At H.O. we congratulate new education leaders that have embarked on the challenging but very rewarding journey of education leadership.
Photo by Jeison Higuita on Unsplash High in the Andes, where Peru and Bolivia share a sacred border more than 12,500 feet above sea level, lies Lake Titicaca—the highest navigable lake in the world. Revered in Andean cosmology and central to many pre-Columbian myths, the lake spans over 8,300 square kilometers and holds not only ecological richness but also remarkable cultural heritage. Near the Peruvian city of Puno, a unique community continues to float—literally—on its waters. These are the Uros, an Indigenous people whose homes is not on land but on human-made islands built entirely of reeds. According to the BBC, approximately 1,300 Uros people live on around 80 man-made floating islands in Lake Titicaca today.
Pamela Jimenez has joined the Manhattan College staff as its director of the Camino program, a bilingual associate's degree program.
Officials are set to announce a gift to California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, that is described as the largest in Cal State history and among the largest ever in state public higher education.
Indiana University Northwest will welcome Vicki Román-Lagunas, Ph.D., to its executive team.
Milton S. F. Curry has been named dean of the USC School of Architecture, effective July 1. He will hold the Della and Harry MacDonald Dean’s Chair in Architecture.
Dr. Maria Gallo officially became the 1st female president of Delaware Valley University April 6.
It's a program that could lower costs for as many as 400 incoming students at a major university in New Orleans.
California Lutheran University President Chris Kimball this week will attend the first Higher Education Summit of the United States and Mexico designed to explore new partnership opportunities for independent universities in the two countries.
The Nebraska State College Board has approved room and board increases at the state's three state colleges starting in the fall.
The University of Iowa is eliminating academic scholarships expected by more than 2,400 resident students for the 2017-18 school year.
Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH has appointed Ande Diaz, Ph.D., as its Chief Diversity Officer (CDO), a new position which will help the college continue to fulfill its mission as an inclusive, welcoming academic community.
Yale President Peter Salovey announced today that the university would rename Calhoun College, one of 12 undergraduate residential colleges, to honor one of Yale’s most distinguished graduates, Grace Murray Hopper ’30 M.A., ’34 Ph.D., by renaming the college for her.
In response to last week's White House Executive Order entitled "Protecting the Nation from Terrorist Entry into the United States," we as leaders at colleges and universities have had to take decisive action to protect our foreign students and faculty members and to allay the fears of the many domestic students who travel overseas to study.
