UW Presidential Blog

MAY 17, 2023

It is my great pleasure to announce that Dr. Tricia Serio has accepted the role of Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Washington. As Provost at UMass Amherst, she launched and led initiatives to increase diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging for faculty, staff and students.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Cabrini University will eliminate a handful of senior academic leadership jobs—including the post of provost—as part of a larger reorganization to downsize, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The provost, the associate provost and three deans will be eliminated and replaced by a dean of academic affairs and two associate deans.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This year’s International Education Week saw universities and organisations across the sector celebrate international students and their contribution to higher education. In a video addressing the sector and students, the US secretary of state Antony Blinken stressed the importance of education – especially study abroad.

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University Business

JUNE 16, 2023

Department of Defense on nuclear technology. He then gained his research and teaching experience at West Point, serving in its physics and nuclear engineering department. Ochoa currently serves as the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at San Diego State University. He served at Idaho State for five years.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Todd is the Vice Provost for Digital and Lifelong Learning at UNC. In our conversations, we found Todd to be both incredibly collegial and massively knowledgeable about the shifting landscape of higher education. What does the role of Vice Provost for Digital and Lifelong Learning entail?

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University Business

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Enrollment management is a crucial aspect of higher education that helps institutions attract and retain students, ensure financial stability, and promote sustainability. Unfortunately, many departments that provide student services often work in isolation, leading to ineffective strategies and missed opportunities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

Mitchell has been named the associate provost for community engagement at the University of Maryland. She serves as the Rodney Wallace Professor for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and chair of the department of organizational leadership, policy, and development at the University of Minnesota. Mitchell Tania D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education grant program that re-engages students who return to their studies after stopping out and enrolled students at risk of stopping out. Gaulden also serves as the project director of a U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Q: Can you give us the elevator pitch on what Harvard’s Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning ( VPAL ) does? We are calling this new platform HOPE (Harvard Online Platform for Education) and we hope to share both the technology and our content with other institutions.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

JUNE 8, 2023

Responses of Colleges Some educators, however, see ChatGPT as an opportunity, not a threat. Writing for the New York Times , Kelley Huang points out that: “University professors, department chairs and administrators are starting to overhaul classrooms in response to ChatGPT, prompting a potentially huge shift in teaching and learning.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

By Emma Pettit Illustration by The Chronicle; image from 636Buster, Wikimedia Commons It's not professors’ fault that the university can no longer afford to support its current lineup of academic programs, the office of the provost wrote in a document shared with department chairs.

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CSULB Podcast with the Provost

APRIL 6, 2020

On this episode of Podcast with the Provost, we meet with an experienced lecturer in the Department of Education, Deborah Hamm. We discuss how education has changed, as well as the changes in faculty, students and technology. How has the classroom, and teaching, changed in recent years?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Kenyon Provost Dr. Jeff Bowman will lead the college until the search for a new president is complete. “It has been a tremendous honor for me to lead this remarkable community over the past 9.5 6 message to the Kenyon community. And Decatur will be available through March 2023 to support the transition.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 8, 2023

Dr. Lester Sandres Rápalo Rápalo previously served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at CUNY Bronx Community College, provost and dean of Union College’s Elizabeth Campus, and chair of the foreign language department at Valencia College. “Dr. We look forward to seeing his vision for RCC take shape."

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The PIE News

APRIL 12, 2023

The US Department of Education has clarified guidance it released earlier this year on third-party service providers will not have the impact on study abroad and international student recruitment that the sector had feared.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

AUGUST 18, 2023

By Emma Pettit Illustration by The Chronicle The provost's office recommended dissolving the world-languages department. Critics of the decision say the flagship is abandoning its responsibility to the state.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Gilliam, a physician and higher education leader, will take on the mantle of president of Boston University, effective Jul. She is currently executive vice president and provost at The Ohio State University, the first Black to hold that role in the school’s history. And it just isn’t.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Department of Education (ED) – will help the school fund several initiatives in support of its diverse student body, particularly its large Hispanic and low-income student population. Williams, Texas A&M’s associate vice provost of student success and retention.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Cady Short-Thompson Short-Thompson is currently CEO and executive director of educational equity at the nonprofit Breakthrough Cincinnati. She previously served as provost at Hope College and dean at Cincinnati Blue Ash College. This appointment marks a return to NKU for Short-Thompson.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For his leadership, LeBlanc – a first-generation college graduate – was named one of Forbes Magazine’s 15 “Classroom Revolutionaries” and one of the “most influential people in higher education,” in addition to winning the TIAA Institute Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence in Higher Education in 2018.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2024

Her enthusiasm, vision, and innovative problem-solving abilities will be invaluable assets as we continue to elevate the University's reputation for academic excellence," said Kessler.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Two presidents have been hired at small private colleges in the past two weeks and one leader is choosing to retire after four decades in higher education. Bates has a proven track record as a higher education leader around Ohio, as well as in the private sector. The work was done in collaboration with the provost.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Drexel University, Jointly Appointed, History and Africana Studies, Drexel University Tenured: No Age: 42 Education: B.A., Ramos, jointly appointed in History and Africana Studies, serves as an assistant professor in the Department of History at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 23, 2023

During her time at MSU, Woodruff has served in a number of roles, including provost; executive vice president for academic affairs; and MSU Foundation Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Sanjay Gupta.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Before her latest post, Jones served in various leadership capacities including as an associate provost in the Office of Faculty Affairs at Clark University. Jones also served as a visiting professor in the departments of Women’s and Gender Studies and English at Emory University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Dr. Cheryl Nixon Nixon is currently provost and vice president for academic affairs at Fort Lewis College. She has also served as associate provost, English department chair, and graduate program director at the University of Massachusetts Boston. “I Berea is an inspirational model of what higher education can and should be.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 14, 2023

Leadership Opportunities Are Everywhere For most of her years working in higher education, Chancellor Larive was more interested in being a faculty member and lab administrator than moving into campus leadership. When I became provost, I thought, 'I don't know how to be a provost. As she put it, "I really like doing science."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Javier Cevallos Cevallos is currently president-in-residence of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. We look forward to continued collaboration on signature programs including Becoming a Provost Academy and the Executive Leadership Academy.” AASCU is delighted that our dear friend and colleague F. “As

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University Business

APRIL 11, 2024

Higher education leaders unloaded their grievances over the Department of Education’s botched FAFSA rollout in a U.S. “The lowest-income students are hurt the most,” Rachelle Feldman, vice provost of enrollment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said at the hearing.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

“It didn’t matter if you sat in IT or our academic technology group or in one of the schools or foreign facilities office where you rarely interacted with the academics—the shared goal was so clear to everybody,” said Matthew Rascoff, Stanford’s vice provost for digital education.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 28, 2023

Means Coleman, PhD, Vice President & Associate Provost for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer, and the Ida B. At Texas A&M, she was the Vice President and Associate Provost for Diversity. Coleman was a fellow in the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The jury did not agree with Stern’s similar claims against two former provosts, however. The First Amendment and academic freedom are the cornerstones of higher education.” ” Stern was removed as chair of his department in 2018 but has remained a professor at Auburn.

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HEPI

MARCH 26, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Ian Walmsley, the Provost of Imperial College London and former Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford. This year, 2023, began with both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition talking about Britain’s future.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Virginia Rougon Chavis Virginia Rougon Chavis has been named associate provost at the University of Mississippi, where she served as a professor of graphic design and chair of the department of art and art history. Chavis received her bachelor’s degree in art from the University of Mississippi and an M.F.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

Dr. John Karl Scholz Scholz is currently provost and the Nellie June Gray Professor of Economic Policy at University of Wisconsin-Madison. An economist, Scholz’s work focuses on household savings, low-wage labor markets, financial barriers to higher education, and bankruptcy laws. Treasury Department from 1997-1998.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

He attended a school that specialized in science and while still a teenager in 1983 came alone to the United States to pursue higher education. Prior to his NJIT presidency, Lim was the interim president of the University of Texas at Arlington after having served the university as provost and vice president for academic affairs.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 7, 2023

You’re on the verge of primal screams and storming out of a faculty or department meeting. Obviously, the department chair doesn’t respect me. How will I tell the provost that a student was arrested when I took the class to a strip club? You are paranoid (rightfully so). Is the administration reading my emails?

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