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Citing 'Unprecedented' Financial Challenges, Miami U. Tells Low-Enrollment Majors to Change

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Emma Pettit Illustration by The Chronicle; image from 636Buster, Wikimedia Commons It's not professors’ fault that the university can no longer afford to support its current lineup of academic programs, the office of the provost wrote in a document shared with department chairs.

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Auburn professor awarded $646k in damages in speech case

Inside Higher Ed

The jury did not agree with Stern’s similar claims against two former provosts, however. ” Stern was removed as chair of his department in 2018 but has remained a professor at Auburn. Later that year, Stern was elected chair of the economics department. Stern’s tenure was granted by appeal, in 2010.

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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 1998, he began teaching at the University of Alabama, and then joined the University of Cincinnati in 2002, where he rose to full professor, department head, associate dean for graduate studies and research, and ultimately dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science.

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West Virginia U proposal outlines process for firing faculty

Inside Higher Ed

The draft document urges credit for faculty members supporting the university’s diversity, equity and inclusion mission, or who are otherwise doing community-engaged or interdisciplinary work; this presumably addresses long-standing concerns across academe that such efforts go unrecognized in traditional faculty reward structures.

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“Change the discourse” on value of international students in US, DHS told

The PIE News

The newly launched US for Success Coalition has hit the ground running, providing the Department of Homeland Security with a set of recommendations to make the US a more welcoming destination for international students. Stakeholders in the wider sector are enthusiastic about the goals of the newly formed coalition, including Jane E.

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Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Quantitative data are also essential, especially for documenting patterns of inequity and raising questions about how bias and other forces lead to observed differences. At the foundation of any effort to improve faculty diversity must be data that document the social identities and background characteristics of faculty.

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Amid FAFSA debacle, these higher ed leaders strive to ensure no student is left behind

University Business

Higher education leaders unloaded their grievances over the Department of Education’s botched FAFSA rollout in a U.S. “The lowest-income students are hurt the most,” Rachelle Feldman, vice provost of enrollment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said at the hearing. We lose out on that talent.”

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