Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

The conference attendees were a mix of students, faculty, donors, education administrators, and edtech professionals. Groups were assigned an activity to discuss possible solutions for increasing capacity for educational technology and digital learning. Higher education as a whole has recently been scrutinized for its value.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2023

Patrena Benton Elliott , vice president of instruction and student support services at Robeson Community College, in North Carolina, has been appointed president of Halifax Community College, also in North Carolina. Robinson , interim chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, has been named to the job on a permanent basis.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

This is my last day as provost, and it has been a rewarding and challenging ride. So have the changing attitudes toward higher education. It has been, well, an interesting time to be in higher education. For COVID-19, my colleagues and I worked hard to address the needs of our students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Bennett will become dean of Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, effective Feb. Bennett Bennett, a behavioral scientist, is currently vice provost for undergraduate education and professor of psychology & neuroscience, global health, and medicine at Duke. Dr. Gary G. Bennett holds a Ph.D.

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University Business

MARCH 28, 2024

Conservative groups, politicians and organizations launched a coordinated attack on DEI in higher education in 2023, in some cases disrupting these programs established to promote fairness and student success, and to address decades of exclusionary policies and practices in higher education. Remember the why.

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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. I suspect this pattern of continuous review and adjustment will define all of higher education in this country going forward.”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The jury did not agree with Stern’s similar claims against two former provosts, however. The First Amendment and academic freedom are the cornerstones of higher education.” He said he looks “forward to working with Auburn University, charting a new and positive path toward achieving our educational mission.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

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. This appointment will make her the second woman to lead the school. Cudd holds a Ph.D. in philosophy, an M.A.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more. The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more. All cohorts ended with presentations of the fellows’ capstone projects. In many cases, partners jointly completed a project that benefitted both institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Condoleezza Rice is a professor of political economy in the Graduate School of Business, the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University. As provost, she was responsible for a $1.5 As provost, she was responsible for a $1.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Mary Chinery, d ean of the School of Arts and Sciences; Dr. Jennifer Edmonds, dean of the School of Business & Digital Media; Dr. Teri Wurmser, dean of the Hackensack Meridian Health School of Nursing and Wellness; and Dr. Kelly McNeal, dean of the School of Education. recently announced t hat ten women now hold deanships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Katherine Conway-Turner does her utmost to maximize the power and purpose of public higher education. Dr. Katherine Conway-Turner Her understanding of the impact of education comes from personal experience. As a first-generation college student, she appreciated the process of education and embraced its transformative aspects.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A member of the provost-appointed Academic Program Review Taskforce, which created the report, said the members expected the report was going to become public. percent of undergraduates are in the majors she recommended ending, and all the currently enrolled students would be allowed to finish them. She said 4.4

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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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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. Those students can always go to a larger institution.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

The provost of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University has cited overall enrollment decreases and specifically low enrollments in these courses. A university spokesman says they have 2,900 undergraduate students combined. percent from 2016 to 2020—the largest drop since it began its survey in 1958.

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University Business

JUNE 21, 2023

As a result, President Gordon Gee is merging the College of the Creative Arts and Reed College of Media, heralding it as a “creative and innovative” transformation that recognizes its purpose to slash costs and improve administrative efficiency. The reality is we need to improve quality while we decrease costs. “The

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception. Dr. Linda Darling- Hammond The leadership of the national research society that strives to advance knowledge about education and currently boasts a membership of about 25,000 scholars — remained exclusively white until the 1990s. Dr. Carol D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Gay, dean of Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will succeed current Harvard President Dr. Lawrence S. Experts in higher education, diversity, equity and inclusion celebrated the news, hoping it could signal to other institutions that it is time for more diverse leadership. Dr. Claudine Gay is making history.

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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. He said that the concern was that I was ‘indoctrinating students.’ “On Feb. We stepped back into the classroom.

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University Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Ron DeSantis and his plan to re-envision education in Florida. He came into power at the small liberal arts school after a DeSantis-backed overhaul of the Board of Trustees ousted former President Patricia Okker. The bulk of her career in higher education comes from her 16 years at the University of Chicago.

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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., Clark’s leadership was determined help soften the blow, especially for students who needed continuity of learning to finish their degrees. A total of 179 undergraduate students enrolled in 40 sections representing 27 unique courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Over the past decade, some historically Black institutions have developed women’s and gender studies programs and embedded courses within general education curriculum. At Delaware State, students pursuing women's and gender studies are examining the intersection of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

If the media is to be believed, the future of the senior diversity officer in higher education is bleak. In 1996, California voters passed a statewide ballot initiative, Proposition 209, that eliminated consideration of race in public education, contracting, and hiring. But is it really?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Dr. Karen Carey was appointed chancellor in November 2020 after serving as provost and dean of graduate studies since June 2016. Carey came to UAS from California State University Channel Islands in Ventura, California, where she served as dean of Arts & Sciences. She earned her Ph.D.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In the last two weeks in higher education, the number of presidents to announce retirement doubled that of confirmed hires. While SVU is technically a secular private liberal arts college, it identifies with the values of the LDS Church. But those who decided to step down are doing so on sound footing.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Cabrini administrators put current enrollment at roughly 1,500 students, both undergraduate and graduate. That’s a big drop from 2016, when a total of more than 2,300 students were enrolled. Following the latest wave of cuts, university leaders are making an appeal for partnerships. “And then, of course, the pandemic hit.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

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. I’ll give you 10,000 reasons: the degree will cost students $10,000! We think our program sets a new standard for advanced education in AI moving forward.

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University Business

APRIL 28, 2023

In higher education, presidential appointments can oftentimes be straightforward. increase and a 47% increase in new transfer students, according to the school website. increase and a 47% increase in new transfer students, according to the school website. However, a pair of presidents this time around are headscratchers.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

30% of students say poor maintenance, cleaning or overall building conditions have had at least some impact on their ability to learn. Place matters, Medlin adds, because students think it matters. Image: A common concern among campus facilities directors has long been not having a seat at the table of top institutional officials.

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HEPI

MAY 11, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Warren Manning, Provost for Innovation and Research at the University of Derby, and Dr Jenna Townend, FHEA, Principal Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor at the Uni versity of Derby. For more details, including how to book a free place, see here.

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University Business

AUGUST 11, 2023

has endured a record-breaking heat wave this summer, and with it, a cluster of turnovers in higher education’s top position. 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.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

million in faculty salaries while increasing its student-faculty ratio, Allegheny College in Pennsylvania charged a task force with reviewing its academic programs. That’s what the terminated professor, Xiaoling Shi, and some of her colleagues and students want to know. “Why was Chinese language and culture cut?

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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 “The board thanks President Muhl for her time, her leadership during the pandemic, and her investment in Berklee’s educational experience.” We don’t exhibit a very good image of competence to the outside world.

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Among higher education’s most recent presidential comings and goings, we have a mix of vetted academics and professionals who draw on the wealth of their outside experience. Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College.

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