishers’ lawsuit had also targeted the Internet Archive’s Open Library for “willful mass copyright infringement” and a concept known as controlled digital lending, which it dubbed “an invented paradigm that is well outside of copyright law. “But also, where do you put this stuff?

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UNC Chapel Hill leaders diverge on what new "school" will be

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill leaders have given mixed messages about what sounded, at least initially, like the university is trying to resurrect plans for a conservative campus center. David Boliek, chairman of Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees, was rather specific in a Jan. 28 interview on Fox and Friends.

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

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Department of Education is now considering changes to its guidelines addressing how outside providers bundle the services they offer to colleges and universities and to the regulations that define and govern third-party servicers. At this point, nearly every nonprofit university in the U.S.