Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Over the past decade, some historically Black institutions have developed women’s and gender studies programs and embedded courses within general education curriculum. Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. and presented it to the department chair who in turn presented it to the dean, Dr. Marshall Stevenson.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

An Alabama jury awarded Michael Stern $645,837 in damages, finding after a two-week trial that Stern’s former dean illegally punished him for speaking out. The First Amendment and academic freedom are the cornerstones of higher education.” A new dean, Joseph Aistrup, was appointed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

By summer, the college had taken decisive action — hiring Donald Jaamal to be dean of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and Title IX coordinator. “In Jaamal, who has worked in various positions in higher education for more than a decade, says listening was very important before starting to develop programming.

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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. “It feels very validating.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

More than half of the college’s roughly 100 eligible faculty members chose to participate in the process that led to the December hiring of Strom Thacker, dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs at Union College. You want to see how a president responds to tough questions and to various personalities at a college.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Over all, they described “similar numbers of growing and failing programs” and suggested that lowering the failure rate “would be a huge step forward for higher education.” percent failure rate for 156 new programs in the liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2023

Hamline is a liberal arts institution, the oldest in Minnesota, the first to admit women, and now led by a woman of color. Tenure-track and tenured faculty in art history of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, issued a statement in support of López Prater, who earned her Ph.D. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 16, 2023

The goal of our awards program is to highlight those doing great work in higher education digital learning. How it Started The initial meeting was in person and included Laura Wind-Norton, then Dean of University Transfer and Liberal Arts, who deserves much credit for organizing the project and team.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Pete Zuraw of Gordian, publisher of the annual State of Facilities in Higher Education Report , recalls one facilities leader at a Midwestern university announcing he was finally at the head of the table—but he quipped, “I’m the only one at the table because everyone else has gone home.

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