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PAULA JOHNSON

PAULA JOHNSON has been named president of Wellesley College, effective July 1. She was chief of women’s health at Harvard Medical School and executive director of the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Johnson earned a bachelor’s, an M.D. and a master’s from Harvard University.

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GREGORY E. TRIPLETT

GREGORY E. TRIPLETT has been appointed associate dean for graduate studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He was an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and associate director of the Honors College at the University of Missouri. Triplett earned a bachelor’s from Florida A&M University, a master’s from Florida State University and a doctorate from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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MARJORIE L. DORIMÉ-WILLIAMS

MARJORIE L. DORIMÉ-WILLIAMS has been named director of assessment in the Office of Academic Affairs at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. She was director of academic assessment at Baruch College (CUNY). Dorimé-Williams earned a bachelor’s from Saint Joseph’s University, a master’s from the University of Pennsylvania, and a master’s and a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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JULIA JASKEN

JULIA JASKEN has been named provost and dean of the faculty at McDaniel College. She was acting provost and dean of the faculty and an associate professor of English at McDaniel. Jasken earned a bachelor’s from the College of Saint Benedict in Minnesota, a master’s from Northern Illinois University and a doctorate from Michigan Technological University.

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NADINE SHIGEZAWA

NADINE SHIGEZAWA was appointed director of the Veterans in Transition to Academic Leadership (VITAL) program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She was a psychologist for the Veterans Administration. Shigezawa holds a bachelor’s, a master’s and a doctorate from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

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Community Colleges

Funding Still a Major Concern for Future Community College Leaders

League of Innovation leaders debate issues that will affect the new generation of community college leaders during a recent forum in Chicago.

Leadership & Policy

Baccalaureate Degrees in Growing Demand at Community Colleges

The Innovations conference’s opening general session in Chicago on Sunday focused on the growing trend to offer baccalaureate degrees at select community colleges across the country.

Community Colleges

Kentucky House Approves Free Community College

All students who graduate from Kentucky high schools, home schools or obtain their GEDs in Kentucky will be able to attend community colleges for free under a bill that passed the Kentucky House of Representatives on Thursday. The bill now moves to the state Senate. House Bill 626 requires students to apply for available student aid and […]

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Career Undermatching: The Higher Ed Issue You Need to Know About

Career undermatching describes the phenomenon in which talented, college graduates from low-income families wind up in jobs that don’t match their abilities or ambitions.

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Community Colleges

Kansas House OKs Campus Faith Groups Restricting Membership

TOPEKA, Kan. ― Kansas lawmakers on Wednesday approved a long-delayed proposal allowing faith-based groups on college campuses to restrict their membership to like-minded people. Nearly a year after the Senate approved the bill, the Republican-controlled House voted 81-41 to send the bill to Gov. Sam Brownback, a strong supporter of religious rights. Supporters have said […]

Poll: About Half U.S. Students Identify as ‘Hopeful’ and ‘Engaged’

Only about half of U.S. students are “hopeful” and “engaged” in school, while the rest are either not engaged or actively disengaged and stuck or discouraged, according to an annual Gallup Student Poll.

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Kansas May Allow Campus Religious Groups to Restrict Members

TOPEKA, Kan. ― Kansas is close to enacting a measure that would allow university religious groups to restrict membership based on beliefs and retain public funding. The bill got first-round approval in the Kansas House 80-39 Tuesday after it was passed by the Senate last year. If the bill wins final approval in the House […]

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