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Kenyon College President Dr. Sean Decatur to Depart for American Museum of Natural History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sean Decatur will be stepping down from his current role at the end of 2022 to become president of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in April 2023. Decatur Decatur has been the school’s president for almost a decade, his tenure having begun in 2013. Dr. Sean M. 6 message to the Kenyon community.

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A professor's job is endangered for teaching about race

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The professor, Samuel Joeckel, said in an email that the dean of his department and the university’s provost waited outside the class he was teaching last week to inform him of the news. Lewis Phenomenon: Christianity and the Public Sphere (2013) and Golden Notes , a novel (2016). “On Feb.

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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

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program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The institution has a storied history. history survey course to be delivered in the summer.

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Oberlin's board seeks to limit faculty power

Inside Higher Ed

A separate proposal provides flexibility on establishing a provost’s position (Oberlin doesn’t currently have a provost). It’s hard to say, but I’m sure it will change over time, and it will change the nature of the institution.”

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Sports betting contracts should be rethought (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In 2013, John Lombardi, who had served as president of the University of Florida and Louisiana State, chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and provost of Johns Hopkins University, wrote an insightful short book, How Universities Work ( Johns Hopkins University Press ).

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Doris Espiritu EPW was created by Dr. Doris Espiritu, Senior Advisor to the Provost, dean of the Center of Excellence for Engineering & Computer Science, City Colleges of Chicago. By the time they get to the CCST, we’ve had a six-year history with the student,” Palacios says. “We We know their intentions.

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Technology Partnerships and Higher Education

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Links Mentioned in This Episode • University Innovation Alliance • Drew Magliozzi • Mainstay • Georgia State University • Dawn Medley , Vice Provost for Enrollment Management and Retention, Stony Brook University • " Attention Is All You Need " by Ashish Vaswani, et al., and Why Does It Work?"