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How admissions offices worked around court rulings and tech trends to uphold core values

University Business

We will follow the law,” wrote University of Virginia President Jim Ryan and Provost Ian Baucom in a statement on changing admissions practices. “We “We want to level the playing field and provide students with access to many tools,” said Stacy Leeds, dean of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.

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A Dynamic Thinker

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Allen spent about a year in corporate law before returning to higher education because, in her “heart and soul,” she was an academic. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Penn Carey Law School, has had a storied career in the fields of law, bioethics, data protection, and privacy.

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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. As the provost of Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.,

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

Feroe, former acting president and interim provost, was named interim president. He noted that Vermont Law School required faculty members involved in restructuring in 2018 to relinquish their tenured status and faculty voting rights, sign a general and age-discrimination release, and agree to nondisclosure and nondisparagement provisions.

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Support for Educators Is All Around

Today's Learner

From technology to library to assessment to student engagement to faculty research and a host of other important topics for the campus conversation, CTLs are among the most valuable support groups that faculty have right at their fingertips. may turn into thirty, leaving that report you need to turn in to the Provost waiting, but that’s okay.