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More Quit ‘U.S. News’ Rankings of Medical, Law Schools

Inside Higher Ed

Harvard University kicked off the effort this month, and it was quickly joined by the medical schools of Columbia and Stanford Universities and the University of Pennsylvania and the Icahn medical school of Mount Sinai. On Thursday, Francis Lee, interim dean of Weill Cornell Medicine, announced that it would join.

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High Impact Cultural Competence (HICC) Training: A Feasible Solution to Micro-incivilities Directed Toward Young Faculty and Staff of Color in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I also asserted that I only see the problem of micro-civilities directed toward young Black professionals in higher education as a vicious cycle, with no one offering a clear solution—until now. Jean is Interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences & professor of Sociology at North Park University Dr. Adriel A. Dr. Peter K.

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President moves: Retiring leaders shine as they conclude 10+ years of service

University Business

In McDonnell’s previous roles at UMF in the past 13 years, he’s served as a faculty member, dean and provost. In touch with its faith-based mission, Christian expanded the school’s faith-based spaces and on-campus dormitories. University leaders consider it a turnaround and are riding with McDonnell for the future.

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Panel Explores Potential Impacts Caused By The End of Affirmative Action

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I would describe it as a nationwide attack on public education and on public school educators,” said Danielle Davis, staff counsel for the National Education Association, one of the country's largest teacher unions. And this removes a tool from our toolbox to reach those goals.”

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Expanding Federal Work Study to Create a More Diverse Teacher Pipeline

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At Accelerate, a national nonprofit whose mission is to help make high-impact tutoring a standard feature of the American school day, many of our Call to Effective Action grantees, such as Deans for Impact , Guilford County Schools (NC) , The Literacy Lab , and Step Up Tutoring are already using college students as tutors.