MindMax

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Summer isn’t what it used to be for higher education institutions and their students. Today, colleges and universities everywhere increasingly embrace the concept of a holistic year , and summer sessions have become an essential component of both standard and alternative educational pathways. Study abroad programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2023

This appointment makes her the second woman to lead the school. Petersen Petersen is a professor of political science and dean of the Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tulsa (TU). She was previously faculty and dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Paul Sniegowski has been named the 21st president of Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion. 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.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Two presidents have been hired at small private colleges in the past two weeks and one leader is choosing to retire after four decades in higher education. The private nursing school will officially welcome its fifth president on May 6, according to school communications. The work was done in collaboration with the provost.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

She will be the first woman to lead the school. Dr. Safa Zaki Zaki is currently dean of the faculty and the John B. I am elated by Safa Zaki’s appointment,” said Trustee Bertrand Garcia-Moreno, professor in the Jenkins Department of Biophysics and vice dean in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2023

George Timmons will become president of Holyoke Community College, pending approval of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, MassLive reported. He has previously been dean of the School of Liberal Arts and founding dean of online education at Excelsior College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Michael West, head of Penn State’s Department of African American Studies, has resigned from the role, alleging that leadership broke promises and questioning the school's commitment to diversity and equity, Centre Daily Times reported. Dr. Michael West West will continue to serve as a tenured professor in the department. West resigned Apr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

Ron DeSantis has appointed six new board members to the New College of Florida, a step towards turning the school into a more conservative institution, the Herald-Tribune reported. "It The students and faculty at New College – a small school – have a reputation for leaning left politically, so a conservative turn may see resistance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Rhonda Phillips Phillips is currently the inaugural dean of the John Martinson Honors College at Purdue University. Phillips said she aims to create sustainable financial models, enrollment numbers, and programs, as well as refresh some programs and build upon strong course offerings such as health sciences and liberal arts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Link Previously, Link has been president of Allegheny College, dean of Temple University Rome, vice provost at Barnard College of Columbia University, and director of scholar programs at New York University. “I Link will become president of Drew University, effective Jul. Dr. Hilary L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

She has also served as associate dean for Tulane University's School of Liberal Arts; dean of arts, humanities and social sciences at the University of Denver; and dean of Harpur College of Arts and Sciences.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Exploring Transfer program at Vassar College is a summer intensive that immerses currently enrolled community college students in an academically rigorous environment, providing vital support and encouragement so they can ultimately continue their education at a competitive four-year institution. This is about equity. This is about. —

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Developmental math poses one of the biggest and most immutable challenges in higher education. Unfortunately, that is exactly how developmental math is used in higher education. Math for Liberal Arts is a college-level course designed for non-STEM students to appreciate math. And the list goes on.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Before that, he was vice president for advancement and external relations and vice president for advancement at Alma College; associate vice president for development at Albion College; and assistant dean for development and alumni relations at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing (Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It became the first two-year school in the state of Massachusetts to allow students to attain degrees in Black Studies. In 2020, as interest grew and Black student enrollment increased, Sauvignon crafted a Black Studies curriculum and submitted it to the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. Dr. DB Poli This will make Roanoke College the first college in Virginia to offer a four-year degree in the field of cannabis studies, according to the school.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

and NYU have all recently elected a Black or female president—or both—for the first time in their schools’ histories. The president-designate was NYU’s Vice Chancellor and Senior Vice Provost for Global Programs and University Life for the past decade and is a lifetime member of the school’s senior leadership team.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

I suspect this pattern of continuous review and adjustment will define all of higher education in this country going forward.” Previously frozen programs are those in African studies, Asian studies, film studies, French, museum studies, music, music education and world religions, professors said.

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University Business

APRIL 28, 2023

In higher education, presidential appointments can oftentimes be straightforward. School leaders are appointed to lead an institution for their quantifiably successful work, like Ron Patterson at Chadron State College. increase and a 47% increase in new transfer students, according to the school website.

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University Business

APRIL 30, 2024

Colby College in Maine has promised the Class of 2029 that middle-class students who enroll will find their private liberal arts degree more affordable than many in-state public institutions. ” Greene’s comments shed light on a more significant issue across higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

School officials declined to cancel the event, citing freedom of speech. Then, in a public statement , Bendapudi said the school would invest in existing programs to the sum of at least $3.5 One faculty diversity committee told administrators the school’s actions were undermining its work. Faculty also led a protest last week.

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Among higher education’s most recent presidential comings and goings, we have a mix of vetted academics and professionals who draw on the wealth of their outside experience. Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College.

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Liaison International

APRIL 5, 2023

In the rolling hills of Amherst, Massachusetts, Hampshire College offers students a unique and unconventional liberal arts education. Not many schools like this exist. With 20 first-year students, the school was in jeopardy of closing its doors.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Several of them are also coming in as either the first woman or the first of their race or ethnicity to lead their school. Cheryl McConnell, Saint Joseph’s University, the school’s first female president. she helped broaden the school’s admission of diverse students, specifically those of first-generation standing.

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University Business

JUNE 23, 2023

Money , an American personal finance website that writes about mortgages, loans, credit, investing and more, revamped its list due to the changing needs of lower- and middle-class Americans looking for the best investment based on what they personally value amid higher education’s inflated price tag.

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University Business

MAY 10, 2024

” Feasel’s experience as a higher education administrator is deeply rooted in SUA’s mission to develop global citizens. Before becoming the private liberal arts school’s second president, he was a founding faculty member and became the dean of faculty after SUA graduated its first class.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

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. The college’s dean, Dr. David E.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The professor, Samuel Joeckel, said in an email that the dean of his department and the university’s provost waited outside the class he was teaching last week to inform him of the news. The dean had an envelope in his hand and gave it to me. “On Feb. “On Feb. “They asked to speak with me privately.

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University Business

MARCH 8, 2024

The majority of the college leaders transitioning in or out of the president position in the past two weeks have demonstrated excellence in one of higher education’s top executive positions. In McDonnell’s previous roles at UMF in the past 13 years, he’s served as a faculty member, dean and provost.

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University Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Ron DeSantis and his plan to re-envision education in Florida. Among the slate of presidents to announce their plans to retire in the next year, all three double as school alumni. He came into power at the small liberal arts school after a DeSantis-backed overhaul of the Board of Trustees ousted former President Patricia Okker.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Newman, whose book will be published March 7, is former dean of academic advising at Stanford University and John M. Virtually all institutions—certainly all liberal arts schools—have language in their mission statements about turning out critical thinkers and lifelong learners.   and Elizabeth W.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 15, 2023

Since then, prospective students (and their parents) have used the rankings as a guide for where to consider going to school. While the rankings can be a valuable tool, they’re also quite controversial in that they tend to favor prestigious schools where the student populations largely come from white, affluent families. The problem?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

In 1905, Black feminist civic leader and educator Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944), penned an essay titled, ‘The Colored Girl.’ Similarly attuned to intrinsic Black girl value, Nannie Helen Burroughs (1883-1961) founded The National Training School for Women and Girls [NTS] in Washington, DC. Guided by the motto “Work.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Yesterday I asked my wise and worldly readers to help me figure out how to do concurrent enrollment at scale. I was particularly interested in the credentials expected of the high school teachers who are deputized to teach college classes. Many wrote from other states.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. liberal arts colleges, community colleges and master’s-level institutions) is necessary to understand the full picture of academic hiring.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

On the conference’s Student Mobility and Partnerships panel, Humber College ’s associate dean of global partnerships and education, Rebecca Fitzgerald, said that discussing each other’s strategic priorities is a vital building block.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The culminating experience for the EAB Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship was the capstone project that substantively contributed to the fellows’ professional advancement and helped solve a pressing challenge facing their home institutions. The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more.

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