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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. For Williams, his goals are more modest, at the moment.

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Rutger’s Eatman to Chair AAC&U Board of Directors, And Other Newly Elected Officers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Villarreal is vice president for equity, diversity, and inclusion at the University of Utah, and Eatman is the inaugural dean of the Honors Living-Learning Community and Professor at Rutgers University–Newark. “It James Madison University President Dr. Jonathan R.

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Uniting in the face of unprecedented challenges

UW Presidential Blog

The UW is engaged in a range of collective conversations and efforts, including through the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) and American Council on Education (ACE). We do and will, of course, continue to follow all federal laws.

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Fuentes Earns the AAHHE Mildred García Founders' Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The award — named after former American Association of State Colleges and Universities president, Dr. Mildred García — honors exemplar commitment to advancing access and success of the Latinx population in higher education.

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Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Named Provost at Western Michigan University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig, an educational researcher whose work on racial equity and teacher preparation has received national recognition, will be the next provost and vice president for academic affairs at Western Michigan University. He will do the same as provost at Western Michigan University.”

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Organizational problems underlie 'cancel culture' (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

It’s hardly a new observation that, in corporatespeak, colleges and universities are ailing companies. As Temple University president Jason Wingard writes , our attrition rates would send a corporate entity into meltdown. Later, students email the dean demanding the instructor publicly apologize and undergo training.

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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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