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Eight years after taking the reins of the private Coe College in Cedar Rapids, President David McInally has announced he plans to retire after the 2020-21 academic year.

Stanford University faces as much as $43 million in taxes under a new levy on college endowments included in President Donald Trump’s tax overhaul, the first time private colleges will pay such a fee.

McDaniel College President Roger N. Casey was elected as chair of the Board of Directors for an organization made up of more than 1,000 independent higher education institutions. Casey will serve as the board chair of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities for one year.

Concordia University in Portland, Ore., announced it will be closing at the end of the spring semester. While the university had grown its graduate enrollment, it cited the changing nature of higher education as a reason for its closure.

Dane Kennedy writes: The George Washington University faculty and staff ain’t got no culture. Or worse, we’ve got a culture of negativity. That was the verdict of the Disney Institute, which the president of our university commissioned last year to assess the culture on our campus. Fortunately, the institute, which is the "professional-development and external-training arm of the Walt Disney Company," has a remediation plan. It has designed workshops to teach us the cultural "values" and "service priorities" we evidently require.