Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Leonard went to Dr. Dave Weatherspoon, vice provost of enrollment and academic strategic planning at MSU, to see if the student’s status could be changed to in-state. He envisions a collaborative space between departments and units where Native and Indigenous students can come to have their questions answered.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2025

Holloway, who will succeed Dr. Mariko Silver (who departed in October 2024 to lead the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts), expressed his enthusiasm for the new role. Prior to Rutgers, Holloway served as provost at Northwestern University and held faculty roles at Yale University, where he was also Dean of Yale College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2025

Nicole Sampson Nicole Sampson has been named the permanent provost and chief academic officer at the University of Rochester. Sampson had been serving as interim provost and was the Robert L. She will continue to hold her position as University Professor in the Department of Chemistry while serving as provost.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

The budding Black studies department at the University of Rochester will fast-track their hiring of faculty with the help of a $3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation. chair of faculty programs and departmental initiatives in the university's Black studies department. Dr. Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. McCune, Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Fredrick Muyia Nafukho will become vice provost for the University of Washington Office of Academic Personnel. Dr. Fredrick Nafukho Nafukho will also become tenured faculty in the Department of Management and Organization in the Foster School of Business.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

After two decades of working in higher education, Shrivastav is championing student success in academics at the University of Indiana Bloomington as the college’s newest provost. Q: How does managing student success as a provost differ from your focus on it in your prior role? A: It’s a much different, much bigger role. [At

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

Palmer is Full Professor and Department Chair of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Howard University. Dr. Morris Thomas is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Assistant Provost & Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching Learning & Assessment at Howard University. Dr. Robert T.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

He served in several other capacities throughout his career, including as executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of South Carolina, as deaan and later assistant vice president for Public Health Preparedness and Emergency Response at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 26, 2022

Bearce , interim vice president for academic affairs at Northampton Community College, in Pennsylvania, has been appointed provost and vice president of academic affairs at Raritan Valley Community College, in New Jersey. Editorial Tags: College administration New presidents Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Department of Education (ED) could update Titles III and V to better serve students of color and low-income students. Tutt, assistant vice provost of student success at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, an HBCU. Dr. Kayla C. With that in mind, can we allow that to be an allowable activity going forward?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2023

Stevie Lawrence II will become provost and vice president of academic affairs at Lincoln University of Missouri , effective July 1. Dr. Stevie L.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Cabrini University will eliminate a handful of senior academic leadership jobs—including the post of provost—as part of a larger reorganization to downsize, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The provost, the associate provost and three deans will be eliminated and replaced by a dean of academic affairs and two associate deans.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Todd is the Vice Provost for Digital and Lifelong Learning at UNC. What does the role of Vice Provost for Digital and Lifelong Learning entail? As Vice Provost, I lead the teams providing these campus-wide programs and services and represent the University as needed in online, digital, and flexible learning spaces.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Leonard went to Dr. Dave Weatherspoon, vice provost of enrollment and academic strategic planning at MSU, to see if the student’s status could be changed to in-state. He envisions a collaborative space between departments and units where Native and Indigenous students can come to have their questions answered.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Brian Kite, currently the dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT), has been appointed UCLAs new dean and vice provost of graduate education. Prior to joining UCLA, Kite was the producing artistic director of La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, where he helmed numerous acclaimed productions.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Q: Can you give us the elevator pitch on what Harvard’s Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning ( VPAL ) does? Interestingly, there are many departments and schools across Harvard that also offer online, hybrid, or blended learning experiences, like executive education or continuing and professional education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Kenyon Provost Dr. Jeff Bowman will lead the college until the search for a new president is complete. “It has been a tremendous honor for me to lead this remarkable community over the past 9.5 6 message to the Kenyon community. And Decatur will be available through March 2023 to support the transition.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2025

Yet by spring 2024, three had departed amid political pressures over their handling of campus controversies related to the Israel-Hamas war. Research by Dr. Gloria Oikelome, currently provost & vice president of academic affairs at Delaware Valley University, supports these concerns.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students. As one of the few Latina provosts in higher education, the Seal holds personal significance for me,” Duran-Cerda says.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: Twenty-three Lafayette College department heads and program chairs say there are serious issues with governance at the college, according to “points of concern” four of them shared with the president and provost. The fourth, Eric Ziolkowski, the religious studies department head, said he had no comment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2024

She previously served as assistant vice provost at North Carolina State University, as a program assessment consultant in the university’s Department of Chemical Engineering, and as an adjunct assistant professor in the College of Education at North Carolina State. Akinleye, who retires June 30.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2024

A former public-school educator, Holcomb-McCoy served as vice provost for faculty affairs and vice dean of academic affairs in the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University prior to her arrival at AU.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

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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The Chronicle of Higher Education

AUGUST 18, 2023

By Emma Pettit Illustration by The Chronicle The provost's office recommended dissolving the world-languages department. Critics of the decision say the flagship is abandoning its responsibility to the state.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 24, 2024

I’m excited to work with the provost and other deans, the world-class faculty and talented staff, and to meet the students and alumni when I get there this fall.” Her transdisciplinary, open approach to teaching and scholarship beautifully fits our campus culture.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

“Because of the dean leads, the vice provost, the team members working with me, we were able to do great things with faculty and faculty fellows. Through the efforts of his department, Williams says he was able to recruit and retain an entire class of graduating students to pursue their graduate degrees at Northwestern.

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The PIE News

APRIL 12, 2023

The US Department of Education has clarified guidance it released earlier this year on third-party service providers will not have the impact on study abroad and international student recruitment that the sector had feared.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education grant program that re-engages students who return to their studies after stopping out and enrolled students at risk of stopping out. Gaulden also serves as the project director of a U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Virginia Rougon Chavis Virginia Rougon Chavis has been named associate provost at the University of Mississippi, where she served as a professor of graphic design and chair of the department of art and art history. Chavis received her bachelor’s degree in art from the University of Mississippi and an M.F.A.

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ACRLog

MAY 29, 2024

Response: In my institution, the stark contrast between our leader in libraries and the broader administration (president, provost, etc) undermines the trust in the latter. The president and provost, however, are not as transparent. As a department head, I work to consistently show up for my team and for people within the library.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 19, 2023

” Pitt declined further comment, beyond that “conversations are ongoing between the chair of the Linguistics Department and the Office of the Provost.” Cudd, Pitt’s provost and senior vice chancellor. The ELI is in Kiesling’s department.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 8, 2023

Dr. Lester Sandres Rápalo Rápalo previously served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at CUNY Bronx Community College, provost and dean of Union College’s Elizabeth Campus, and chair of the foreign language department at Valencia College. “Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

Calhoun, serves as the university’s executive vice president for health affairs and vice provost and is a board-certified physician in pulmonary and critical care medicine. Previously, she was chair of the Department of Medicine and professor of medicine at the UT Health Science Center at Tyler. Philley, who succeeds Dr. Kirk A.

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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 served in numerous roles in multiple departments, including as the Ellen H. Block Distinguished Service Professor of Health Justice and vice provost.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

They credited her for jumpstarting the institution’s new model for fiscal sustainability, breaking records in research expenditures and leading its athletics department into the Pac-12 Conference. Prior to that, she was vice provost at Utah State University. Marie Hardin – Quinnipiac University (Conn.)

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