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Calls for Change at Penn State

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The resulting report, More Rivers to Cross Part 1 , released in January 2020, contained 96 pages of quantitative analysis on the paucity of Black professors and their stagnating numbers. Whitehurst, vice provost for Educational Equity at Penn State. My colleagues and I picked up the mantel about five to six years ago.” Dr. Marcus A.

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

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D.

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New graduate program at Gustavus Adolphus College

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“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. Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Banks chronicled the history of Black AERA leadership in a March 2016 article, titled “Expanding the Epistemological Terrain: Increasing Equity and Diversity Within the American Educational Research Association,” that appeared in the journal Educational Researcher. In 2021, AERA’s leadership named Dr. Edmund W.

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Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In fall 2020, women represented 58 percent of undergraduates at degree-granting institutions nationwide, but 53 percent of assistant professors , 47 percent of associate professors and 35 percent of full professors. Perna is the GSE Centennial Presidential Professor of Education and vice provost for faculty at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Sports betting contracts should be rethought (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

23 article in The New York Times , “ How College and Sports-Betting Companies ‘Caesarized’ Campus Life ,” which chronicled how universities have signed lucrative contracts with sports betting companies to promote online gambling to their students and campus communities. Nowhere has this been more evident than in a Nov.

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Oberlin's board seeks to limit faculty power

Inside Higher Ed

A separate proposal provides flexibility on establishing a provost’s position (Oberlin doesn’t currently have a provost). More than 100 unionized cafeteria and custodial staff members were outsourced in 2020.

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