Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 25, 2023

As an ethnographer and scholar on the African American religious experience; Frederick’s work in academia focuses on the study of religion and media, religion, and social activism in the U.S. South, and the sustainability of Black institutions in a “post-racial” world. Garber, provost at Harvard.

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HEPI

JANUARY 4, 2024

Professor Guo spent 34 years at Imperial College London studying AI, data mining, machine learning, and large-scale data management before becoming Provost of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2022. In academia we still place a great deal of emphasis in scholarship on the capacity to recall and recite.

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University Business

MAY 23, 2023

While Fall enrollment among men and women has mostly declined between 2017 and 2022, women have weathered the storm far better across non-profit and for-profit institutions. For example, male enrollment at 4-year public institutions has dropped nearly 6% more than women, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

In a career that has included both academia and the private sector, Dr. Teik C. Lim is now leading the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) into the future. Like most people, I did not set out to lead an institution of higher education,” he added. “I Unfortunately, he could not meet the 20-20 eyesight requirement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Sol Gittleman has penned a must-read book for anyone with a vested interest in the past, present, and future of American academia. Along the way, he touches on the Black land grant institutions authorized in 1890 by the Second Morrill Act. But truth be told, he most certainly is. Nonetheless, Gittleman remains optimistic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

However, as Black women in academia, many of us, otherwise strangers to her, felt it too. Epps herself remarked that it was an honor and privilege to serve as acting president of the institution that “I love so much, that has been such an important part of my life, and always will be.”

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 31, 2023

Marc joins us to discuss the potential of AI in digital learning and to highlight the amazing work happening at his institution to prepare faculty and students for a future that includes working with AI. This summer, we hosted an innovative cross-disciplinary AI Institute for Teachers.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Chase has more than 40 years of experience in academia, including more than 20 years in leadership positions, most recently as vice president for academic innovation, student success and strategic initiatives at Claremont Graduate University in California. First-year programs are not as common for graduate institutions.

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University Business

JANUARY 12, 2023

As provost and senior vice president of Academic Affairs at Rochester Institute of Technology, she expanded the school’s doctoral programs and invested in research facilities. And as Clemson’s senior assistant provost for Faculty Affairs before that, she spearheaded efforts in faculty recruitment and retention.

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University Business

APRIL 19, 2024

Three college administrators—including one president—will be coordinating goodbye parties at their current institutions as they prepare to move on to bigger opportunities elsewhere. A tenured community college leader, Stephenson has 15 years of experience serving institutions across Alabama, Missouri and Kentucky, Tampa Bay Times reports.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

“I enjoy watching and being part of faculty across all disciplines, ranks, and identities, finding common ground, transmitting institutional knowledge, and learning new things from each other,” says Sharon Inkelas, PhD, associate vice provost for the faculty at UC Berkeley and a Faculty Link program lead.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2022

Similarities Between Industry and Academia. So by the time I got into this perspective of being in academia, that piece was part of how I operated. My favorite term is 'a thousand flowers blooming,' because what you can do in academia which works out really well is that you can literally start a lot of things going.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

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. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. ” Rivera-Mills begin this June.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

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. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6%

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Mason serves as associate provost for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Kenyon College in Ohio. In your view, how will this decision affect academia in the long term? Vick: Like many institutions, we are still in the process of determining what the SCOTUS decision specifically means for us at Muhlenberg.

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University Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Corcoran won out against two other presidential prospects with extensive experience in academia. Gillam currently serves as the executive vice president and provost at The Ohio State University, an institution whose student population doubles that of BU. She’s held her position there for the last two years.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

DECEMBER 1, 2023

She joined us on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast to talk about the mindset of accepting new leadership challenges, the responsibilities of institutional leaders as employers, required skills for effective leadership, and navigating the small world of higher ed. Florida State had a lot going on at that time. I hadn't thought about it.’

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Q: What inspired you to move to an ed-tech company after a career in academia? Before I discovered my passion for online learning, I was deep in the world of institution building. Institutions must collaborate at an unprecedented scale to close the growing skills gap and create a more equitable future. Talk to the students.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

Rural-serving institutions (RSIs) face many more unique challenges than most urban schools and persist, comprising more than 25% of all U.S. Although inherently different, every higher ed institution can learn from the innovative best practices RSIs have been forced to adopt to help positively impact their enrollment and more.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The institution has a storied history. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D.

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University Business

AUGUST 11, 2023

The momentum of late July’s multiple president resignations across some of the nation’s most well-known institutions seems to have continued into August. Towson University has found its 15th president in Dr. Mark Ginsberg, current provost and executive vice president of George Mason University in Virginia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

From December 2016 to July 2022, when she left to begin her new position, she served as associate provost for undergraduate retention and dean of undergraduate studies. Photo Credit: Macaulay Honors College Finding a lack of diversity Access to higher education has been an important theme in Byrne’s life in academia.

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Ambrister and Tom Bogart managed their pandemic-era funding to set their institutions up for long-term success. In the 18 short months that Lynch led CSI, he has championed diversity, equity and inclusion and increased the institution’s financial health. With level-headedness, Clarence D.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

” The webpage apologizes for “the pain [the institution] has caused” for harmful language, acknowledges that reviewing of such language requires ongoing work and invites feedback. But the institution does not list words or phrases it has sought to eliminate, if such a list exists.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Strayhorn, vice provost and director of research for the Center for the Study of HBCUs at Virginia Union University. Once inside higher ed, they face issues of retention, microaggression, and unfair policies and procedures – among others – which are reflective of an institution that wasn’t originally built with them in mind, Hoskin said.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 4, 2023

Technology Partnerships and Higher Education A Conversation With Drew Magliozzi, CEO of Mainstay Alan Thu, 05/11/2023 - 06:00 Chatbots Higher Ed Leadership Innovation Spotlight In our mission to promote equity in higher education, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) highlights the strategies of our member institutions.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Steering Unity from 540 students and a $14 million budget to an impressive enrollment of over 7,500 and a budget of $58 million, Dr. Khoury has cut tuition in half and significantly reduced institutional debt. Academia is excellent at identifying the problem. We are excellent at deconstructing it.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Marx could have examined academia in Status and Culture to make his arguments. What is the institutional fight for rankings, endowments and prestige but a scramble to ascend the status hierarchy? What is the institutional fight for rankings, endowments and prestige but a scramble to ascend the status hierarchy?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Nate Southerland, provost of Coconino Community College, said the college started the automotive technology program in response to local workforce needs. No other type of institution had such a steep overall decline, though it’s unclear how many professors left their positions for other jobs and how many retired or were let go.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Higher ed institutions across the country are rolling out or beefing up efforts to help faculty recognize and support students in psychological distress. It is modeled on the Red Folder Initiative the University of California launched a decade ago, said Robin Glover, Harvard’s assistant provost for student affairs.)

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 2, 2024

Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth faced similar criticism for her response but has retained the university’s support. Garber, the provost and chief academic officer, was appointed interim president until a permanent successor is named. Gay will return to a faculty position.

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HESA

MAY 4, 2023

The second half of this interview in particular provides some really interesting insight into issues of what enablers are required for academia to really turn the corner on CO 2 emissions. One of the ways that you talk about the climate crisis is the way that crises may affect institutional operations directly. Florida is low lying.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This incident is viewed not just as an isolated event but as a potential template for future actions in other institutions. It illustrates the extent to which political forces can assert control over academic institutions, fundamentally altering their governance and operational ethos.

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