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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

His mission is to transition the long-time program into a department. 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.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, which ranks second in the country in percentage of admitted students who are underrepresented in medicine, recently restructured its diversity and inclusion department and elevated the role of DEI operations and oversight into the institutional leadership position of chief diversity officer. .

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

Perhaps the following conversation between Anita Casavantes Bradford and Steven Mintz about how R-1s can support their faculty to find fulfillment in meaningful research and as transformative teachers and mentors can suggest some answers. What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?

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Operating a Continuing Education Unit in Startup Mode

MindMax

MindMax Founder and CEO Lee Maxey recently hosted a webinar with UPCEA featuring Annette Roberts Webb , Dean of UC Merced Extension. Titled PCO Startup Mode: Balancing Long-Term Strategy with a Practical Launch at UC Merced Extension , the webinar sparked a fascinating discussion about operating a continuing education unit in startup mode.