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What started as a series of garden-variety scandals at Kentucky State University has blossomed into a full-blown crisis, resulting in calls to close or merge the state’s only public historically Black college.

The governing board of the Contra Costa Community College District in California reinstated Chancellor Bryan Reece last Thursday after putting him on administrative leave with pay two weeks ago.

Talk to most college leaders long enough, and they will eventually invoke their institutions’ strategic plans, sometimes as blueprints for specific improvements, other times as almost talismanic documents that will increase enrollment or diversity through their existence alone.

Experts point to several factors impacting the increase in presidential movement in recent months.

Mills College will merge with Northeastern University, after a vote by the Board of Trustees on Tuesday.