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The Slow but Steady Rise of Women in Higher Education Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2011, when she joined Colorado College as a postdoctoral fellow, she faced significant social challenges as a Black woman from Washington, D.C., Epps of Temple University and Dr. Orinthia T. college and university chief executives by 2030. in the majority white college town in the Mountain region.

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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

Walters Endowed Chair for Race and Black Politics at Howard University. Wutoh, Howard provost and chief academic officer. Walters Endowed Chair and we are pleased to welcome her to Howard University.” Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, and a J.D. from Yale University.

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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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INSIGHT Welcomes Robin R. Means Coleman as New Editorial Board Member

Insight Into Diversity

Means Coleman, PhD, Vice President & Associate Provost for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer, and the Ida B. Wells and Ferdinand Barnett Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University, as the newest member of its Editorial Board. INSIGHT Into Diversity is pleased to welcome Robin R.

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Why Do Universities Lie About Program Information?

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

I have previously blogged about doctored program information submitted by four prominent universities—Rutgers University, Temple University, Claremont McKenna College, and Iona College. The goal was to make their programs look better to university rating outlets such as U.S. News & World Report. Boosting Ratings.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Allen earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Meredith before going on to attain a master’s degree from East Carolina University and a Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University, both in English literature. This return etched Allen all the more into the history of Meredith. “The

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Passionate pleas for and against tuition-sharing agreements

Inside Higher Ed

That 2011 guidance enabled the emergence over the last decade of an entire industry of companies known as online program management firms, or OPMs. Jim Burkee, president of Avila University, in Kansas, summed up their arguments this way: “What exists is working, and messing with it … will only cost students,” he said.

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