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Former University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Dies at 67

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Rebecca Blank Blank stepped down from the role in 2022 to become the first female president of Northwestern University, was one of the longest-serving chancellors in recent UWM history, having led the school for almost 10 years. Department of Commerce. "Dr. Blank Center for Campus History and a professorship in her honor.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. Unquestionably, the past 40 years have brought many steps forward in terms of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights, visibility, and consciousness, but in academia it is still a work in progress.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

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Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. A tragic moment in history propelled the theoretical physicist’s decision to attend MIT for graduate school and to bring about meaningful change as a leader. “I

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Patty Limerick speaks out on her dismissal from her center

Inside Higher Ed

Limerick,” Chris Whitney, the board’s vice chair and brand commissioner for the state of Colorado’s Department of Agriculture, wrote to Glen Krutz, CU Boulder’s dean of arts and sciences. This does not affect Limerick’s tenured position as professor of history or her ability to conduct research."

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Have you seen these 10 Terrible Tenure Decision Making Patterns?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Recommendations: · Pre-work: University should provide departments with an anonymous, structured evaluation forms (with decision criteria and clear rubrics, just as is used to facilitate fairness in student grading) to rate the candidate both quantitatively and qualitatively. Committee members often arrive unprepared.

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A Brief History: Black Americans in Higher Education

Today's Learner

Reading Time: 9 minutes Black History includes success stories of numerous Blacks who have contributed to the progress made in higher education. Several Black academicians can be noted as a respected authority in their discipline advancing the field through research and scholarship. at an American university. Derrick Albert Bell Jr.

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