Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 24, 2024

Jessica Berg has been appointed dean of the University of California Davis School of Law. Berg, who served as co-dean of the School of Law at Case Western Reserve University, will start in her new role Sept. She was a visiting professor at Michigan State University Medical School.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. 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.

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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

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. Hartnell engages in bilingual outreach efforts to graduating high school seniors. By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S.

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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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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

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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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 School of Business and Professional Studies will remain as the other school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

He was so successful, in fact, that by the time he graduated from high school, Williams had achieved access to the same country club that barred him due to his race. He got to know Williams while he was an undergraduate at the school. He lined me up with great connectors that guided me to and through graduate school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Walker has become dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, effective immediately. Walker Walker, a scholar of religion, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, and ordained American Baptist clergyperson, has been the school’s interim dean since January. Dr. Corey D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 25, 2023

Marla Frederick will become dean of Harvard Divinity School (HDS), effective Jan. Marla deeply understands the unique role and influence of the Harvard Divinity School, and why it is a cherished institution,” said Dr. Alan M. Garber, provost at Harvard. This appointment marks a return to familiar ground for Frederick.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy, a prolific researcher who has led the School of Education at American University as its dean for the past eight years, has been selected president and CEO of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Decatur Decatur has been the school’s president for almost a decade, his tenure having begun in 2013. Under his leadership, the school made impressive gains in student body strength and diversity, financial aid resources, faculty breadth and distinction, and campus enhancements. “It Dr. Sean M. 6 message to the Kenyon community. “It

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2025

How this higher education strategic planning approach helped College of Charleston grow enrollment, launch new schools, and achieve national university status. That process was followed successfully in launching the subsequent schools, reinforcing both transparency and institutional alignment. About Our Podcast Guest Dr. Andrew T.

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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. She played an instrumental role in launching the UT Tyler School of Medicine, the UT System’s seventh medical school. Philley, who succeeds Dr. Kirk A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Rinehart joined the Virginia Tech faculty in 1999 as assistant professor in what was then the Department of Theatre and Arts. She was also assistant provost of liberal education and director of diversity education for the university.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 19, 2023

“Enrollments in English Language Institute programs have declined over the last several years as part of a larger trend of declining enrollments in intensive English programs nationally,” wrote Kathleen Blee, the dean of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt. Cudd, Pitt’s provost and senior vice chancellor.

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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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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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

She previously served as provost at Hope College and dean at Cincinnati Blue Ash College. From 1996 to 2010, she taught at the school as a professor of communication, graduate program director, and department chair. “I This appointment marks a return to NKU for Short-Thompson.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Department of Education (ED) – will help the school fund several initiatives in support of its diverse student body, particularly its large Hispanic and low-income student population. Williams, Texas A&M’s associate vice provost of student success and retention.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Alston was a previous member of the county’s school board, a position he gained by appointment from Florida Gov. 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. Elizabeth R.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Michael West, head of Penn State’s Department of African American Studies, has resigned from the role, alleging that leadership broke promises and questioning the school's commitment to diversity and equity, Centre Daily Times reported. Dr. Michael West West will continue to serve as a tenured professor in the department.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2024

DeCuir-Gunby, a prominent educational psychologist and racial equity expert who is on the faculty at the USC Rossier School of Education, has been named the next executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center. Before that, she spent five years as the Department’s Graduate Programs Director. She will replace Dr. Shaun R.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Dr. Paul LeBlanc During his tenure as SNHU’s fifth president, the school grew from 2,500 students to the largest nonprofit higher ed provider in the U.S., He also for a time served as senior policy adviser to Under Secretary Ted Mitchell at the Obama-era Department of Education. She is currently the school’s provost.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Javier Cevallos Cevallos is currently president-in-residence of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. We look forward to continued collaboration on signature programs including Becoming a Provost Academy and the Executive Leadership Academy.” AASCU is delighted that our dear friend and colleague F. “As

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 8, 2023

He will be appointed to the Department of African and African-American Studies in Arts & Sciences and serve as a senior adviser to the chancellor. McBride McBride is currently president and professor at The New School. Previously, he was provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Emory University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

Previously, she has been executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at University of South Carolina; dean of the Robert J. from the University of Georgia School of Law. She holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Haverford College and a J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law. Trulaske, Sr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Tsai Lu Liu Liu is the head of the Department of Graphic Design and Industrial Design at North Carolina State University. Tsai Lu Liu has been appointed dean of the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design (AAD) at Virginia Tech, effective Jul.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“We [at the State Department] definitely putting the work in, but the US can absolutely remain confident of the million plus number and the fact that we remain the top destination in the world.” “We have over 3,700 schools that can take [them]. We want to diversify international education across this country.

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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. Dual credit programs also help students transition from high school to college more efficiently.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

The private nursing school will officially welcome its fifth president on May 6, according to school communications. One campaign he oversaw helped draw in $66 million, the largest in school history, Telegram & Gazette reports. The work was done in collaboration with the provost.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

Department of Education’s (ED) Office of Civil Rights (OCR), the school will add language about antisemitism to its equal opportunity and anti-harassment policies, strengthen anti-discrimination training, submit to more federal oversight, and create protocols for responding to antisemitism allegations. “At 3 statement.

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