Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: B.A., history, Tufts University; M.A., political science, Binghamton University Career mentors: Dr. David L. That experience proved to be life-altering.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 6, 2024

Well before the first college lecture, however, newly enrolled college students should consider a couple questions and a few simple steps that can lower barriers to college success. The full college experience cannot be pre-planned, but students do well to reflect on their academic journeys so far and consider what they want from college.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

I am so proud that the School of Arts & Sciences can lead on this critical priority with the expansion of a department that will inspire conversation, research, and ultimately action,” Nicole Sampson, the Robert L. Sproull Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, said in a press release. and Mary L.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. The college says it froze undergraduate majors with “very low student enrollment.” Current students in affected programs will be allowed to finish their studies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. Come this August, students will be able to declare either a major or a minor in cannabis studies. That needs to be approached with all of the care in the world and a better understanding.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The initiative also establishes groundwork for Emory’s “Indigeneity Hub,” which will include new faculty and programs in language, literature, history and the arts, and a physical and literal language path on Emory campuses in Atlanta and Oxford. government 15 years earlier.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Medical humanities recenters health in a broader social, cultural, and historical context, using humanities and social sciences methods to analyze the contexts of illness and health. Williams, dean of Howard University’s Graduate School , professor of African-American literature, and grant co-leader. Howard University The 3.5-year

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

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. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. there were protests on campus.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

John Karl Scholz (Photo: UO Website) With experience as a professor, economist and provost (which he currently still serves at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), his focus at Oregon will be student career readiness and postgraduate success. Other notable mentions: Dr. She is also a first-generation student.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Image: Newly available data from the National Science Foundation suggest that the first full year of the pandemic had a major, negative impact on graduate students’ ability to finish their Ph.D.s. That may be what we are seeing in the NSF survey in the decline of doctorate recipients, and that students just need more time.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

” The second point said that “Dean positions are created and filled before dean positions are defined[;] input is requested only after key decisions are made. It’s unclear who supported the letter beyond those four, but 23 would represent over two-thirds of the college’s department heads and program chairs.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

For COVID-19, my colleagues and I worked hard to address the needs of our students. We moved many graduate programs online to meet the needs of our students who are largely juggling families and jobs. On this last day of 2023, I am reflecting on my 11 years at WCSU. So have the changing attitudes toward higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Dr. Claudine Gay is making history. Gay, dean of Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will succeed current Harvard President Dr. Lawrence S. Supreme Court case Students for Fair Admissions vs. Harvard College , which could end affirmative action, the consideration of race in admissions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

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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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

It was a blow to the students, faculty and staff of this private college in Worcester, Mass., which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. The two institutions shared both history and a deep connection to the Worcester community.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Image: Harvard University announced its 30th president Thursday, drawing from within to hire Claudine Gay, the first Black president in the institution’s nearly 400-year history. Gay, currently the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was hired after a search that began in July to replace Lawrence S.

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Helix Education

APRIL 21, 2024

Everyone loves a David and Goliath story, and at this moment in the history of higher education, small colleges could use one. For example, what difference does a population of 1,500 students at one institution make in the grand scheme of higher ed? Those students can always go to a larger institution.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

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. He said that the concern was that I was ‘indoctrinating students.’

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Bowman (left), Michigan State University’s associate dean for academic and student affairs, and other leaders from the university’s college of education. Gmelch, who, at the time, served as dean of Iowa State’s College of Education and had emerged as a national expert on college deans. “I Jerlando F.

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College. Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College. With level-headedness, Clarence D.

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2023

He also led the school through seven of its largest freshman enrollment classes in Langston’s 126-year history. Craft also helped establish a diversity office and oversaw the creation or revitalization of the college’s teaching, learning and recreational facilities, as well as centers for integrated science and student success.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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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University Business

JULY 31, 2023

said Raymundo Arroyave, professor of Materials Science and Engineering, in a special Faculty Senate meeting. “I However, three institutional leaders managed to escape national headlines and step down prematurely under either peculiar or contentious circumstances. We don’t exhibit a very good image of competence to the outside world.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

The goals of course scheduling are obvious: To ensure that no student is closed out of classes essential for graduation. To make it easier for students to balance their studies with their work and caregiving responsibilities and be able to participate in extracurricular activities. The result: gaps in student schedules.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

But a combination of competitive pressures, demographic patterns and accreditation requirements in one of its most job skill–focused undergraduate fields has led the private liberal arts institution to create its first-ever master’s degree—and to consider adding others. ” said Rasmussen. “They

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University Business

AUGUST 11, 2023

More from UB: Support for first-year students may be key this fall. In STEM, she’s doubled the university’s external funding for research and oversaw the completion of its Hall of Science. In STEM, she’s doubled the university’s external funding for research and oversaw the completion of its Hall of Science.

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University Business

JULY 5, 2023

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.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It provides students, faculty, staff, and alumni with a single place to report nonemergency complaints or concerns, including those involving harassment and sexual misconduct. Adelphi also introduced Students Beyond the Binary, a new student organization focused on transgender and gender-nonconforming issues.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The higher education landscape is facing unprecedented changes, with student demographics shifting and financial pressures mounting. These changes are reshaping how colleges and universities must embrace an adaptive approach to student recruitment and retention.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

OCTOBER 10, 2022

It is not often that a dean or provost has the opportunity to attend a conference in their discipline, so it is wonderful treat when we do. When you transition from faculty to administration, you tend to go to conferences focused on institutional questions – assessment, retention, general education, equity, and so on.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Kothari was a Professor of Accounting at the University of Rochester during my brief stint as an English graduate student there. First, he was interested in designing software to teach students accounting. As I outlined recently in my “ e-Literate’s Changing Themes for Changing Times ” post, I am shifting my coverage somewhat.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The first half of this two-part series with Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU)’s Chancellor Terence Cheng explores how CSCU partners with local businesses to ensure equity and workforce preparation for its majority-minority student population. Dr. Terrence describes it as building “muscle memory” for them.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2023

29 August · Episode 170 Improving Presidential Tenure and Effectiveness in Higher Education 30 Min · By Drumm McNaughton Insights for universities to cultivate longer and more impactful presidential tenures, resulting in greater stability, improved institutional performance, and strengthened relationships. This process is flawed.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Our students have changed, but our institutions have not adapted sufficiently to this reality. Non-traditional students now make up a majority of undergraduates. Non-traditional students now make up a majority of undergraduates. We need to serve these students better. Wrong again. I’m not sure.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Chad Orzel’s piece this week, “ Physics Is a Liberal Art ,” is a must-read. He’s a physicist who attended a small liberal arts college and works at another one, so he’s well acquainted with the various ways in which the term “liberal arts” is used.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2023

Image: Hamline University has been engrossed in an academic freedom debate this year over the actions of an adjunct instructor at the private Minnesota institution who was teaching global art history. The instructor had warned students in advance of her plan to show the image. This is one of those times.

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