University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Bolstered by state and national workforce needs and their promising return on investment, the STEM track represents a gold mine for colleges and universities that want to ensure credentials from their institution are providing students with good job prospects and gainful employment.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Hussain said because DEI functions as a primary point of contact between students with disabilities and the university, it ensures that students are able to access accommodations needed for their learning. Removing DEI offices would then have an impact on the positive gains made to support student success, according to Hussain.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Two presidents have been hired at small private colleges in the past two weeks and one leader is choosing to retire after four decades in higher education. Bates has a proven track record as a higher education leader around Ohio, as well as in the private sector. William Pieczynski – Nichols College (Mass.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 13, 2023

Ray Jayawardhana will become provost of Johns Hopkins University (JHU), effective Oct. Dr. Ray Jayawardhana Jayawardhana is currently dean of Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences. He has also written books such as Strange New Worlds ; Neutrino Hunters ; and Child of the Universe.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

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. Sniegowski holds a bachelor’s degree in music from the Indiana University School of Music; an M.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Ben Vinson III will become president of Howard University, effective Sept. Dr. Ben Vinson III Vinson – a historian of the African diaspora in Latin America – is currently provost at Case Western Reserve University. Howard, as a school, has “serious momentum,” and will rise to the upper echelon of research universities, Vinson said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Aherial Polite Aherial Polite has been appointed dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Augusta Technical College in Augusta, Georgia. Polite holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and master’s in teaching from the University of South Carolina.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Rhonda Phillips will become president of Chatham University, effective Jul. Dr. Rhonda Phillips Phillips is currently the inaugural dean of the John Martinson Honors College at Purdue University. 1, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. To me, that’s community well-being and you’ve got that here and you’ve got that willingness.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Safa Zaki Zaki is currently dean of the faculty and the John B. In Safa Zaki, Bowdoin has found a distinguished scholar and leader with a global perspective who believes deeply in the transformative power of a liberal arts education,” said Scott Perper, chair of the Bowdoin board and a member of the Presidential Search Committee. “In

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Duke University will be offering full tuition grants to students from the Carolinas with family incomes below $150,000, effective Fall 2023. The program will also give those with family incomes of $65,000 or less financial assistance for housing, meals, and some course materials or other campus expenses. 1 that reflect this change.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

An administrator at University of North Carolina at Greensboro is stepping down to protest the way the public institution is going about eliminating 19 academic offerings. University spokesperson Kimberly Osborne did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

Scott-Johnson Scott-Johnson, is currently provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Monmouth University. She has served on the board of directors of the American Psychological Association, and as a member of the Council of College of Arts and Sciences and the American Association of Colleges and Universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Previously, he has served as dean of arts and sciences at Alvin Community College and associate dean at Florida State College at Jacksonville. “Dr. Fliger holds a bachelor’s in interpersonal and public communication from Purdue University Fort Wayne; a master’s in speech communication from Miami University; and a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

vandenBerg will become president of Ohio Wesleyan University (OWU), effective Jul. Both the Presidential Search Committee and the university’s Board of Trustees were unanimous in their selection of Matt to boldly and confidently lead Ohio Wesleyan into the future.” with a political science major and Spanish minor from Alma.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2023

Petersen Petersen is a professor of political science and dean of the Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tulsa (TU). She was previously faculty and dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Binghamton University (BU) has received a $6.5 BU deans were asked to create proposals for the new faculty positions. BU deans were asked to create proposals for the new faculty positions. million SUNY grant and is looking to hire 30 replacement faculty and 36 new faculty, Pipe Dream reported. Over half the money – $3.9

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University Business

MAY 17, 2024

Pollack has announced she will retire on June 30 after leading the New York university for seven years. During Pollack’s presidency, the university created the Cornell Jeb E. Pollack is also credited with increasing by 1,000 the number of undergraduates receiving grant-based financial aid, the university noted.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

McCall is currently provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Xavier University of Louisiana. She has also served as associate dean for Tulane University's School of Liberal Arts; dean of arts, humanities and social sciences at the University of Denver; and dean of Harpur College of Arts and Sciences.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 21, 2023

Ohen served as associate dean for equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging at Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a law degree from Golden Gate University School of Law.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

Cudd will become president of Portland State University, effective August, Oregon Live reported. 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.

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University Business

JULY 19, 2023

Last month, former Texas A&M interim dean José Luis Bermúdez celebrated the hiring of an esteemed journalist and experienced academic leader with balloons and a press package. That leader, Kathleen McElroy, would not only have the chance to revamp the university’s journalism program, but she would be doing so at her alma mater.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The university named Claudine Gay, its dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, its 30th president on Thursday. By Oyin Adedoyin.

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SRHE

MAY 11, 2023

By Rachel Brooks How healthy is the area of higher education studies? Higher education research has also been critiqued for occupying a relatively marginal place within the wider discipline of educational research. When we look at the extant literature, there seems to be cause for concern.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

At Georgian Court University (GCU), women leaders are the norm. The private Roman Catholic university boasts a leadership of majority women, with women leading all four of the school's academic schools as deans. Increasingly, other colleges and universities are also following in this tradition.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Hired Morakinyo Kuti – Central State University (Ohio) Central State University has found its 10th president in Morakinyo Kuti, the HBCU’s current vice president for Research and Economic Development and director of Land-Grant Programs. ” Steven Tepper – Hamilton College (N.Y.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Vischer will become president of The University of St. Thomas, including interim president, dean of the law school, and associate professor of law. Thomas trajectory to become the undisputed premier private university in the Midwest.” Thomas, effective Jan. Rob Vischer Vischer has held several roles at St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

The Center for Politics and Race in America at Rutgers University-Newark has been named in honor of the first Black woman in New Jersey to hold statewide office, Lt. Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America with Dr. Jacqueline Mattis, the university’s dean of the School of Arts and Sciences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Georgetown University and Howard University have been awarded a $3 million grant to help fund the establishment of a center for medical humanities. Howard University The 3.5-year Williams, dean of Howard University’s Graduate School , professor of African-American literature, and grant co-leader.

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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. As such, Shivers said, it's important that student affairs professionals practice self-care.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Emory University and the College of the Muscogee Nation (CMN) in Oklahoma have partnered and received $2.4 The effort will be led by Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery, Cahoon Family Professor of American History at Emory; and Dr. Carla Freeman, interim dean of Emory College of Arts and Sciences. government 15 years earlier.

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University Business

APRIL 18, 2024

Columbia University President Nemat Shafik appeared before Congress in a hearing with the potential to shape the rest of her career as a higher education leader. The House Committee on Education and the Workforce brought Shafik into D.C. The House Committee on Education and the Workforce brought Shafik into D.C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (N.C. Favors – will focus on fostering educational opportunities for students and faculty and innovating for social, economic, and racial justice. “The Frances Ward-Johnson, dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. A&T Henry E.

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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. higher education in the world.

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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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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

APRIL 6, 2023

This is an instructive moment at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where Dr. Valerie Sheares Ashby recently assumed the role of president. I left Duke University, that I loved and still love, where I have friends, colleagues, and students. Do they have the right values, and are they ready to move forward in those values?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Claudine Gay, president-elect of Harvard University. Gay, dean of Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will succeed current Harvard President Dr. Lawrence S. I am honored to stand before you as the next president of Harvard University,” Gay said at a press conference following the announcement. “I

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