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Oberlin's board seeks to limit faculty power

Inside Higher Ed

Jeff Witmer, professor of math, said that what the board appears to want “will change the ethos of Oberlin—a place where historically the faculty have made progressive decisions and where the dean has been viewed as first among equals. Yet the faculty didn’t lead Oberlin’s response to the incident.

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Acting in the Best Interest of the Institution

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

President Welch emphasized that if you know you’re facing a hard choice, resolve to face it sooner rather than later: “We immediately went to our other six system campuses and said, ‘We're going to begin a very aggressive program review process.’ And I said, ‘No, no, no, no. He began his career as a news clerk at The New York Times.

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Commission for Assessment and Evaluation Directorate Board Candidates

ACPA

I am committed to social justice and have authored multiple articles and book chapters on assessment and equity. Candidate Response: I have not worked with the Commission for Assessment previously, but I have been an ACPA member, attended the Institute on the Curricular Approach, and published articles with ACPA Developments twice.