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Mount Holyoke Taps Howard University Law Dean to Lead College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Howard University law professor and dean has been named Mount Holyoke College’s first permanent Black female president in the institution’s 186-year history. I think its values, what it represents, is the best of higher education.” Her presence and impact will be truly missed on our beloved campus.”

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Unveiling An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education tells the unique story about what Americans think of higher education. Gittleman cleverly weaves in stories about how, as a child of East European immigrants who did not read or write English, he would come to learn about this phenomenal enterprise.

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2022 in Review: Building a Movement to Make Pedagogy a Priority in Teacher Preparation

Deans for Impact

At Deans for Impact, we stand committed to elevating teachers and teaching and equipping all future teachers with the scientifically-based tools to create rigorous, equitable, and inclusive learning environments where all students thrive. Read on for more of our 2022 impact. 195 faculty and clinical educators supported.

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President’s corner: Why Ed Feasel values cultivating global citizens at Soka University

University Business

“The presidents adding to their curriculum and innovating are mission-centric and value-based,” he says. “Others that have a long history—or even a short history—but don’t have that specific attention tend to maintain just a steady state.” It’s not like how I taught at other institutions.”

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Change is an opportunity. Amid deepening pressures, universities must seize it

University Business

Amid declining enrollment, diminished public confidence and generational shifts in the workforce, change may be our only constant and the only universal necessity in the 21st century. It’s essential to position academic reviews in the context of their long history and widespread use.

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Lafayette dept. heads, program chairs raise governance concerns

Inside Higher Ed

” The second point said that “Dean positions are created and filled before dean positions are defined[;] input is requested only after key decisions are made.” “I don’t think anybody is going to feel comfortable talking about this right now,” said Wendy Wilson-Fall.

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

Insight Into Diversity

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 Our goal,” Wood said, “is to give them the mechanism to create that experience at Sacramento State.”

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