Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

Charles “Chipper” Griffith III will become dean of the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Medicine, effective Jul. Dr. Charles Griffith III Griffith is currently acting dean of the college, a role he has been in since July 2021. Griffith understands Kentucky needs the UK College of Medicine,” said UK Provost Dr. Robert S.

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JUNE 6, 2023

Jose Coll will become provost and vice president of academic affairs at Western Oregon University, effective June 30. Dr. Jose Coll He is currently dean of the School of Social Work and interim dean of the College of Education at Portland State University. Marine Corps.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Michelle Robinson has become senior vice provost for faculty affairs at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) as of Feb. Robinson is a proven leader and collaborator with expansive institutional knowledge and extensive experience,” said Dr. Pam Benoit, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs.

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MindMax

DECEMBER 15, 2022

What do higher education leaders worry about the most? I recently hosted an interactive event bringing together leaders and pioneers in the higher education community for an evening of discussion on an important and relevant topic: Reflections & Predictions. Reflections: What are Higher Education Leaders Most Worried About?

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

Julian Vasquez Heilig steps into his post as Western Michigan University’s (WMU) provost and vice president for academic affairs this January, he will be giving the school membership in an exceedingly small club. McBride and provost and executive vice president for academic affairs Dr. Renée T. Vasquez Heiling agrees. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig, an educational researcher whose work on racial equity and teacher preparation has received national recognition, will be the next provost and vice president for academic affairs at Western Michigan University. He will do the same as provost at Western Michigan University.”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Daniel , executive vice president and chief operating officer of Education Forward Arizona, has been appointed president of South Mountain Community College, in Arizona. Van Brunt , provost and vice president for academic affairs at Gwynedd Mercy University, in Pennsylvania, has been chosen as president of Spring Hill College, in Alabama.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Cabrini University will eliminate a handful of senior academic leadership jobs—including the post of provost—as part of a larger reorganization to downsize, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The School of Business and Professional Studies will remain as the other school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

She resigned to return full-time to her other role as dean of the School of Business and Industry. FAMU trustee Belvin Perry praised Friday-Stroud, who presided over record numbers in giving but previously expressed her desire to return to the School of Business and Industry full-time. million in cash and $10.7

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image: The University of Houston suddenly removed its dean of social work last month. The former dean, Alan Dettlaff—who is returning to the social work faculty, for now—says his views on racial justice got him fired.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Fredrick Muyia Nafukho will become vice provost for the University of Washington Office of Academic Personnel. Dr. Fredrick Nafukho Nafukho will also become tenured faculty in the Department of Management and Organization in the Foster School of Business.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Katherine Baicker , Emmett Dedmon Professor and dean of the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, in Illinois, has been appointed provost there. Jay Gatrell , provost and vice president for academic affairs at Eastern Illinois University, has been selected as president there. Rear Admiral William G.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Tsai Lu Liu has been appointed dean of the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design (AAD) at Virginia Tech, effective Jul. Tsai Lu Liu Liu is the head of the Department of Graphic Design and Industrial Design at North Carolina State University. Liu holds a B.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert , associate dean of the faculty at Scripps College, in California, has been selected as provost and executive vice president of University of the Pacific, also in California. Jenkins , dean and William S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 25, 2024

The College of Connected Computing will collaborate with all of Vanderbilt’s schools and colleges to advance breakthrough discoveries and strengthen computing education through a “computing for all” approach. Cybele Raver and to School of Engineering Dean Dr. Krishnendu “Krish” Roy. Krishnendu “Krish” Roy.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Dimetri Horner , associate vice provost of academics at Strayer University, in Illinois, has been named provost and vice president of academic affairs at Harris-Stowe State University, in Missouri. McFadden Sr. Editorial Tags: College administration New presidents Presidents Is this diversity newsletter?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

Meyer , former interim president and interim provost at Blackburn College, in Illinois, has been named president there. Mills , vice chancellor and senior vice provost for global programs and university life at New York University, has been appointed president there. Ambrose University, in Iowa.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Williams spoke to Inside Higher Ed about her career journey, managing her own professional development, the value of the student success offices housed within the provost’s office, and how others can position themselves as student success champions. At UT, my job would be much more difficult if I didn’t report to the provost.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Image: Faculty members at the College of William & Mary are concerned that the institution is purposely excluding them from conversations about the future.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2023

Ontario Wooden Wooden is currently provost and senior vice president at Alcorn State. Wooden holds a doctorate in higher education and a master’s degree in the higher education from Indiana University Bloomington (IUB); and a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education from Albany State University.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Woodruff, who has been provost since 2020, will become MSU’s fifth president—including interims—since 2018. Gupta allegedly failed to report an instance of a business school employee touching a student inappropriately, leading to his ouster. Woodruff steps into the position vacated by Dr. Samuel Stanley Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Harper Harper is currently provost and vice president of academic affairs at CSUB. Previously, he was dean of academic programs at the school. “Dr. He is a student-focused leader with a longstanding dedication to educational equity and a demonstrated commitment to institutional achievement through university-wide collaboration.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education tells the unique story about what Americans think of higher education. We have the greatest higher education system in the world. In between tracing the historiography of higher education in the U.S., I couldn’t wait to go to college.”

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University Business

MAY 17, 2024

Provost Michael I. Brooks School of Public Policy and launched new programs in sustainability, digital agriculture, artificial intelligence and design, among other areas. Chilton Elsewhere across higher education, there has been a minor hiring surge of colleges and universities filling vacancies at the top.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

The private Roman Catholic university boasts a leadership of majority women, with women leading all four of the school's academic schools as deans. Kelly McNeal, dean of the School of Education. To note, this is not the first time GCU has had an all-women deanship, said Dr. Janice Warner, provost of GCU.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Kathleen Murray Murray, president emeritus of Whitman College, has previously served as the first female president of Whitman; provost and dean of the faculty at Macalester College; provost and vice president for academic affairs at Birmingham-Southern College; and Dean of the Faculty at Lawrence University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

Julie Kornfeld Kornfeld is currently vice provost for academic programs at Columbia University. She has also served as vice dean for education and associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health; and assistant dean and director of education at University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine.

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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. Dr. George Timmons Timmons is currently provost and senior vice president of academic and student affairs at Columbia-Greene Community College (CGCC).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

When ChatGPT, the large language model (LLM) AI that can generate long, detailed answers to complicated questions, was first made accessible to the public in November 2022, it changed the landscape of education forever. “As Calhoun, assistant vice president and dean of the Center for Academic Success at Seton Hall University, agrees. “As

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

So this is an effort to try to remedy that with the School of Civic Life and Leadership, which will provide equal opportunity for both views to be taught.” ” A draft budget memo , provided Tuesday to Inside Higher Ed in response to an open records request, projects the school would cost about $3.5 million next year but $12.7

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Ben Vinson III Vinson – a historian of the African diaspora in Latin America – is currently provost at Case Western Reserve University. Howard, as a school, has “serious momentum,” and will rise to the upper echelon of research universities, Vinson said. But the presidency does come with some hurdles of its own.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Wendi Williams Wendi Williams has been appointed provost and senior vice president of Fielding Graduate University. Williams served as dean of the School of Education at Mills College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Cady Short-Thompson Short-Thompson is currently CEO and executive director of educational equity at the nonprofit Breakthrough Cincinnati. She previously served as provost at Hope College and dean at Cincinnati Blue Ash College. This appointment marks a return to NKU for Short-Thompson.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 7, 2023

Dr. Pardis Mahdavi Mahdavi served as provost and executive vice president at the University of Montana most recently. Previously, she was acting dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and director of the Pacific Basin Institute and dean of women at Pomona College.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 28, 2023

Means Coleman, PhD, Vice President & Associate Provost for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer, and the Ida B. Coleman implements diversity accountability processes by working collaboratively with Northwestern’s 12 schools and colleges on three campuses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

has been appointed provost at the University of Pennsylvania. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Richard Perry University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Jackson Jr. Jackson Jr. Jackson is Walter H. He earned a bachelor’s degree in communication from Howard University and a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 23, 2023

Stanley left that year after arguments with trustees and the handling of a Title IX report involving then-business school dean Dr. Sanjay Gupta. The report’s authors found that only one allegation against the former dean − failure to report an administrator’s sexual misconduct − was valid. Samuel Stanley.

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