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Report: HBCU Humanities Programs Show Resilience Amid National Decline

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A new report from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences offers promising insights into the state of humanities programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), even as humanities degree completions decline across the nation. In 2022, HBCUs awarded 8.8% In 2022, HBCUs awarded 13.5% According to the report, 37.5%

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Auburn professor awarded $646k in damages in speech case

Inside Higher Ed

An Alabama jury awarded Michael Stern $645,837 in damages, finding after a two-week trial that Stern’s former dean illegally punished him for speaking out. Around this time, Stern’s new dean allegedly opposed his tenure bid, as did the provost, contradicting the positive recommendation of his department.

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Training Culturally Conscious Performing Artists

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The August 2014 death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, aroused a sweeping reappraisal of race and social justice issues. Jones cultivated a promising profession as an actor and performing arts teacher at The City College of New York, where he found himself instructing theater students with whom he participated in creative projects.

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Georgian Court University Boasts Women-Led Majority Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The private Roman Catholic university boasts a leadership of majority women, with women leading all four of the school's academic schools as deans. Warner, a former GCU School of Business dean herself, said that during her time as dean, all three of GCU’s academic deans were women then as well.

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President Moves: Cornell leader steps down as hiring ramps up

University Business

Chilton also served as Washington State’s provost and executive vice president and was previously dean of the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences at Binghamton University in New York. Nemer, dean of the University of Akron College of Business, was appointed as the institution’s next president, replacing Gary L.

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Why Do So Few American Students Study Abroad?

Edu Alliance Journal

December 5, 2022 by Dean Hoke : In the newest edition of the 2022 Open Doors Report, US university’s international student enrollment shows encouraging signs. In a 2014 survey titled U.S. Why is that a problem? International students coming to the United States are reported at 948,519, which nears the pre-pandemic level.

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A college widens faculty involvement in search for a president

Inside Higher Ed

More than half of the college’s roughly 100 eligible faculty members chose to participate in the process that led to the December hiring of Strom Thacker, dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs at Union College. The recent search for a new president at Pitzer College offers a counterpoint.

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