Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

She is currently executive vice president and provost at The Ohio State University, the first Black to hold that role in the school’s history. There she oversees all aspects of academic affairs, ranging from education to diversity and inclusion. There, she served in numerous roles in multiple departments, including as the Ellen H.

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OCTOBER 3, 2024

Susanna Rinehart As one of four associate deans in the college, Rinehart will play a critical role in advancing the college’s academic agenda and fostering a supportive and inclusive academic environment that will lead to student and faculty success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Dr. Cheryl Nixon Nixon is currently provost and vice president for academic affairs at Fort Lewis College. She has also served as associate provost, English department chair, and graduate program director at the University of Massachusetts Boston. “I Nixon will become the 10th president of Berea College, effective Jul.

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UW Presidential Blog

MAY 17, 2023

It is my great pleasure to announce that Dr. Tricia Serio has accepted the role of Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Washington. As Provost at UMass Amherst, she launched and led initiatives to increase diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging for faculty, staff and students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2023

research universities for an initiative to improve diversity and inclusion in higher education. Diversity is a core value of our institution, and collaboration is essential in order to address the common challenges we share across institutions of higher learning,” said UChicago Provost Dr. Ka Yee C. Dr. Ka Yee C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Drexel University, Jointly Appointed, History and Africana Studies, Drexel University Tenured: No Age: 42 Education: B.A., Ramos, jointly appointed in History and Africana Studies, serves as an assistant professor in the Department of History at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite recent pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion among several states , a number of colleges have recently hired presidents based on their commitment to that principle. Treasury Department and the Council of Economic Advisors. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Faculty members who voted against the new rule have cited a variety of concerns, including those about equity and inclusion and whether a committee composed exclusively of senior professors will sufficiently value emerging areas and modes of scholarship. The university referred questions about the new policy to Wong.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

Dr. LaVar Charleston is the deputy vice chancellor for diversity & inclusion, vice provost and chief diversity officer at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Eventually, both became Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) leaders. She was Claire Huxtable—beauty, brains, and personality,” said LaVar Charleston. Jerlando F.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The group aims to create a vibrant, inclusive network where remote faculty and staff can share experiences, exchange ideas, and access resources to enhance their professional and personal lives. MTN’s launch is part of a broader university initiative to create more inclusive and supportive networks for faculty and staff.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

Race and higher education scholars are voicing criticism, concern, and cynicism after the University of Florida ended many of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, a move that the school cited it took to comply with a state law that was passed last year. Ahmed, vice provost for DEI at the University of Vermont. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Champions stepped into roles as allies, advisers, and leaders for the program and took more active roles in supporting their departments and the institution in improving equity of outcomes for our students. Dr. Willie McKether is the former Vice President for Diversity & Inclusion at the University of Toledo.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2025

In response, the College of Charleston implemented a formal policy requiring structured consultation with departments, deans, the Faculty Senate, and governing boards for any future reorganizations. That process was followed successfully in launching the subsequent schools, reinforcing both transparency and institutional alignment.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program. William & Mary has long had a liberal arts orientation and strong tradition of shared governance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2024

It seeks to prohibit any state or federal funding from being utilized to support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs at the state’s higher education institutions. They are already pushing back on central administration — presidents, chancellors, provosts. “We, They impact student performance and retention.”

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

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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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

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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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Maribel Alvarez, the interim associate vice provost of diversity and inclusion, was involved in a verbal altercation with Kai Harriott, president of the university’s Black Student Union. He said Alvarez would remain in her position as university officials make plans to restructure the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2024

Smith-Jackson, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs. “As In our department we have an undergraduate research program that allows undergraduate students to work side by side with researchers in the College of Agriculture,” she says. For example, we have departments of education, criminal justice, and sociology.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

“It didn’t matter if you sat in IT or our academic technology group or in one of the schools or foreign facilities office where you rarely interacted with the academics—the shared goal was so clear to everybody,” said Matthew Rascoff, Stanford’s vice provost for digital education.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Also essential are perceptions of the culture and climate for different groups of faculty in different institutions, departments and academic disciplines. Department of Education, provides national institution-level data on some faculty characteristics (e.g., What Data Do We Have?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Dr. Roberta Rincon “The ADVANCE program has been a game-changer for higher ed,” says Dr. Travis York, director of inclusive STEMM ecosystems for equity & diversity at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They’ll be focusing their efforts on the men in STEM departments with the “Advocates and Allies” program.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

As vice provost of student academic success and enrollment management at James Madison University in Virginia, Molina approaches student success from a curricular perspective, focusing on student learning experiences and how educators can best support their students. Q: What is your role at James Madison University?

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Sheila Caldwell, EdD, serves as the SIU System vice president for anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion. A pressing question all college leaders should respond to is how to create and sustain a campus climate that fosters inclusive excellence for all students. Sookyung Suh, PhD, director of org.

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University Business

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) award recognizes universities with an outstanding commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)—especially those that have made DEI part of the holistic fabric of their campus. Winning is nice, for sure. Think of areas where we can expand our view of holistic DEI.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Interim Provost Dr. Rani Roy says the school has already applied for two HSI grants and will find out in October whether they’ve been accepted. It’s incredible the way [The Mount] truly lives the mission of our authentic inclusivity and commitment to human dignity, our obligations to each other, and our common humanity,” says Burns.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

What I see isn’t simply inclusiveness, in terms of race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, but an understanding of the world that is captured by that widely used and racially inflected word “dark”: grungy, distasteful, foul, capricious, troubling and anxiety-inducing. ” But how?

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University Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Efforts have ranged from providing LGBTQ+-inclusive housing to scholarships and sports teams. “From the president and provost of the university, we are charged with the goal of engaging as many different experts and students to come together to address LGBTQ+ health solutions.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Gillespie’s role is to help us communicate our mission in a more systematic way and to foster and further nurture the university’s culture,” said Robin Cautin, SHU’s provost. The Roman Catholic institution in Fairfield, Conn., Central to this plan is the promotion of Charles A.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In 2019, the US Department of Education reported that one in every three American high school students participates in dual enrollment courses (Shivji & Wilson, 2019), a number expected to rise in the coming years. Department of Education , Washington, D.C. Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

” Shi continued, “I wasn’t interviewed or consulted by the president or the provost throughout [the] process, or ever, actually. In early 2022, Ron Cole, then Allegheny’s provost, released a staffing and academic programs plan that differed significantly from the task force report.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Ross, who is Black and has a doctorate in social work, was hired by Princeton’s health services department in part to provide a culturally sensitive approach to violence prevention and support for sexual abuse survivors. “Otherwise it just kind of feels like you’re shouting down an empty hallway.”

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In 2019, the US Department of Education reported that one in every three American high school students participates in dual enrollment courses (Shivji & Wilson, 2019), a number expected to rise in the coming years. Department of Education , Washington, D.C. Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

DeSantis and the Florida House of Representatives made demands in January for information regarding funding of programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion and critical race theory at colleges and universities. the provost, who can ignore all other evaluations of the targeted faculty member.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

At the time, Tate was the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts and Sciences and Chair of the Department of Education at Washington University in St. Dr. Carol D. Lee, who is professor emerita (the former Edwina S. That was that if you get inside the door, your job is to hold it open for somebody else.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The first African American in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis to earn tenure and be appointed to a named professorship, Jackson would eventually work his way up the ranks of the faculty, ultimately securing the rank of full professor and taking on the role of department chair. “I

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