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

University Business

The three presidents to step down demonstrate a variety of reasons for making a change: to reengage in academia, pursue other professional opportunities or make way for new leadership during trying times. One campaign he oversaw helped draw in $66 million, the largest in school history, Telegram & Gazette reports.

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Writer-Professor Explores the Voyage of ‘Becoming'

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In her 2019 poetry collection, A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland , Hill expresses her concerns about Black women in confinement. “I'm And then I'm interested in complicating them with the other truths of American history.”

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A Commitment to Help Others

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I don’t know that there’s been a point in time in history where we haven’t concerned ourselves with any of these.” In academia, she taught as an instructor in the Emory University Center for Human Health and assistant professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine, where she designed the Master of Public Health Global Health Track.

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

Inside Higher Ed

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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Designing outreach with people of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller heritage – a lesson in critical unlearning

HEPI

Since 2019, my colleagues and I at the University of Sussex have partnered with Friends, Families and Travellers to deliver outreach to young people of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller heritage in schools across the region. Emily is on Twitter @EmilyDanvers. Yet a piecemeal approach results in slow social change.

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Dominican University VP builds hope for first-gen students

Inside Higher Ed

This past fall, we welcomed the largest first-year class in our history—at a time when college enrollment is dropping nationwide. In 2019, Dominican redesigned our alert system to help new students stay on track academically. All the academia fades away in that moment to one prevailing thought: this moment is the beginning.

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Sustainability school faces backlash over fossil fuel funds

Inside Higher Ed

Oreskes, a professor of the history of science at Harvard University, earned her Ph.D. from Stanford in the 1980s and went on to become one of the leading scholars of climate science history, as well as a fierce advocate for the role of academia in advancing urgent climate solutions. But Oreskes refused the offer.