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Beyond Crisis Management: How Presidents Can Create a Campus Where Everyone Belongs

ACE — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 16:31:47 +0000

At the start of 2024, the media narrative picked up where it left off before the holidays—painting a picture of U.S. college campuses immersed in division and unrest over a number of issues, particularly the response to the war between Israel and Hamas and the heated debate over diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). But at thousands of colleges and universities around ...

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The College President’s Role During Times of Crisis

ACE — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 21:39:12 +0000

As we approach the end of 2023, in an era marked by heightened challenges around the world, it has never been more important for university presidents to serve as steadfast institutional leaders during times of crisis. Case in point: the COVID-19 pandemic tested every president and every campus beginning in March 2020 and continuing today. During this tumultuous period, I led ...

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Many American colleges should be proud of how they navigated COVID-19. The next draft of history should reflect their success.

Laurie Arnston — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 20:05:06 +0000

By Justin Pope Higher education’s fifth semester of the COVID era is underway. The challenges remain, but this one feels different. Most colleges are pushing forward more courageously, prioritizing students and their mental health. Thanks to experience, the different nature of omicron, and broad political and public recognition of the need to persevere through COVID-19, we are in a new phase. ...

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The Advantages of Being a New President in a Virtual World

Laurie Arnston — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 18:31:20 +0000

By Cathy Sandeen On January 4, 2021, I arrived at my position as the new president of Cal State East Bay. The parking lot was virtually empty, and not just because we were returning from the winter break. The San Francisco Bay Area was on lockdown, and there were at most 100 people on a campus with a student enrollment of ...

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Rethinking the Academy: Lessons From Higher Ed’s Response to Equity Concerns During COVID-19

Laurie Arnston — Mon, 24 May 2021 18:03:27 +0000

By Kristi Hottenstein, Rhonda Phillips, Kara Rabbitt, Suzanne Wilson Summers, and Gabriela Weaver Over a year ago, the coronavirus upended our lives and our institutions. The pandemic, along with a revived racial justice movement, has provided higher education institutions with a greater understanding of who we serve and prompted a more honest assessment of how we have served them both before ...

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Refocusing on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion During the Pandemic and Beyond: Lessons from a Community of Practice

Laurie Arnston — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 20:48:14 +0000

By Taffye Benson Clayton For several years now, researchers and policymakers have been forecasting the shift in racial and ethnic demographics that is currently underway throughout the United States. These demographic changes have largely informed our understanding of diversity and inclusion as our universities prepared for the influx of a more diverse student body. Diversity brings with it a number of ...

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Department of Education Should Not Leave Needy Students Out in the Cold in Midst of a Pandemic

Laurie Arnston — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 18:57:23 +0000

By Ted Mitchell Millions of college students and their families, like so many other Americans, are struggling financially as a result of the pandemic-caused economic downturn. That’s why Congress in March approved more than $6 billion in emergency grants for students, to be disbursed by their colleges and universities, as part of the CARES Act. That level of funding was not ...

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Lessons Learned from Rural Community Colleges’ Response to COVID-19

Laurie Arnston — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 16:07:57 +0000

By Suzanne Wilson Summers Suzanne Wilson Summers is writing about her year in the ACE Fellows Program in a series of posts on how community colleges can build internal cultures that support student success. Read her first post here. Rural community colleges represent over 3.4 million students spread across 800 campuses nationwide and serve as “centers of educational opportunity,” according to ...

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Shared Leadership As a Strategy for Leading in a Time of Crisis and Beyond

Laurie Arnston — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 17:14:36 +0000

By Susan Elrod and Judith A. Ramaley Higher education institutions have faced upheaval as they have found ways to respond to the urgent and rapidly changing situation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. It is clear that this pandemic will require us to make changes that we may have never thought possible or only talked about as ideal. Leaders need to significantly speed ...

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Survival to Transformation: Navigating Fiscal Distress During COVID-19

Laurie Arnston — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:39:08 +0000

The phone call was bracing, to say the least. One of the more energizing parts of my job is talking regularly to college and university leaders around the world about the most pressing issues facing higher education. But this conversation was different. I could hear and feel the distress in the president’s voice: “Summer school enrollment is already under siege and ...

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Supporting College Students Through a Public Health Crisis: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Harvey

Laurie Arnston — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 17:30:12 +0000

By Ruth M. López and Vincent D. Carales In the fall of 2017, Hurricane Harvey struck the Gulf Coast, significantly affecting 13 million people in states throughout the region. Now COVID-19 is wreaking havoc across the world, impacting hundreds of millions of people and their families. In the wake of the hurricane, we conducted a study to understand how community college ...

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Guideposts for the COVID-19 Learning Transition

Laurie Arnston — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:23:54 +0000

By Louis Soares In a recent op-ed for The New York Times, higher education scholars Richard Arum and Mitchell L. Stevens raised fundamental and intriguing questions about how the COVID-19 crisis could drive a move to online instruction and perhaps signal deep changes coming to higher education’s business and academic models. Their focus on residential and selective institutions provides both ways ...

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