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Pepperdine law dean talks openly about his stutter

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Today, Caron is dean of law at Pepperdine University. ” Caron smiled during a recent interview prompted by a post he wrote, called “Deaning While Stuttering,” on his blog, TaxProf. ” ‘I Made It Work’ Caron didn’t always intend to be a dean, or a professor, or even a lawyer.

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Penn’s Sniegowski Named Earlham President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Sniegowski’s scientific work focuses on evolutionary and population genetic theory as a framework for understanding genetic mutation rates and mutational phenomena. in biology from Indiana University, Bloomington; and a Ph.D.

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Ring The Alarm: A Call to Action for Black Women to Address Wellness in the Academy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We each have only so much time to do the good work, but work cannot be the totality of our lives. As we navigate the treacherous waters of 2024, let us honor those we have lost by being mindful of the debilitating structures we are up against. Antoinette “Bonnie” Candia-Bailey rings the alarm that our wellness must come first.

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3 Questions on Academic Library Spending to the Scholar Who Wrote the Book on University Budgets

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In his book, Like Nobody's Business: An Insider's Guide to How US University Finances Really Work (Open Book Publishers, 2021), Andrew digs into academic library budgeting. Q2: Can you help us understand academic library budgets within the broader context of university budgets? then versus about 1.5%

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Learning to Surf:  Supporting a Campus’s AI Needs 

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To tame their anxieties about AI, faculty and administrators might embrace Howard Kabat-Zinn’s maxim, “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” , those who encourage students to use AI freely in their writing processes (open-ocean swimmers), and, finally, those who want to embrace AI with guardrails (learning to surf).

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When outgoing presidents find their hiring powers limited

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Image: When Ruth Simmons assumed the presidency of Prairie View A&M University in 2017, it was considered a major boost to the historically Black university. Prairie View A&M hired Simmons, then 71, in an interim capacity , luring her out of retirement for the job, which eventually became permanent.

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Learning to Surf:  Supporting a Campus’s AI Needs 

Faculty Focus

To tame their anxieties about AI, faculty and administrators might embrace Howard Kabat-Zinn’s maxim, “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” , those who encourage students to use AI freely in their writing processes (open-ocean swimmers), and, finally, those who want to embrace AI with guardrails (learning to surf).