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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Over all, we found that the number of assistant professors increased in 101 of 154 academic disciplines between 2011 and 2021. percent between 2011 and 2021. Peter Lange is provost emeritus at Duke University and senior academic adviser at Academic Analytics Research Center. granting universities.

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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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Notre Dame football is independent. Should it be?

University Business

We saw this play out between 2011 and 2014 when 12 major universities switched conferences (see below). Athletic departments also spend considerable amounts on coaches’ salaries and benefits, scholarships, travel and facilities. Let’s look at the data behind a decision like this and the possible economic outcomes.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For instance, in an article titled, (Re)Deining departure: Exploring Black professors’ experiences with and responses to racism and racial climate (Griffin et.al, 2011), the authors highlighted that participants shared “they believe some of their colleagues see them first as black and second as professors.”

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Lieberman Expected to Lead La Verne to Next Stage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When Dr. Devorah Lieberman became president of University of La Verne in 2011, a private institution of approximately 8,000 students about 35 miles east of Los Angeles, she was in many ways seeing life come full circle. Most of the students are middle- and low-income and first-generation.

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Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

A diverse faculty brings diverse perspectives, and these diverse perspectives enhance teaching and advising, research and scholarship, clinical practice, and engagement with the community and world. A study of employment records of nearly 300,000 tenured and tenure-track faculty members employed between 2011 and 2020 at 368 Ph.D.-granting

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Completion Grants: Innovative Financial Aid for Today's Students

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Sharon Perry Fantini , Vice Provost for Equity Access and Opportunity at Iowa State University. • So in 2011, we began to pilot a program that requires no application on the student's part. Panelists included: • Tim Renick , Executive Director, National Institute for Student Success at Georgia State University.