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IU Bloomington provost goes beyond retention for success

Inside Higher Ed

After two decades of working in higher education, Shrivastav is championing student success in academics at the University of Indiana Bloomington as the college’s newest provost. Q: How does managing student success as a provost differ from your focus on it in your prior role? A: It’s a much different, much bigger role. [At

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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program. William & Mary has long had a liberal arts orientation and strong tradition of shared governance.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

Multiple faculty sources declined to speak on the record, saying that Manhattanville required departing professors to sign nondisparagement agreements in order to receive severance pay. Following his and others’ departures, he said, just one full-time professor will remain in his department. Geisler last summer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Smith-Jackson, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs. “As In our department we have an undergraduate research program that allows undergraduate students to work side by side with researchers in the College of Agriculture,” she says. For example, we have departments of education, criminal justice, and sociology.

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What Educators Should Know About ChatGPT

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

Writing for the New York Times , Kelley Huang points out that: “University professors, department chairs and administrators are starting to overhaul classrooms in response to ChatGPT, prompting a potentially huge shift in teaching and learning. This isn’t going to be the last innovation we have to deal with.”

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The Midlife Crisis’s ‘Evil Younger Brother’: The Quarter-Life Crisis

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A recent book by American University’s provost emeritus and professor of business administration and policy Scott Bass offers his advice. Incentivize departments to enhance engagement initiatives for majors and minors. As Graff suggests, colleges and universities need to do much more to help today’s “ lost generation.”

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Why did Allegheny cut its Chinese program?

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” Shi continued, “I wasn’t interviewed or consulted by the president or the provost throughout [the] process, or ever, actually. In early 2022, Ron Cole, then Allegheny’s provost, released a staffing and academic programs plan that differed significantly from the task force report.