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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The fact that we had an increase of 3% last year, we don’t take that for granted.” Montgomery—an accomplished economist who served in the Clinton and Obama administrations—is African American. “Now From 1998 to 2003, Floyd served the university before going on to lead the University of Missouri and Washington State University.

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Leadership at All Levels of Higher Ed

The University Innovation Alliance

Bringing Federal-Level Higher Ed Experience Back to the Community President Sacks’ shared how federal-level experience gave her a different perspective as a college president: “I understand federal grants better than many of my colleagues. And that got us the grant. Sometimes that collaborative approach will be more successful.”

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The Transformational Power of Higher Education

The University Innovation Alliance

She spoke about how she went from avoiding to embracing administrative leadership, the pandemic's lessons about collaboration and community, and her view of what it will take to reenergize higher ed. I prefer to talk about leadership rather than administration, because administration connotes bureaucracy. We can't escape that.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. Upon completion of her Ph.D.

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Fight Over Student Debt Cancellation Hits Supreme Court

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After months of uncertainty for borrowers, the Biden administration’s student loan debt cancellation program, which offers $10,000 of relief to those making up to $125,000 and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients, came before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, in oral arguments that stretched for over an hour past their scheduled time.

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The Biden Administration Used the Pandemic to Justify Loan Forgiveness. Some Say It Didn’t Need To.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, which cancels $10,000 of debt for borrowers earning under $125,000 and offers $20,000 of relief to Pell Grant recipients, is scheduled to come before the U.S. But if it’s a potentially stronger authority, why didn’t the Biden administration use it to begin with?

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After SCOTUS Ruling, Biden Vows to Cancel Student Debt Anyway

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel nearly half a trillion dollars of student debt, his administration moved quickly to show that it wasn’t giving up. “I Indeed, the Biden administration appears to have considered it in 2021. When the U.S. This fight is not over.” “This fight is not over.”

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