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Higher Education Non-Exempt Staff Numbers Continue Seven-Year Decline

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colleges and universities has steadily declined over the past seven years, with both full-time and part-time positions showing significant reductions, according to new research from the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR). The non-exempt staff workforce at U.S.

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What Dr. Ibram Kendi’s Appointment to Howard Means for HBCUs—and Black Scholarship

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Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he founded the Center for Antiracist Research under a five-year charter in 2020. It was at least a decade later before Fisk's John Lewis Center for Social Justice was established in 2019 to carry on a similar mantle. Most recently, he was the Andrew W.

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A Blueprint for College Students’ Sense of Belonging

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Dozens of studies agree that sense of belonging is defined as a basicneed [and human right], a fundamental motivation, sufficient to drive behaviors and perceptions. Its satisfaction leads to positive gains such as happiness, elation, wellbeing , achievement, and optimal functioning (Strayhorn, 2019, p.

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Dr. Marlene Tromp Named University of Vermont's 28th President

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A humanities scholar with a concentration in Victorian literature and culture, Tromp has published nine books and dozens of peer-reviewed papers. She will succeed Dr. Suresh Garimella, who led UVM from 2019 until October 2024 when he became president of the University of Arizona.

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Leveraging Materials Engineering to Improve Human Health

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Since 2019, Moore Wealth has gifted over $30,000 in scholarships. Moore is the Rhines Rising Star Larry Hench Assistant Professor in materials science and engineering at the university’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. She is also the founder and president of Moore Wealth, Inc.,

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Educating the Next Generation

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DeSantis Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era in 2019; the Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians also in 2019; and a fellowship with the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2020.

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NBC's Lester Holt to Serve as Commencement Speaker for Villanova University’s Class of 2023.

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Holt will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters degree. In 2019, he led the Emmy-nominated series, “Justice for All.” Lester Holt The event will take place 2:30 p.m. May 19, in Villanova Stadium. Holt is managing editor of the award-winning show "NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt" and anchor of “Dateline NBC.”