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When outgoing presidents find their hiring powers limited

Inside Higher Ed

“When Presidents in The Texas A&M University System announce they are leaving, they cannot hire senior staff or Deans except on an interim basis, so that the new President can choose the leadership team he or she will be working with during their term,” Sharp said on the same day Simmons announced her early exit.

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SOULS: The Academy’s Recipe for Transformation, Retention, and Creating a Better World

Insight Into Diversity

As a tenured full professor of political science, a former director of graduate studies and admissions, dean, and now vice president for diversity, I view the crisis of Black faculty and staff retention in the Academy as a quiet earthquake — slowly moving beneath the ground, embodying the terrors that make academic life untenable.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Byrne PHOTO COURTESY OF CUNY Becoming Dean of Macaulay Honors College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), enables Dr. Dara N. From December 2016 to July 2022, when she left to begin her new position, she served as associate provost for undergraduate retention and dean of undergraduate studies.

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Love of Reading

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean For various day job–related reasons, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about general education requirements and what we really want students to have, or do, or be able to do. He gravitated toward novels of adventure, often with science fiction or fantasy elements. It’s all good.

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Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It bans affirmative action not only in race but other protected categories, and not just in admissions but in hiring practices and awarding money,” says Dr. Mark Henderson, associate dean of admissions and vice chair for education in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of California (UC) Davis.

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For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Elimelda Ongeri, dean of the John R. The third category of scholarships goes to individuals from traditionally disadvantaged or minoritized backgrounds who are undergraduate health science students interested in careers in public health. and Kathy R.

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Help Wanted

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Those barriers lead to a lack of access to quality education for our minority students and students from disadvantaged backgrounds.” Smith, associate professor and chair of Claflin University’s Department of Nursing. MacNeil School of Nursing. We’re giving students multiple resources to fit different needs,” Bland says.