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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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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. I needed them to speak the language [of diversity,]” says Williams.

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Scholars Respond to the Death of a University Administrator

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Antoinette “Bonnie” Candia-Bailey Lincoln University In an email sent on the day of her death , Candia-Bailey, who served as vice president of student affairs at Lincoln University in Missouri, a historically Black university, accused Dr. John Moseley, the university's president, of harassment and bullying. “You

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A New Era of Excellence

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She began her presidency at JCSU following an impressive, nearly 30-year-long career as an educator, writer, and academic administrator, most recently as the Renée and Richard Goldman Endowed Dean and Professor of the University of Pittsburgh School of Education.

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Higher Ed Lessons in Interim Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

He shared some examples of those projects: "We are doing a budget reassign, a complete reorganization and reimagination of our student enrollment services, retention services, student success units. When I became an associate dean, he said, 'Make sure that you ask everyone in your teams if you're doing something wrong.'

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5 higher ed thought leaders we are following

EAB

Busteed joined us in 2021 for our Presidential Experience Lab , EAB’s signature event for college and university presidents to take inspiration from out-of-industry exemplars to consider thought-provoking concepts, lessons and trends to help shape their leadership e­fforts and institutional strategy. Subscribe to the EAB Briefing.

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President moves: hearty welcomes and rocky goodbyes

University Business

In his time at Coastal Carolina, enrollment grew and their first-year retention rate bumped up 6%, totaling 73%, according to AP News. Before Alverno College, Foy served as Dean of the Faculty at Marian University in Wisconsin from 2018 to 2020. The Benedictine president-elect holds a Ph.D. Slabach Frederick G.