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President moves: Recent resignations show 3 reasons why a leader steps down

University Business

Two presidents have been hired at small private colleges in the past two weeks and one leader is choosing to retire after four decades in higher education. Bates has a proven track record as a higher education leader around Ohio, as well as in the private sector. The work was done in collaboration with the provost.

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Harvard Names Dr. Claudine Gay to Presidency

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Gay, dean of Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will succeed current Harvard President Dr. Lawrence S. Experts in higher education, diversity, equity and inclusion celebrated the news, hoping it could signal to other institutions that it is time for more diverse leadership. “If Bacow on July 1, 2023.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception. Dr. Linda Darling- Hammond The leadership of the national research society that strives to advance knowledge about education and currently boasts a membership of about 25,000 scholars — remained exclusively white until the 1990s. Banks to serve as president.

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Assessment is fun?

Dr. Missy Alexander

In 2006, when I was an assistant professor on the tenure track, I wrote an essay that was published in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Those were the early(ish) days of the assessment movement in higher education and I was feeling the pain. Today I embrace assessment in ways that I did not in 2006.

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President moves: UCLA snatches a leader from Miami

University Business

Frenk served as Mexico’s secretary of health from 2002 to 2006 before heading Harvard’s School of Public Health. Beginning as an assistant professor, she then became the department chair for American Ethnic Studies and later in Psychology, before rising as dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and then as provost.