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Grant Fuels Black Studies Faculty Expansion at the University of Rochester

Insight Into Diversity

Since its launch in late 2022, the Department of Black Studies at the University of Rochester (UR) has worked to advance conversations surrounding Black and African culture and identity through an interdisciplinary, global lens. Sproull Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, said in a press release. and Mary L.

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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program.

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Preparing for the Next 330 Years (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

Column: Letters to the Editor In 2018, at the very first of what would become many campus listening forums to help shape the framework of the university’s strategic plan, President Katherine A. To educate for impact, a university evolves and does it within its core values.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the time, Darling-Hammond was an endowed professor at Columbia University, Teachers College. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. Tate IV, the current president of Louisiana State University. Dr. Carol D.

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UNC Chapel Hill leaders diverge on what new "school" will be

Inside Higher Ed

Image: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill leaders have given mixed messages about what sounded, at least initially, like the university is trying to resurrect plans for a conservative campus center. David Boliek, chairman of Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees, was rather specific in a Jan. 28 interview on Fox and Friends.

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How U.S. Colleges and Universities are Responding to Declining Enrollments

WCET Frontiers

**Editors note: A previous version of this post included a section with references to a news release and two news articles, on the University System of New Hampshire and a previously proposed plan to combine with additional institutions. However, social sciences and natural sciences are not exempt from being cut.

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How U.S. Colleges and Universities are Responding to Declining Enrollments

WCET Frontiers

A surprising selection of colleges and universities are thriving despite the culling of institutions and programs happening around them. However, social sciences and natural sciences are not exempt from being cut. Welcome to the second post in our series on higher education enrollment shifts.