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Dr. Anne S. Pruitt-Logan

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

During her 17-year tenure at Ohio State, she also served as associate dean of the graduate school, associate provost and director of the Center for Teaching Excellence.

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Lift Up Your Head

Dr. Missy Alexander

We have a new Dean of Student Success and Engagement, a new approach to the First Year Experience, and we are piloting a new approach to math, that I think will have a positive impact on student retention. That’s a lot of new, and there is more to come. It is exciting. Indeed, sometimes I can’t keep up.

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Renaming of the Presidential Citation to the Anne S. Pruitt-Logan Presidential Citation

ACPA

She later held the positions of Dean of Women and Dean of Students at Albany State College in Georgia and in a similar position at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. During her years at Fisk, her students helped to institute the Student Sit-ins and Freedom Rides that galvanized the non-violent Civil Rights protests.

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Nine insights from an integration process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Our BSDT students are meeting expected outcomes in retention, graduation and learning, including outcomes related to their performance in Clark liberal studies courses. Sebastián Royo is provost of Clark University. Humility and recognition of the challenges should be the first step toward integration.

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Survey: Campus facilities' impact on student success

Inside Higher Ed

Joel Frater, who serves on the Society for College and University Planning Council, has seen how campus design, including functionality and flexibility, links to retention. Environments that are conducive to learning and community building help keep students enrolled.