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A professor's job is endangered for teaching about race

Inside Higher Ed

The professor, Samuel Joeckel, said in an email that the dean of his department and the university’s provost waited outside the class he was teaching last week to inform him of the news. The spokesperson told WPBF, “I’m advised we can not [ sic ] comment on a personnel matter.” “On Feb.

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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Large-scale quantitative data such as these provide an invaluable evidence-based context about the areas of scholarship in which institutions are investing new faculty lines, a matter of interest to deans of graduate schools and provosts alike. Finally, we only explored Ph.D.-granting

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Auburn professor awarded $646k in damages in speech case

Inside Higher Ed

The jury did not agree with Stern’s similar claims against two former provosts, however. In retaliation for Stern’s internal and external activism, Auburn in 2009 suddenly moved the department of economics out of the College of Business and into the College of Liberal Arts, the lawsuit said.

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

Scroll down to read about each of the capstone projects in the fellows’ own words. Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D.,

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Alphabet Soup

Susquehanna President's Blog

AAC&U – American Association of Colleges and Universities – this is the organization that focusses on liberal-arts education across higher education with an emphasis on enhancing the quality of teaching and learning and advocacy on the power of a liberal education. They sponsor many college fairs.

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Nine insights from an integration process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The dean of the Becker School reports administratively to the provost office and is subject to all the normal graduate and undergraduate governance review boards, while the school itself has a designated faculty and its own academic leadership. Sebastián Royo is provost of Clark University. Is this diversity newsletter?

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2022 SANsational Award Winners Present Promising Compliance Solutions

WCET Frontiers

The university is a private, non-profit, liberal arts institution that offers undergraduate and graduate and professional degrees, including medicine, pharmacy, physical therapy, physician assistant, and law. Members of the Campbell University team with SAN team members. This was accomplished by working with program directors.