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Palm Beach Atlantic University English Professor Claims Job is Under Review for Teaching a Racial Justice Unit

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But this month, a private Christian university’s provost and dean told him his contract renewal for next year would be on hold while they investigated the unit, Joeckel said. What happened to me is definitely influenced by a toxic political culture, and it’s my opinion that the university is playing a role,” Sam Joeckel. “I

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UPCEA MEMS Conference: AI, Authenticity, Limitations of Measurement

MindMax

One thing I love about this conference, hosted by UPCEA, is that it attracts a broad cross-section of higher education professionals: everyone from deans and provosts to higher ed marketing and enrollment management specialists. Data is predictive—not definitive.

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Higher Ed Lessons in Interim Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

And although we definitely have the discussions as a 'we,' eventually, a decision has to be made, and that decision has to be carried on the shoulders of the chancellor. She had the trust, the knowledge base, the understanding, and I needed a provost that I could work with, but that the campus could work with as well.

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AI: A Brilliant but Biased Tool for Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Now almost a year since its release, Brown says CSU faculty and administration are coming to terms with the fact that “policing students’ use [of ChatGPT] is probably impossible, usually ineffective, and definitely inefficient.” Calhoun, assistant vice president and dean of the Center for Academic Success at Seton Hall University, agrees. “As

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Librarians should stand with the Internet Archive (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

is the Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway University Librarian and vice provost for library affairs at Duke. MacKenzie Smith is university librarian and vice provost of digital scholarship at University of California, Davis. Libraries are defined by collections, services and values.

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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

Maria Donoghue Velleca, dean of arts and sciences since 2020, said in a Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting this week that even she had been left in the dark on plans for the possible school and that this had influenced her decision to leave her post not at the end of the academic year, as previously announced, but at the end of 2022.

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Librarians target incoming students, collaborative measures

Inside Higher Ed

Choosing a target: Most student success programs in the library focus on undergraduate students, particularly first years or transfers, explains Erin Ellis, president of the Association of College and Research Libraries and the associate dean of research and learning services at Indiana University.