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Penn’s Sniegowski Named Earlham President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Earlham has an important and longstanding place within the distinctive liberal arts tradition in the United States. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He joined Penn’s Department of Biology in 1997 after a postdoctoral fellowship at Michigan State University.

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President moves: Recent resignations show 3 reasons why a leader steps down

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Prior to that, he served as the president of Wilmington College (Ohio) and the founding associate dean of health sciences at Heidelberg University. One campaign he oversaw helped draw in $66 million, the largest in school history, Telegram & Gazette reports. The throughline of Bates’ career is his passion for healthcare.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

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Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Following his and others’ departures, he said, just one full-time professor will remain in his department.

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Bringing Greater Impact

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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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Lafayette dept. heads, program chairs raise governance concerns

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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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Massasoit Community College Launches New Black Studies Major

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That’s when student responses to a survey about the need for a culturally diverse curriculum prompted the creation of two courses related to the Black experience in film and music, says Dr. Carine Sauvignon, executive dean for Massasoit’s Canton campus. The program got approval last spring.

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Chaos in Connecticut: Faculty, students seek to replace ‘bullying’ president

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A proposed fundraiser event by a small liberal arts school president has incited an avalanche, calling for the resignation of a school dean and drawing the Board of Trustees into the muck as 120 faculty pressure the Board to begin its new president search immediately. We made that decision believing that our values were clear.

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