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University of Virginia Reworks and Limits its Legacy Admissions Policy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The University of Virginia (UVA) will rework its legacy admissions policy, The Washington Post reported. Ryan and Provost Dr. Ian Baucom explained the reasoning behind the prompt in a statement Tuesday. “We Instead, they will be able to write about a “personal or historic connection” with the school and how that influenced them.

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Optional attendance policies ill serve students (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

At a recent meeting with student leaders, the topic of class attendance policies came up. The optional attendance policy is not without precedent or reason. The optional attendance policy, unchecked, can compromise what many seek in the college experience. Faculty members who know their students are better able to assist them.

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Jones Cultivates Inaugural Role in Faculty Development at Brown

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The author of Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (2015), her interdisciplinary research in the field of the medical humanities engages literary, historical, philosophical, and ethical explorations of black women’s health and medicine.

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Dr. Corey D. B. Walker Appointed Dean of the School of Divinity at Wake Forest University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Walker Walker, a scholar of religion, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, and ordained American Baptist clergyperson, has been the school’s interim dean since January. International Religious Freedom Policy: Finding Common Ground to Advance Peace and Stability working group. Dr. Corey D.

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Southern New Hampshire University President to Step Down Next Year

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He also for a time served as senior policy adviser to Under Secretary Ted Mitchell at the Obama-era Department of Education. They have done it in refugee camps, in low-income communities, and with students who are too often left behind by traditional higher education – this is disruptive education in service to humanity.”

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Burwell Announces She’ll Step Down from American University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sylvia Burwell Burwell had an unusual background for a college president, never having been a professor, a dean, or a provost, and never having earned an advanced degree. secretary of health and human services under President Barack Obama. American also launched an Antiracist Research and Policy Center in Burwell’s first year.

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Burwell Announces She’ll Step Down from American

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sylvia Burwell Burwell had an unusual background for a college president, never having been a professor, a dean, or a provost, and never having earned an advanced degree. secretary of health and human services under President Barack Obama. American also launched an Antiracist Research and Policy Center in Burwell’s first year.

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