Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Anne McCall will become the 13th president of the College of Wooster, effective July 2023, which will make her the second woman in the role. Dr. Anne McCall "I'm honored and thrilled to be chosen as the next president of the College of Wooster," McCall said. in French literature from the University of Strasbourg in France. .

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University Business

MARCH 28, 2024

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. The best way is to keep it simple and keep it focused. The best way is to keep it simple and keep it focused.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Bennett will become dean of Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, effective Feb. Bennett Bennett, a behavioral scientist, is currently vice provost for undergraduate education and professor of psychology & neuroscience, global health, and medicine at Duke. Dr. Gary G. Bennett holds a Ph.D.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In a resignation letter made public, Charles Bolton, associate dean of UNCG’s College of Arts and Sciences and interim head of its anthropology department, accused university officials of not being transparent in how they determined which programs they plan to cut.

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UW Presidential Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

Throughout March, which is designated as Women’s History Month , we have a wonderful opportunity to pause and reflect on the extraordinary depth and breadth of what the women of the UW have achieved, on campus and off, in the sciences and the arts, as changemakers and leaders, and at every scale.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Image: Faculty members at the College of William & Mary are concerned that the institution is purposely excluding them from conversations about the future. Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2023

Hector Balderas , attorney general of New Mexico, has been chosen as president of Northern New Mexico College. Patrena Benton Elliott , vice president of instruction and student support services at Robeson Community College, in North Carolina, has been appointed president of Halifax Community College, also in North Carolina.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Ben Vinson III Vinson – a historian of the African diaspora in Latin America – is currently provost at Case Western Reserve University. Vinson holds a bachelor’s degree in history and classical studies from Dartmouth College and a doctorate in history from Columbia University.

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Helix Education

APRIL 21, 2024

Aaron is a higher education professional with more than 25 years of experience in enrollment management. He has written previously for RNL about best financial practices for universities and has also written for The Chronicle of Higher Education among other publications. What is the real impact if a few small colleges close?

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University Business

MAY 17, 2024

Provost Michael I. The University Business Podcast : Why STEM needs the humanities—and vice versa In Pennsylvania, Albright College President Jacquelyn Fetrow has announced her resignation , effective May 31, after leading the small institution since 2017, WFMZ-TV reported. The University of New Hampshire has chosen Elizabeth S.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

The provost of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University has cited overall enrollment decreases and specifically low enrollments in these courses. ” But he said there are financial issues at smaller colleges that “are general problems, not just of humanities.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

This is my last day as provost, and it has been a rewarding and challenging ride. So have the changing attitudes toward higher education. It has been, well, an interesting time to be in higher education. For COVID-19, my colleagues and I worked hard to address the needs of our students.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., I suspect this pattern of continuous review and adjustment will define all of higher education in this country going forward.” The college says it froze undergraduate majors with “very low student enrollment.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Image: Gustavus Adolphus College went 161 years without any graduate programs. Like other small private institutions, Gustavus Adolphus, a Lutheran college in southern Minnesota, faces a shrinking pool of traditional-age students, even ahead of the projected decline in college-age students due to kick in later this decade.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The jury did not agree with Stern’s similar claims against two former provosts, however. The First Amendment and academic freedom are the cornerstones of higher education.” He said he looks “forward to working with Auburn University, charting a new and positive path toward achieving our educational mission.”

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The culminating experience for the EAB Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship was the capstone project that substantively contributed to the fellows’ professional advancement and helped solve a pressing challenge facing their home institutions. All cohorts ended with presentations of the fellows’ capstone projects.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

Cudd Cudd, currently the provost at the University of Pittsburgh, has previously served as dean of arts and sciences at Boston University and as a professor and dean of undergraduate studies at the University of Kansas. in mathematics and philosophy from Swarthmore College. Cudd holds a Ph.D. in philosophy, an M.A.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to extend their stays in the United States. Others, such as human-centered technology design and data visualization, live in the intersection of science and the arts. Department of Homeland Security expanded opportunities for international students who have earned U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2024

SEATTLE-- Prominent student affairs practitioners of color shared powerful stories of leading in higher education amid major challenges, including the recent COVID pandemic and ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The panel was organized by the Melvin C. It might be your time, but not your door," she added.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite recent pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion among several states , a number of colleges have recently hired presidents based on their commitment to that principle. Safa Zaki, Bowdoin College (Williamstown, Mass.) Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. Treasury Department and the Council of Economic Advisors.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

In STEM areas, health sciences professions and business disciplines, demand for new Ph.D.s But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. is clearly growing. percent between 2011 and 2021.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

Welcome to the second post in our series on higher education enrollment shifts. The work group joins us today to discuss the ways higher education institutions are responding to the shifts in enrollment. Higher education institutions are responding to the ensuing financial instability in ways that are both predictable and creative.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

Welcome to the second post in our series on higher education enrollment shifts. The work group joins us today to discuss the ways higher education institutions are responding to the shifts in enrollment. Higher education institutions are responding to the ensuing financial instability in ways that are both predictable and creative.

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University Business

JUNE 21, 2023

As a result, President Gordon Gee is merging the College of the Creative Arts and Reed College of Media, heralding it as a “creative and innovative” transformation that recognizes its purpose to slash costs and improve administrative efficiency. The college merger is the second announced in two years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Mary Chinery, d ean of the School of Arts and Sciences; Dr. Jennifer Edmonds, dean of the School of Business & Digital Media; Dr. Teri Wurmser, dean of the Hackensack Meridian Health School of Nursing and Wellness; and Dr. Kelly McNeal, dean of the School of Education. recently announced t hat ten women now hold deanships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Gay, dean of Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will succeed current Harvard President Dr. Lawrence S. Gay will be the second Black woman to lead an Ivy League university, following Dr. Ruth Simmons, president of Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Prairie View A&M University. I love this place.

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University Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Among the college presidents to come and go in the past two weeks, two positions were indirectly decided by Gov. Ron DeSantis and his plan to re-envision education in Florida. He came into power at the small liberal arts school after a DeSantis-backed overhaul of the Board of Trustees ousted former President Patricia Okker.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The private New York college’s public comment period on the changes ends Thursday. A member of the provost-appointed Academic Program Review Taskforce, which created the report, said the members expected the report was going to become public. Image: Utica University’s president on Jan. She said 4.4

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In the last two weeks in higher education, the number of presidents to announce retirement doubled that of confirmed hires. Most college leaders retiring in style will be recognized for their expansion, renovation and construction of campus facilities. Frank Sánchez – Manhattanville College (N.Y.)

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

” Outside of the education program at USC Aiken, nearly all of Walsh’s professors lecture nearly all the time, he says. ” Lectures are a “great tool for college courses, but they are just used way too often,” he says. This makes a “teaching style that didn’t work for me” the No.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In March 2021, the chair of the Board of Trustees of Becker College announced that the institution would close its doors due to financial difficulties accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a blow to the students, faculty and staff of this private college in Worcester, Mass.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2023 has been a year notable for its ups and downs on the higher education landscape with the elimination of affirmative action and the implosion of President Joe Biden’s student relief program. Affirmative action struck down The U.S. The high court voted 6-3 against UNC and 6-2 against Harvard.

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University Business

APRIL 28, 2023

In higher education, presidential appointments can oftentimes be straightforward. School leaders are appointed to lead an institution for their quantifiably successful work, like Ron Patterson at Chadron State College. North Idaho College is stuck paying two presidents although neither technically holds the position.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Though it’s a smaller number—university officials said eight jobs were eliminated in the latest round—the cuts include Cabrini’s provost, associate provost and three deans. Following the latest wave of cuts, university leaders are making an appeal for partnerships. “And then, of course, the pandemic hit.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

Image: Huddled around a table in the Georgetown University Alumni House, roughly two dozen academics convened last week to address two of the most persistent challenges in higher education: improving student outcomes and lowering the cost of a bachelor’s degree. Now, nearly 15 years later, the idea has fresh momentum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Over the past decade, some historically Black institutions have developed women’s and gender studies programs and embedded courses within general education curriculum. Clark Atlanta University and Spelman College are the only HBCUs that offer a major or degree program. Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception. Dr. Linda Darling- Hammond The leadership of the national research society that strives to advance knowledge about education and currently boasts a membership of about 25,000 scholars — remained exclusively white until the 1990s. Dr. Carol D.

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