article thumbnail

Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Banks chronicled the history of Black AERA leadership in a March 2016 article, titled “Expanding the Epistemological Terrain: Increasing Equity and Diversity Within the American Educational Research Association,” that appeared in the journal Educational Researcher. Tate IV, the current president of Louisiana State University.

article thumbnail

Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, provides national institution-level data on some faculty characteristics (e.g., Perna is the GSE Centennial Presidential Professor of Education and vice provost for faculty at the University of Pennsylvania.

Faculty 110
university leaders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Insights for Higher Ed Presidents: A Fireside Chat with Brit Kirwan: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 184 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. William E. "Brit" Kirwan

The Change Leader, Inc.

And all the, all of a sudden I’m getting nominated to be the institution’s provost and became the provost of the campus. I remember a colleague telling me when I went off to be the provost of College Park that I would never come back to the department. I’ll be provost for a few years.

article thumbnail

Research in Action: Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Making history After a national search, Jackson was appointed dean of the College of Education at MSU, breaking barriers as he did at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to become the first African American to lead the college which boasts 468 tenure system faculty, fixed-term faculty, academic specialists, and support staff.

Deans 92
article thumbnail

A better way to address revenue sharing and online marketing (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

Department of Education is now considering changes to its guidelines addressing how outside providers bundle the services they offer to colleges and universities and to the regulations that define and govern third-party servicers. The industry has evolved; so too have the OPMs. He is a member of Noodle’s strategic advisory board.

article thumbnail

Presidential Turnover Crisis in Higher Ed–Solutions and Challenges: The Role of Politics, Policies, Processes, Performance, and Public Relations

The Change Leader, Inc.

A much more well-known case involves a portion of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ lawsuit against the Department of Education , which challenges accreditation’s independent board policies on who owns colleges and universities. This will prevent boards from inventing things and revising history.

Policy 40
article thumbnail

Navigating President Turnover: Higher Ed Leadership Challenges: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 169 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. William E. “Brit” Kirwan

The Change Leader, Inc.

For example, the governor of Florida recently directed his attorney general to file a lawsuit against the Department of Education on changing accreditors. In Ohio, a very anti-DEI bill was introduced that would restrict what higher education could do on diversity issues. His discipline was history. That’s fine.