Deans for Impact

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

I’m inspired by the rich history and look forward to leading us to even greater achievements.” Williams has demonstrated proven success in strategic planning, community engagement, legislative advocacy, and fundraising, according to Board Chair Lynn Parman. Williams served as president of Utah Tech University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

Oliver's legacy will continue to inspire our center as we expand access to public service as a profession and promote research and public policy that confronts systemic inequalities,” said Dr. James Jones, a sociology and Africana Studies professor at Rutgers-Newark and co-director of the Sheila Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Awaiting them in the program are two tracks: one on the science of cannabis and the other on the social justice and policy around cannabis. As early as the program’s first course, students will be taught about policy issues, incarceration, criminal justice, and racial bias as it relates to cannabis, Poli said. "We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

“The long-standing collaboration between LSAC and AALS and the impressive histories and strengths of both organizations will ensure a smooth transition in July,” she continued. “In Testy served as Dean and Professor of Law at University of Washington School of Law from 2009 to 2017 and at Seattle University School of Law from 2005 to 2009.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently writing a book, Persistence of Error: A Natural History of Mutation, explaining genetic mutation for non-scientists.

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FIRE

OCTOBER 18, 2022

But FIRE, ever hopeful that change could yet be on the horizon, hopes a strong (albeit imperfect) statement last week from Yale Law School’s dean could usher in that long-awaited era. FIRE remains hopeful the broader university’s dark, censorious days may soon be history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2023

Lawrence II “I especially look forward to working with the academic deans, department chairs, and the faculty – including them in the decision-making process to move Lincoln University to its next level of preeminence,” Lawrence said. Dr. Stevie L. Lawrence holds a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

On March 7th, Congressman Scott, the “dean” of Virginia’s congressional delegation, introduced McClellan to a packed U.S. With so many references to Langston and his prominence in Virginia history, why is it that Virginians don’t know more about him or the other African Americans who were elected during and after Reconstruction?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Julian Vasquez Heilig, dean of the University of Kentucky’s (UK) College of Education, has been named the winner of the University Council for Educational Administration's (UCEA) 2022 Linda C. Tillman Social and Racial Justice Award. Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig The award – named after diversity and equity advocate Linda C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

They claim, “All policies should be color-blind, otherwise “we” are practicing reverse discrimination and racism against white people.” Affirmative Action policies were a start to combat racial discrimination. One of my all-time favorite assertions is that affirmative action is a form of reverse discrimination. We are not there yet.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Disciplines involved include history, literary studies, philosophy, bioethics, cultural studies, religion, psychology, medical anthropology, and the visual and performing arts. Williams, dean of Howard University’s Graduate School , professor of African-American literature, and grant co-leader.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

They were both American-focused courses, one on the history of American education and the other on the history of American public policy. Like my courses in the United States, I engaged my Qatari students in a critical history of the United States, one that centered the history of race.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

LaVar Charleston studied public relations, marketing, educational leadership and policy analysis. history, gender and race with the law. Jackson, formerly a professor and department chair at UW – Madison who is now the dean of the College of Education at Michigan State University, and James L. Jerlando F.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Without full disaggregation of student population data, the stories, history, and culture of Native Hawaiian students, faculty, and staff can often go unseen in higher education. ole Osorio, dean of Hawai?inui?kea The new policy would “help support Native Hawaiian sovereignty and self-determination,” Haaland said. Broader U.S.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

FIRE ranks the top 10 colleges across the nation in no particular order, and institutions were selected based on some of their head-scratching decisions such as circumventing a teacher’s academic freedom, removing funding from an LGBTQ+ event, instating policies that would streamline firing tenured professors, and others.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Vasquez Helig—who is currently the dean of the School of Education at the University of Kentucky—is slated to step into his new role in January. "We It is also unprecedented to have an educational policy expert leading as a provost at a major research institution that boasts a student population of about 24,000. “We

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The venue has a history of racial discrimination and antisemitism ; it famously barred both Black crooner Sammy Davis Jr. Rodmon King, the college’s former dean of institutional equity and inclusion (IEI), resigned in protest over the fundraiser on Tuesday after Bergeron decided to proceed with the event despite his concerns.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Along that same line, experts spent the webinar discussing strategies and recent briefs on equitable admissions in higher ed, specifically on topics such as recruitment, legacy admissions, early action practices, test-optional and test-free policies, and holistic review of student applications.

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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. in health policy in 1994 from Brandeis University. She is the first Black female president in the school’s 186-year history. Mount Union (Ohio), St. Norbert College (Wis.) Mills received her Ph.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Oreskes, a professor of the history of science at Harvard University, earned her Ph.D. from Stanford in the 1980s and went on to become one of the leading scholars of climate science history, as well as a fierce advocate for the role of academia in advancing urgent climate solutions. But Oreskes refused the offer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

When Dr. Elmer Guy first came to Crownpoint Institute of Technology in 1999 as dean of instruction, he could not have known that, 24 years later, he would oversee the institution’s renaming to Navajo Technical University (NTU). It became the first tribal college and university, or TCU, to offer a Ph.D. This is the mission of TCUs.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

A month after she graduated in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in history and global culture, she was hired by her alma mater to do just that. Garret Naiman, associate vice chancellor and dean of students at UC Santa Cruz, believes the director’s position is key to harnessing all the services available to students in need.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Bowman (left), Michigan State University’s associate dean for academic and student affairs, and other leaders from the university’s college of education. Gmelch, who, at the time, served as dean of Iowa State’s College of Education and had emerged as a national expert on college deans. “I Jerlando F.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Image: Much about Oberlin College is unique, including long-standing policies guaranteeing the faculty a say in matters that extend well beyond academics. The college’s former dean was implicated in that case, per her presence at a protest, and risk assessment was a part of how Oberlin navigated the lawsuit.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. ” That bit of history wasn’t helpful to newbies.) But failing to notice the history doesn’t make it, or its effects, go away. The focus that year was American history, and we were focusing on the Supreme Court and various civil rights cases.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 17, 2023

They broadly agreed that the plaintiffs who are suing Harvard and the University of North Carolina, claiming that their affirmative action policies discriminate against Asian Americans, do not represent the views of that group as a whole. Race-conscious admissions have been banned in California since 1997.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2023

Hentschke, Stoops Dean and Cooper Chair Emeritus at the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education. They agreed that HBCUs have been remarkably resilient throughout history. They come from state governments, policy people, pundits. Dr. Guilbert C. Some of them are critics of HBCUs,” she said. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

“Faculty need to be clear when they are working with students that one of the primary limitations of AI, generative AI, and LLMs is they are crowdsourcing information — by definition, providing for you a majoritarian view of the world,” says Dr. Inara Scott, senior associate dean in the College of Business at Oregon State University.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The role of the ADO varies and is often impacted by the size, individual culture, and histories of their institutional division. Similar to the challenges that ADOs face, ADIDs’ roles vary by size, individual culture, and histories of their institutional athletic departments.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It bans affirmative action not only in race but other protected categories, and not just in admissions but in hiring practices and awarding money,” says Dr. Mark Henderson, associate dean of admissions and vice chair for education in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of California (UC) Davis.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Degree programs are focused on global and community health, health administration and policy, nursing, nutrition and food studies, and social work. The School of Health will largely focus on policy and public health concerns with an emphasis on addressing historical inequities and disparities in underrepresented communities.

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University Business

JULY 5, 2023

Roth and Amin Abdul-Malik Gonzalez, Vice President and Dean of Admission and Financial Aid, find the ruling tone deaf. However, the University of Missouri System, by the urging of the state attorney general , is interpreting the ruling to implement “race-blind” policies and eliminate minority scholarships. “As

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

While many of its peers have added master’s programs to their offerings, officials at Gustavus Adolphus never came close to doing so until eight years ago, when a national coalition of athletic training organizations announced a policy change requiring trainers to have master’s degrees to become certified.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

After earning an undergraduate degree here in accounting, he returned as a faculty member in 1998, serving 11 years as a professor and 12 years as business school dean. President Randall said, "I find history to be the most instructive leadership manual I've ever seen." You might say we're irrationally passionate about this place.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. It also was a serious loss for the Worcester region because of Becker College’s long and impactful history in the area and the prominence of several academic programs.

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Arts And Sciences Faculty Facilities Deans 98

Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

“[FRB chair Amy] Edmondson asked for a list of all of his outside activities from the past two years and an accounting of when and where he thought about disclosures or seeking approval from the dean. His posting caused Blinkx shares to fall the most in the company’s history.”

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