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The Slow but Steady Rise of Women in Higher Education Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

W Kim Lee and Dr. Carolyn Stefanco hen the American Council on Education launched its Moving the Needle initiative over a decade ago to raise awareness about gender parity in higher education or lack thereof only 23% of college presidents or chancellors were women. in the majority white college town in the Mountain region.

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Dr. Cheryl Davenport Dozier

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In May 2011, Dr. Cheryl Davenport Dozier stepped in as Savannah State University’s interim president. But as for her new path in higher education, Dozier said during a 2011 news briefing: “I’ve been charged to come down and lead and that’s what I’ll do.”

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Pushing to No Longer Keep Meredith College a ‘Best-Kept Secret’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I like being able to work with students, faculty, and colleagues in a different kind of way [that] made me more aware of the community of higher education and not just a department, class, or advising relationship with a student. “I like the problem-solving,” Allen says. “I To me, it felt bigger.”

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Passionate pleas for and against tuition-sharing agreements

Inside Higher Ed

The Education Department announced last month that it would revisit nearly three decades of policy making under Title IV of the Higher Education Act that has largely restricted colleges from paying recruiters based on how many students they enroll. OPMs inject for-profit practices and incentives into nonprofit higher education.

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Stacey Abrams Appointed Inaugural Ronald W. Walters Endowed Chair for Race and Black Politics at Howard University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Wutoh, Howard provost and chief academic officer. The well-known political figure was a state representative in the Georgia General Assembly, having served as minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives 2011-2017. Walters Endowed Chair and we are pleased to welcome her to Howard University.”

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A professor's job is endangered for teaching about race

Inside Higher Ed

The professor, Samuel Joeckel, said in an email that the dean of his department and the university’s provost waited outside the class he was teaching last week to inform him of the news. ” According to his university biography, Joeckel’s scholarship is about issues of importance to Christian higher education (and others).

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Only Within Their Own Institutions, Are Black Scholars without Honor!

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Before going deeper with our assertions, we (the authors that pinned this piece) also acknowledge that dishonor, is not the sole experience for Black scholars and sdministrators, who serve in higher education. For example, on one occasion a Vice-Provost asked me to share my research agenda at a faculty meeting. Dr. Adriel A.