Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

“In Safa Zaki, Bowdoin has found a distinguished scholar and leader with a global perspective who believes deeply in the transformative power of a liberal arts education,” said Scott Perper, chair of the Bowdoin board and a member of the Presidential Search Committee. in psychology at the American University in Cairo and both an M.A.

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University Business

APRIL 19, 2024

Hired Devin Stephenson – Florida Polytechnic University Devin Stephenson has been selected to become Florida Polytechnic University’s next president, the second in the institution’s 12-year history. Lisa Coleman – Adler University (Ill.) Coleman begins on Sept.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2023

He has previously been dean of the School of Liberal Arts and founding dean of online education at Excelsior College. As president, he added that his goals include discerning which student age groups need more support and improving diversity, equity, and inclusion at Holyoke.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

in educational leadership from the University of New England that he earned after getting a bachelor’s degree in political science and government and a master’s degree from Western Illinois University. Taylor’s work at Belmont’s HUB will be dedicated to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging initiatives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Ron DeSantis replaced six of 13 members on the small public liberal arts school’s board with conservative allies. DeSantis’ office said that the school has had falling enrollment and focuses too heavily on matters such as diversity, inclusion, critical race theory (CRT), and gender ideology.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Hired Morakinyo Kuti – Central State University (Ohio) Central State University has found its 10th president in Morakinyo Kuti, the HBCU’s current vice president for Research and Economic Development and director of Land-Grant Programs. ” Steven Tepper – Hamilton College (N.Y.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Awarded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities, the college has announced the creation of the Institute for Race and Social Transformation. “We Rhodes is a national liberal arts college where inclusive excellence and building a culture of belonging are central to our mission.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. In their day, Kingman Brewster Jr.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

William & Mary has long had a liberal arts orientation and strong tradition of shared governance. The faculty have seen our elected representatives marginalized, our perspectives dismissed, and our involvement in university governance largely eliminated.”

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite recent pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion among several states , a number of colleges have recently hired presidents based on their commitment to that principle. Born in Egypt, she attained her bachelor’s from the American University in Cairo and eventually earned her Ph.D.

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University Business

APRIL 28, 2023

During his seven-year tenure at the University of North Alabama, where he served as chief enrollment officer at one point, enrollment spiked 16.3%. He has most recently served as vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion. Rhonda Phillips – Chatham University (Pa.) John Dozier – Columbia College (S.C)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Either the university did not have the resources for the center, or they had the money all along and were going to invest it elsewhere.” Then, in a public statement , Bendapudi said the school would invest in existing programs to the sum of at least $3.5 million over five years. Internally, there seems to be strife at Penn State as well.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

Yolanda Vivian Williams-Goliday Dr. Yolanda Vivian Williams-Goliday’s first priority is to make sure that the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is a supportive and inclusive space for its LGBTQ+, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary community. And from 2002 to 2006, she served as academic adviser for Temple University.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 5, 2023

A liberal arts education is the ultimate preprofessional education; it can prepare you for any career. I applied to non-tenure-line teaching positions, linguistics-adjacent orgs and a bunch of university admin jobs. Flexibility and rigor aren’t diametrically opposed. Instead, I moved to D.C. with no job and no plan.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

At college and university academic libraries, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives often involve improving item-collection policies and enhancing access to materials for students and community members, resources for faculty research, and educational programming on related topics. There’s no room for bigotry,” she says.

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University Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

He came into power at the small liberal arts school after a DeSantis-backed overhaul of the Board of Trustees ousted former President Patricia Okker. Melissa Gilliam – Boston University (Mass.) The bulk of her career in higher education comes from her 16 years at the University of Chicago.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Dr. Brooke Vick, chief diversity officer, associate provost for equity and inclusion, and coordinator of the new DEI certificate program at Muhlenberg College. Dr. Brooke Vick, chief diversity officer and associate provost for equity and inclusion at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa.,

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Ted Mason, PhD In the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to ban race-conscious admissions in higher education, experts in the field of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) are at a crossroads. who exchange ideas and best practices to implement equitable and inclusive strategies on their campuses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

from the University of Arizona in American Indian studies and a B.A. in liberal arts from Colorado State University. Her book Native American Voices: A Reader continues to be a primary teaching tool in colleges throughout the country. Morris holds an M.A.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Over the last few weeks, I have been in several conversations about the impact of career focused education on the liberal arts. This framing reveals deeply held biases about what qualifies as liberal arts (and therefore a quality degree) which are pervasive in higher education.

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Deans for Impact

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Just as much as they are, he’s attending as an enrolled student, completing assignments and participating in discussions – and, he also happens to be the community college’s Dean of Liberal Arts and Education. They probably knew I was the dean,” he says with a laugh, explaining that some students were a little wary of talking to him.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

So far, the program has seen a slow uptake, but leaders are optimistic about its future, hopeful and dedicated to building and growing the program at a time when other institutions are cutting back on ethnic and Black studies programs amid pushback against diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

7, Rufo posted on Twitter that public universities have "been corrupted by woke nihilism," and that he is ready to transform higher ed from the inside. My ambition is to help the new board majority transform New College into a classical liberal arts institution,” Rufo said. “My We are recapturing higher education.”

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Image: Campus leaders at Vassar College are on a mission to bring community college students to liberal arts institutions. They announced plans this fall to help 30 liberal arts colleges explore how to start programs modeled after Exploring Transfer, a 35-year-old summer bridge program for community college students at Vassar.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Student support programs are increasingly filling up college and university “To-Do” lists to ensure undergraduates are in the best position to thrive during their studies. The private liberal arts school has dedicated a cohort for first-generation students in MentorGrinnell , a virtual mentorship program that began this fall.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

“When I was in Japan, I had to accept the fact that I was going to be one of a few in this profession, but also in Japan, percentage wise,” says Dabney, an associate professor of politics and Japanese studies at Earlham College, a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. Dr. Dyron K. He holds a B.A.

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College. Lynch – College of Staten Island The City University of New York (CUNY) Board of Trustees has tapped Dr. Timothy G. The board grants him stay beginning July 1.

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University Business

APRIL 7, 2023

The past week saw a top 10 research university gain its first female president and a pair of small private schools electing new leadership. Gabel – University of Pittsburgh Joan T.A. Gabel found a new home at the University of Pittsburgh after serving for four years as president of the University of Minnesota.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Canton accepted the position of director of the African American studies program at the University of Florida. Canton accepted the position of director of the African American studies program at the University of Florida (UF). There will be a university meeting in January to review the proposal. “We

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Column: Letters to the Editor In 2018, at the very first of what would become many campus listening forums to help shape the framework of the university’s strategic plan, President Katherine A. To educate for impact, a university evolves and does it within its core values.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

University Business publishes a variety of content in support of finance, administration, auxiliaries, and facilities management. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. What Universities Owe Democracy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. New York: W.W.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Harvey Nevertheless, some of these alumni maintain various levels of contact with their alma maters – ranging from attending reunion events, to regularly reviewing materials they receive from the college or university, to making monetary donations they hope will help produce a more inclusive atmosphere for current and future generations.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

The great irony of this situation is that USF is a Jesuit institution, a university built on the premise of shepherding the Ignatian tradition of social justice and intellectual inquiry in an evolving world. Inclusion is no longer an ideal but an imperative, and the ability to communicate with nuance, awareness and curiosity a vital skill.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? And they don’t magically get easier just because we’re enrolled in university.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

” But detractors of Oubré and the board have questioned the authenticity of the concerns, alleging that the president and trustees are trying to stifle criticism of a leader they believe doesn’t have a plan to turn around slumping enrollment at the small liberal arts college.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A proposed fundraiser event by a small liberal arts school president has incited an avalanche, calling for the resignation of a school dean and drawing the Board of Trustees into the muck as 120 faculty pressure the Board to begin its new president search immediately. “And that position has just been on a constant revolving door.”

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Image: College and universities will need to diversify their faculties at about 3.5 Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication and information science at Cornell University; Neil A. Hope, assistant professor of psychology at North Carolina State University. population in terms of race by 2050.

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