Remove College Remove Faculty Remove University Provost
article thumbnail

How Being a Mother and Academic Helped Me Fix Higher Education’s Transfer Crisis

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Alvero When my daughter transferred to Queens College in Spring 2019, I could not have been more excited. As associate provost at the college, Ill admit I was biased but even two decades of experience in higher education couldnt fully prepare me for her struggle to transfer credits. Government Accountability Office.

Provost 98
article thumbnail

A Wish List for New Faculty 

Inside Higher Ed

As the academic year begins, Karlyn Crowley, a university provost, offers some thoughts to professors at the start of their careers. As provost, I have spent this summer imagining what I will say to welcome our new faculty this fall. And yet it is a volatile time in our precious sector.

Faculty 98
university leaders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Littles Gets Dean Appointment in Florida State’s College of Medicine

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Alma Littles has been appointed dean of the College of Medicine at Florida State University. When I first saw the College of Medicine mission statement, it resonated with me,” Littles said. The college’s priorities and my goals as a physician mirror each other,” said Littles, who replaces Dr. John P.

Deans 105
article thumbnail

What Faculty Know (and Don’t Know) About Transfer—and Why It Matters

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Beyond Transfer What do faculty members know about transfer-related matters? These are some of the questions we set out to investigate in the latest effort of the Transfer Opportunity Project ( TOP ; one of the A2B group of projects) housed at the City University of New York. Does it really matter what they know?

Faculty 75
article thumbnail

How Vermont is winning the fight against falling enrollment

University Business

Two big initiatives pushing this change are recent school mergers and a powerful free community college pipeline. Starting this July, Castleton University, Northern Vermont University and Vermont Technical College will consolidate into Vermont State University—a lean, cost-effective hybrid learning machine.

article thumbnail

CIEE awards four US institutions $1m each to transform study abroad

The PIE News

Arizona State University, Borough of Manhattan Community College, Northeastern University, and UC San Diego will each receive the funding over four years to establish new study abroad programs, as part of CIEE’s Pledge to Lead Change in Study Abroad. Munroe, president, Borough of Manhattan Community College.

article thumbnail

Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Western Michigan University Provost Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Lori Gottschling For Vasquez Heilig—a prominent public policy researcher who has carved out a national reputation both in and outside academic circles for his scholarship on equity and innovation—the pendulum at WMU is swinging in the right direction.

Provost 111