Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2025

Gina Spivey-Brown has been named the 12th president of Oakwood University, becoming the first woman to lead the historically Black Seventh-day Adventist institution in its 129-year history. Pollard, who has led the Huntsville, Alabama-based university for 15 years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

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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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Online education is moving from the periphery to the core, from entrepreneurial and opportunistic deans to central institutional strategies. The challenge is finding a way to articulate how online learning aligns with and supports the institutional mission. As that change plays out, we will see more centralized online services.

Students 98

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Regular and engaging content: For each eight-week term, the OLC meets virtually two to three times for 30-minute sessions to provide professional development on best practices in online teaching, pedagogy, student academic engagement and student retention, and in creating a close connection to the university mission.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Regular and engaging content: For each eight-week term, the OLC meets virtually two to three times for 30-minute sessions to provide professional development on best practices in online teaching, pedagogy, student academic engagement and student retention, and in creating a close connection to the university mission.

Administration 97

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Dr. Missy Alexander

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

There were just a few faculty members and the academic deans for this conversation, mostly because I wanted to expand my thinking and I needed this group’s help with this. How do your areas align with the university learning outcomes, and 2. The discussion prompts were essentially, 1.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

There were just a few faculty members and the academic deans for this conversation, mostly because I wanted to expand my thinking and I needed this group’s help with this. How do your areas align with the university learning outcomes, and 2. The discussion prompts were essentially, 1.

University Mission 52

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