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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.
Firing Reopens ‘Old Wound’ Regarding Treatment of Women Ryan Quinn Mon, 10/02/2023 - 03:00 AM North Dakota State’s ouster of a female vice provost is part of a pattern, women at the university say. Lawyers, in unusual release of documents, say her office mishandled discrimination complaints. Byline(s) Ryan Quinn
A member of the provost-appointed Academic Program Review Taskforce, which created the report, said the members expected the report was going to become public. Casamento’s recommendations weren’t a “mirror image” of what’s in the document, the member said. Image: Utica University’s president on Jan.
The jury did not agree with Stern’s similar claims against two former provosts, however. Around this time, Stern’s new dean allegedly opposed his tenure bid, as did the provost, contradicting the positive recommendation of his department. The First Amendment and academic freedom are the cornerstones of higher education.
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.
1 version of the framework – a 234-page document with input from high school teachers and African American studies professors – received backlash from advocates, who criticized how the framework downplayed topics such as Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations, intersectionality, and queer life. “One public high schools last year.
A few of the leaders to have attended the meeting included Rasmus Lynnerup, the assistant vice provost of Academic Alliances at Arizona State University; Zun Tang, dean of Institutional Research at City University of New York and Steven Gentile, executive director of the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.
Prior to his NJIT presidency, Lim was the interim president of the University of Texas at Arlington after having served the university as provost and vice president for academic affairs. Lim amplifies NJIT’s progress in posts on social media, shining a spotlight on the institution’s bright lights who are accomplishing positive things.
” Mihaela Metianu, assistant provost for global engagement at Florida Atlantic University , highlighted the importance of equality within any type of collaboration and warned that sometimes US institutions can be guilty of acting “superior”, a move that she said doesn’t “bode well” for effective collaboration.
Tarrant offered 12 recommendations that focused on the need for clearly documented processes, additional training for trustees and possibly the creation of a portal to help board members more easily access and review documents in need of certification. “We ask that you engage with professional development and board training.
“While disappointed, the university has decided to accept the results of the January Faculty Assembly vote against the revised procedures document,” a WVU spokeswoman said in an email Thursday. ” Some on campus worried linking these to tenure and promotion risked academic freedom. “That was a surprise,’ he said.
Gatewood, vice provost for global engagement, University of Rochester , who hopes the coalition’s efforts can help to “change the discourse” about the value of international students. Stakeholders in the wider sector are enthusiastic about the goals of the newly formed coalition, including Jane E.
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.
Large-scale quantitative data such as these provide an invaluable evidence-based context about the areas of scholarship in which institutions are investing new faculty lines, a matter of interest to deans of graduate schools and provosts alike. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8 percent between 2011 and 2021.
. “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.”
Francis College, in 1964, said Shannon Zlotkowski, assistant provost for DEI at UNE. In addition to multiple forums and the school’s annual showing of documents from its Martin Luther King Jr. King had spoken at one of UNE’s precursor schools, St. And at King’s own alma mater, Morehouse College , much will be done to honor him as well.
million in fiscal year 2026–27—over four times the $3 million annual cost that Chapel Hill provost Chris Clemens cited to faculty. “We expect state funds to be matched with private support,” the document says. million next year but $12.7 The memo is unclear on how much of that would be temporary expenses.
Documents also show that university Chancellor Beth Stroble now makes just under $1 million a year, more than double what she made a decade ago as president. University President Julian Schuster, who oversees the local campuses, makes more than $850,000 a year, more than double what he made as provost a decade ago.
Inasmuch as it was important to document the ways higher education failed Black undergraduate men at that time (and still does), I felt it was just as important to pursue insights into how some of them managed to succeed, despite the odds stacked against them. I’ll forever remain deeply in love with Diverse.
“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. ’” Rascoff said.
Interestingly, the veil that Du Bois wrote about still exists today, especially in the American Academy — the network of colleges, universities, associations, and organizations that provide and support higher education — despite the fact that some of America’s most illustrious educational institutions are headed by Black provosts and presidents.
This issue has been well documented by Black scholars throughout the years. For example, on one occasion a Vice-Provost asked me to share my research agenda at a faculty meeting. During the entire 15 minutes I spoke, I had never experienced so many blank stares, eye rolls and outright disrespect.
Scheduled syncs will regularly update the course catalog so that provosts and deans save time when creating and assigning course evaluations across the university. Highly configurable roles and permission management: FIS contains sensitive promotion documents, and each university has unique expectations of who and what should be accessed.
The WVVA story also linked to a document that contains Bluefield State’s response to the complaint to the Higher Learning Commission. That university statement named the four faculty members who complained, including Matoushek, and their names were also in The Bluefield Daily Telegraph.
It began by providing credible information in digestible portions to the Associate Provost and General Counsel. When that information reached the Provost, I was invited to Provost Council and Deans’ Council meetings to present the regulations and steps needed to invest in compliance.
A separate proposal provides flexibility on establishing a provost’s position (Oberlin doesn’t currently have a provost). This work led to the publication of a long-term planning document called One Oberlin , which the general faculty and the board voted to approve in 2019. Breaking the Finney Compact.
This somewhat cynical observation by Lombardi was informed by his broad and sometimes painful experiences as Provost at Johns Hopkins University, President of the University of Florida, Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and President of the Louisiana State University System. We would be wrong to do so. .
This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Warren Manning, Provost for Innovation and Research at the University of Derby, and Dr Jenna Townend, FHEA, Principal Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor at the Uni versity of Derby.
More than 1,000 comments were extensively documented in the report. . The multicampus events consisted of presenters, including the provost, faculty council leaders, employee affinity group leaders, public safety officers, and ADEI leaders. To ensure flourishing for all, communication is essential.
Everyone is busy, but faculty, provosts and presidents need to pay attention and foster campus conversations that lead to concerted action to protect academic interests and values. It will be important to learn how to document the contributions of machines to scholarship. Hardball will be played.
New uses include transcribing documents written in other languages and creating a transcript of audio and video recordings, which saves a ton of time for reporters working on deadlines and on longer investigations. I am a member of several provost-level committees working to figure out how our university should approach AI and learning.
And within 48 hours, we developed a document called a climate advisory. Nasim, built a custom SMS messaging tool to meet specific institutional needs: "We developed a technology called Climatext, which allowed us to prompt our students with a particular question, and we would evaluate that data.
Dr. Doris Espiritu EPW was created by Dr. Doris Espiritu, Senior Advisor to the Provost, dean of the Center of Excellence for Engineering & Computer Science, City Colleges of Chicago. The students’ volunteer work translating documents for Proyecto Inmigrante has a value of over $100,000 (when compared to what translation services charge).
From the registrar to academic advising to provost offices, each administrative unit is just as integral to the transfer process as faculty decision-making about courses. Moreover, cross-unit communication can be challenging, exacerbating how students find the correct information at the right time.
On campuses, there’s often a disconnect between strategic direction and implementation so it’s helpful to acknowledge that strategic plans are simply change documents. It's an ongoing, living document supported by the resource and allocation budget. Managing the larger plan along with day-to-day operations.
Utilizing Accreditation Documentation to Demonstrate Compliance with C-RAC Guidelines. Development interaction includes the Office of Institutional Effectiveness at Campbell University, with some communication to the Adult and Online Education division, as well as to the Office of the Provost.
Citing some amorphous instances of institutions not adequately documenting the student’s last day of attendance, the Department proposed the following to “simplify” and improve the accuracy of determining the student’s last day of course activity: Require that attendance be taken in all distance education courses. There will be a cost.
Our EAB research team spoke with dozens of higher education leaders—ranging from presidents, provosts, and CIOs–about the emergence of AI tools on campus. For example, a trained AI chatbot could help general counsel sift through large volumes of legal documents or support accounts payable by quickly filtering through past invoices.
Blogs Implementing a caseload management model in a newly centralized division August 9, 2023 Melissa Grant Associate Dean of Advisement, Office of the Provost, Pace University The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.
So absolutely right, as Naomi mentioned, although we report to the president's office, of course we work very actively with the provost and with the deans. And certainly expressing, even documenting student interactions 'cause certainly, there have been conversations, well what happens if it's a behavior concern?
” She believes community college leaders are required to listen to and document university concerns, but these systems don’t get the final say. ” The system reached out to provosts and the Cal State Academic Senate to determine if there were any objections to the proposed programs from scholars, which took time.
At the same time, one hundred percent of surveyed university presidents and provosts identified graduate and adult learner enrollment as a strong or moderate priority. A great graduate enrollment management plan is a living document reviewed on a regular basis.
Recently, I’ve noticed that I started to use more headers and formatting in these emails, in the same ways I use headers in other types of documents. I also put my institutional meetings on the shared calendar so that everyone knows when I’ll next meet with the Provost or the university’s library leadership.
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