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Film Director Joins Spelman Faculty as Director of Documentary Filmmaking

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Shola Lynch Spelman College has scored a major coup with the hiring of award-winning filmmaker Shola Lynch as its Diana King Endowed Professor in Film, Filmmaking, Television, and Related Media in the Department of Art and Visual Culture. In 2016, she became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Is this the first college closing announced in 2025?

University Business

More from UB: Computer science degrees: How demand has both reduced and improved Northland College has operated at a deficit for eight years, The Minnesota Star Tribune reports. Centuries of serving higher education erased. (Updated: Feb. A record $1.5 Heightening inflation exacerbates financial issues.

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Cabrini University Lays Off Six Full-Time Faculty, Some Tenured, As Part of Budget Cuts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

of the school’s 69 full-time faculty – included faculty in writing and narrative arts, science, math, and visual and performing arts, a Cabrini spokesperson said. Drinan also said enrollment had declined from 2,360 in 2016 to approximately 1,500 and that Cabrini was exploring a merger. “No The six – 8.7%

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A generational mission: Benjamin Riley on the founding of Deans for Impact

Deans for Impact

Valerie will carry on the generational mission of DFI: to transform this nation’s educator-preparation system such that every child is taught by well-prepared teachers. Listen to Benjamin describe how DFI came to be through the partnership and support of leaders in educator preparation who were eager to empower – not enfeeble – the field.

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Assignments with Significance

Faculty Focus

It has been estimated that college students across the globe devote in excess of a billion hours per year to “disposable” assignments (Wiley, 2016). Students view the work as simply a hurdle to be crossed, and once submitted and assessed, worthy of nothing more than being discarded. What a waste! 2010; Bransford et al., Significance.

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Number of Ph.D.s conferred dropped 5.4% in 2021

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Newly available data from the National Science Foundation suggest that the first full year of the pandemic had a major, negative impact on graduate students’ ability to finish their Ph.D.s. Degrees awarded in the life sciences fell 6 percent between 2020 and 2021, and by about 8 percent in the physical and earth sciences.

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Special Education Professor Taps into Technology, Grant Funding to Engage Students

Insight Into Diversity

Anya Evmenova, PhD Before Anya Evmenova, PhD, of George Mason University (GMU) became an award-winning special education professor, one of her most influential teachers wasn’t an instructor but a second grader. In 2001, Evmenova left her home in Saratov, Russia, for East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C.,