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Dougherty Family College’s Investment in Student Success Pays Off

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DFC has graduated an average of 56% of its students since its formation in 2017. At DFC, every student gets a scholarship of some amount, and the average student cost is under $3,000. That’s just how Dr. Buffy Smith, DFC’s dean, intended it. Hall, who is graduating this week, got a scholarship to study for her bachelor’s at St.

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Have Academic Library Staffing Numbers Really Declined That Much Over the Past Decade?

Inside Higher Ed

Here is what it looks like: Full+Part-Time 2020 38,510 2019 40,884 2018 41,479 2017 41,490 2016 41,993 2015 42,782 2014 43,610 2013 44,677 2012 67,074 Not sure why there was such a significant drop between 2013 and 2012. The data available spans from 2012 to 2020. Probably some change in how library staff are counted.

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Welcome Tricia Serio, our next UW Provost and Executive VP

UW Presidential Blog

Tricia comes to the UW from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she currently serves as the Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, having previously served there as Associate Chancellor for Strategic Academic Planning, and as Dean of the College of Natural Sciences.

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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As of now, we have over 300 applications for next fall from students that have applied for housing,” says Nicholas Hamel, vice president and dean of student services at Central Maine Community College (CMCC). It has been at or near capacity since 2017. During the school year, there are some academic achievement scholarships.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Byrne PHOTO COURTESY OF CUNY Becoming Dean of Macaulay Honors College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), enables Dr. Dara N. From December 2016 to July 2022, when she left to begin her new position, she served as associate provost for undergraduate retention and dean of undergraduate studies.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

In addition, Dean Amy Fairchild added an associate dean for faculty and inclusive excellence to her leadership team who is charged with articulating and advancing a vision for inclusive excellence and providing leadership to enhance excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service. A $1 million award from the U.S.

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Disability as a Valuable Form of Diversity, Not a Deficit

Faculty Focus

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). My lived experience with a disability and my professional positionality in disability scholarship and education systems is driving my efforts. Ong-Dean, C. How did we get here? About Autism.

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