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Georgetown University's President to Step Down, Following Health Challenges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Groves, the school’s Executive Vice President and Provost has been named interim president. Professor in the Math and Statistics Department, with a secondary appointment in the Sociology department, has been Provost since 2012. “In Groves, who also holds the Gerard J. Campbell, S.J.

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Patricia Timmons-Goodson Appointed Dean of North Carolina Central University School of Law

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She retired from the Supreme Court in 2012. NCCU provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. Patricia Timmons-Goodson Timmons-Goodson is a retired North Carolina Supreme Court associate justice, the fourth woman and the first African American woman in the role. Jackson, Jr.,

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Excluding Level 7 modules from the LLE is a huge, missed opportunity

HEPI

Elsewhere on the site, Professor Harriet Dunbar-Morris, Pro Vice-Chancellor Academic and Provost at The University of Buckingham, highlights what is, in her view, a critical flaw in the LLE: the unfair funding gap facing students on accelerated two-year degree programmes, despite their clear benefits for employability and skills development.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Spurred on by this interest in universities’ inner workings, Allen went on to eventually lead in an administrative capacity as senior vice president and provost at Widener University before returning to Meredith as its leader in July 2011. This return etched Allen all the more into the history of Meredith.

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Philley to Become the Next UT Tyler President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Calhoun, serves as the university’s executive vice president for health affairs and vice provost and is a board-certified physician in pulmonary and critical care medicine. Philley has been named president of the University of Texas at Tyler. Philley, who succeeds Dr. Kirk A. Dr. Julie V.

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Melissa L. Gilliam Chosen as First Woman, First African American to Lead BU

Insight Into Diversity

Gilliam, an accomplished scholar, research scientist, and physician, currently serves as the executive vice president and provost of The Ohio State University. Gilliam, PhD, has been named the school’s 11th president, making her the first woman and first African American to serve in the role.

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Intensive English could disappear further

Inside Higher Ed

” Pitt declined further comment, beyond that “conversations are ongoing between the chair of the Linguistics Department and the Office of the Provost.” Cudd, Pitt’s provost and senior vice chancellor. “The conversation is— That’s the first one I’ve actually had with the provost.

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