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Charlie Baker Goes to the NCAA

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“If you’re a governor — at least in Massachusetts — you worry about 351 cities and towns and you love them all because they all matter, and if you’re doing your job, you and your administration are spending a lot of time with everybody.” Baker says the NCAA is in the process of building a sports fan database.

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Report: Racial and Gender Hiring Practices in College Athletics is Concerning

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The report examines personnel data – from sources such as the NCAA Demographics Database – concerning university presidents, athletics directors, coaches, administrative staff, and faculty athletics representatives for college sports. As a whole, the combined grade for the 2022 CSRGRC was a "C" with 73.7

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Early in her time as an administrator at Virginia Tech, she implemented the Black Engineering Support Team (BEST), having Black upperclassmen be peer mentors to freshmen. I stepped out of a tenure-track role and into an administrative position, where I could create programs to help students be successful.”

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

EAB

The analytics function should be headed by an executive-level administrator who can bridge the gap between academic and institutional priorities and the technical workings of the analytics function. A deep knowledge of database management, statistical analysis, and research techniques are generally necessary skills for an analytics team.

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What does a data management platform actually do?

EAB

A data management platform gathers data from your disparate campus databases and platforms—such as your LMS, your SIS, and your CRM—and then compiles and standardizes that data to establish a single, shared source of truth across campus. What is a data management platform? Building a single source of truth (i.e.,

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Preparing for a government shutdown

John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

Sincerely, Stephen Gange Interim Provost Laurent Heller Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration The post Preparing for a government shutdown appeared first on Johns Hopkins University Student Well-Being. Available Resources Students with questions should contact the Student Affairs leader in their school or division.

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Building a Sustainable Model for School Wellness Initiatives

Timely MD

Government programs A search for federal grants can start online at grants.gov through a database with eligibility filters. Grants like those from The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) provide awards that aim to improve mental health services for students.