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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. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. cum laude from Harvard Law School.

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Support for Educators Is All Around

Today's Learner

While faculty are in academia because we love making a positive difference in students’ future growth and development, we are only human. may turn into thirty, leaving that report you need to turn in to the Provost waiting, but that’s okay. But what about us? Faculty faced increased workloads as their classes transferred to online.

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Universities on Fire

HESA

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. Think about Lewis and Clark College, out in the west coast of the US for example or the Vermont Law School, in Vermont, which is explicitly very green.

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

The Change Leader, Inc.

Key Takeaways for University Presidents and Boards Thoroughly Review the Report: University presidents, administrators, provosts, deans, and other leaders actively engage with the contents of the report. And that got me really interested in issues of intellectual freedom, free speech, and, once I did get back into academia, academic freedom.