Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

From serving as dean of the Beasley School of Law to executive vice president and provost, Epps had long demonstrated her dedication to the university before assuming the role of acting president in April following the resignation of Dr. Jason Wingard. A Kingston, Jamaica native who was the youngest of six siblings, “Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Nine out of ten raise their hands,” said Jean, assistant provost for special programs at MSU. Dr. Daniel Jean, assistant provost for special programs at Montclair State university. In fall 2021, the Brooking Institution, a nonprofit public policy research organization, found that males make up four out of every ten college students.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

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. “Trust and institutional culture are broken,” the first of the five points said.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Within UC’s decentralized model, the College of Education, Criminal Justice, Human Services & Information Technology (CECH) built a robust Student Services Center that provides guidance to students via a team of academic advisors, career development specialists, retention program managers, and a licensed counselor and social worker.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

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.,

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

“It didn’t matter if you sat in IT or our academic technology group or in one of the schools or foreign facilities office where you rarely interacted with the academics—the shared goal was so clear to everybody,” said Matthew Rascoff, Stanford’s vice provost for digital education.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

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.,

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Fulfilling the first milestone of a commitme n t made early in 2021, the University of Michigan’s Center for Academic Innovation and Coursera today announced the release of the first three of 10 planned open online courses featuring extended reality. Show on Jobs site: Disable left side advertisement?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

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.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Still others are climate refugees in search of land that supports human life. 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. Others have fled wars in Syria or Ukraine. ’ 10,000 times.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

” Shi continued, “I wasn’t interviewed or consulted by the president or the provost throughout [the] process, or ever, actually. In 2021, amid COVID-19, the college said that it was experiencing a structural deficit and needed to cut at least $1.5 “Why was Chinese language and culture cut? Chinese Cut.

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University Business

JUNE 21, 2023

WVU combined the College of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences and the College of Education and Human Services in May 2021 for similar reasons. While one higher education company recognized the nation’s overall jump in state-funded higher education in 2021, it ultimately attributed it to pandemic-related federal support.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

MAY 11, 2022

The  lawsuit  — filed earlier this month by the human resources manager at Rutgers' business school — alleges that the school spent at least $400,000 placing seven graduates into "sham" positions between 2018 and 2019. The former dean of USC education school directed administrators to omit information from its U.S.

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HEPI

MAY 11, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Warren Manning, Provost for Innovation and Research at the University of Derby, and Dr Jenna Townend, FHEA, Principal Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor at the Uni versity of Derby.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2022

Adding the Human Element. Brian Blake was appointed President of Georgia State University in June 2021. Before GWU, Dr. Blake served as Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Nina Henderson Provost at Drexel University , overseeing 14 schools and colleges and more than 25,000 students.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In 2021, we published our Completion Grants Playbook , and our CEO Bridget Burns joined the Chronicle's Assistant Managing Editor Ian Wilhelm to co-host this virtual conversation about helping under-resourced students complete their degrees. Sharon Perry Fantini , Vice Provost for Equity Access and Opportunity at Iowa State University. •

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

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.

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EAB

JUNE 20, 2023

Provosts, too. What’s been interesting, though, is that we actually have had more chief business officers and chief financial officers participate in the seminar than the student affairs leaders. MA: Really? What do you think accounts for the broader-than-expected appeal?

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

“The four-year degree isn’t working for a lot of people,” Lori Carrell, the chancellor of the University of Minnesota at Rochester, told her colleagues around the table, noting higher education’s high cost and low degree attainment, which has “squandered human potential at times.”

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University Business

APRIL 28, 2023

He previously served as the Institute Community and Equity Officer at MIT and the chief diversity officer and senior associate provost at the University of South Carolina. At Monmouth, Wyatt oversaw the establishment of colleges in engineering, neuroscience, health science and human movement. John Dozier – Columbia College (S.C)

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 7, 2025

Led by Rima Berry-Hung, director of human resources; Shareia Carter, MLS, director of the Center for Social Justice and Inclusion; and Marie The dynamic team leading the Office of Holistic Excellence: Dr. Marie Waung, Associate Dean and Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology; Shareia N. Thats how much we need it as human beings.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Her first task after arriving on campus in early 2021 was to get those areas connected. ” Rebecca Hoey, provost and senior vice president for academic and student affairs at Dakota State University, in South Dakota, has a theory around tech glitches being almost as common in on-campus classes as in off-campus classes.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

The majority of these programs are deemed low-enrollment and fall within undergraduate humanities: mostly religious studies, philosophy, English, creative writing, languages, history, fine arts, and classics. In 2021, Delaware State University acquired Wesley College : a private liberal arts college in Dover, Delaware.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

The majority of these programs are deemed low-enrollment and fall within undergraduate humanities: mostly religious studies, philosophy, English, creative writing, languages, history, fine arts, and classics. In 2021, Delaware State University acquired Wesley College : a private liberal arts college in Dover, Delaware.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The Board of Regents unanimously appointed President Cheng on May 7, 2021, and he began his presidency on July 2, 2021. He served as campus director of the University of Connecticut Stamford campus from 2016 to 2021, where he also served as a faculty member in the English department.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Board of Regents unanimously appointed President Cheng on May 7, 2021, and he began his presidency on July 2, 2021. He served as campus director of the University of Connecticut Stamford campus from 2016 to 2021, where he also served as a faculty member in the English department.

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Higher Ed Marketing Lab

JULY 30, 2021

I do think there are those … You have to have the right group, and you have to understand just basic human dynamics and relationships. Especially, we know that enrollment has seen a tough year in 2020, and 2021 certainly isn’t a cakewalk. Just to give a flavor of the human side of who our students are.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

That year, her lawsuit says, David Russell, who was then UT Southwestern’s new vice provost and dean of basic research, met with Vitetta for the first time to say he was planning on shutting down her manufacturing practice lab—where she made vaccines for clinical trials—in order to give this space to a younger male professor.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Image: After four years at Princeton University, Avina Ross left her job in September 2021. In addition, Michele Minter, Princeton’s vice provost for institutional equity and diversity, noted that the university’s approach to DEI is not “top-down,” so each department develops its own initiatives.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

I left UCU in 2021, so I won’t be striking. Literature and the rest of the humanities are being decimated and devalued. Humanities departments are getting slashed except at elite universities, which means our fields of study are becoming more exclusionary. What is your motivation for participation or non-participation?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Both Jonathan Levin, dean of the business school, and Persis Drell, provost, faced questions about it last week while addressing the Faculty Senate. Her panel is called “Are the Humanities Liberal?/How But these steps haven’t relieved opponents’ concerns. Stanford did not immediately provide comment on the event.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Others, such as human-centered technology design and data visualization, live in the intersection of science and the arts. In raw numbers, more than 900,000 international students were on optional practical training visas in 2021. Speaking with Inside Higher Ed this month, Scholz, who is now provost, shared the impact.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 5, 2023

While many of the comments called for Keon’s resignation, one voter offered an alternative: “Let’s exercise some tolerance for making a human mistake. “Just leave for God’s sake,” another voter wrote. Perhaps some diversity training.” Other higher ed leaders have not fared as well.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Human Cost: Emotional and Professional Toll The report and subsequent discussions shed light on the significant emotional and professional impact these developments have had on faculty and students. These changes speak to the human cost of political interference, affecting the very heart of educational institutions.

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GlobalHigherEd

APRIL 5, 2017

1, 2018, and would have to conclude its educational activities by 2021.” Enacting Article 7 of the European Union Treaty , perhaps given the attack on CEU but also in association with other human rights related transgressions? The United States will continue to advocate for its independence and unhindered operation in Hungary.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

According to free expression organization PEN America, 392 state-level educational intimidation bills were introduced between January 2021 and June 2023 with 39 passing into law. Wutoh, Howard provost and chief academic officer in an announcement in April. Blank was one of UWM’s longest-serving chancellors.

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