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5 tips for college and university presidents to support diversity, equity and inclusion

University Business

There’s new momentum building on college and university campuses to rescue and reinvigorate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, vital initiatives that have been the target of a coordinated national assault for over a year. Integrate DEI or DEIB into your college or university’s mission statement. Consider the mission.

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Which college, university leaders are speaking out against anti-DEI efforts?

University Business

The $5 million allocated to DEI programming has been transitioned into a faculty recruitment fund, according to a memo. Ron DeSantis signed a state bill into law that prohibited any expenditures on such programs across all state colleges and universities. . A week late, Provost Rahul Shrivastav doubled down.

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STEM innovation in constrained economic times – the UK in an international context by Professor Ian Walmsley, Provost of Imperial College

HEPI

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Ian Walmsley, the Provost of Imperial College London and former Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford. But also as co-founder of a spin-out company building on IP I co-invented as a professor.

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Building Pipelines for a Better Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Daniel Jean often recounts with sadness the story of Robert Daniel Cuadra, an 18-year-old honor student from Paterson, New Jersey, who was planning to embark on a promising college career at Montclair State University in the summer of 2022. Gonzales, Montclair’s provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, was clear.

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Necessary infrastructure to support interdisciplinary programs

EAB

Blogs Necessary infrastructure to support interdisciplinary programs August 9, 2023 Kimber McKay Interim Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, University of Montana The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB. we’re already interdisciplinary!” What are some incentives?

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3 Questions on Academic Library Spending to the Scholar Who Wrote the Book on University Budgets

Inside Higher Ed

Q1: Overall, how do academic libraries allocate their budgets? When library deans talk to provosts about their budget, all these topics may come up, but I’d be surprised if subscription costs are not the most commonly discussed issue.

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Two Scholars are Building Diversity Initiative Database for All

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Byrd, former special advisor to the provost at Georgia State University (GSU), said that institutions are struggling to diversify their faculty. who recently appeared on a panel sponsored by Diverse at the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) in San Francisco.

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