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Harvard Eliminates Diversity Statements in Hiring

Insight Into Diversity

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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An Outsider’s View, Self-Worth

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2018, Chua and her husband, fellow Yale Law School professor Jed Rubenfeld, were investigated for allegedly telling students to dress like models for a better chance at winning a clerkship with Brett Kavanaugh, now a U.S. When I first joined the [Yale Law] faculty, I would go to a faculty meeting that would be 90% white males.

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These leaders’ commitment to DEI got them the nod for president

University Business

Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. Other notable mentions: Dr. Stuart Rayfield, Columbus State University Dr. Cheryl McConnell, Saint Joseph’s University, the school’s first female president. she helped broaden the school’s admission of diverse students, specifically those of first-generation standing.

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Defending Central European University and Academic Freedom: Elements of an Initial Response

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Editor’s note : this guest entry, also posted on Inside Higher Ed , has been kindly developed by Sejal Parmar , Assistant Professor at the Department of Legal Studies and a core faculty member of the Center for Media, Data and Society at the School of Public Policy at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

It provides students, faculty, staff, and alumni with a single place to report nonemergency complaints or concerns, including those involving harassment and sexual misconduct. The university also administers Diversity 360, a three-hour diversity education program required for all incoming students, staff, and faculty.

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Support for Educators Is All Around

Today's Learner

Reading Time: 5 minutes Diantha Ellis is a p rofessor of Business in the Stafford School of Business at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College If there is one good thing that came from COVID-19, academics learned how resilient we truly are. As the virus swept around the world, faculty were reminded to band together in support of our students.

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

The Change Leader, Inc.

Drumm McNaughton McNaughton and Reichman cover the processes and conclusions of the AAUP report, emphasizing the detrimental effects on academic governance, academic freedom, and the well-being of faculty and students. Notable among these are faculty departures and a discernible decline in academic standards.