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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

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In 2009, he returned to his undergraduate alma mater, Xavier University in New Orleans, an HBCU and the only Black Catholic institution in the world. Because of the dean leads, the vice provost, the team members working with me, we were able to do great things with faculty and faculty fellows.

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Higher Ed Lessons in Interim Leadership

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I think I can be a much better partner with the next chancellor, because I know the demands that come under time, I know the requests that come from the outside, and I can help them channel it, and help my deans and vice provosts, be more responsive to what they see coming. He began his career as a news clerk at The New York Times.

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A Thousand Flowers Blooming

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And then I’ll talk about Peter Freeman , one of the first Deans of Computing at Georgia Tech. Peter Freeman (Founding Dean and Dean Emeritus at Georgia Tech's College of Computing). Presidencies Derailed: Why University Leaders Fail and How to Prevent It by Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald B. Kauvar, and E.

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Leadership at All Levels of Higher Ed

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She was also Interim Vice Chancellor at the Community and Technical College System of West Virginia from January 2021 to June 2021, and Vice Chancellor at the Community and Technical College System of West Virginia from December 2016 to November 2018, during which she started a Deans’ Academy to help support mid- level managers.

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Pragmatic Optimism and Managed Transformation

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Leading With Informed Optimism While President Randall was appointed to his current position in August 2021, making him a relative newcomer compared to many other higher education leaders, he's hardly a newcomer at the University of Utah. He grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and graduated in 1984 from Princeton University.

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The Art and Science of Higher Ed Leadership

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We asked how she’s met these opportunities: “When I think about my role as Provost at Florida State University , at that point in my career, I was not at all certain that I wanted to be a university president. from the University of Georgia in industrial/organizational psychology.

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Honoring the Promise of Higher Ed

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“When I came to Empire State University last summer, I said to our chief, ‘Do not worry, you will never hear me say the word crisis or emergency unless people or property are genuinely threatened.’ And he said, ‘Thank goodness, you may be the first university president to speak like that.’”