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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. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. in New York University’s joint Ph.D.

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Jones Cultivates Inaugural Role in Faculty Development at Brown

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The author of Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (2015), her interdisciplinary research in the field of the medical humanities engages literary, historical, philosophical, and ethical explorations of black women’s health and medicine.

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President moves: Tried and true academics take charge

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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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Representation Matters

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Adele Newson-Horst was developing a grant proposal, she quoted a 2015 article published in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education that noted HBCU institutions had been slow to introduce gender-related programs. We have a proposal for a graduate certificate program in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies that the provost supports. …

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Sacred Heart University's new Pioneer Journey director

Inside Higher Ed

Gillespie’s role is to help us communicate our mission in a more systematic way and to foster and further nurture the university’s culture,” said Robin Cautin, SHU’s provost. Gillespie has a diverse academic background. He said his educational background has shaped his scholarly interests.

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Honoring the Promise of Higher Ed

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Vollendorf previously served as interim provost and chief academic officer at the University of Northern Colorado. Vollendorf’s research focuses on the cultural history of women in Iberia and Latin America during the early modern period (1500-1700).

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Training faculty to help students in mental distress

Inside Higher Ed

Harvard University recently created the Crimson Folders program—part of its We’re All Human health and wellness campaign—to give faculty and staff in each school the tools to “recognize, respond, refer and resource” students undergoing mental health challenges. (It

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