Remove about
article thumbnail

University provosts have bleak outlook on free expression in higher ed

University Business

Last month, Inside Higher Ed released findings from its census of 331 chief academic officers, or provosts, working at public and private institutions across the country. Although most provosts surveyed had a positive perception of the speech climate on their campus, few indicated they thought this was due to their campus speech policies.

article thumbnail

What Faculty Know (and Don’t Know) About Transfer—and Why It Matters

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Beyond Transfer What do faculty members know about transfer-related matters? These are some of the questions we set out to investigate in the latest effort of the Transfer Opportunity Project ( TOP ; one of the A2B group of projects) housed at the City University of New York. Does it really matter what they know?

Faculty 66
university leaders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

New Impact Academy cohort represents 25 states, reaches 15,000 teacher-candidates annually

Deans for Impact

Thomas , Dean of the College of Education, ​​Grambling State University Elizabeth Dinkins , Dean of the School of Education, Bellarmine University James P. McIntyre, Jr. They continue to learn from and collaborate with one another through DFI’s Leadership Collaborative, an alumni network for former fellows.

Deans 246
article thumbnail

University of Rochester Black Studies Department to Accelerate Cluster-Hiring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Already having committed to making several cluster hires for the department, the university turned to the Mellon Foundation to help quicken the pace of expansion, said Dr. David Figlio, the university's provost. We could be talking about a certain kind of medical humanities that infiltrates Black studies," he said.

article thumbnail

Consolidating touch points for retention

Inside Higher Ed

“As the environment [of higher education] becomes more competitive … education has had to sort of pivot to say, ‘It’s no longer just about accountability, responsibility and training. It’s about service-oriented levels of engagement ,’” explains Sine. Why a One-Stop?

article thumbnail

Field of study not key to new academic program success

Inside Higher Ed

But, “when you really stop and think about it, our economy is quite diverse,” Vankudre said. ” The researchers found that public four-year universities had a success rate of about 37 percent for their new academic programs. It also noted a success rate of 36.4