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UPitt Dean Works to Advance Equity in Policy, Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“To advance equitable policies that are grounded in education is to understand the full humanity of people,” she said. “It Dr. Valerie Kinloch Kinloch does the work in her leadership role as the Renée and Richard Goldman Endowed Dean of University of Pittsburgh’s (UPitt) School of Education, a position she has held since July 2017.

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Lafayette dept. heads, program chairs raise governance concerns

Inside Higher Ed

” The second point said that “Dean positions are created and filled before dean positions are defined[;] input is requested only after key decisions are made.” ” But the letter does discuss the dean situation. ” “I am one of many pretenure faculty who are leaving the college,” Bell said.

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Insight Into Diversity Honors Legacy of DEI Innovator, Former Board Chair

Insight Into Diversity

In 2008, he developed the first Editorial Board for Insight Into Diversity magazine, and was selected as the inaugural Board Chair. “He ” With degrees in law and human rights from both Columbia University and the University of Oxford, and doctorates from Aberdeen, his academic journey was distinguished.

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Despite Increased Visibility, Asian Americans Continue to Face Barriers in Academia

Insight Into Diversity

According to Rachel Endo, PhD, dean and professor of education at the University of Washington Tacoma’s School of Education, Asian Americans frequently experience being overlooked for advancement in academia. “At Nicholas Hartlep, PhD “Some Asian Americans have been catapulted into pretty visible leadership roles.

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Machines can craft essays. How should writing be taught now?

Inside Higher Ed

Paul Fyfe, associate professor of English and the student’s instructor in the Data and the Human course, had asked students to “cheat” in this way and then reflect on how the experiment tested or changed their ideas about writing, AI or humanness. ’ And that is without human intervention, which would help.”

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Iran forces dissenters out of universities

Inside Higher Ed

Meanwhile, the government is taking steps to install regime loyalists in the top ranks of academia, recently appointing the ultra-conservative cleric Abdolhossein Khosrowpanah as secretary of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution—the body responsible for appointing university deans and heads of scholarly academies.

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Number of Ph.D.s conferred dropped 5.4% in 2021

Inside Higher Ed

Humanities and arts degrees fell 16 percent. Townsend, co-director of the Humanities Indicators project at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, said the Ph.D. ” The “sharp drop" in humanities also stands out, Townsend said. I wonder how many of the humanities Ph.D.s Letters: 1,389 to 1,192.