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These leaders’ commitment to DEI got them the nod for president

University Business

John Karl Scholz (Photo: UO Website) With experience as a professor, economist and provost (which he currently still serves at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), his focus at Oregon will be student career readiness and postgraduate success. She is also a first-generation student. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S.

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Yale Law dean’s message to alumni promises free speech changes. We’re (very) cautiously optimistic.

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Starting in 2015 with its viral Halloween costume imbroglio , Yale has since weathered poorly-handled speaker shout-downs , created a COVID-19 surveillance state, and was caught on tape trying to force a student to apologize for something he had every right to say.

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These states are taking steps to replace unruly hecklers on campus with constructive civil discourse

University Business

While civil discourse and free speech are pillars of the campus experience across colleges and universities, several state higher education systems and organizations want to ensure their students understand what that truly means. Each school promised a partnership with CDI and SCHEV for a minimum of 18 months.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

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It provides students, faculty, staff, and alumni with a single place to report nonemergency complaints or concerns, including those involving harassment and sexual misconduct. Adelphi also introduced Students Beyond the Binary, a new student organization focused on transgender and gender-nonconforming issues.

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6 elements of an effective graduate enrollment management plan—and why you need to build one

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On a few recent campus visits, graduate school deans shared that they are tasked with growing enrollment by as much as 30 or 35 percent. But not all the schools I speak with have a clear strategy for how to achieve these lofty grad growth goals. And undergraduate enrollment—our pool of future graduate students—declined 12.4

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President moves: hearty welcomes and rocky goodbyes

University Business

Two nabbed the presidency for their first time, one of them being the first person of color at the school to do so. Cole Effective the first of June, the student affairs vice president at Marquette University, Dr. Xavier A. There’s no better place to greet the student body through jazz than New Orleans.

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Pepperdine law dean talks openly about his stutter

Inside Higher Ed

Today, Caron is dean of law at Pepperdine University. He still stutters: he participated in speech therapy as a child and again at the behest of his law firm early in his career, but the speech disorder remained. ” ‘I Made It Work’ Caron didn’t always intend to be a dean, or a professor, or even a lawyer.

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