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Leading with Purpose: AABHE’s President Charts Path for Black Excellence

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Although Howard-Baptiste initially planned to pursue a career in the sports and fitness industry, inspired by her years as a high school volleyball player and intramural athlete in college, she eventually decided to go into academia. She is also a professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance.

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Conference Prepares Grad Students for Careers in Academia

Insight Into Diversity

More than 100 graduate students of color from 18 institutions gathered at Northern Illinois University (NIU) in February for the eighth annual Preparing Future Faculty of Color Conference , which strives to demystify having a career in academia. This article was published in our April 2023 issue.

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3 Questions for Todd Nicolet, Vice Provost for Digital and Lifelong Learning at UNC

Inside Higher Ed

Todd is the Vice Provost for Digital and Lifelong Learning at UNC. What does the role of Vice Provost for Digital and Lifelong Learning entail? As Vice Provost, I lead the teams providing these campus-wide programs and services and represent the University as needed in online, digital, and flexible learning spaces.

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International Women’s Day: ¼ of the Top 200 Higher Ed Leaders Worldwide are Women

Insight Into Diversity

institutions in their report and found the national average of women leaders, 30% of presidents and 39% of provosts, to be slightly higher than the global average. Since THE first began collecting data in 2015, the number of women-led institutions has increased from 14% to 25%. Women’s Power Gap (WPG) narrowed the numbers for U.S.

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For the first time, over 25% of the world’s 200 best institutions are led by women

University Business

Their exit from the world of elite academia means that the U.S. and found that they made up 39% of provosts and 30% of presidents. Women have outnumbered men on college campuses for decades, so it’s high time we’re starting to see more gender and racial diversity reflected in the highest roles in academia.”

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Dr. “Grace” Jinliu Wang Appointed President of Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In higher ed, she has previously been a professor in the Department of Materials Design and Innovation at the University at Buffalo; senior vice chancellor for research and economic development and interim provost of the State University of New York ( SUNY) system; int erim president of SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly); and executive vice president (..)

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Navigating the AI revolution in higher education: a call to action

HEPI

Professor Guo spent 34 years at Imperial College London studying AI, data mining, machine learning, and large-scale data management before becoming Provost of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2022. In academia we still place a great deal of emphasis in scholarship on the capacity to recall and recite.