University Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A proposed fundraiser event by a small liberal arts school president has incited an avalanche, calling for the resignation of a school dean and drawing the Board of Trustees into the muck as 120 faculty pressure the Board to begin its new president search immediately.

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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. there were protests on campus.

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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. This program presents an opportunity to help rectify that and also to understand the lasting impact that cannabis has had on human history and evolution, she said. It's a big business.

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University Business

MAY 10, 2024

“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.” 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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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

” 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 am one of many pretenure faculty who are leaving the college,” Bell said. ” But the letter does discuss the dean situation.

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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. Danielle Ren Holley: Mount Holyoke College Before being reined as the 20th president of Mount Holyoke College, she was busy revitalizing Howard University’s school of law as dean and professor.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

That’s when student responses to a survey about the need for a culturally diverse curriculum prompted the creation of two courses related to the Black experience in film and music, says Dr. Carine Sauvignon, executive dean for Massasoit’s Canton campus. Massasoit officials agree.

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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

JUNE 29, 2023

Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College. Specifically, he oversaw increased diversity among his faculty and staff and created a new cabinet position overseeing DEI and belonging.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

To thine own powers appeal,” the NTS operated from 1909-1961 and complemented its vocational curriculum with mandatory courses in Black history and the liberal arts. And from 1922-1937, Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe brought a “ blueprint ” of #BlackGirlMagic to Howard University. “So Mama, tell me a story.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

As Dean of the Faculty, she reviewed their recruitment, appointment and promotion; additionally, she oversaw the budget, personnel and graduate programs across multiple academic departments. Jenkins is set to become Bates College’s first Black president in its 168-year history. ” Rivera-Mills begin this June. .

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

It was a blow to the students, faculty and staff of this private college in Worcester, Mass., which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. The two institutions shared both history and a deep connection to the Worcester community.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

But a combination of competitive pressures, demographic patterns and accreditation requirements in one of its most job skill–focused undergraduate fields has led the private liberal arts institution to create its first-ever master’s degree—and to consider adding others. ” But enrollment has since declined.

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2023

He also led the school through seven of its largest freshman enrollment classes in Langston’s 126-year history. as the dean of students, interim vice president of student affairs and vice president of academic affairs. will be remembered at Langston for helping secure a Tulsa campus and a permanent Oklahoma City Campus.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Perhaps the following conversation between Anita Casavantes Bradford and Steven Mintz about how R-1s can support their faculty to find fulfillment in meaningful research and as transformative teachers and mentors can suggest some answers. ” However, our campuses and our faculty roles have changed dramatically in the last few decades.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

percent failure rate for 156 new programs in the liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities. Scott Muir, director of undergraduate initiatives for the National Humanities Alliance, which promotes the value of studying the humanities, described challenges faced by deans and faculty members trying to launch new programs.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

AAC&U – American Association of Colleges and Universities – this is the organization that focusses on liberal-arts education across higher education with an emphasis on enhancing the quality of teaching and learning and advocacy on the power of a liberal education. including college and university counselors.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 16, 2023

The Solution The project was to rebuild an existing Native American Art course being offered by Nicolet College. As the only full-time art faculty at the college, much of this work fell to me, Nate Wilson, Fine Arts Instructor. Still, because I’m not Native American, I felt quite nervous about attempting this project.

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Echo Delta

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Jeff Kallay: You’re a graduate of a small liberal arts college? ” There are a lot of beautiful liberal arts colleges out there. Jeff Kallay: We’re a traditional national ranked liberal arts college with about how many undergrads? Mae Watters: I am. Mae Watters: How did I end up in Sewanee?

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

He went on to chair MIT Sloan School’s Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting; then became Deputy Dean of the school; and eventually serve for three years as the Chief Economist for the Security and Exchange Commission of the United States before returning to MIT. I was certainly right about his career prospects. And why not?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Bill Conley William Conley began his career in education as an AP History teacher and coach at Delbarton School, transitioning into higher education enrollment management in 1980. At Colgate University, where I was, an assistant director of financial aid and, eventually became an assistant dean of admission there.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Isn’t there something presumptuous for an R1 can step in and do a better job than those other institutions – especially when they won’t be able to offer wrap-around student supports or extensive interaction with faculty and classmates? Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Echo Delta

OCTOBER 30, 2021

And in 2021, they brought in the largest class in Lynn’s 60 year history. But Transylvania, we are a private liberal arts institution. We have an enrollment of about a thousand students, primarily residential, great school, great faculty, great community. Sarah, Gareth, Jeff, welcome. And that’s okay.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 2, 2024

” This document, a noteworthy publication in AGB’s 110-year history and only the 13th such statement, addresses crucial issues in contemporary educational governance. And I sit actually as a trustee on a small, liberal arts college halfway around the world called High Gaussian College. In the landscape of U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2023

Image: Hamline University has been engrossed in an academic freedom debate this year over the actions of an adjunct instructor at the private Minnesota institution who was teaching global art history. Hamline is a liberal arts institution, the oldest in Minnesota, the first to admit women, and now led by a woman of color.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

A Brief History of American Higher Education Part Three — The Democratization of Institutions and Ideas AAUP At the end of the 19 th and beginning of the 20 th century, there were numerous threats to academic freedom including a handful of celebrated cases. · Every faculty handbook has been shaped by their collective influence.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

These include not only students learning from faculty but also students learning from each other and faculty learning from students. Previously, Echambadi served as the dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. Our guest today is Dr. Raj Echambadi, president of the Illinois Institute of Technology.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Campuses need to do more to cultivate a sense of belonging and connection with faculty, classmates, and the campus itself. I think it’s fair to say that our offices of the dean of students, student life, and student affairs need to do better. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Drumm McNaughton McNaughton and Reichman cover the processes and conclusions of the AAUP report, emphasizing the detrimental effects on academic governance, academic freedom, and the well-being of faculty and students. Notable among these are faculty departures and a discernible decline in academic standards.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2024

Najam Haider, chair of religion at Barnard College, a private women's liberal arts college that is part of Columbia. Some of us in faculty have different positions when it comes to the issue of Israel and Palestine. Some of us in faculty have different positions when it comes to the issue of Israel and Palestine.

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