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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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Intrigued by Bats

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

University of Maryland Career mentors: Claudia Coen, Irby Lovette, John Hermanson, and Dan Riskin, all at Cornell University; Brock Fenton, Western University; Jerry Wilkinson, University of Maryland; Rachel Page, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Damien Farine Jr., Cornell University; M.S., University of Western Ontario; and Ph.D.,

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College Sports: A Work in Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Smith acknowledges that much progress has been made since she was a student-athlete at Stanford University in the 1990s — notably DEI divisions in athletic departments — but most athletic staffs don’t reflect the student-athlete populations. “We They were making demands and holding administration’s feet to the fire.”

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Passion and Perseverance

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Nathaniel Currie Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Clark Atlanta University Age: 40 Education: B.S., He said he viewed the field as one essentially about humanity. I can remember being in high school and not knowing the first thing about how to really help myself,” Currie said. Dr. Jenny L.

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Field of study not key to new academic program success

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Shamard Charles “With the pandemic, we have a heightened sense of the importance of public health not just in our everyday lives but how public health is weaved into everything we do and how we think about the world,” says Dr. Shamard Charles, MD-MPH, assistant professor of public health at St. Elimelda Ongeri, dean of the John R.