Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 11, 2023

Paul Gore, who has served as Bellarmine University’s vice president for academic affairs and provost since 2019, is leaving his post, Bellarmine president Susan Donovan told faculty and staff in a message Thursday,

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EAB

MARCH 9, 2023

Blogs 4 takeaways on combatting faculty burnout from our gathering of academic leaders EAB recently launched the first two-part event series for our partners focused on combatting faculty burnout and integrating a culture of well-being in academic affairs. 5 critical to dos for academic leaders to support student success 2.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Educators from underrepresented backgrounds and diverse disciplines at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) continue to build a campus-wide support system and sense of community through Faculty Link, an opt-in program now entering its third year. Sharon Inkelas. “I Serena Chen.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Image: Much about Oberlin College is unique, including long-standing policies guaranteeing the faculty a say in matters that extend well beyond academics. Many faculty members say it’s this level of input that keeps them at Oberlin. ” Faculty members, Neilson continued, “are on the ground.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Image: Leaders of West Virginia’s Bluefield State University eliminated the Faculty Senate and instituted a posttenure review process that an American Association of University Professors officer says diverges significantly from that organization’s recommendations.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Fehr stepped down suddenly last week following months of concerns from faculty members about her leadership, Spectrum Magazine reported Sunday. Fehr had led the small Seventh-day Adventist university in California since 2019.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Clarence Lang, dean of the College of the Liberal Arts, had refused to follow through on a commitment to hire two new tenure-line faculty. Five African American studies professors have left since Lang came to Penn State in 2019, with only two replaced since, according to the letter.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2024

DeCuir-Gunby, a prominent educational psychologist and racial equity expert who is on the faculty at the USC Rossier School of Education, has been named the next executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center. She will replace Dr. Shaun R. Dr. Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby DeCuir-Gunby is a tenured full professor and holds the Robert H.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 24, 2024

Hardrick, who has been in the role since 2019, previously served as vice provost for access and success at Florida International University and assistant vice provost for academic affairs at Baylor University.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In 2019, the US Department of Education reported that one in every three American high school students participates in dual enrollment courses (Shivji & Wilson, 2019), a number expected to rise in the coming years. We don’t want to predispose faculty to thinking dual credit students need to be treated differently.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

2019) found that academic engagement and psychological capital resources were significant antecedents of academic performance among university students. This moment demands that we clearly communicate the value of DEI programs to all stakeholders – students, parents, faculty, administrators, and policymakers. A study by Martínez et al.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In 2019, the US Department of Education reported that one in every three American high school students participates in dual enrollment courses (Shivji & Wilson, 2019), a number expected to rise in the coming years. We don’t want to predispose faculty to thinking dual credit students need to be treated differently.

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University Business

JUNE 17, 2024

The University of North Florida is bucking declining college enrollment trends in higher education, and John Kantner, University of North Florida senior associate provost of faculty and research, credits some of this growth to its focus on continuing education (CE) programs.

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2023

Last month, full-time faculty filed a motion of no confidence to school leadership when it announced a transition to a fully digital library, which would have eradicated roughly 300,000 books across its five campuses. Following the widespread pushback, Vermont State University conceded, promising to keep 10% of its current collection.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

It’s a challenging class that Dr. Kendrick Brown, Morehouse’s provost and senior vice president of academic affairs, describes as the best of what the school has to offer. In addition to the representational advantages, minoritized faculty may present material in a way to which students of color can more easily relate.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Sylvia Burwell Burwell had an unusual background for a college president, never having been a professor, a dean, or a provost, and never having earned an advanced degree. She cited several reasons for the decision to leave the position, including her belief that the university is in good shape and a desire to spend more time with her family.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Sylvia Burwell Burwell had an unusual background for a college president, never having been a professor, a dean, or a provost, and never having earned an advanced degree. She cited several reasons for the decision to leave the position, including her belief that the university is in good shape and a desire to spend more time with her family.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

She has been supported in her studies and research by numerous grants and fellowships including a 2022 grant from the Office of the Provost Research Development Academy at UT-Knoxville; she was a 2023 Faculty Fellow with the Association of American Hispanics in Higher Education, Inc.;

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Image: A new automotive technology program at Coconino Community College, launched last fall, is on pause as campus leaders struggle to hire a full-time faculty member to keep it afloat. an increasingly popular tourist destination near the Grand Canyon, has repeatedly scared off faculty candidates for this position and others.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Image: Tearful apologies for board actions and defiant condemnations of faculty no-confidence votes were both on display at a Michigan State University Board of Trustees meeting Friday that highlighted the divisions among members who pressured MSU’s president to step down or be fired amid ongoing Title IX concerns.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2023

million students since the fall of 2019, and notable decreases in students with several under-represented backgrounds. But institutions are under pressure, too. The effects of the pandemic on college enrollments are still lingering , with a total enrollment decline of 1.2 Those have been wildly helpful and popular,” said Maziarz.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

To learn more about Michigan’s approach to integrating open online learning and extended reality and what they have learned, I spoke to my friend James DeVaney , associate vice provost for academic innovation and founding executive director of U-M’s Center for Academic Innovation , to learn more.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

“At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, we clearly have a world-class faculty that exists and teaches students and creates leaders of the future,” Boliek said. million in fiscal year 2026–27—over four times the $3 million annual cost that Chapel Hill provost Chris Clemens cited to faculty.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

My friend, Dr. Quentin McAndrew , current academic strategist at Coursera and former Assistant Vice Provost at CU Boulder, who helped archetype the degree, says, “When we were creating the program, ‘Why?’ Q2: Tell me about how faculty helped create CU Boulder’s online degrees on Coursera from the bottom-up.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A: All of my academic roles have incorporated student success, whether as a faculty member teaching and mentoring students or as an academic administrator. Program faculty then reviewed the course content and worked on course redesign, making changes in delivery and/or course assignments while keeping program outcomes the same.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Since starting these efforts, preliminary data shows the number of incoming aspiring teachers increased 83 percent at the University of Kentucky, going from 118 incoming education majors in fall 2019 to 216 in fall 2022. So how did we do it? We are showing the need and connecting students with the tools to be part of the solution.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Cady Short-Thompson of Northern Kentucky University is returning to the university that kickstarted her career in faculty and administration, tasked with pulling it out of a budget deficit and enrollment hole. Those retiring are also stepping away from an illustrious career in higher education that’s lasted decades.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

Dr. LaVar Charleston is the deputy vice chancellor for diversity & inclusion, vice provost and chief diversity officer at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. The program has helped students become faculty, researchers, and policy makers. She was Claire Huxtable—beauty, brains, and personality,” said LaVar Charleston.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As you no doubt know, the New School’s part-time adjuncts, who make up 87 percent of the institution’s faculty, recently ended a bitterly hard-fought three-week strike over wages, benefits and compensation for outside-the-classroom responsibilities. and only 175 of them are now employed as full-time faculty members.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Justin Ortagus, an associate professor of higher education administration and policy and the director of the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Florida, examined over 40,000 student transcripts from a diverse, high-enrollment community college from between 2009 and 2019.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

” More contemporary accounts, like Candice Carty-Williams’s 2019 British Book of the Year–winning Queenie , also deals with the struggle to chart a direction in life, find a job and forge meaningful relationships and define an identity separate and apart from one’s parents’ expectations. ” But how?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

We’ve also seen a succession of extremely short-lived presidencies, at universities including Auburn, Central Florida, Colorado, Louisville, Oklahoma, Oregon State, Tulsa and Wyoming, no doubt partly because fewer presidents are hired without sufficient vetting or due diligence or faculty and student input. Second, fundraising acumen.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Ward, president since 2019, will retire at the end of June 2025, the conclusion of Luther’s 2023-25 strategic plan. The work was done in collaboration with the provost. More from UB: How these colleges successfully de-escalated campus protests Retired Jennifer K. Stepping down Jeff Abernathy – Alma College (Mich.)

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 15, 2023

News college rankings often point out that much of the data used to compile the rankings is provided by “experts” who range from high school guidance counselors to admissions counselors and faculty members at various higher education institutions. The problem?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

“It seems natural that something like this would be our first step into a master’s program or a higher-level degree,” said Brenda Kelly, provost and dean of the college, citing the lengthy history of the undergraduate athletic training program, which began in 1976. ” Kelly said.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 7, 2023

Nathan Grove, a chemistry professor at UNC Wilmington and the chair of the campus’s Faculty Senate, said that vote served as a wake-up call for him and his colleagues. “It is anti-political; it is protecting the rights of employees, including university faculty, so they cannot be compelled to subscribe to a political ideology.”

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