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A final post as a farewell and thanks

Higher Ed Data Stories

Much of what I did here was simply a sanitized version of what I was doing for my own work anyway, going back to the first post in 2013, which, if I recall, I was preparing for a conference presentation. You can subscribe to the latter, but it will mostly be written for presidents, provosts, and Board chairs.

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How Being a Mother and Academic Helped Me Fix Higher Education’s Transfer Crisis

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Alvero When my daughter transferred to Queens College in Spring 2019, I could not have been more excited. As associate provost at the college, Ill admit I was biased but even two decades of experience in higher education couldnt fully prepare me for her struggle to transfer credits. Government Accountability Office.

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Kenyon College President Dr. Sean Decatur to Depart for American Museum of Natural History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kenyon College President Dr. Sean Decatur will be stepping down from his current role at the end of 2022 to become president of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in April 2023. Decatur Decatur has been the school’s president for almost a decade, his tenure having begun in 2013. Dr. Sean M.

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The Erosion of DEI in Higher Education: A Threat to Progress and National Strength

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a first-generation college student, a Black woman, and the child of immigrants, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in higher education. Their findings demonstrate the significant educational and civic benefits of interracial and interethnic interactions during college.

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Auburn professor awarded $646k in damages in speech case

Inside Higher Ed

The jury did not agree with Stern’s similar claims against two former provosts, however. In retaliation for Stern’s internal and external activism, Auburn in 2009 suddenly moved the department of economics out of the College of Business and into the College of Liberal Arts, the lawsuit said. Going Public.

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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. Lewis Phenomenon: Christianity and the Public Sphere (2013) and Golden Notes , a novel (2016). “On Feb.

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University of Vermont Launches Open-Access Academic Press

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Before UVM, he helped launch the Amherst College Press in 2013 and led a consortium of libraries in creating the open-access Lever Press in 2016. Another is to fulfill UVM’s responsibilities to communities beyond campus as a land-grant institution, said Dr. Patricia Prelock, provost and senior vice-president of UVM. “It

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