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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. At my university, the provost has put in place a prerecorded self-paced, self-directed asynchronous U.S.

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Experts Gathered to Discuss Challenges Facing Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As former provost, Fleming spoke at length about how tuition is the grease that spins the wheels of higher education. When Dirks first arrived at the University of California, Berkeley in 2012, where he served as chancellor, the state’s allocations amounted to 12% of the university budget. Dr. Nicholas B.

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MEGA Symposium to Build Pipelines that Bring Black and Latinx Men to College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Nine out of ten raise their hands,” said Jean, assistant provost for special programs at MSU. Dr. Daniel Jean, assistant provost for special programs at Montclair State university. Jean himself lost a close friend to street violence, and he said the crisis has only worsened since he was a teen.

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President moves: Tried and true academics take charge

University Business

Previous to her position as CEO for the Girl Scouts, she served as the the vice president of human resources for the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation, senior director of human resources at Vanderbilt University, and is a trustee emerita for the Haslam School of Business board at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, The Tennessean reports.

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Why I gave $25M to a small liberal arts college (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Our relationship with McPherson College began in 2012, when I donated tool sets to the college’s automotive restoration program in honor of Richard’s birthday. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Southern California and an honorary doctor of humane letters from McPherson College.

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Pey Kin-Leong, Singapore University of Technology and Design

The PIE News

The interaction part is really missing,” the professor and associate provost for digital learning at Singapore University of Technology and Design says of lessons conducted part in-person and part online. . Professor Pey Kin-Leong tells The PIE about campusX and his vision for post-pandemic education. pic.twitter.com/zP5rbyKRDw.

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Why Do Universities Lie About Program Information?

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

The  lawsuit  — filed earlier this month by the human resources manager at Rutgers' business school — alleges that the school spent at least $400,000 placing seven graduates into "sham" positions between 2018 and 2019. News & World Report.