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Former Governor Joins Alma Mater's Law School Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

David Beasley Beasley receives the full-time appointment, effective March 1, as Distinguished Professor of Practice and Public Service in the law school’s Department of Legal Studies. The mission of the law school is to educate lawyer leaders for their communities, our state and nation,” said William Hubbard, dean of the Joseph F.

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Yale Law dean’s message to alumni promises free speech changes. We’re (very) cautiously optimistic.

FIRE

Starting in 2015 with its viral Halloween costume imbroglio , Yale has since weathered poorly-handled speaker shout-downs , created a COVID-19 surveillance state, and was caught on tape trying to force a student to apologize for something he had every right to say. Almost 1,500 people have signed it to date.

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Northwestern Names New President After First Pick Steps Down

Inside Higher Ed

Schill will leave the University of Oregon, where he served as president for seven years and is a tenured law professor, to become Northwestern's 17th president. It will be his second position in the windy city, after serving as dean of the University of Chicago Law School from 2010 to 2015.

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President moves: hearty welcomes and rocky goodbyes

University Business

Since 2015, Nicklow served as the president of the University of New Orleans. He was the first president to leave the school with a positive enrollment rate since Hurricane Katrina, and he was also the first president to lead a major comprehensive fundraising campaign in the school’s 65-year history.

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President moves: Resignations and early retirements reigned in July

University Business

As dean of the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California, Muhl faced heavy opposition from students in its MFA program who believed Muhl was responsible for faculty departures amid her failures to communicate curriculum changes and her “persistent belittling of students,” according to a student letter.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

IUPUI continued the White Racial Literacy Project with the Chancellor’s Leadership Reading Program, which is inclusive of all vice chancellors and deans, in a yearlong reading of “Presumed Incompetent: Race, Class, Power and Resistance of Women in Academia” as well as an auditorium-packed lecture featuring Ibram X.

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

The Change Leader, Inc.

Key Takeaways for University Presidents and Boards Thoroughly Review the Report: University presidents, administrators, provosts, deans, and other leaders actively engage with the contents of the report. Emeritus, 2015-present. And the federal government says, look, we’re not going to tell you you have to have a law school.