University Business

JANUARY 14, 2025

Can we embrace the past while accommodating the future of academia? In fact, Jacqueline Mozrall, School of Business Dean, had this to say: The architects did a wonderful job blending the new expansion with the existing building. Max Lowenthal Hall, home of the Saunders College of Business, was completed in 1977.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Faculty from the University of Kentucky (UK), Vanderbilt University, and University of North Carolina Greensboro have received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support underrepresented minority faculty at predominantly white institutions (PWIs).

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2025

How this higher education strategic planning approach helped College of Charleston grow enrollment, launch new schools, and achieve national university status. His background shaped his belief that universities must better prepare students for real-world workforce demands while preserving the values of liberal arts education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Racial and gender inequities still plague the field of educational measurement, from professional rank to salary, across academia, industry, and leadership roles. Rodriguez said he hopes to learn more about these written responses, particularly as they relate to leadership positions both in academia and the industry.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Yet another noticed anti-Black racism increase at their institution when the university publicly declared its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). The report’s lead researcher, Dr. Becca Franssen, is a partner at the British talent-search firm GatenbySanderson, where she helps British universities fill executive roles.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

The three presidents to step down demonstrate a variety of reasons for making a change: to reengage in academia, pursue other professional opportunities or make way for new leadership during trying times. In July 2025, he will depart for a one-year sabbatical and return to the life of academia.

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Insight Into Diversity

JUNE 7, 2024

Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences will no longer require diversity and inclusion statements as part of its hiring process. This change was detailed in a Monday email from Nina Zipser, PhD, dean of faculty affairs and planning. In an April op-ed in The Harvard Crimson, Harvard Law School professor Randall L.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 3, 2025

March 3, 2025, by Dean Hoke : This profile of the College of Wooster is the fourth in a series presenting small colleges throughout the United States. University of Chicago. Distinguished Alumni Network Wooster graduates excel in various fields, including academia, business, public service, and the arts.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation The best recent show about academia over the past few years is not The Chair , although it was pretty good. The show you want to watch if you want to understand how a university actually works is HBO’s thinly veiled academic drama, House of the Dragon. From the inside, things can look very different.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Pam Luster, President Emerita of San Diego Mesa College, focused on creating an equitable higher education landscape and increasing access for those historically marginalized by academia. She helped lead as vice president of academic affairs at San José City College and dean of Counseling and Matriculation at Evergreen Valley College.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

To ensure music students gain a more inclusive education, universities are beginning to expand their areas of study. These efforts will help dispel the notion that only one form of music is considered “correct” to study within academia, says Sellers Battle. This article was published in our June 2023 issue.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2022

Brian Blake, President, Georgia State University. Brian Blake on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast as he approached his one-year anniversary of becoming President at Georgia State University. Similarities Between Industry and Academia. And then I’ll talk about Peter Freeman , one of the first Deans of Computing at Georgia Tech.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Two world-renowned universities in London are partnering with technology learning specialists in a bid to foster skills needed to succeed in the technology sector. In partnerships announced this week, Imperial College London has linked up with online coding bootcamp provider HyperionDev.

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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. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. from Arizona State University in Psychology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Title: Chancellor, University of Alaska Southeast Located in Juneau, Alaska’s capital city, University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) is a regional university with campuses in Juneau, Ketchikan and Sitka. Dr. Karen Carey was appointed chancellor in November 2020 after serving as provost and dean of graduate studies since June 2016.

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HEPI

MAY 1, 2023

These ideas have been naïvely imported into academia where individual performance, especially regarding research, is assessed by means of volume and metrics. Also, unlike sales, recruitment or production, numbers can be gamed, and it is glaringly obvious in some sectors of academia and in some countries in Europe that this happens.

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HEPI

APRIL 23, 2024

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Roger Watson, Academic Dean, School of Nursing, Southwest Medical University, China and outgoing President of the National Conference of University Professors. “ Pathways to professorship is more than a book… it should be on the shelves of every university library.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

In a career that has included both academia and the private sector, Dr. Teik C. in mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University, his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla and his Ph.D. Lim is now leading the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) into the future.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Gerald Carter Title: Assistant Professor, Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University Age: 39 Education: B.S., Cornell University; M.S., University of Western Ontario; and Ph.D., Cornell University; M.S., University of Western Ontario; and Ph.D., Seek out constructive criticism.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2024

Through the November 2023 HBCU/MSI Research Summit — a joint effort between Virginia Tech’s Graduate School and the Pamplin College of Business — the university welcomed 25 visiting faculty and staff from participating institutions. A central focus of the summit was to cultivate collaborative research between HBCUs, MSIs, and Virginia Tech.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Northeastern University will open a campus in Miami in 2023, the Boston-based institution announced Tuesday. The campus—the university’s 14th—will be located in the city’s Wynwood neighborhood and will offer more than 20 graduate programs with a focus on technology, health care and finance. ” Maria C.

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University Business

APRIL 4, 2023

However, these experts believe higher education is at an inflection point to evolve past its focus on academia and prioritize equipping its students with career skills and that the best way to get there is by partnering with relevant businesses and employers. That’s not enough,” says Dr. Marc Austin, Dean for Augusta University Online.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Bolstered by state and national workforce needs and their promising return on investment, the STEM track represents a gold mine for colleges and universities that want to ensure credentials from their institution are providing students with good job prospects and gainful employment. What can we do?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Marx could have examined academia in Status and Culture to make his arguments. In academia, at least for traditional tenure-track academics, career progression depends on one’s relative place in a competitive status hierarchy. How might a university be reorganized around the needs of adjunct and contingent faculty?

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Liaison International

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Alumni possess a dynamic blend of experiences, insights, and connections that can serve as a catalyst for transformative change within colleges and universities. However, they can play a vital role in helping us build our classes. Faculty members, while experts in their fields, might be removed from the current industry landscape.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Canton accepted the position of director of the African American studies program at the University of Florida. Canton accepted the position of director of the African American studies program at the University of Florida (UF). The college’s dean, Dr. David E. Many of our peer universities have departments,” says Canton.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Sol Gittleman has penned a must-read book for anyone with a vested interest in the past, present, and future of American academia. Dr. Sol Gittleman Gittleman, who is the Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor Emeritus, has emerged as one of the nation’s most important interpreters of the history of higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Griffin, the dean of the College of Education at the University of Maryland. Griffin, associate professor of higher education and student affairs at the University of Maryland “Our country is diversifying quickly,” she said. That means making sure that people get tenure and stay in academia. Dr. Kimberly A.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 4, 2024

Metzler, a true visionary in academia, healthcare, and diversity, passed away on Saturday, March 23, at his home in Grenada. ” With degrees in law and human rights from both Columbia University and the University of Oxford, and doctorates from Aberdeen, his academic journey was distinguished. Christopher A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne PHOTO COURTESY OF CUNY Becoming Dean of Macaulay Honors College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), enables Dr. Dara N. From December 2016 to July 2022, when she left to begin her new position, she served as associate provost for undergraduate retention and dean of undergraduate studies.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Image: Patty Limerick, co-founder and longtime faculty director of the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Center of the American West, says her firing last week continues to shock her, especially as she had been planning to step down soon anyway. He referred questions Tuesday to a university spokesperson.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

This paucity is mirrored in academia, where only 19.2% You probably over-prepare for meetings,” says Dr. Rolanda Johnson, associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. Such nurses represent just 19.4% You’re] constantly analyzing things.” 14-18 at Vanderbilt.

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Liaison International

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Alumni possess a dynamic blend of experiences, insights, and connections that can serve as a catalyst for transformative change within colleges and universities. However, they can play a vital role in helping us build our classes. Faculty members, while experts in their fields, might be removed from the current industry landscape.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. Tenure is a key moment at which people exit university doors, perhaps because the doors slammed shut. Nikole Hannah-Jones at University of North Carolina and Dr. Cornel West at Harvard ) reveal a broader systemic pattern.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Mike Rose, University of California, Los Angeles The course of Carlos Galan’s academic career was changed by a single question from a high school student. A Latino student researching a university department observed that hardly any of the faculty had backgrounds similar to his own. “I

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

AUGUST 4, 2023

Jayathi Murthy’s term as president of Oregon State University began in September 2022. A mechanical engineer with decades of experience in both academia and industry, she was previously the dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But all of that changed in 2022, when Steele saw a listing for a job at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. Among them are Harvard; Stanford; the University of Michigan; the University of California, Berkeley; and the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Dr. Candace N.

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