Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Fredrick Muyia Nafukho will become vice provost for the University of Washington Office of Academic Personnel. Dr. Fredrick Nafukho Nafukho will also become tenured faculty in the Department of Management and Organization in the Foster School of Business.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2024

Krause has been appointed dean of the William L. Ridgway College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Evansville (UE). Dr. Amanda L. Krause "I am excited and honored to lead the William L. Ridgway College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Evansville," said Krause. "I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Tsai Lu Liu has been appointed dean of the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design (AAD) at Virginia Tech, effective Jul. Tsai Lu Liu Liu is the head of the Department of Graphic Design and Industrial Design at North Carolina State University.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 26, 2022

Bearce , interim vice president for academic affairs at Northampton Community College, in Pennsylvania, has been appointed provost and vice president of academic affairs at Raritan Valley Community College, in New Jersey. Editorial Tags: College administration New presidents Is this diversity newsletter?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2023

Stevie Lawrence II will become provost and vice president of academic affairs at Lincoln University of Missouri , effective July 1. Previously, he served as founding dean of the University College at Fort Valley State University and director of college success services for University of North Carolina. Dr. Stevie L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 25, 2023

Marla Frederick will become dean of Harvard Divinity School (HDS), effective Jan. Garber, provost at Harvard. Dr. Marla Frederick She is currently the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion and Culture at Emory University. “I This appointment marks a return to familiar ground for Frederick.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Cabrini University will eliminate a handful of senior academic leadership jobs—including the post of provost—as part of a larger reorganization to downsize, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The provost, the associate provost and three deans will be eliminated and replaced by a dean of academic affairs and two associate deans.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: Twenty-three Lafayette College department heads and program chairs say there are serious issues with governance at the college, according to “points of concern” four of them shared with the president and provost. The fourth, Eric Ziolkowski, the religious studies department head, said he had no comment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy, a prolific researcher who has led the School of Education at American University as its dean for the past eight years, has been selected president and CEO of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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UW Presidential Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

We are actively responding on several fronts, many of which Provost Serio and I discussed in our April 3 message to the UW community and/or are outlined on the Federal Policy Updates page. At the same time, there have been a range of opinions expressed about how we and other universities should be responding to these threats.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As his reputation grew, Williams was recruited by Northwestern University, where he served as assistant dean of diversity and inclusion between 2017 and 2021, and then until 2022 as the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion lead of Northwestern’s Public Health Program. I needed them to speak the language [of diversity,]” says Williams. “I

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

An Alabama jury awarded Michael Stern $645,837 in damages, finding after a two-week trial that Stern’s former dean illegally punished him for speaking out. The jury did not agree with Stern’s similar claims against two former provosts, however. Later that year, Stern was elected chair of the economics department.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Michael West, head of Penn State’s Department of African American Studies, has resigned from the role, alleging that leadership broke promises and questioning the school's commitment to diversity and equity, Centre Daily Times reported. Dr. Michael West West will continue to serve as a tenured professor in the department.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Susanna Rinehart, associate professor of theatre history, literature, and performance, has been named associate dean for academic and faculty affairs for Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture, Arts, and Design (AAD). Rinehart joined the Virginia Tech faculty in 1999 as assistant professor in what was then the Department of Theatre and Arts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Esther Jones Dr. Esther Jones has been named associate dean for faculty development in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty at Brown University. Before her latest post, Jones served in various leadership capacities including as an associate provost in the Office of Faculty Affairs at Clark University.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

They credited her for jumpstarting the institution’s new model for fiscal sustainability, breaking records in research expenditures and leading its athletics department into the Pac-12 Conference. Prior to that, she was vice provost at Utah State University. Marie Hardin – Quinnipiac University (Conn.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

She previously served as provost at Hope College and dean at Cincinnati Blue Ash College. From 1996 to 2010, she taught at the school as a professor of communication, graduate program director, and department chair. “I This appointment marks a return to NKU for Short-Thompson.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Elsewhere on the site, Professor Harriet Dunbar-Morris, Pro Vice-Chancellor Academic and Provost at The University of Buckingham, highlights what is, in her view, a critical flaw in the LLE: the unfair funding gap facing students on accelerated two-year degree programmes, despite their clear benefits for employability and skills development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 8, 2023

Dr. Lester Sandres Rápalo Rápalo previously served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at CUNY Bronx Community College, provost and dean of Union College’s Elizabeth Campus, and chair of the foreign language department at Valencia College. “Dr.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2025

In response, the College of Charleston implemented a formal policy requiring structured consultation with departments, deans, the Faculty Senate, and governing boards for any future reorganizations. That process was followed successfully in launching the subsequent schools, reinforcing both transparency and institutional alignment.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 19, 2023

“Enrollments in English Language Institute programs have declined over the last several years as part of a larger trend of declining enrollments in intensive English programs nationally,” wrote Kathleen Blee, the dean of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt. Cudd, Pitt’s provost and senior vice chancellor.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

In 1998, he began teaching at the University of Alabama, and then joined the University of Cincinnati in 2002, where he rose to full professor, department head, associate dean for graduate studies and research, and ultimately dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science.

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ACRLog

MAY 29, 2024

Response: In my institution, the stark contrast between our leader in libraries and the broader administration (president, provost, etc) undermines the trust in the latter. Our Dean of Libraries is clear, transparent, and refers to a “life-work” balance instead of the other way around.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

Dr. John Karl Scholz Scholz is currently provost and the Nellie June Gray Professor of Economic Policy at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was previously UW–Madison’s dean of the College of Letters & Science and director of the Institute for Research on Poverty. Treasury Department from 1997-1998. Scholz holds a B.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

Previously, she has been executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at University of South Carolina; dean of the Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. She holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Haverford College and a J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law.

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UW Presidential Blog

MAY 17, 2023

It is my great pleasure to announce that Dr. Tricia Serio has accepted the role of Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Washington. As Provost at UMass Amherst, she launched and led initiatives to increase diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging for faculty, staff and students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2024

He also will maintain his University Professor and Provost Professor appointments in the USC Rossier School of Education, Marshall School of Business, and Price School of Public Policy. Before that, she spent five years as the Department’s Graduate Programs Director. Dr. Jessica T.

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The PIE News

MAY 31, 2024

Vice of provost and dean of global affairs at UC Davis, Joanna Regulska, who presented the research at NAFSA, noted the importance of such a figure. OPT is a popular avenue for those who are on STEM degrees – some 77% of survey respondents graduated with STEM degrees, and 65% now say they hold STEM-related jobs as well.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

” Also, the report says that colleges “privileg[e] candidates who come through academic affairs roles, where there is limited racial diversity at each key level (department chair, dean, provost, other senior officers in academic affairs)” and judge “candidates of color as risky and white candidates as safe choices.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

ole Osorio, dean of Hawai?inui?kea That expansive data disaggregation is deliberate and can be attributed to efforts led by the Native Hawaiian community, faculty, staff, and students on campus, said Dr. Nikki Chun, vice provost for enrollment management at UH M?noa. Dr. Nikki Chun, vice provost for enrollment management at UH M?noa.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 17, 2023

Jeff MacKie-Mason is university librarian, chief digital scholarship officer and professor in the School of Information and the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley. is the Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway University Librarian and vice provost for library affairs at Duke.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2023

John Latting, associate vice provost and dean of admission at Emory University Making sure that minoritized students know that they can fit in at college was an important motivator of Emory University’s social media strategy for this year, according to John Latting, associate vice provost and dean of admission at the Atlanta-based school.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

John Karl Scholz (Photo: UO Website) With experience as a professor, economist and provost (which he currently still serves at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), his focus at Oregon will be student career readiness and postgraduate success. Treasury Department and the Council of Economic Advisors.

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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. We stepped back into the classroom.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Dr. Karen Carey was appointed chancellor in November 2020 after serving as provost and dean of graduate studies since June 2016. Carey came to UAS from California State University Channel Islands in Ventura, California, where she served as dean of Arts & Sciences.

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