Inside Higher Ed Press Releases

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Clint Tanner Joins Inside Higher Ed as Western Account Manager. Clint Tanner joins Inside Higher Ed to work on sales of recruiting services to colleges and universities in the western U.S.

Washington, D.C., March 28, 2007 — Clint Tanner, formerly a sales and public relations manager for several magazines and newspapers, has joined Inside Higher Ed, a leading online news and recruitment service in the higher education field.
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Jason Easley Joins Inside Higher Ed as Manager of Advertising Sales. Jason Easley will work with Inside Higher Ed’s growing roster of display advertising clients in the technology, publishing and financial sectors.

Washington, D.C., January 31, 2007 — Jason Easley has joined Inside Higher Ed to work with the company’s growing roster of commercial advertising clients. Mr. Easley comes to Inside
Higher Ed from trade publisher Hanley-Wood, where he was an account executive.
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New York Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities in Group Recruiting Agreement With Inside Higher Ed. Inside Higher Ed signs agreement with the New York Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU), which will allow CICU schools to do unlimited job advertising at a special group rate.

Washington, D.C., November 6, 2006 — The Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU) of New York announced a special group marketing agreement today that will allow member colleges and universities to do more comprehensive online job recruiting through Inside Higher Ed.
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Inside Higher Ed Teams with Eduventures to Produce Column That Tackles Readers’ Challenges. “The Strategist” column to provide practical solutions and best practices for administrators in higher education.

Washington, D.C., July 22, 2006 — Inside Higher Ed announced today that it has teamed with Eduventures, the leading research and consulting firm in the education industry, to produce a monthly column called “The Strategist” that will tackle readers’ toughest challenges and most promising opportunities.
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Rick Plotkin Joins Inside Higher Ed as Senior Account Manager. Worked with major recruiting advertisers at The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Washington, D.C., June 1, 2006 – Rick Plotkin, formerly Account Manager for The Chronicle of Higher Education, has joined Inside Higher Ed, a leading online news and recruitment service in the higher education field. Mr. Plotkin will provide marketing and sales expertise to recruiters at colleges and universities, as well as their ad agencies.
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Inside Higher Ed’s Readership Hits 250,000. Free content proves a powerful draw in a profession used to having to pay for news.

Washington, D.C., May 7, 2006 — Inside Higher Ed, the fastest-growing news service for college and university professionals, announced today that it now has over 250,000 unique users per month (as measured by Webtrends). The site’s comprehensive online coverage has drawn faculty and administrative readers across a broad spectrum, from large universities to community colleges and even online schools.
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Inside Higher Ed Columnist Named a Finalist for ONA Award. Terry Caesar, columnist for Insider Higher Ed, is a finalist in ONA’s “Online Commentary” category.

Washington, D.C., September 30, 2005 — The Online News Association has announced that Inside Higher Ed columnist Terry Caesar is a finalist for a 2005 Online Journalism Award. Caesar’s “Purely Academic” column covers a wide range of issues affecting professionals in higher education. This year he has written on student cheating, the importance of classroom design and the difficulties foreign students have getting visas to study in the US due to anti-terrorism measures. On a more humorous note, he has covered the importance of neckwear to the male academic and the competition professors face for the best parking spaces on campus.
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Inside Higher Ed Hires Veteran Sales Director for Recruitment Advertising. Laura McFarland joins Inside Higher Ed to spearhead recruitment advertising program for colleges and universities.

Washington, D.C., September 21, 2005 — Inside Higher Ed, the new open source in higher education news, announced today it that has hired Laura McFarland as National Sales Director. She will work with colleges and universities nationwide on their efforts to recruit top-quality faculty and administrative personnel.
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Inside Higher Ed Names “Hot Hires” at Colleges and Universities. New series launched on professors hired to raise the profiles of large and small institutions in higher education.

Washington, D.C., August 13, 2005 — Increasingly, a college brings in a new faculty member not just to fill an empty position, but to send a message about its priorities for teaching and research, and about how the college wants to be seen in the intensifying competition for students, grants and respect.
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