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AASCU Selects 26 Higher Education Leaders for 2025 Millennium Leadership Initiative Cohort

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Established under the advisement of AASCU's African American member presidents, MLI specifically aims to prepare higher education leaders from traditionally underrepresented communities for the nation's top academic posts. The cohort begins programming June 11-14 in Washington, D.C.,

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Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles Appointed Head of NC State College of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development.

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Joy Gaston Gayles will become head of the NC State College of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development (ELPHD), effective Jul.

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While Spring Enrollment is Up, Experts Advise Caution

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“There’s a lot of questions and concerns that this is potentially another low that’s come out of left field for higher education, much like the pandemic,” said Shapiro. It’s bound to have an effect on fall enrollments, we just don’t know how much.”

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ACTA Releases Guide for Managing Campus Protests, Encampments

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The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has released a new trustee guide intended to help higher education leadership proactively prepare for potential campus disruptions, such as those linked to antiwar protests last spring.

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What it Means to Sit at the Intersection of Blackness, Queerness

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Williams-Goliday has been helping guide students for decades, first as an academic adviser for Eastern Illinois University’s Office of Minority Affairs beginning in 1998. And from 2002 to 2006, she served as academic adviser for Temple University. There, she worked with students academically underprepared for college, she says.

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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

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Higher education centers production over humanity, often based on production instead of improving people’s lives.” Dr. Natalie Youngbull, an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies at the University of Oklahoma, shared research on how TCUs are improving the lives of their students and their communities.

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UC Irvine to Launch Pre-Health Professional Development Program to Support Students from Underserved Communities

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million grant from the California Department of Health Care Access and Information – will select undergraduates for training, advising, and support to increase readiness for medical school. Belinda Campos UC PRIME Pre-Health Pathways (UCPPP) – it is receiving funding from a five-year, $3.6

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