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How Higher Ed Leaders Can Manage Campus Policing

Laurie Arnston — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 17:32:35 +0000

Title: Campus Policing: A Guide for Higher Education Leaders Authors: Jude Paul Matias Dizon, Maritza E. Salazar, Elif Yucel, and Edgar Fidel Lopez Source: University of Southern California Pullias Center for Higher Education Increased attention to police brutality and violence against Black Americans in recent years has led to an uptick in student-led activism on college campuses. In response, the University of ...

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Fall 2020 Preview: Adapting in the Midst of Uncertainty

Laurie Arnston — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 17:54:02 +0000

Title: Fall Comes Into View Author: Lilah Burke Source: Inside Higher Ed In the absence of a coronavirus vaccine, U.S. colleges and university administrators have had to decide what the coming fall semester will mean for their institutions. A piece from Inside Higher Ed breaks down some of the choices facing institutions, as schools contend with whether to adopt an in-person, ...

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FBI Report Addresses Hacking in Online Classes and Other Meetings

Laurie Arnston — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 17:13:38 +0000

Title: FBI Warns of Teleconferencing and Online Classroom Hijacking During COVID-19 Pandemic Date: March 30, 2020 Source: FBI As more colleges and universities and other organizations and people move to video-teleconferencing platforms such as Zoom during the coronavirus pandemic, there has been a significant uptick in reports of conference disruptions by individuals posting pornographic or hate images and using threatening language ...

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New Report: Coronavirus and Student Mobility to and From China

Laurie Arnston — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 20:53:53 +0000

Title: COVID-19 Effects on U.S. Higher Education Campuses: Academic Student Mobility to and From China Authors: Mirka Matel, Ph.D. Source: The Institute of International Education The Institute of International Education (IIE) has published findings from a recent survey of institutions on the impact of the rapidly spreading novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on student mobility to and from China. A total of 234 ...

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Webinar Addresses How to Manage Academic Programs for Minors

Laurie Arnston — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 19:37:21 +0000

The National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA) is offering a webinar Sept. 25 on the “Legal and Practical Risks in Providing Academic Experiences for Minors.” The webinar, co-sponsored by ACE, will provide an overview of the variety of academic experiences that higher education institutions offer to minors—from one-day STEM enrichment programs to intensive courses for college credit and dual ...

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Guns on Campus: An Unfolding Public Health Crisis

Laurie Arnston — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:54:46 +0000

President Emeritus Leo Lambert of Elon University (NC) says it will take courage, moral leadership, and political will to solve the crisis of gun violence at colleges and universities and K-12 schools. Several years ago, our campus avoided a potential disaster involving an armed individual intent on causing serious harm. Especially in light of the horrific murders of 17 high school ...

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ACE2018: How Can Campuses and the Office for Civil Rights Work Together to Address Sexual Misconduct?

Laurie Arnston — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 23:42:21 +0000

By Carly O’Connell In the era of the #MeToo movement, the public eye increasingly is focused on the issue of sexual assault and harassment wherever it occurs, from the workplace to the college campus. Higher education leaders at ACE2018 discussed some of the difficulties surrounding this issue particular to higher education and approaches colleges and universities are taking to address them. ...

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Providing Transparency to the Title IX Process

Laurie Arnston — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 16:24:37 +0000

By Terry W. Hartle This post originally ran on the New England Journal of Higher Education website. When U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced Sept. 7 that her department would revisit how Title IX rules are enforced with respect to campus sexual assault, she said the first step would be a “transparent notice and comment process” to replace the 2011 “guidance” (and ...

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Achieving Gender Equality on Campus

Laurie Arnston — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 00:44:35 +0000

By Kristen Carmen Listing the accomplishments of the top research university he leads, Stony Brook University (NY) President Samuel Stanley Jr. is most proud of one thing: Stony Brook is one of three North American universities part of the 10 worldwide University Impact Champions of the HeForShe movement. HeForShe is a multi-stakeholder, United Nations-backed movement to promote gender equality and equal ...

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Guns on Campus May Change the Nature of the Learning Environment

Laurie Arnston — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 15:29:57 +0000

Philip Rogers, ACE vice president and chief of staff, looks at the ACE2016 session on guns on campus, presented with the National Association of Presidential Assistants in Higher Education. The frantic phone call came in to my office mid-morning from the university’s chief public safety officer. At the time, I was chief of staff to the chancellor at a regional public ...

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Reinventing a Program, Revitalizing a City at Tulane’s School of Architecture

Laurie Arnston — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 17:53:34 +0000

Ten years ago next week, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, wreaking havoc on the region including a number of higher education institutions. As one of the many schools affected by Katrina, Tulane University (LA) spent years rebuilding its own campus. But Tulane has also spent that time helping rebuild New Orleans as a whole. Since Katrina, students at the Tulane ...

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Sexual Assault on Campus—Prevention and Response: A High Level Overview

Laurie Arnston — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 01:05:46 +0000

Jessie Brown, ACE’s associate counsel, looks at Tuesday’s Annual Meeting joint session with the National Association of College and University Attorneys. There can be no doubt that the issue of sexual assault on campus is a serious and complex one that colleges and universities are directing significant efforts to address. In recent months, we have read countless news articles about the ...

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