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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

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Higher Ed Lessons in Interim Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

He shared some examples of those projects: "We are doing a budget reassign, a complete reorganization and reimagination of our student enrollment services, retention services, student success units. When I became an associate dean, he said, 'Make sure that you ask everyone in your teams if you're doing something wrong.'

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President moves: hearty welcomes and rocky goodbyes

University Business

In his time at Coastal Carolina, enrollment grew and their first-year retention rate bumped up 6%, totaling 73%, according to AP News. Before Alverno College, Foy served as Dean of the Faculty at Marian University in Wisconsin from 2018 to 2020. The Benedictine president-elect holds a Ph.D. Slabach Frederick G.

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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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The Benefits of Women and Minority Leadership in Higher Ed: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 146 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Elissa Sangster

The Change Leader, Inc.

Elissa’s knowledge is drawn from her experience as assistant dean and director of the MBA program at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. I became the assistant dean for the MBA program and was responsible for everything from admissions to student services and alumni relations.

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Are the Benefits of OPM Partnerships Worth the Risk?

EAB

So let's say you're a university president, Carla, and you set ambitious goals for online program growth. And you wanna be tracking that information on persistence, retention, enrollment yourself, not because you think the OPM is gonna give you bad numbers. CH: Oftentimes Deans can figure this out on their own.