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University of Rochester Black Studies Department to Accelerate Cluster-Hiring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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3 Questions for Catherine Breen, Managing Director of Harvard’s Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning

Inside Higher Ed

Q: Can you give us the elevator pitch on what Harvard’s Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning ( VPAL ) does? We are calling this new platform HOPE (Harvard Online Platform for Education) and we hope to share both the technology and our content with other institutions. We are still figuring out how to do that.

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3 Questions for Todd Nicolet, Vice Provost for Digital and Lifelong Learning at UNC

Inside Higher Ed

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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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There are financial support programs, including emergency grants, technology loaner programs and device voucher support, which provide students with necessary in-time financial support. As one of the few Latina provosts in higher education, the Seal holds personal significance for me,” Duran-Cerda says.

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The Promise and Challenges of AI in Higher Ed

WCET Frontiers

Enjoy the read, Lindsey Downs, WCET Preparing Faculty to work with AI The University of Mississippi is pioneering new approaches to prepare faculty for emerging technologies, like generative AI, in the classroom. Together, we built assignments that asked students to engage generative technologies at different points in their writing process.

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President moves: What happened for these 3 leaders to resign?

University Business

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. Foley – New York Institute of Technology Henry C.

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Study abroad and international recruitment excluded from new US guidance

The PIE News

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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