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President moves: Recent resignations show 3 reasons why a leader steps down

University Business

Prior to that, he served as the president of Wilmington College (Ohio) and the founding associate dean of health sciences at Heidelberg University. Half a year as Nichols College’s interim president was all the board of trustees needed to determine William Pieczynski was the right person to lead the university for good.

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Dr. Donovan Livingston Returns Home, Merging His Hip Hop Self with His College Advisor Self

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Before attending the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill for undergrad, the Fayetteville, North Carolina, native had a budding interest in Hip Hop and spoken word but needed an outlet for it. A lot of my work is grounded in how Hip Hop informs student experiences in college,” Livingston said. I was always writing.

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The Transformative Potential of Museum-University Partnerships

Inside Higher Ed

Still, out of the many unforgettable characters I’ve had the enormous privilege of interacting with, one who stands out was the late Peter Marzio, who directed the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, for nearly thirty years. Unlike many museum directors, he wasn’t an art historian. He was a history Ph.D.

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Report: English Majors Employed at Comparable Rates, Educators Can Do More to Prepare Students for Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In fact, this rate for English majors puts it below the unemployment rate for computer and information services majors, 2.8%, though still higher compared to a number of other majors – business, engineering, philosophy, physical science, and history. But for women, that number falls to around $61,000.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

“Manhattanville is continuously monitoring, evaluating, and seeking to understand and adjust the academic curriculum and overall campus life to the needs of today’s students,” Louise Feroe, interim president, said in a related announcement. “This will result in both academic and administrative staff changes.

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Patty Limerick Fired From Center She Founded

Inside Higher Ed

Patty Limerick has been fired from the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She remains a tenured professor of history at Colorado. Ad keywords: administrators faculty Is this diversity newsletter?: Limerick, a noted historian of the American West, was a co-founder of the center. Hide by line?:

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This startup trailblazer believes these 5 trends will shape the future of education

University Business

Instead, they’re building their own schools that they see better fall in line with 21st-century students and match their needs. OpenAI mastermind Sam Altman and social media pioneer Jason Citron are just a few A-list investors backing Campus, a completely online community college reimagining the two-year experience for students and faculty.