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Bob Jones University is imploding. What happened?

University Business

Last week, Bob Jones University’s president announced the resignation of the board’s chair—one week after announcing his own plans to resign. The last two weeks have seen the South Carolina university’s leadership flip on its head. It is not happening now, and I can’t see it happening in the future.”

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Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Named Provost at Western Michigan University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Julian Vasquez Heilig, an educational researcher whose work on racial equity and teacher preparation has received national recognition, will be the next provost and vice president for academic affairs at Western Michigan University. He will do the same as provost at Western Michigan University.” history.

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Utah Receives $50 Million Gift for College of Engineering

Inside Higher Ed

The University of Utah College of Engineering will receive $50 million and a new name, honoring benefactor John Price, a university graduate and former diplomat. The $50 million donation is reportedly the largest in the history of the College of Engineering. Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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Parents of Bankman-Fried, Professors, Face Scrutiny

Inside Higher Ed

The parents of Sam Bankman-Fried, who was arrested Monday in the Bahamas based on an indictment in the United States, are Stanford University law professors who face scrutiny for their own roles in the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, The New York Times reported. Joseph Bankman is a professor of tax law and was a paid employee of FTX.

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Colleges hire directors to tackle student basic needs

Inside Higher Ed

Image: When Andrea Mora enrolled at University of California, Irvine, in 2012, she was a low-income, first-generation student. Mora now has professional counterparts at all 10 campuses in the University of California system. It was also a way for the university to make the position permanent.

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President moves: Tried and true academics take charge

University Business

Cady Short-Thompson of Northern Kentucky University is returning to the university that kickstarted her career in faculty and administration, tasked with pulling it out of a budget deficit and enrollment hole. Hired Agenia Walker Clark – Fisk University (Tenn.) Social work is Eanes’ forte.

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Thoughts on Stanford's academic freedom conference (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

I will be a better dean for having attended and participated in the conference, hosted by the Classical Liberalism Initiative of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. What is a dean to do? Administrators are asked to “hold the line,” as one attendee put it. There can be no academic freedom without enforcement.

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