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Educational Conversation

• And administrators are out of step with faculty members, according to a Chronicle survey
underwritten by Amazon Web Services due to be released this month. 78 percent of administrators
said AI tools would have a positive impact on teaching in the next five years. Just 46 percent of
faculty members said the same.

• Penn State branches will share administrators: Eleven of the flagship’s 20 Commonwealth
Campuses will be grouped into four different regions, where they will be led by single
administrations. The change is part of a push to close a $49-million budget deficit across the branch
network, which is also cutting 10 percent of employees through a voluntary separation program.
(Pennsylvania State University)

• HBCU cuts off alumni association: Board members at Lincoln University, in Missouri, citing
concerns about finances and management at the institution’s national alumni association,
suspended it from using Lincoln’s name or symbols until it takes steps including an independent
audit. In March, the national alumni association’s board said it had no confidence in the university’s
board, criticizing a third-party investigation that cleared the university’s president of bullying an
administrator who died by suicide in January. Now, Lincoln wants to build out its relationships with
individual alumni chapters. (KOMU, The Chronicle)

• Long list of cuts at St. Cloud State: The public university in Minnesota plans to close a budget gap by
suspending 42 degree programs and 50 minors and eliminating 13 percent of its unionized faculty
positions, 8 percent of staff positions, and 13 percent of its administrative roles. Four other
programs that were initially on the chopping block have been spared. The institution’s remaining
portfolio will span 94 degree programs and 35 minors. (KARE)

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