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Pushing to No Longer Keep Meredith College a ‘Best-Kept Secret’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“I like being able to work with students, faculty, and colleagues in a different kind of way [that] made me more aware of the community of higher education and not just a department, class, or advising relationship with a student. This return etched Allen all the more into the history of Meredith. To me, it felt bigger.”

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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

His efforts helped to lead to the graduation of the most diverse class in the history of Northwestern. “We Because of the dean leads, the vice provost, the team members working with me, we were able to do great things with faculty and faculty fellows. We did some great work.”

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Why did U of Florida suddenly fire its honors director?

Inside Higher Ed

Mark Law, the director, also says he was told that the university’s Board of Trustees insisted on his ouster, against the will of the university’s president and provost. “The Board of Trustees of UF fired me effective August 15. That administrator did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.).

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Eye to the Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Upon admission, someone from the office oversees the transition process—orientation, advisement, financial clearance and registration prior to the student’s first term and support through the first year. At that time, they transition to either a professional advisor in their school or major or mostly to faculty advisement.”

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How Three Bronx Institutions are Intentionally Hispanic-Serving

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Interim Provost Dr. Rani Roy says the school has already applied for two HSI grants and will find out in October whether they’ve been accepted. He takes the time to meet with his Latinx learners, to sit with them, discuss the challenges they face, and share his own history with them. It’s a part of our Lasallian Catholic tradition.

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University holds Holocaust remembrance event despite Jewish protests

Inside Higher Ed

And faculty members say this year’s event was going to feature the provost, Heather Coltman, playing piano, something the last event’s committee rejected. “When a representative of the provost suggested that we consider the provost’s friend Dr. Alan Berger, her good friend, we did so,” Flannery said.

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A professor's job is endangered for teaching about race

Inside Higher Ed

The professor, Samuel Joeckel, said in an email that the dean of his department and the university’s provost waited outside the class he was teaching last week to inform him of the news. The spokesperson told WPBF, “I’m advised we can not [ sic ] comment on a personnel matter.” “On Feb.