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OCTOBER 5, 2023

I cannot think of a single other comparable case in the entire 32-year history of the Clery Act.” Senior officials in HR sought the assistance of IT staff to wipe certain computer hard drives on April 26, 2022, the very week that the review team first visited the campus,” read the report.

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JULY 11, 2023

On March 7th, Congressman Scott, the “dean” of Virginia’s congressional delegation, introduced McClellan to a packed U.S. With so many references to Langston and his prominence in Virginia history, why is it that Virginians don’t know more about him or the other African Americans who were elected during and after Reconstruction?

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

These transgressions, and more, earned Yale FIRE’s 2022 Lifetime Censorship Award and surely contributed to its almost-dead-last showing in our College Free Speech Rankings. FIRE remains hopeful the broader university’s dark, censorious days may soon be history.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

College administrators nationwide were already starting to tackle the issue in recent years but homed in on it after the pandemic revealed stark economic disparities among students. A month after she graduated in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in history and global culture, she was hired by her alma mater to do just that.

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MAY 3, 2024

Prior to that, he served as the president of Wilmington College (Ohio) and the founding associate dean of health sciences at Heidelberg University. One campaign he oversaw helped draw in $66 million, the largest in school history, Telegram & Gazette reports. The throughline of Bates’ career is his passion for healthcare.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

When ChatGPT, the large language model (LLM) AI that can generate long, detailed answers to complicated questions, was first made accessible to the public in November 2022, it changed the landscape of education forever. “As Calhoun, assistant vice president and dean of the Center for Academic Success at Seton Hall University, agrees.

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MAY 1, 2024

Hoeg says the timing of their announcement was purely coincidental, as she and the 11 institutional leaders on the Centennial President’s Council have been working to assess and align their campuses’ DEI policies since before 2022, when Centennial released its Student-Athlete Inclusion Policy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

Dr. David Canton Specifically, UF closed its Office of the Chief Diversity Officer (CDO), removed DEI and administrative roles, and stopped DEI-focused contracts with outside vendors, according to an administrative memo UF leadership published Mar. Obviously, we still don't want it to go.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

Image: Hamline University has been engrossed in an academic freedom debate this year over the actions of an adjunct instructor at the private Minnesota institution who was teaching global art history. The idea that any one student’s beliefs can trump the honest teaching of art history is a chilling idea indeed.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

In the spring of 2022, at least 15 colleges and universities , including my own, Alfred University, jointly awarded honorary degrees during our commencement exercises. We honored President Volodymyr Zelensky in absentia on behalf of the Ukrainian people. Mark Zupan has served as the 14th president of Alfred University since July 2016.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.” According to administration officials, the policy gives the Secretary of Education the ability to “waive or modify” federal student aid provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) in the case of a national emergency such as the pandemic. “But Approximately 2.9

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2023

He also led the school through seven of its largest freshman enrollment classes in Langston’s 126-year history. Administrators chose Parwinder Grewal in July of 2022 to oversee the revamp and hopefully return the merged institution to financial stability. Despite this, Smith Jr.

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JUNE 29, 2023

He has served as the college’s interim president since January 2022. Gustafson served in faculty and administration at Presbyterian for nearly two decades before departing to Mercer University (Ga.) An avid professor, she taught history at Presbyterian and Mercer University while dean. president. “It

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Degree programs are focused on global and community health, health administration and policy, nursing, nutrition and food studies, and social work. The factors that shape the health of individuals and populations are both complex and intersectional,” says Christopher King, PhD, dean of the School of Health. “It

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JANUARY 16, 2023

I’m also digging into a fantastic stack of books on higher ed and I’ll be writing about these books in the coming weeks: Unwelcome Guests: A History of Access to American Higher Education (2022)—Harold S. Wealth, Cost, and Price in American Higher Education: A Brief History (2023)—Bruce A.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

But regarding Claremont McKenna, the question isn't necessarily whether professors should be able to say the N-word for pedagogical reasons (the college hasn't said they can't) but rather how administrators should respond to student complaints about offensive language in the classroom.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

Fall 2022 enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center showed that undergraduate enrollment in computer and information sciences was the only category of accredited programs to continually grow in the last five years without a single year of decline, and the U.S. Computer science degrees are still red hot.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Policy Last week, I wrote about the 2022 year-end omnibus bill and connected with Rebecca Natow on Twitter. College presidents and other high-level administrators have been active in negotiated rule making in the past, so this is a matter higher education leaders should particularly watch in 2023.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Faculty control the curriculum and are responsible for pedagogy, and administrators have only indirect levers to bring about changes in those areas. What administrators can transform are infrastructure, organizational design, professional advising, information collection, and messaging, and that’s what EAB’s playbook focuses upon.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

Upon assuming American’s highest administrative position, Burwell boasted an ironclad resume despite not serving once in the higher education space. She served as White House deputy chief of staff under President Bill Clinton and the secretary of health and human services under Barack Obama’s administration. Dr. Lonnie A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. In a 2022 interview with ABC News, Jackson recalled, “At MIT, it wasn’t always friendly. A dean at MIT suggested she look at some industrial research labs.

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MARCH 30, 2023

Yet, examples of administrative overreach, disrespect for faculty expertise and shared governance, and unwillingness to publicly support academic freedom also extend to the sphere of artistic expression. They also cited rising concerns about being fired or otherwise punished by administrators. Which is exactly what I did last year.

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APRIL 4, 2023

University leaders responded with an email to the campus denouncing the incident and announcing that the Office of the Dean of Students would investigate and determine whether the incident constituted a violation of the university code of conduct. Burwell the very next day voicing concerns about the investigation.

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MARCH 2, 2023

” The Chicago Students for Justice in Palestine’s Instagram includes multiple posts, back to January 2022, calling for boycotts of other Israel-related classes. “The administration has failed here. The statement says Elran’s course aims at “inculcating U.S.

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MARCH 31, 2023

From 2017 to 2022, he was vice chair and director of the education committee on the board of Messmer Catholic Schools, a K12 network of Catholic schools serving Milwaukee’s north and west sides. A tenured professor of English, he has served in other administrative roles for the past 20 years. Located in Melbourne, Fla.,

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

” This report marks a critical juncture in the AAUP’s history, being one of only eight special reports issued, and underscores a growing concern over political interference in the realm of academic governance. Professor of History, CSU East Bay1989-2010, Prof. Emeritus, 2015-present.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean I was glad to see the accreditor ACICS has announced that it’s folding. That’s largely a function of history. A few years ago, the previous federal administration repealed the geographic monopolies for regional accreditors. Ordinarily, I’m not a fan of monopolies.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

The most visible scandals involve sexual harassment, molestation, and abuse, bribery and favoritism in admissions, fraternity hazing, gross violations of academic integrity, plagiarized speeches and public presentations, outsize donor or trustee influence, and failure by senior administrators to act.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Yet Vitetta—who is featured on that wall—says that none of this progress mattered when a group of younger, male administrators decided it was time for her to retire, starting in 2012, when she was approaching 70. Things changed in 2012, however. The end goal was to back her into retirement, she alleges.

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MARCH 21, 2023

Scott Muir, director of undergraduate initiatives for the National Humanities Alliance, which promotes the value of studying the humanities, described challenges faced by deans and faculty members trying to launch new programs. “A working group was convened in Spring of 2022. The group met throughout the summer and fall of 2022.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

History chronicles moments where people pushed, pulled, shoved, harassed, bullied or beaten chose fighting over fleeing. The continuum ranges from stories of quiet personal rebellion to ones of explosive cultural and political movements changing the course of history. Blog: Just Explain It to Me! Is this diversity newsletter?:

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AUGUST 11, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. She offered an argument about the efficacy of political action in generating conditions of equality for women, drawing largely on the political history of the US in the second half of the twentieth century. The morning plenary was by Deondra Rose, of Duke. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean In what seems like another lifetime, I took a graduate course in literary theory. A third reader developed an interest in the history of sportswriting, particularly about baseball. It had never occurred to me that poetry administration is a thing, but apparently it is.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Image: Ever since the chat bot ChatGPT burst into public view in late 2022, students, professors and administrators have been woozy from a chaotic cocktail of excitement, uncertainty and fear. ” Faculty members and administrators are now reckoning in real time with how—not if—ChatGPT will impact teaching and learning.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Most of the college presidents who rose through the ranks made their reputation not as scholars but as administrators, typically as provosts or deans. ” Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Steven Mintz Show on Jobs site: Disable left side advertisement?:

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

history, having “been sued a whopping 134 times in federal court since his inauguration, which is nearly three times the number of lawsuits our three previous presidents have faced in the early months of their administration combined. Yale dean on free speech at Yale Law School. “ Trump is scheduled to sit for a deposition Oct.

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

Dr. Doris Espiritu EPW was created by Dr. Doris Espiritu, Senior Advisor to the Provost, dean of the Center of Excellence for Engineering & Computer Science, City Colleges of Chicago. program or other [kinds] of doctoral studies,” says Dr. Sharon Barrios, program director and Cal State Chico’s dean of graduate studies.

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