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

University Business

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. Treasury Department and the Council of Economic Advisors.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

Multiple faculty sources declined to speak on the record, saying that Manhattanville required departing professors to sign nondisparagement agreements in order to receive severance pay. Following his and others’ departures, he said, just one full-time professor will remain in his department. Geisler last summer.

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Struggling to set graduate enrollment goals? Here’s our step-by-step guide.

EAB

In fact, in our recent survey of presidents, provosts, and VPEMs, respondents identified “setting enrollment goals” as their top operational challenge for grad teams in the last three years. Given these challenges, some schools I’ve worked with don’t set grad enrollment goals at all. Faculty Influence. Learn more. Get more insights.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education (ED) issued guidance for how schools can navigate admissions and still consider other factors in evaluating applicants, including neighborhood and high school data, life challenges, and experiences of racial discrimination. Wutoh, Howard provost and chief academic officer in an announcement in April.

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Some Stanford professors oppose closed event on free speech

Inside Higher Ed

Both Jonathan Levin, dean of the business school, and Persis Drell, provost, faced questions about it last week while addressing the Faculty Senate. But these steps haven’t relieved opponents’ concerns. Stanford did not immediately provide comment on the event.

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

The Change Leader, Inc.

Key Takeaways for University Presidents and Boards Thoroughly Review the Report: University presidents, administrators, provosts, deans, and other leaders actively engage with the contents of the report. And it took faculty from all different departments. You can’t have an engineering school or the other way around.

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Universities on Fire

HESA

BA: Well, one that really stands out for me as an outlier in Pennsylvania, Dickinson College has had a President, Provost, and a faculty consensus that they need to take sustainability very seriously. They’ve done some unusual things. It depends on part of the culture that you draw from.