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Departments of One

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. It prepared me to be a very specialized political theorist in a poli sci department of at least a couple dozen people. Instead, I’ve spent most of my career in places where the poli sci department was either one person or two. Being a department of one had its perks.

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When and how departments should make political statements

Inside Higher Ed

The guidance doesn’t—and, as mere advice, can’t—ban statements about social or political issues. “Departments as such should avoid statements on what we call here ‘external’ matters (state, national, or international policy matters),” the guidelines say.

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A dean and her son experience community college (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Years later, I am amazed by the community college and department I serve. I could brag about the thousands of lives that have been changed by the community college mission. Instead, I’m going to talk about my son, Ben, a learner with disabilities and a second-year student at the community college where I work. Elizabeth M.

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Lafayette dept. heads, program chairs raise governance concerns

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Twenty-three Lafayette College department heads and program chairs say there are serious issues with governance at the college, according to “points of concern” four of them shared with the president and provost. The fourth, Eric Ziolkowski, the religious studies department head, said he had no comment.

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Howard University to Receive Replacement of Hattie McDaniel's Academy Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Khalid Long, associate professor of theatre arts; and Phylicia Rashad, dean of the fine arts college. When I was a student in the College of Fine Arts at Howard University, in what was then called the Department of Drama, I would often sit and gaze in wonder at the Academy Award that had been presented to Ms. Hattie is coming home!”

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Student success leaders discuss new tips on student interventions, campus involvement

University Business

Cynthia Hernandez, vice president of Student Success at Texas State University, and Emily Stone, dean of Counseling and Student Success Programs at Diablo Valley College (Calif.), Identifying student stressors Hernandez and Stone spoke about when is the best time during the semester for institutions to deploy student surveys.

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Auburn professor awarded $646k in damages in speech case

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An Alabama jury awarded Michael Stern $645,837 in damages, finding after a two-week trial that Stern’s former dean illegally punished him for speaking out. ” Stern was removed as chair of his department in 2018 but has remained a professor at Auburn. Later that year, Stern was elected chair of the economics department.