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Mapping Transfer Pathways: How Data and Equitable Admissions Policies can Support Transfer Student Success

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

xi Studies have found that transfer students often feel disconnected from their campus communities and use fewer support services than traditional students, xii which can harm their academic progress. Baccalaureate attainment and college persistence of community college transfer students at four-year institutions. 2009, October).

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Higher Ed Lessons in Interim Leadership

The University Innovation Alliance

Chancellor Reyes told us that his mandate was much different: "The president, as well as other mentors that knew that I was considering being the interim, they said, 'If you're going to do this, don't be the interim. Be the chancellor. Your institutions need you to be a chancellor that will continue to make decisions.'

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The Transformational Power of Higher Education

The University Innovation Alliance

She noted that her former boss, UC Riverside's chancellor Kim Wilcox , is now her peer, adding: "He's a great friend and mentor, but all the way along, I haven't thought about having a boss. When you're a faculty member, you're your own boss. That's a different paradigm than universities typically operate under.

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The Art and Science of Higher Ed Leadership

The University Innovation Alliance

For example, a colleague and mentor at the University of Georgia told me, ‘You're going to be the next head of psychology here.’ The struggle is communicating people's value, and it's no surprise that one of the biggest factors that influences how people feel about their work is what is the supervisory relationship?

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Office for Civil Rights Commences Title VI Investigations Against 45 Universities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MSU vice president for communications Tracy Ellig released a statement which reads in part: MSU strictly adheres to all federal and state laws in the hiring of its faculty and staff. 418, 426 (2009). We will continue to monitor and review this issue, cooperate with any official inquiries and, as always, comply with the law.