This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Badia Ahad will become dean of Oxford College at Emory University, effective Aug. Dr. Badia Ahad Ahad is currently vice provost for faculty affairs and professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. “I She is also the author of Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture in 2021. Ahad holds a B.A. and a Ph.D.
Charles “Chipper” Griffith III will become dean of the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Medicine, effective Jul. Dr. Charles Griffith III Griffith is currently acting dean of the college, a role he has been in since July 2021. Griffith understands Kentucky needs the UK College of Medicine,” said UK Provost Dr. Robert S.
Image: The University of Houston suddenly removed its dean of social work last month. The former dean, Alan Dettlaff—who is returning to the social work faculty, for now—says his views on racial justice got him fired. ” None of the college’s four full professors responded to interview requests.
Elsewhere on the site, Professor Harriet Dunbar-Morris, Pro Vice-Chancellor Academic and Provost at The University of Buckingham, highlights what is, in her view, a critical flaw in the LLE: the unfair funding gap facing students on accelerated two-year degree programmes, despite their clear benefits for employability and skills development.
Image: Twenty-three Lafayette College department heads and program chairs say there are serious issues with governance at the college, according to “points of concern” four of them shared with the president and provost. ” But the letter does discuss the dean situation.
As his reputation grew, Williams was recruited by Northwestern University, where he served as assistant dean of diversity and inclusion between 2017 and 2021, and then until 2022 as the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion lead of Northwestern’s Public Health Program. I needed them to speak the language [of diversity,]” says Williams.
Despite Pepperdine adding a data science minor to its liberal arts undergraduate curriculum (bolstered by a $10 million grant in 2021), Hooten is looking to hire new faculty members to help expand the Great Books program due to strong enrollment this fall.
KerryAnn O’Meara will become vice president for academic affairs, provost, and dean of the college at Teachers College, Columbia University, effective Jul. O’Meara was also a 2021-2022 American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow and president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education in 2020.
The chair was established in May 2021. Phylicia Rashad Rashad is currently dean of the Chadwick A. Dean Rashad epitomizes the character, grace and creative genius that we want represented in an endowed chair as part of Toni Morrison’s legacy,” said Howard Provost Dr. Anthony K. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard.
Diversity among biomedical researchers has historically been low, with the most recent data from 2021 showing that only 4.8 percent of NIH-funded researchers are Hispanic, and less than 3 percent are Black.
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. The jury did not agree with Stern’s similar claims against two former provosts, however. A new dean, Joseph Aistrup, was appointed.
In his book, Like Nobody's Business: An Insider's Guide to How US University Finances Really Work (Open Book Publishers, 2021), Andrew digs into academic library budgeting. It is possible that library deans or the Association of College and Research Libraries know of a study aimed at exactly this issue.
Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program. Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school.
Building institution-wide trust is essential, especially on the accelerated timeline of an interim leadership position, so Chancellor Reyes described his shortcut: "I immediately asked the president to allow me to get a provost colleague, Karen Colley , to become the interim provost. I think it's very valuable.
The report comes as Michigan State faculty take a sharper tone with trustees, warning them not to interfere with academic governance or investigate a fired dean, and threatening a vote of no confidence if the board continues its efforts to oust Dr. Stanley. The Title IX Review. We ask that you do the work that is in your purview.
John Karl Scholz (Photo: UO Website) With experience as a professor, economist and provost (which he currently still serves at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), his focus at Oregon will be student career readiness and postgraduate success. As the provost of Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.,
In March 2021, the chair of the Board of Trustees of Becker College announced that the institution would close its doors due to financial difficulties accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The proposed substantive change was approved by Clark’s accreditor, the New England Commission of Higher Education, in April 2021.
Over all, we found that the number of assistant professors increased in 101 of 154 academic disciplines between 2011 and 2021. percent between 2011 and 2021. Peter Lange is provost emeritus at Duke University and senior academic adviser at Academic Analytics Research Center. granting universities. is clearly growing.
Joining in 2005, she had previously served as the dean of Husson’s School of Education and is currently the senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, a position she’s held for the past 15 years. Additionally, UNT Dallas launched the Center for Socioeconomic Mobility in 2021.
Dr. Karen Carey was appointed chancellor in November 2020 after serving as provost and dean of graduate studies since June 2016. Carey came to UAS from California State University Channel Islands in Ventura, California, where she served as dean of Arts & Sciences.
Epps was appointed dean of Temple Beasley School of Law in 2008 and named provost in 2016. She served as the provost until August 2021 after she was replaced by Gregory Mandel. . “It means so much to me to be offered this opportunity to be continue to lead this great institution,” Epps said.
And then I’ll talk about Peter Freeman , one of the first Deans of Computing at Georgia Tech. Peter Freeman (Founding Dean and Dean Emeritus at Georgia Tech's College of Computing). Brian Blake was appointed President of Georgia State University in June 2021. One time I spoke with him, I was considering job opportunities.
The course, launched in 2021, aims to help faculty, staff and administrators reach their students and provide supports in new ways. There are “many, many projects, units, strategies and resources being designed in every corner of higher ed to try to deal with these challenges.
To help shore up its finances, Cabrini cut 46 positions in early 2021. Though it’s a smaller number—university officials said eight jobs were eliminated in the latest round—the cuts include Cabrini’s provost, associate provost and three deans.
Jeff Witmer, professor of math, said that what the board appears to want “will change the ethos of Oberlin—a place where historically the faculty have made progressive decisions and where the dean has been viewed as first among equals. Yet the faculty didn’t lead Oberlin’s response to the incident.
At the conference, we heard from institutions like Millersville University which have created advising councils with a clear process for liaising with the Dean's Council and Office of the Provost. June 14, 2021 The post Looking to the future of advising: 6 takeaways from the 2023 NACADA conference appeared first on EAB.
Fisk University, one of the most prestigious universities in Tennessee and the highest-ranked HBCUs in the nation, has found a new leader in the 2021 “Nashvillian of the Year.” Hired Agenia Walker Clark – Fisk University (Tenn.) Most recently, she served as the CEO and executive director at Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc.,
Undergraduate Academic Reputation (20%) This factor measures how an institution is ranked by administrators, including presidents, provosts, and deans of admissions, at other institutions in the same ranking category. This is a percentage calculation based on the 2020 and 2021 bachelor’s degree graduating classes.
Our second cohort concluded in December 2021, our third cohort wrapped up in spring 2022, our fourth occurred in fall 2022, and our fifth occurred in spring 2023. All cohorts ended with presentations of the fellows’ capstone projects.
The second issue centers on the resignation of former business school dean Sanjay Gupta, who was asked by Michigan State officials to step down after allegedly not reporting an incident in which he witnessed an intoxicated business school employee touching a student inappropriately. While some trustees were restrained, others were defiant.
In 2021, students sent a letter to the provost expressing their qualms about the financial and mental burdens. According to MSU’s Education Policy Innovation Collaborative, in 2021, more Michigan teachers exited the profession than entered, and new teachers were less likely to renew their certificates.
In November 2021, a former dean of Temple University’s business school was found guilty of using fraudulent data boost the school’s national rankings and increase revenue, federal prosecutors said. The former dean of USC education school directed administrators to omit information from its U.S.
million in fiscal year 2026–27—over four times the $3 million annual cost that Chapel Hill provost Chris Clemens cited to faculty. ” “Any proposed degree program or school will be developed and led by our faculty, deans and provost,” Guskiewicz said in that Jan. million next year but $12.7
Since 2021, DeSantis has pushed through efforts to compel state-sponsored speech on campus, dismantle oversight, encourage corruption-breeding secrecy and invade the personal lives of all higher ed community members. the provost, who can ignore all other evaluations of the targeted faculty member.
But during the 2021-22 academic year concerns about diversity in leadership surfaced. By summer, the college had taken decisive action — hiring Donald Jaamal to be dean of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and Title IX coordinator. “In A year ago, Coe was the only college or university to earn B or above on all four pillars.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics , the number of Postsecondary Title IV schools totalled almost 6,000 schools in 2021. A phrase floating around for some time has suggested that 90% of international students in the US enrol at just 10% of the country’s institutions. Is this actually the case?
“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. “It feels very validating.”
At the same time, presidential turnover has intensified , with 123 resigning in 2019 and 107 in 2021. Most of the college presidents who rose through the ranks made their reputation not as scholars but as administrators, typically as provosts or deans.
Fitzgerald said by phone that she wants “to be able to continue the very strong work” she’s done as senior vice president and provost alongside Loyack, who will shift to a new chief executive officer role. Fitzgerald will begin serving as president-elect today and will formally become president on July 1.
Despite these constraints, UoPeople’s enrollment has swelled from over 44,000 students in 2021 to more than 126,000 students in 2023—a 186 percent increase over a two-year period. UoPeople’s first accreditation visit was in 2021, after which it was granted candidacy for accreditation. ’” LeBlanc said.
Admissions to that program have been paused since spring 2021.). 17 meeting if there was any chance the decision to halt admissions would be reversed, Nonken responded with a definitive "No"; the decision had already been made and approved by NYU higher-ups, including Steinhardt Dean Jack H. Knott and Provost Georgina Dopico.
The hate exhibited against Asians during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Atlanta shootings of 2021 also added fuel to the fire, flaring Asian American issues into national ones. Immigration Studies. We have to be understood on our own.”
We had the highest persistence rate on record at our university during COVID looking at the 2020 to 2021 students that actually continued at the university. So absolutely right, as Naomi mentioned, although we report to the president's office, of course we work very actively with the provost and with the deans. JG: Absolutely.
An Inside Higher Ed survey of college and university provosts published earlier this month found about 75 percent agreeing that politicians and the institution’s board members are prioritizing STEM and professional programs over those that support general education.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 29,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content