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Dartmouth Launches New Research Institute Focused On Black Diaspora

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Shontay Delalue, senior vice president and senior diversity officer at Dartmouth, said that centering on the Black community is meant to uplift individuals from that community, create a hub of creativity, and work against the hundreds of years of systemic policies that have harmed the Black community.

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The Promise and Challenges of AI in Higher Ed

WCET Frontiers

Participants returned to their departments with enhanced capacity in AI literacy to teach students AI fundamentals, evaluate AI-generated content, and develop educational applications and policies that explored proactive approaches to generative AI. I’ve released assignments from this course under a CC-BY SA 4.0,

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STEM innovation in constrained economic times – the UK in an international context by Professor Ian Walmsley, Provost of Imperial College

HEPI

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. To unleash this potential, we need serious commitment from investors, and coherent policies from government.

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University of Vermont Launches Open-Access Academic Press

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This endeavor was announced last week, with its first publication, The Journal of Ecological Engineering Design, released that week as well. "It Another is to fulfill UVM’s responsibilities to communities beyond campus as a land-grant institution, said Dr. Patricia Prelock, provost and senior vice-president of UVM. “It

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How Three Bronx Institutions are Intentionally Hispanic-Serving

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Interim Provost Dr. Rani Roy says the school has already applied for two HSI grants and will find out in October whether they’ve been accepted. population representing a 13% growth from the year 2000, according to the Latino Policy & Politics Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. totaled 62.5

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President moves: Recent spate of leaders to announce retirement boast impressive résumés

University Business

Her tenure at Earlham was marked by fundraising initiatives that raised around $85 million, the implementation of new scholarships and the introduction of several highly sought majors, including accounting, engineering and data science. She also oversaw the addition of a softball program and the construction of its home stadium.

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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Large-scale quantitative data such as these provide an invaluable evidence-based context about the areas of scholarship in which institutions are investing new faculty lines, a matter of interest to deans of graduate schools and provosts alike. The long-lasting effects of COVID-19 policies on the academic marketplace are not yet known.