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Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Columbia College Chicago leadership has recommended cutting 10 academic programs — five undergraduate majors and five master’s programs — as it looks to pare back its portfolio to roughly 40 undergraduate majors overall. The college’s…
Gov. Gavin NewsomUndocumented students in California’s higher education system may soon be able to get a job in California’s public universities and colleges. California would become the first state in the nation to employ undocumented college students without legal work permits, pending a signature from Gov. Gavin Newsom. The landmark legislation, Assembly Bill 2586, passed…
Dr. Charles Alexander is shown with Kiet Lam, president of the AAP alumni network.Courtesy of Dr. Charles AlexanderDr. Charles J. Alexander oversees the legacy of the Academic Advancement Program (AAP) at UCLA, one of the longest running academic support programs for first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students. Established 53 years ago and built on principles of…
“I think that data fabric and the sharing of all the metadata associated with communications helps make an organization much more efficient,” Martin says. Customer relationship management tools can also provide context for customer calls, according to Martin. Dhingra adds, “The agent might know the customer’s most recent purchase. The agent might know there…
Mpoli Simwanza-JohnsonMpoli Simwanza-Johnson has been named general counsel for the Colorado State University Foundation. She served as director of legal affairs at the University of Wisconsin Foundation in Madison. Simwanza-Johnson holds a juris doctorate from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan. #MPOLI #SIMWANZAJOHNSON #Diverse #Issues #Higher #Education
Over the last three decades, Liaison has helped over 40,000 programs on more than 1,200 campuses more effectively manage admissions through its Centralized Application Service (CAS™) technology and complementary application processing and support services. The higher education technology leader supports its partner institutions’ total enrollment goals by pairing CAS with its Enrollment Marketing (EM) platform…
Organizations across all industries, including higher education, have more access to data than they’ve ever had before, but they’re still evolving when it comes to transforming that data into actionable insights. This transformation is especially crucial for customer experience strategies. Today’s consumers — and the employees who make customer support services run — expect more…
Nygil LikelyNygil Likely has been named vice president for people, culture, and equity at Grand Rapids Community College. He served as chief diversity officer at Calvin University. Likely holds an MBA in human resources and management and a master’s in adult and continuing education administration from the University of Phoenix. #NYGIL #Diverse #Issues #Higher #Education
Now that all the data is in, a small group of Asian Americans should hang their heads in shame. The group with the ironic and hypocritical name, Students for Fair Admissions, was corralled by anti-affirmative action advocate Ed Blum and effectively duped and used to sue Harvard over race-based admissions. The result? After six years…
More women are attending university than ever before and a quarter of the world’s top universities have appointed a female president, but research shows that female academics are being pushed out of academia and are evaluated lower than male lecturers, which could stifle their careers. So what’s the state of play at the moment, and…