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Penn’s Sniegowski Named Earlham President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Earlham has an important and longstanding place within the distinctive liberal arts tradition in the United States. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He joined Penn’s Department of Biology in 1997 after a postdoctoral fellowship at Michigan State University.

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Howard University to Receive Replacement of Hattie McDaniel's Academy Award

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will give Howard University a replacement of actor Hattie McDaniel’s Best Supporting Actress Academy Award. Boseman College of Fine Arts – Howard will host a ceremony titled “Hattie’s Come Home” at its Ira Aldridge Theater Oct.

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President moves: Recent resignations show 3 reasons why a leader steps down

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Prior to that, he served as the president of Wilmington College (Ohio) and the founding associate dean of health sciences at Heidelberg University. One campaign he oversaw helped draw in $66 million, the largest in school history, Telegram & Gazette reports. William Pieczynski – Nichols College (Mass.)

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Grant Fuels Black Studies Faculty Expansion at the University of Rochester

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Since its launch in late 2022, the Department of Black Studies at the University of Rochester (UR) has worked to advance conversations surrounding Black and African culture and identity through an interdisciplinary, global lens. Sproull Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, said in a press release. and Mary L.

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Center for Politics and Race Honors Late New Jersey Lt. Governor

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Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America with Dr. Jacqueline Mattis, the university’s dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. Oliver Leadership Scholarship as part of the center's Public Service Leadership Program at Rutgers School of Arts & Sciences–Newark. Oliver , who died while in office Aug.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

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Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Following his and others’ departures, he said, just one full-time professor will remain in his department.

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Bringing Greater Impact

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His mission is to transition the long-time program into a department. 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.