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A professor's job is endangered for teaching about race

Inside Higher Ed

The professor, Samuel Joeckel, said in an email that the dean of his department and the university’s provost waited outside the class he was teaching last week to inform him of the news. An FAQ on working at the university says, “PBA does not offer tenure; all beginning faculty sign a one-year letter of agreement.

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Representation Matters

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. We have a proposal for a graduate certificate program in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies that the provost supports. … Newson-Horst is a Spelman graduate who was impacted by Guy-Sheftall and other Spelman faculty who inspired her to take on similar challenges.

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Bard’s Innovative LGBTQ+ Studies Program Prepares Future Leaders

Insight Into Diversity

Students obtain essential networking and community-building skills while developing a sense of leadership that is not informed by “heteronormative and cisnormative practices,” says John Weinstein, PhD, the college’s provost and vice president. The private liberal arts institution in Great Barrington, Mass.,

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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. Finally, we only explored Ph.D.-granting

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

University Business

While SVU is technically a secular private liberal arts college, it identifies with the values of the LDS Church. He helped secure admission to the Association of American Universities in June by attracting a solid core of faculty and fostering research opportunities. Alexander Whitaker – King University (Tenn.)

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International access to more US institutions ‘must improve’

The PIE News

” Roger Brindley, vice provost for global at PennState Global , however, suggested that the question of whether the US should be confident depends and anticipates that the US could likely see market share fall “a little bit” in the years ahead.

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Nine insights from an integration process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

It was a blow to the students, faculty and staff of this private college in Worcester, Mass., With the integration of the BSDT, Clark is positioned to empower scholarship, pedagogy and innovation related to creative arts, media, design and technology. within the existing faculty governance structure.