Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

As an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies (ELPS) and coordinator of the college student personnel program at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, she is working to achieve that goal with her scholarship and her administrative responsibilities. Cristobal Salinas Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Back in September, Western Michigan University—a public research institution located in the southwestern corner of the state—released its fall 2024 enrollment and retention numbers, much to the delight of the school’s provost, Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig. The fact that we had an increase of 3% last year, we don’t take that for granted.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The scholar just six years out of graduate school has already exhibited an extraordinary leadership in the field, according to Dr. Leslie Ashburn-Nardo, vice provost for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Office of the Provost at Drexel. Ramos to stay true to their guiding principles,” she continues.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Students obtain essential networking and community-building skills while developing a sense of leadership that is not informed by “heteronormative and cisnormative practices,” says John Weinstein, PhD, the college’s provost and vice president. The college also provides a $20,000 annual Queer Leadership scholarship to qualifying students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

These students are provided academic supports that include counseling, scholarships, and opportunities to participate in innovative science programs. “Dr. In addition to directing the AAP, Alexander is associate vice provost for student diversity. We also provide scholarships if they do get into UCLA or UC,” says Alexander.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

Dr. Kaleb Briscoe In June 2024, Dr. Kaleb Briscoe, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Oklahoma (OU) Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, found herself at the White House, presenting her research to policy makers and legislators.

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University Business

APRIL 9, 2023

Then in June 2022, USC and UCLA announced their departures from the Pac-12 conference to the Big Ten conference starting in 2024 ( see our previous blog, “USC, UCLA Big Ten Playbook” here ). Athletic departments also spend considerable amounts on coaches’ salaries and benefits, scholarships, travel and facilities.

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UW Presidential Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

These skills are critical to the learning, scholarship, research, and community service and engagement that we came here to be part of. To fulfill that mission, we must be a community that is able to consider and evaluate different perspectives, opinions and beliefs, and listen to competing ideas.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The other universities that failed to achieve 50 percent—Bond, Federation and Notre Dame Australia—are due for re-registration in 2024 or 2025. Provost Keitha Dunstan said the last ERA exercise had been based on data collected before 2017, with “mapping issues” affecting the results.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 25, 2025

In the waning days of 2024, Nolan Cabrera, a professor at the universitys Center for the Study of Higher Education, wrote a public warning to students, urging them not to enroll in UAGC. It continues to bleed, as it did in Ashfords later days, dropping from about 107,000 students in fiscal year 2015 to 51,000 in fiscal year 2023.

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HEPI

AUGUST 13, 2024

in 1793 to 1794 had resided for at least seven terms (there were in those days four terms per year) they tended to either hold college scholarships or be prospective clergymen preparing for ordination. It noted the Provost (the head) of the college thought the ‘present mode of conferring the higher Degrees unseemly’. degree persist?

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University Business

AUGUST 25, 2023

His term will begin in January 2024 and will run through 2028. Glover will step down at the end of Spring 2024. Prior to Occidental College, Elam served as Stanford University’s vice president for the arts and senior vice provost for education. – Occidental College (Calif.)

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University Business

JANUARY 24, 2025

Ian Baucom, Middlebury College Ian Baucom, the current provost and executive vice president of the University of Virginia, has been selected to lead Middlebury College beginning July. Hired Ian Baucom – Middlebury College (Vt.) Lauded for his leadership in the liberal arts, Baucom serves as the Robert C.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Closing colleges and universities Philadelphias University of the Arts closed in 2024. I posted about an earlier round of cuts there in 2024.) As the official statement put it, the move enables reallocation of resources, restructuring of academic programs and scholarships and significant reductions in force. More cuts: St.

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