Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2024

13, becoming the first woman in the college’s 63-year history to serve as president. Andrews University as well as a master’s in science education and a doctorate in higher education administration from East Carolina University. Pharr starts the role Aug. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from St.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Meanwhile, the humanities and social sciences are taking a back seat. Integrating the arts into STEM (“STEAM”) has been in discussion since at least 2010, when the Rhode Island School of Design helped pioneer it. But something exciting is happening in the world of higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: B.A., history, Tufts University; M.A., political science, Binghamton University Career mentors: Dr. David L. That experience proved to be life-altering.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The initiative also establishes groundwork for Emory’s “Indigeneity Hub,” which will include new faculty and programs in language, literature, history and the arts, and a physical and literal language path on Emory campuses in Atlanta and Oxford. government 15 years earlier.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Earlham has an important and longstanding place within the distinctive liberal arts tradition in the United States. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Paul Sniegowski has been named the 21st president of Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Prior to that, he served as the president of Wilmington College (Ohio) and the founding associate dean of health sciences at Heidelberg University. One campaign he oversaw helped draw in $66 million, the largest in school history, Telegram & Gazette reports. William Pieczynski – Nichols College (Mass.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Medical humanities recenters health in a broader social, cultural, and historical context, using humanities and social sciences methods to analyze the contexts of illness and health. Williams, dean of Howard University’s Graduate School , professor of African-American literature, and grant co-leader. Howard University The 3.5-year

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

” The second point said that “Dean positions are created and filled before dean positions are defined[;] input is requested only after key decisions are made. It’s unclear who supported the letter beyond those four, but 23 would represent over two-thirds of the college’s department heads and program chairs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: B.A., history, Tufts University; M.A., political science, Binghamton University Career mentors: Dr. David L. That experience proved to be life-altering.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Erica Muhl begins her term in July 2021, she will become the first female president of the Berklee College of Music in the 75-year history of the Boston institution. She holds a doctor of musical arts degree from the USC Thornton School of Music. After her acclaimed 30-year career at USC, Muhl will succeed Berklee President Roger H.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Limerick,” Chris Whitney, the board’s vice chair and brand commissioner for the state of Colorado’s Department of Agriculture, wrote to Glen Krutz, CU Boulder’s dean of arts and sciences. “This has been a process that did not come with transparency, forthrightness and clear and steady communication.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Awaiting them in the program are two tracks: one on the science of cannabis and the other on the social justice and policy around cannabis. This program presents an opportunity to help rectify that and also to understand the lasting impact that cannabis has had on human history and evolution, she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

John Hope Franklin Award was created in 2004 to pay tribute to Franklin, a historian, writer, educator, and humanitarian who made significant contributions to shaping the perspective of American history in the 20th century. Jackson said her mother was more inclined to the language arts. Early inspiration Her father was an inspiration.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

She remains a tenured professor of history at Colorado. The decision was made by Glen Krutz, the new dean of CU’s College of Arts and Sciences, according to The Colorado Sun , which said he would not comment on why he removed Limerick.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Image: Newly available data from the National Science Foundation suggest that the first full year of the pandemic had a major, negative impact on graduate students’ ability to finish their Ph.D.s. Degrees awarded in the life sciences fell 6 percent between 2020 and 2021, and by about 8 percent in the physical and earth sciences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 6, 2024

I am … focused, honest, generous, motivated, analytical) and the sources, resources, and forces in their hearts and histories that fuel their aspirations, (e.g. Well before the first college lecture, however, newly enrolled college students should consider a couple questions and a few simple steps that can lower barriers to college success.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

As Dean of the Faculty, she reviewed their recruitment, appointment and promotion; additionally, she oversaw the budget, personnel and graduate programs across multiple academic departments. Several of them are also coming in as either the first woman or the first of their race or ethnicity to lead their school.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Image: Harvard University announced its 30th president Thursday, drawing from within to hire Claudine Gay, the first Black president in the institution’s nearly 400-year history. Gay, currently the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was hired after a search that began in July to replace Lawrence S.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Chad Orzel’s piece this week, “ Physics Is a Liberal Art ,” is a must-read. He’s a physicist who attended a small liberal arts college and works at another one, so he’s well acquainted with the various ways in which the term “liberal arts” is used.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences Native Explorers Program Governor Bill Anoatubby of the Chickasaw Nation on the left has supported the Native Explorers Program for 15 years. The full list of 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners can be found here.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. It also was a serious loss for the Worcester region because of Becker College’s long and impactful history in the area and the prominence of several academic programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

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 dean had an envelope in his hand and gave it to me. “On Feb. “On Feb. “They asked to speak with me privately.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Bowman (left), Michigan State University’s associate dean for academic and student affairs, and other leaders from the university’s college of education. Gmelch, who, at the time, served as dean of Iowa State’s College of Education and had emerged as a national expert on college deans. “I Jerlando F.

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University Business

APRIL 18, 2024

Tim Walberg brought into question the ideological position of Joseph Massad, a tenured professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia, who used the words “awesome,” astonishing” and “astounding” to describe the Oct. Some Republicans, such as Rep. Aaron Bean (R-Fla.), 7 Hamas attack.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

” Imposing fixed time bands is ultimately a political decision that requires input from deans, department chairs and, in most cases, the faculty senate. Problem 4: A Shortage of General Purpose Classrooms and Science Labs Everywhere I’ve taught, there is a lack of general purpose classrooms.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

I am so proud that the School of Arts & Sciences can lead on this critical priority with the expansion of a department that will inspire conversation, research, and ultimately action,” Nicole Sampson, the Robert L. Sproull Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, said in a press release. and Mary L.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Resolutions and Safe Spaces — Adelphi University. Adelphi University’s Office of Community Concerns and Resolution was established in fall 2021 to simplify and enhance the system for reporting discrimination, bias, and abuse. Elevating Stories of the Unrecognized — Agnes Scott College. Elevating Stories of the Unrecognized — Agnes Scott College.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

But a combination of competitive pressures, demographic patterns and accreditation requirements in one of its most job skill–focused undergraduate fields has led the private liberal arts institution to create its first-ever master’s degree—and to consider adding others. ” But enrollment has since declined.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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University Business

AUGUST 5, 2024

Alumni, trusted donors and friends of the college have placed so much confidence in his leadership that the Pennsylvania-based liberal arts college is coming off a record-breaking $77 million year of fundraising. ” More from UB: Do college degrees lead to better jobs? . ” More from UB: Do college degrees lead to better jobs?

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

On this last day of 2023, I am reflecting on my 11 years at WCSU. This is my last day as provost, and it has been a rewarding and challenging ride. The perfect storms of COVID-19 and the demographic shifts of New England presented abundant challenges to the academic and university planning processes.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

On this last day of 2023, I am reflecting on my 11 years at WCSU. This is my last day as provost, and it has been a rewarding and challenging ride. The perfect storms of COVID-19 and the demographic shifts of New England presented abundant challenges to the academic and university planning processes.

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College. Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College. With level-headedness, Clarence D.

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Helix Education

APRIL 21, 2024

Everyone loves a David and Goliath story, and at this moment in the history of higher education, small colleges could use one. WVWC is a quintessential small liberal arts college with a population of 1,100 students and a beautiful campus nestled in the heart of central West Virginia. The news has not been good.

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University Business

JULY 5, 2023

Roth and Amin Abdul-Malik Gonzalez, Vice President and Dean of Admission and Financial Aid, find the ruling tone deaf. The Supreme Court’s long-awaited decisions on two cases that would implicate the fate of race-conscious admissions at public and private institutions’ undergraduate levels finally came out last week.

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