Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2024

The suit seeking monetary damages includes claims that she was fired because she was the only Black female administrator at the school and was treated differently from her white colleagues. Barringer-Brown served as dean of the department of humanities, social sciences, and business at Southside Virginia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 25, 2023

Marla Frederick will become dean of Harvard Divinity School (HDS), effective Jan. Marla deeply understands the unique role and influence of the Harvard Divinity School, and why it is a cherished institution,” said Dr. Alan M. This appointment marks a return to familiar ground for Frederick. Garber, provost at Harvard.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

Chemen Neal will become executive associate dean and chief diversity officer (CDO) for the Indiana University’s (IU) School of Medicine, effective Feb. She was previously director of holistic student success and advocacy and director of wellness for the OB-GYN department. 1, WFYI reported. Dr. Chemen M. Neal holds an M.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Department of Education (ED) could update Titles III and V to better serve students of color and low-income students. When we received the federal COVID funds, it allowed for students to be able to take summer school courses and not have to worry about the tuition of those classes,” said Dr. Dwayne L. Dr. Kayla C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

When the entire school feels engaged it feels pretty good.” We need to be looking to our student population to understand what their needs are and how we can best go about serving those needs," said Kerry Greenstein, dean of student life at Sweet Briar College and one of the speakers at Thursday's webinar. According to the report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2025

Holloway, who will succeed Dr. Mariko Silver (who departed in October 2024 to lead the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts), expressed his enthusiasm for the new role. Prior to Rutgers, Holloway served as provost at Northwestern University and held faculty roles at Yale University, where he was also Dean of Yale College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2025

Chancler said, citing the schools First-Year Experience Abroad program or FYE Abroad as an example. Some schools, she said, are folding their DEI work into their strategic plans. One attendee told Heath their school DEI office got eliminated and theyre at risk of losing other federal funding linked to DEI.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2025

Sproull Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences at the university. Before joining the University of Rochester in August 2023, Sampson served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Stony Brook University. Sampson had been serving as interim provost and was the Robert L. and Mary L.

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Deans for Impact

MAY 24, 2023

Like many schools across the US impacted by the pandemic, Crim Elementary School in northwest Ohio was looking for more resources to support all of its students with rigorous, grade-level learning of academic concepts. The tutors were given training about the school context and how to support the diverse learning needs of students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

He was so successful, in fact, that by the time he graduated from high school, Williams had achieved access to the same country club that barred him due to his race. He got to know Williams while he was an undergraduate at the school. He lined me up with great connectors that guided me to and through graduate school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Brian Kite, currently the dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT), has been appointed UCLAs new dean and vice provost of graduate education. Prior to joining UCLA, Kite was the producing artistic director of La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, where he helmed numerous acclaimed productions.

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University Business

MARCH 27, 2025

While Yale and other research universities are offering technical support, they will also gain insight from the consortium’s community colleges that are tapped into the state’s workforce needs, says Ron Harichandran, CAIA co-founder and dean of New Haven’s engineering department.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2024

Department of Energy and the State of Michigan have announced a collective award of cash incentives and grants totaling $75 million to build workforce development for Nel Hydrogen’s new factory to be built in Plymouth, Michigan.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2024

I am a rather strong person, someone who is willing to take on challenges that inhibit Black and other minoritized children from reaching their potential in schools and society. When my (former) husband, a university dean, would accompany me to meetings, I still felt outnumbered and on the defense. Imagine this. Imagine that.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 21, 2023

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – March 21, 2023 — Dean Hoke, of Bloomington, Indiana, has been chosen to serve as the next President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Association of University Administrators ( AAUA ), currently based in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania. He holds a B.A. degree from Urbana University and an M.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Grinnell College is launching a Department of African Diaspora Studies. The department will be led by a senior-level endowed chair who will design the curriculum and major. There are also plans for two additional tenure-track faculty lines, said Dr. Beronda Montgomery, Grinnell dean and vice president of academic affairs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The ruling sent medical schools across the nation scrambling to adjust admission standards to abide by the new law of the land. These barriers [to entry] manifest early, prior to even applying to medical school,” says Faiz. Roughly half of the UC Davis School of Medicine’s class of 2026 represent minoritized populations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2024

Rice School of Law. David Beasley Beasley receives the full-time appointment, effective March 1, as Distinguished Professor of Practice and Public Service in the law school’s Department of Legal Studies. Rice School of Law. David Beasley will join the faculty of its Joseph F. Former South Carolina Gov.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Years later, I am amazed by the community college and department I serve. Ben spent much of the next school day reimagining the movie, paying little attention to the instructions and expectations for cooperative learning. You should tell the English department to try it.” ” “Do you mean a flipped classroom?”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Then little Rema, one of just two Black children in the school, went to recess. Told he’d be back to school the next day, Rema’s mother was cool, calm and to the point: “And so will she.” “My Through Leading Well, Black women school leaders in Detroit have opportunities to come together to focus on their own wellness.

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Deans for Impact

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Over the last six years, Deans for Impact (DFI) facilitated this rigorous work through an unprecedented cross-institutional effort, the Common Indicators System (CIS) Network. The post Using data to catalyze and sustain cycles of continuous improvement in teacher preparation appeared first on Deans for Impact.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2025

Solvegi Shmulsky, dean of the School of Liberal Studies and the Arts at Landmark College, a private college designed exclusively for students with learning disabilities, ADHD, autism, or executive function challenges, says that a welcoming and well-staffed disability services department encourages students to seek the help they need.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Department of Education (ED) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) held the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit: Holistic Advising and Wraparound Services in Washington, D.C. He went to the dean of the College of Education at Central Connecticut State University and said, “I need help, or I’m out.”

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. Graduate school prepared me for a world that didn’t exist. It prepared me to be a very specialized political theorist in a poli sci department of at least a couple dozen people. ”) As a department of one, or part of one, specialization really wasn’t an option.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

Span has been appointed dean for the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. He served as a professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he holds a doctoral degree. Christopher M. Span Christopher M.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

“Departments as such should avoid statements on what we call here ‘external’ matters (state, national, or international policy matters),” the guidelines say. Those in the department with dissenting views should be able to express them in the same forum, the guidance also says. Departments vs. Individuals.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2025

How this higher education strategic planning approach helped College of Charleston grow enrollment, launch new schools, and achieve national university status. That process was followed successfully in launching the subsequent schools, reinforcing both transparency and institutional alignment.

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University Business

AUGUST 28, 2024

Institutions looking to solidify their non-degree micro-credential and digital badge strategy can model solutions from these 10 schools where thousands of students are upskilling in fast-paced, dynamic environments. It took 10 months for the university to implement the system. .

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

Two prominent efforts to diversify music in academia are the new University of Arkansas’ (UA) Arkansas Center for Black Music and the creation of the George Walker Center for Equity and Inclusion in Music at the University of Rochester’s (UR) Eastman School of Music (Eastman). This article was published in our June 2023 issue.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 28, 2023

In doing so, it will become the first two-year school in the state to offer such a degree, GBH News reported. Everyone should be taking these subject matters,” said Dr. Carine Sauvignon, an executive dean at Massasoit. “It s first Black studies departments, created in 1969. Brandeis is home to one of this U.S.’s

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

Ron DeSantis has appointed six new board members to the New College of Florida, a step towards turning the school into a more conservative institution, the Herald-Tribune reported. "It The students and faculty at New College – a small school – have a reputation for leaning left politically, so a conservative turn may see resistance.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

In December of 2024, GEDU announced a partnership with triple-accredited (AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA) business school, ICN. ICN is an established institution, now in its 120th year, with three campuses across Paris, Nancy and Berlin, and is ranked among the top 1% of business schools globally.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Swiss biotech executive and philanthropist Ernesto Bertarelli has pledged $75 million to Harvard Medical School to advance scientific discovery and a “culture of entrepreneurship,” the university announced Tuesday. ” Bertarelli is a graduate of Harvard Business School and current chair of the HMS Board of Fellows.

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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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