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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

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laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. ” That is, undergraduate programs with fewer than 12 students per full-time faculty member over a period of five years are no longer accepting new students.

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New presidents or provosts: Alma Folsom Maryland NVCC Purdue St. Thomas TCU

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Sean Burke , associate provost of Luther College, in Iowa, has been selected as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Alma College, in Michigan. Richmond Hill , interim provost of the Woodbridge campus of Northern Virginia Community College, has been named to the position on a permanent basis.

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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

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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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Fine arts, communications degrees qualify as STEM for immigrants

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degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to extend their stays in the United States. Many of the 22 new qualifying fields of study on the updated government list, including general forestry, cloud computing and geobiology, fall within conventional understanding of STEM fields.

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3 Questions on UT Austin’s New $10K Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence

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Blog: Learning Innovation I’m totally psyched about the newly announced master of science in artificial intelligence (MSAI) degree from the University of Texas at Austin. UT Austin’s Adam Klivans , professor of computer science, and Art Markman , vice provost of academic affairs, graciously agreed to chat.

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Nine insights from an integration process (opinion)

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It was a blow to the students, faculty and staff of this private college in Worcester, Mass., Another 11 students in the master of fine arts program enrolled in eight sections and five unique courses. which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887.

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Why did Allegheny cut its Chinese program?

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million in faculty salaries while increasing its student-faculty ratio, Allegheny College in Pennsylvania charged a task force with reviewing its academic programs. ” Shi continued, “I wasn’t interviewed or consulted by the president or the provost throughout [the] process, or ever, actually.