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SOULS: The Academy’s Recipe for Transformation, Retention, and Creating a Better World

Insight Into Diversity

As a tenured full professor of political science, a former director of graduate studies and admissions, dean, and now vice president for diversity, I view the crisis of Black faculty and staff retention in the Academy as a quiet earthquake — slowly moving beneath the ground, embodying the terrors that make academic life untenable.

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5 higher ed thought leaders we are following

EAB

Thought leaders to follow Anant Agarwal Anant Argarwal ’s mantra is direct: “education is a human right–everyone should have access to it like the air we breathe.” 4 Lessons from University Presidents on Crisis Thinking and Resilient Leadership Nathan D. Here are a few people we are following.

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A Thousand Flowers Blooming

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Adding the Human Element. Just about everyone can point to surprises along their career path, and President Blake shared his. "I And then I’ll talk about Peter Freeman , one of the first Deans of Computing at Georgia Tech. Peter Freeman (Founding Dean and Dean Emeritus at Georgia Tech's College of Computing).

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President moves: 2 decade-plus leaders step back after a job well done

University Business

She is the past president of the American Counseling Association as well as of the Association for Creativity in Counseling. Earning here Doctor of Philosophy degree in Counselor Education and Supervision, Evans specialized in Student Affairs, Administration in Higher Education, and Human Resource Management. a four-year tenure.

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Stanford questioned over response to 'Mein Kampf' photo

Inside Higher Ed

FIRE officials are asking for more clarity on the incident and how the university is handling it. “Reading a book on a college campus should not prompt formal administrative intervention,” a FIRE program officer wrote in a letter to Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne. The text is described by the U.S.

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Scholars Respond to the Death of a University Administrator

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Antoinette “Bonnie” Candia-Bailey Lincoln University In an email sent on the day of her death , Candia-Bailey, who served as vice president of student affairs at Lincoln University in Missouri, a historically Black university, accused Dr. John Moseley, the university's president, of harassment and bullying. “You

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Making Higher Education Work for All Students

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Leading Through Inclusion and Accountability While President Takeda-Tinker has seen all kinds of leadership throughout her career, she focuses on positive examples: “Leadership is about human connectedness. Facing the realities of our own human limitations is part of that work.”