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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. ” That is, undergraduate programs with fewer than 12 students per full-time faculty member over a period of five years are no longer accepting new students.

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Nation’s First-Ever Black Honors College Hopes to Inspire Others

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Planning and development of the BHC began in August 2023, and “has been a joyful, intensive, and very efficient experience,” said Boatomo Ati Mosupyoe, PhD, dean of students and chief administration officer for the BHC. “We We get a lot of questions about the difference between us and an honors program.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The college’s dean, Dr. David E. Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. There had been previous conversations about transitioning the program to a department, but those had not moved forward. Last year, he hired another faculty person.

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Patty Limerick speaks out on her dismissal from her center

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Patty Limerick, co-founder and longtime faculty director of the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Center of the American West, says her firing last week continues to shock her, especially as she had been planning to step down soon anyway. The committee members also expressed concerns about lack of due process for Limerick.

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Massasoit Community College Launches New Black Studies Major

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

So far, the program has seen a slow uptake, but leaders are optimistic about its future, hopeful and dedicated to building and growing the program at a time when other institutions are cutting back on ethnic and Black studies programs amid pushback against diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

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Chinese food cost complainer sues over Harvard tenure denial

Inside Higher Ed

Now an economist at Microsoft, Edelman received four degrees, including a law degree, from Harvard; joined the faculty there at age 26; and went on to expose significant online misdeeds, his lawsuit says. On Tuesday, that now former associate professor, Ben Edelman (at right), sued Harvard over that rejection.

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Professor's murder on campus raises urgent safety questions

Inside Higher Ed

The dean of students determined in February that Dervish had violated the student code of conduct and sanctioned him with expulsion for stalking, failure to comply with the directives of university officials and discriminatory conduct. The university defines stalking, in part, as unwanted contact and repeated behavior.