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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Outreach efforts include education on financial aid options, including grants, scholarships and aid for undocumented students. Dr. Dolores Duran-Cerda, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, says administration believes in being student-ready, not expecting students to be college-ready.

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Dr. Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby Selected to Lead USC Race and Equity Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He also will maintain his University Professor and Provost Professor appointments in the USC Rossier School of Education, Marshall School of Business, and Price School of Public Policy. Jessica’s scholarship is widely acclaimed and her contributions to the field of education have been significant. Dr. Jessica T.

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University of Dayton, Sinclair CC share students

Inside Higher Ed

In 2016, University of Dayton and Sinclair established the UD Sinclair Academy —an agreement between the two colleges to allow undergraduates at Sinclair to transfer directly to Dayton. million from an anonymous donor couple to support the academy’s services and fund scholarships. million to support the UD Sinclair Academy.

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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. I understand the mission of libraries to be a rather simple one, which is in part to make sure that everybody who needs good information and scholarship has access to that,” Geffert said. “I

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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. ” According to his university biography, Joeckel’s scholarship is about issues of importance to Christian higher education (and others).

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President moves: Recent spate of leaders to announce retirement boast impressive résumés

University Business

Dr. Sánchez previously served as the president of Rhode Island College (RIC) from 2016 to 2022 and is celebrated for his achievements in enhancing social mobility rankings, diversifying student bodies, modernizing academic facilities and fundraising—objectives in line with Manhattanville’s strategic priorities.

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Representation Matters

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We have a proposal for a graduate certificate program in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies that the provost supports. … The women’s and gender studies minor at North Carolina Central University was launched in the fall of 2016. We are in the next phase of pushing forward.” We want to create a specific mission.”