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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Patty Limerick speaks out on her dismissal from her center

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Limerick,” Chris Whitney, the board’s vice chair and brand commissioner for the state of Colorado’s Department of Agriculture, wrote to Glen Krutz, CU Boulder’s dean of arts and sciences. “This has been a process that did not come with transparency, forthrightness and clear and steady communication.

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Nine insights from an integration process (opinion)

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which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. It also was a serious loss for the Worcester region because of Becker College’s long and impactful history in the area and the prominence of several academic programs.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?

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A professor's job is endangered for teaching about race

Inside Higher Ed

The professor, Samuel Joeckel, said in an email that the dean of his department and the university’s provost waited outside the class he was teaching last week to inform him of the news. The dean had an envelope in his hand and gave it to me. “On Feb. “On Feb. “They asked to speak with me privately.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

John Hope Franklin Award was created in 2004 to pay tribute to Franklin, a historian, writer, educator, and humanitarian who made significant contributions to shaping the perspective of American history in the 20th century. Jackson said her mother was more inclined to the language arts. Early inspiration Her father was an inspiration.

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Affirmative action reaction: Higher ed leaders weigh in on Supreme Court’s decision

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Roth and Amin Abdul-Malik Gonzalez, Vice President and Dean of Admission and Financial Aid, find the ruling tone deaf. The Supreme Court’s long-awaited decisions on two cases that would implicate the fate of race-conscious admissions at public and private institutions’ undergraduate levels finally came out last week.