Deans for Impact

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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. 20 fellows. 15+ states represented.

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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. Sniegowski’s scientific work focuses on evolutionary and population genetic theory as a framework for understanding genetic mutation rates and mutational phenomena. in biology from Indiana University, Bloomington; and a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

I think we’re living in a time right now of grave misinformation, of suppression of history, and of rolling back of civil and human rights, and we need to know how we got here.” There are also plans for two additional tenure-track faculty lines, said Dr. Beronda Montgomery, Grinnell dean and vice president of academic affairs. “I

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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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Liberal Arts University History Faculty 52

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

HBCU: The Power of Historically Black Colleges and Universities , published by Johns Hopkins University Press, provides personal anecdotes from past and present HBCU students and leaders about the critical role that these storied institutions have played throughout history. But the book is not merely an exercise in nostalgia.

Leadership 130

Leadership History Environment Provost 130

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

history, gender and race with the law. Together, the two work to make organizational, leadership, and cultural changes that transform higher education into a welcoming space for marginalized populations. We’ve worked for nearly two decades collaboratively to figure out how to approach this work.” Jerlando F.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Dr. Natalie Person, dean for curricular development at Rhodes college, notes that Memphis is one of the most understudied regions in the United States. And we are a vibrant, culturally rich city with a very interesting history that the rest of the world doesn't know much about.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2023

When Brown University released its landmark 2006 report documenting the institution’s historical involvement in slavery, many of its recommendations were one-time fixes: revising the university’s official history, creating memorials, and the like. For us, the question of racial slavery could not just be an academic affair,” said Bogues.

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History Model Humanities Schooling 105

Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2024

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 He believes that ten years from now, Black honors colleges will exist across the country.

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College Achievement Dean Of Students Leadership 105

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Medical humanities recenters health in a broader social, cultural, and historical context, using humanities and social sciences methods to analyze the contexts of illness and health. This grant allows us to establish a critical foundation on which to build our work,” said Dr. Dana A.

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Humanities Arts And Sciences Allocate University 105

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

According to a 2020 report from Asian and Pacific Islander Americans (APIA) Scholars, an organization working to support Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) student success, 50% of Native Hawaiian students leave college without receiving a degree or certificate. ole Osorio, dean of Hawai?inui?kea ole Osorio, dean of Hawai?inui?kea

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

We’re having fewer kids, living longer and working differently. Before one can change, one must self-assess As we opened the new calendar year, I announced that UNCG would discontinue 20 academic programs in line with the deans’ recommendations. The first step was honest self-assessment, which gave us a basis for growth.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Image: Harvard University announced its 30th president Thursday, drawing from within to hire Claudine Gay, the first Black president in the institution’s nearly 400-year history. Gay, currently the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was hired after a search that began in July to replace Lawrence S.

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History Arts And Sciences Deans Administration 98

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

Guided by the motto “Work. 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. Support thyself.

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History Liberal Arts Recruitment Deans 105

Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Since its launch in late 2022, the Department of Black Studies at the University of Rochester (UR) has worked to advance conversations surrounding Black and African culture and identity through an interdisciplinary, global lens. Sproull Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, said in a press release. and Mary L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

You can never take a break from social justice work.” The idea here is to engage the Morehouse community and the community beyond our borders, to engage with history as well as contemporary issues,” said Dr. Vicki L. This commemoration holds a lot of value for us at the college. Dr. Kelisha B. Dr. Vicki L. Dr. Glenell M.

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Organization Deans Leadership Higher Education 124

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Since 1804, the New-York Historical Society (New-York Historical) and its stewards have been preserving and showcasing history. A lot of the time, when people think of the work that goes on in museums, they think about curation, what's the exhibition,” Paley said. or higher on a 4.0

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Scholarship Inclusivity Degree Deans 134

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. Elmer Guy “The Ph.D.

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MindMax

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A Brief History of Summer Programming The history of summer programming at higher education institutions can be broken down into three distinct eras. Amid the challenges and opportunities surrounding summer programming, it’s helpful to understand how summer programming started and where it’s heading. College credit programs.

Higher Education 130

Higher Education Education Students Facilities 130

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. That America is flawed.

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Liberal Arts History Humanities Policy 89

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. Jerlando F. Jackson meets with Kristine L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

But this method led to its own problems, including students’ work being falsely flagged as AI-generated. Now almost a year since its release, Brown says CSU faculty and administration are coming to terms with the fact that “policing students’ use [of ChatGPT] is probably impossible, usually ineffective, and definitely inefficient.”

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Education Faculty Humanities Technology 122

Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

Mora hadn’t originally considered working on food and housing insecurity issues, but her mentors saw her passion and drive and encouraged her to do so. 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.

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College Students Deans Dean Of Students 104

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Write your own GenAI use policies for assignments, exams, or even class activities.

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Policy Model Technology Students 113

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This is why we really can’t be doing enough to recruit underrepresented groups to medicine, and why the recent Supreme Court decision really sets us back, while we are already behind.” Mark Henderson, associate dean of admissions and vice chair for education in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of California (UC) Davis.

Medical School 123

Medical School Schooling Recruitment Deans 123

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. We made that decision believing that our values were clear.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Write your own GenAI use policies for assignments, exams, or even class activities.

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Policy Model Technology Students 95

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

It never is, when the work is so important and the goals so ambitious. The past several weeks have proven particularly challenging, and as president, I fully accept my share of responsibility for the circumstances that have led us to this moment,” she wrote in an emailed statement to the campus community Friday morning.

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College Equity Administration Inclusivity 88

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

“The sense of belonging, the sense of understanding self, and the questions about the implications of what that means for their life experience all come into play,” says Goodson, who works with students individually and in team settings. Although the work already existed, formally centering it as an asset of college athletics was significant.

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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. He also told us: "I come from a line of three generations of faculty members here at the University of Utah. And so, for me, this is absolutely my dream job."

Leadership 80

Leadership Higher Education Policy Advise 80

Dr. Missy Alexander

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Like so many campuses, students often try to duck out for the weekend, or schedule their work hours on the weekends so they can attend to their studies the rest of the week. For those who know me, the reference of this title will be obvious. For those who don’t, well, I always have lyrics in my head. You see, the students are here.

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Dean Of Students Provost Retention Deans 75

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Dr. Doris Espiritu EPW was created by Dr. Doris Espiritu, Senior Advisor to the Provost, dean of the Center of Excellence for Engineering & Computer Science, City Colleges of Chicago. The students usually report back to us where they are employed. That’s the most satisfactory point of the work we do.”

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Computer Science Engineering Advise Organization 129

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2023

A lot of institutions are coming to us well after they’ve run out of political, financial, and enrollment capital. Hentschke, Stoops Dean and Cooper Chair Emeritus at the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education. And the problem is, when you don’t discuss it, you’re totally unprepared when you need to consider it.”

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Schooling Deans Institution Retention 123

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Faculty and administrators of color face biases in hiring processes , and often do the “invisible work” of sitting on committees and mentoring students that is devalued when it comes time for promotion or tenure review. That the university is on the cutting edge of being a safe space for all.” But few PWI have chosen to send this message.

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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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Schooling Deans History Policy 83

Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

“The limitations that we’re going to have on us as faculty to make important decisions, and to really shape the institution as it develops into the future, will profoundly influence the student experience.” We as faculty will no longer feel that we are vital partners working with the administration and the board.”

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Faculty Deans Administration Provost 98

Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A professor of Chicano/Latino studies and history at the University of California, Irvine, Anita was a high school teacher at 23, then a K-12 school director of curriculum and assessment, a freelance journalist and a migrant rights activist, before earning her Ph.D. students as they did. Discussions sections are gone.

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