Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Sylvia Burwell Burwell had an unusual background for a college president, never having been a professor, a dean, or a provost, and never having earned an advanced degree. She cited several reasons for the decision to leave the position, including her belief that the university is in good shape and a desire to spend more time with her family.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Sylvia Burwell Burwell had an unusual background for a college president, never having been a professor, a dean, or a provost, and never having earned an advanced degree. She cited several reasons for the decision to leave the position, including her belief that the university is in good shape and a desire to spend more time with her family.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Five African American studies professors have left since Lang came to Penn State in 2019, with only two replaced since, according to the letter. Interim Provost Dr. Justin Schwartz argued back that West’s letter made unsubstantiated claims, though he did not specify which ones.

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PeopleAdmin

JANUARY 17, 2023

in 2019, Lynn Thibodeau, HRIS Analyst, led the launch of Position Management and Employee Records– just in time for the entire university to start working remotely in 2020. Lynn is especially excited about the partnerships her team is building across campus, from the provost’s office to the budgeting team.

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EAB

MARCH 9, 2023

During this session, I had the opportunity to facilitate small group conversations with our provosts and vice provosts, who were eager to share their own experiences with faculty burnout and any efforts they had made to combat it. Here are four major takeaways from my conversations with academic leaders about faculty burnout.

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2023

Books will be salvaged based on the frequency of specific checkouts and their proscribed academic value according to department chairs and the university provost. The pandemic, however, plunged those numbers by 13% between fall 2019 and fall 2021, according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Ward, president since 2019, will retire at the end of June 2025, the conclusion of Luther’s 2023-25 strategic plan. The work was done in collaboration with the provost. More from UB: How these colleges successfully de-escalated campus protests Retired Jennifer K. Stepping down Jeff Abernathy – Alma College (Mich.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

John Leach, associate vice provost for enrollment and university financial aid at Emory University “We already attract really, really strong students,” said John Leach, associate vice provost for enrollment and university financial aid at Emory. This allows us to enroll those students. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

She has been supported in her studies and research by numerous grants and fellowships including a 2022 grant from the Office of the Provost Research Development Academy at UT-Knoxville; she was a 2023 Faculty Fellow with the Association of American Hispanics in Higher Education, Inc.;

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The PIE News

AUGUST 28, 2023

The latest to speak out against the frustration is Awad Ibrahim, vice-provost for equity, diversity and inclusive excellence at the University of Ottawa. The provost added that reasons given for refusal are “often illogical and absurd”. “However, its outcome is quite visible.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In 2019, the US Department of Education reported that one in every three American high school students participates in dual enrollment courses (Shivji & Wilson, 2019), a number expected to rise in the coming years. Texas is one such state where rapid expansion is underway. References Fink, John, Laurel Williamson, and Pam Anglin.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This year’s presentation, Reckoning with Relevance, will debut at IGNITED , our annual summit convening presidents, provosts, CBOs, and heads of strategy. Graduate enrollments are up across segments since 2019, while the undergrad flight to size and selectivity continues, leaving most institutions facing outright declines.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In 2019, the US Department of Education reported that one in every three American high school students participates in dual enrollment courses (Shivji & Wilson, 2019), a number expected to rise in the coming years. Texas is one such state where rapid expansion is underway. References Fink, John, Laurel Williamson, and Pam Anglin.

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The PIE News

MAY 4, 2023

But the figures still lag behind 2019 pre-pandemic levels, when there were 1,523,758 international students in the country. David Di Maria, associate vice provost for International Education at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, said he felt ‘optimistic’ about the numbers in the report.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Blogs Two ways to improve support services for adult learners with learning disabilities In our new survey , 100% of university presidents and provosts identified graduate and adult learner enrollment as a priority. With this increased focus on adult learner enrollment should come a growing emphasis on adult learner success.

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University Business

MAY 26, 2023

She oversaw the institution’s transition from a college to a university in 2019 and helped expand its academic offerings and shift its campus operations to one cohesive campus location. “I Stephen Perez currently serves as interim provost and vice president of Academic Affairs. I was honored to serve with Sr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

From serving as dean of the Beasley School of Law to executive vice president and provost, Epps had long demonstrated her dedication to the university before assuming the role of acting president in April following the resignation of Dr. Jason Wingard.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

After the nearby College of New Rochelle closed in 2019 amid financial woes, Manhattanville hired its dean of nursing and launched its own School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Manhattanville also opened a Center for Design Thinking in 2019, in what had long been the president’s cottage. Geisler last summer. Focus on the Future.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

Dr. LaVar Charleston is the deputy vice chancellor for diversity & inclusion, vice provost and chief diversity officer at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. LaVar Charleston had a crush on Dr. Sherri Charleston from the moment he met her in ninth grade. She was Claire Huxtable—beauty, brains, and personality,” said LaVar Charleston.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Justin Ortagus, an associate professor of higher education administration and policy and the director of the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Florida, examined over 40,000 student transcripts from a diverse, high-enrollment community college from between 2009 and 2019.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

“I enjoy watching and being part of faculty across all disciplines, ranks, and identities, finding common ground, transmitting institutional knowledge, and learning new things from each other,” says Sharon Inkelas, PhD, associate vice provost for the faculty at UC Berkeley and a Faculty Link program lead.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Q: When you joined Claremont Graduate University in 2019, your vice president title included the words “student success.” Chase’s experience and “transformational ideas … will elevate the student experience across the UH system,” added Khator, who is also president of UH.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 22, 2024

This is very, very serious,” said Queen’s provost Matthew Evans earlier this month. In 2019, the Ontario government, under premier Doug Ford, cut tuition fees by 10% and then froze them ever since. Queen’s could cease to exist if we don’t deal with this issue.” These deficits total a whopping $175m.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

“It seems natural that something like this would be our first step into a master’s program or a higher-level degree,” said Brenda Kelly, provost and dean of the college, citing the lengthy history of the undergraduate athletic training program, which began in 1976.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

To learn more about Michigan’s approach to integrating open online learning and extended reality and what they have learned, I spoke to my friend James DeVaney , associate vice provost for academic innovation and founding executive director of U-M’s Center for Academic Innovation , to learn more.

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EAB

JANUARY 17, 2023

The grad programs presidents and provosts are prioritizing. 2019 – Oct. Watch our recent webinar about the ways presidents, provosts, and VPEMs are prioritizing graduate and adult learner enrollment. The 3 big bets university presidents and provosts are placing on graduate and adult learner enrollments. Computer Science.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Vanessa Siddle Walker, the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of African American Educational Studies Emerita at Emory University, served as president in 2019-2020 and was followed by Dr. Shaun R.

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The PIE News

MARCH 16, 2023

Speaking with The PIE at Heriot-Watt in Dubai, McGregor reflects on her career after six months in the position of provost at the university’s UAE campus. As such, the answer was to shut down the entire entity in 2019 and reopen it, merged with the university itself. “It

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We asked how she’s met these opportunities: “When I think about my role as Provost at Florida State University , at that point in my career, I was not at all certain that I wanted to be a university president. When I left for a provost job at University of Missouri , I was excited about a new opportunity at a Midwestern university.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Since starting these efforts, preliminary data shows the number of incoming aspiring teachers increased 83 percent at the University of Kentucky, going from 118 incoming education majors in fall 2019 to 216 in fall 2022. He wrote this piece while serving as dean of the University of Kentucky College of Education.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

million in fiscal year 2026–27—over four times the $3 million annual cost that Chapel Hill provost Chris Clemens cited to faculty. ” “Any proposed degree program or school will be developed and led by our faculty, deans and provost,” Guskiewicz said in that Jan. million next year but $12.7

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University Business

APRIL 7, 2023

Prior to Minnesota, Gabel served as executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of South Carolina from 2015 to 2019. Private school hires Two small private schools with fewer than 2,000 students also elected new presidents. Dr. Wayne P. Webster – Albion College (Albion, Mich.)

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

MAY 11, 2022

The  lawsuit  — filed earlier this month by the human resources manager at Rutgers' business school — alleges that the school spent at least $400,000 placing seven graduates into "sham" positions between 2018 and 2019. The former dean of USC education school directed administrators to omit information from its U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

A separate proposal provides flexibility on establishing a provost’s position (Oberlin doesn’t currently have a provost). This work led to the publication of a long-term planning document called One Oberlin , which the general faculty and the board voted to approve in 2019. Breaking the Finney Compact.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Fitzgerald’s intentions to depart the university” and noted that Fitzgerald had “been transparent about her ambitions” to become a college president since arriving in 2019. Fitzgerald will begin serving as president-elect today and will formally become president on July 1.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 14, 2023

When I became provost, I thought, 'I don't know how to be a provost. That's exciting, and that's a reason to think about leadership and to partner with your leaders. We can do more together when we come together to work on behalf of our mission. All I really know how to do is run a research group.'

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

On the Friday before classes resumed, interim provost Thomas Jeitschko asked professors in an email to “extend as much grace and flexibility as you are able.” 17 press conference, Jeitschko, the provost, said faculty would rework their syllabi for the rest of the semester, lightening the course load and postponing upcoming exams.

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