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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

Maria Donoghue Velleca, dean of arts and sciences since 2020, said in a Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting this week that even she had been left in the dark on plans for the possible school and that this had influenced her decision to leave her post not at the end of the academic year, as previously announced, but at the end of 2022.

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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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Librarians target incoming students, collaborative measures

Inside Higher Ed

Choosing a target: Most student success programs in the library focus on undergraduate students, particularly first years or transfers, explains Erin Ellis, president of the Association of College and Research Libraries and the associate dean of research and learning services at Indiana University.

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Sacred Heart University's new Pioneer Journey director

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Sacred Heart University administrators have long encouraged students to understand the institution’s mission and values by attending seminars and events designed to reflect and promote the “Pioneer Journey,” the academic, spiritual and social-emotional learning path that encompasses the student experience at the university.

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MSU Cuts a Year from Teacher Certification Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2021, students sent a letter to the provost expressing their qualms about the financial and mental burdens. The program will cut the seminars that were part of the fifth year, designed to help students reflect on their student teaching experiences. “I I think it’s OK that we’re losing them,” said Greenwalt.

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Are we there yet? :)

#Deaning

Some days it feels, with my graduate seminar, that term has just flown by–how can it be week 8 already?–and I’ve wondered about whether deans should teach before, but this year it was definitely the right choice for me. I don’t know about you, but my sense of time isn’t doing so well during the pandemic.

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The University Business Podcast: How to turn an evolution into a revolution

University Business

The next evolution of academic programming, in fact, requires revolution , Ozlem Kilic , inaugural dean of the University of Tennessee’s College of Emerging and Collaborative Studies , says on The University Business Podcast. No higher education institution can remain static in today’s rapidly changing workforce environment.