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Career Q&A: UT Knoxville's vice provost for student success

Inside Higher Ed

While building a 15-year foundation in admissions and enrollment management, Williams found herself engaging with students long after they had enrolled, which naturally expanded to helping them successfully navigate campus. Her main responsibility is broad: to serve undergraduate student scholars and their unique academic goals.

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New presidents or provosts: Alma Folsom Maryland NVCC Purdue St. Thomas TCU

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Sean Burke , associate provost of Luther College, in Iowa, has been selected as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Alma College, in Michigan. Richmond Hill , interim provost of the Woodbridge campus of Northern Virginia Community College, has been named to the position on a permanent basis.

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These leaders’ commitment to DEI got them the nod for president

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John Karl Scholz (Photo: UO Website) With experience as a professor, economist and provost (which he currently still serves at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), his focus at Oregon will be student career readiness and postgraduate success. She is also a first-generation student. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S.

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How admissions offices worked around court rulings and tech trends to uphold core values

University Business

As this marks the first admissions cycle to take into account the Supreme Court’s ruling, the Common App and institutions alike found ways to comply while leaving avenues open for students to discuss their race and ethnicity, allowing institutions to maintain their commitment to diversity. “We

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Acting Temple University President, DEI & Civil Rights Advocate Dies Suddenly

Insight Into Diversity

As a student, Epps worked at the university’s bookstore, and she later joined the faculty in 1985, eventually working her way up to several high-ranking roles, including dean of the university’s law school, the executive vice president and provost, and chief academic officer. Attorney Jacqueline C.

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Emerging leaders: 4 colleges hire their first Black or female—or both—president

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and NYU have all recently elected a Black or female president—or both—for the first time in their schools’ histories. The number of full-time enrolled undergraduate students for Mount Holyoke, Mount Union and St. ” She will be the first woman to lead the school in its 125-year history. Norbert College (Wis.)

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

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laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. The college says it froze undergraduate majors with “very low student enrollment.” Current students in affected programs will be allowed to finish their studies.

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