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Former Dean Sues College, Claims Discrimination

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Charletta Barringer-Brown A former Southside Virginia Community College administrator is alleging discrimination as a reason she was fired from her position. Barringer-Brown served as dean of the department of humanities, social sciences, and business at Southside Virginia.

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GPT-4 is here. But most faculty lack AI policies.

Inside Higher Ed

” A few short months after OpenAI released ChatGPT—a large language model with an unusual ability to mimic human language and thought—the company released an upgrade known as GPT-4. But by OpenAI’s own admission, humans are susceptible to overrelying on the tools, which could have unintended outcomes.

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New presidents or provosts: Bradford Chippewa Hull Johnstown Lamar Vanguard

Inside Higher Ed

Hartwig , dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of communication at Colorado Christian University, has been selected as vice president for academic affairs and provost at Vanguard University, in California. Editorial Tags: College administration New presidents Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Valerie Sheares Ashby on leadership and succeeding a legend

Inside Higher Ed

” An edited transcript of the interview with Sheares Ashby, former dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke University, follows. When I was a dean, I was in service to 700 people and many more students. And then to be the dean at Duke is just ridiculous. How do you balance it? That’s our work.

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How a “culture of silence” at Liberty U prompted a federal investigation

University Business

And for the assault to occur in the first place, college administrators contended that it proved they had pre-marital sex. Underreporting crime led to an unchecked administrator racking up a streak of sexual violence against subordinates.

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Free speech concerns prompt calls to shun Yale Law grads

Inside Higher Ed

Department of Health and Human Services planned to give out free crack pipes. (Ho These foundational values guide everything we do,” Dean Heather Gerken wrote in an Oct. Ho and Branch will reportedly get a chance to raise their concerns about free speech at Yale directly at the university. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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UT Southwestern settles long-running discrimination case

Inside Higher Ed

That year, her lawsuit says, David Russell, who was then UT Southwestern’s new vice provost and dean of basic research, met with Vitetta for the first time to say he was planning on shutting down her manufacturing practice lab—where she made vaccines for clinical trials—in order to give this space to a younger male professor.