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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

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Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program.

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Georgetown and Howard Universities Awarded $3 Million for Medical Humanities Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Medical humanities recenters health in a broader social, cultural, and historical context, using humanities and social sciences methods to analyze the contexts of illness and health. Williams, dean of Howard University’s Graduate School , professor of African-American literature, and grant co-leader. Howard University The 3.5-year

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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Scheduling and Context

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Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. And knowing the difference between priming the pump and throwing good money after bad is as much art as science. Different colleges handle course allocation differently. As with section allocation, this process was much easier when enrollments were steady or increasing.

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So Many Poohbahs! Poohbai? Poohbae?

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Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Yesterday I asked my readers what rule they would enact for higher education in their state if they were somehow declared Grand Poohbah of Higher Education for a day. (I I took the term from Howard Cunningham’s fraternal lodge on Happy Days.) So many poohbahs! I would have A, B, C, and I.