Deans for Impact

JUNE 27, 2023

Dean of the College of Education & Assistant Provost for Academic Excellence, Belmont University James Meadows , Dean of the Educator Career Pathways Center, Washington Education Association Joellen Maples , Dean of the Ralph C. McIntyre, Jr.

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The PIE News

MARCH 4, 2025

As a combined university, we broaden the opportunities and outcomes available for our students through the possibility of engagement between different disciplines, says Professor Elisabeth Hill, deputy president and provost of City St Georges, and strategic lead for the merger.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Institutional leadership must show a commitment to transformation and creating an environment in which Latino students thrive. Dr. Dolores Duran-Cerda, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, says administration believes in being student-ready, not expecting students to be college-ready.

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University Business

MAY 6, 2024

Last month, Inside Higher Ed released findings from its census of 331 chief academic officers, or provosts, working at public and private institutions across the country. Although most provosts surveyed had a positive perception of the speech climate on their campus, few indicated they thought this was due to their campus speech policies.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Tabbye Chavous, PhD, vice provost for equity & inclusion and chief diversity officer at the University of Michigan (U-M), has responded critically to a recent New York Times article on the university’s DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) efforts in an open letter posted in the Michigan Chronicle.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2025

Title: Associate Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies & Faculty-in-Residence for Hispanic Serving Institute Initiatives in the Office of the Provost at San Jos State University Tenured: Yes Age: 40 Education: B.A., sociology, emphasis in community studies, University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D., His 2022 essay, Wheres the Gig at?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2025

Title: Associate Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies & Faculty-in-Residence for Hispanic Serving Institute Initiatives in the Office of the Provost at San Jos State University Tenured: Yes Age: 40 Education: B.A., sociology, emphasis in community studies, University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D., His 2022 essay, Wheres the Gig at?

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University Business

MARCH 20, 2025

This emerging environment can leave institutions facing expensive searches, long stints with interim appointees and uncertainty and damaged morale when a senior administrator departs. Prior to the retirement of the third president of the college, the provost was identified as a candidate for the presidency.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

He showed through rigorous research that diversity resulted in superior problem solving in both research environments and in broader contexts. We must stand firm in our commitment to creating inclusive, equitable educational environments that prepare all students to thrive in our diverse world.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Dr. Brooke Vick, chief diversity officer, associate provost for equity and inclusion, and coordinator of the new DEI certificate program at Muhlenberg College. Dr. Brooke Vick, chief diversity officer and associate provost for equity and inclusion at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., That work wasn’t going to be easy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Bridges’ expertise in areas including student engagement, learning environments at minority-serving institutions, and evidence-based strategies for student success will be an invaluable asset to the IHEP team,” said IHEP Board Chairperson Dr.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 10, 2024

The provost, chancellor, and six academic deans supported the move to eliminate this piece of their employment practice, along with president Sally Kornbluth, PhD, who said in a statement released this week, “My goals are to tap into the full scope of human talent, to bring the very best to MIT, and to make sure they thrive once here.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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

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. Block Distinguished Service Professor of Health Justice and vice provost. In doing so, she will become BU’s first woman and first Black president.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 8, 2024

institutions in their report and found the national average of women leaders, 30% of presidents and 39% of provosts, to be slightly higher than the global average. These upward trends are born from an attitude of intentional inclusion and the cultivation of a campus environment where all students can thrive.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

To learn more about Michigan’s approach to integrating open online learning and extended reality and what they have learned, I spoke to my friend James DeVaney , associate vice provost for academic innovation and founding executive director of U-M’s Center for Academic Innovation , to learn more.

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Creatrix Campus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Building a Future-Ready Institution: How Provosts Can Lead Digital Transformation in Higher Education editor Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:27 Introduction: The Role of Provosts in Digital Transformation As a Provost or Vice Chancellor, we know your roles and tasks are tough in the evolving digital landscape.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Students become very familiar with the environment—they will finish at home.” Dr. David Thomas, president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, and Dr. Damara Hightower Mitchell, provost and vice-president of Voorhees University in Denmark, SC, said their schools offer summer programming opportunities, giving students across the U.S.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 6, 2024

“Our analysis made clear that SAT and ACT scores are among the key indicators that help predict a student’s ability to succeed and thrive in Brown’s demanding academic environment,” said Provost Francis J. Doyle III, who served as committee co-chair, in a statement.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 13, 2024

In a joint statement on August 8, UNC Charlotte Provost Jennifer Troyer and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Kevin Bailey said, “UNC Charlotte remains committed to upholding its core values of fairness, academic excellence and student success.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

Mark Law, the director, also says he was told that the university’s Board of Trustees insisted on his ouster, against the will of the university’s president and provost. “The Board of Trustees of UF fired me effective August 15. That administrator did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.).

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

As provost, I have been pushed to confront many of the quasi-religious assumptions usually held in academic affairs without guardrails or reason to pause for the first time in my 26 years in higher education. As Provost, it is difficult to consistently articulate the logic and benefits of zagging when everyone else is zigging.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2024

Whitehurst, vice provost for Educational Equity at Penn State. They want Penn State to become the place it promises to be: “an inclusive and equitable campus environment,” said Black. “I King said the reports have yet to receive any formal response from the administration. Dr. Marcus A. Dr. Marcus A.

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UW Presidential Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

As we approach the start of the academic year next month, I’m writing to let you know 2022–23 will be Mark Richards’ last year as Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. Mark plans to step down as provost in summer 2023, after he completes his five-year term in the position.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In our current landscape—characterized by heightened emotional states , polarized political environments, and perceptions among some faculty that administration may not always have their best interest in mind—academic leaders are spending more time grappling with and addressing these incidents. Institutional context.

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MindMax

JUNE 29, 2023

Look at a tech giant like Apple, which has its own university led by the former provost of Brown University , and you could easily conclude that corporations are a threat to higher education. The answer isn’t black and white. Let’s discuss the possibilities of higher education and corporate partnerships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The Forum celebrated the achievement of 1,000 doctoral scholars and marked continued pursuit of the pathway for diversity in our colleges and universities that participating college presidents, provosts, scholars and philanthropic and private supporters made clear.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 21, 2023

The Office of the Provost at Dartmouth has given $1.3 Delalue said it is essential to educate the whole community on the history and accomplishments of Black people, and help create an environment where Black culture and scholarship on the Black diaspora thrives. The institute is being launched with initial funding of $2.3

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

“At the heart of the resolution agreement is our reaffirmation that when an act of antisemitism occurs, we will take appropriate and necessary action to address the act, prevent its recurrence, and support those impacted,” UVM’s Office of the Provost said in an Apr. 3 statement. In 2021, two nonprofit Jewish advocacy groups, the Louis D.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

No higher education institution can remain static in today’s rapidly changing workforce environment. The next evolution of academic programming, in fact, requires revolution , Ozlem Kilic , inaugural dean of the University of Tennessee’s College of Emerging and Collaborative Studies , says on The University Business Podcast.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Liberal arts colleges provide an intimate learning environment, where class sizes are small and students benefit from meaningful engagement with their professors and a social environment that encourages both close social bonds and peer-to-peer learning opportunities. The golden age of higher education is ahead of us, not behind us.

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WCET Frontiers

APRIL 13, 2023

The feeling of belonging is, in my opinion and experience, a truly important factor for anyone’s success in an educational or even professional environment. Dr. Andrew Feldstein, Assistant Provost for Teaching Innovation and Learning Technologies at Fort Hays State University says, “Belonging is not a one-dimensional concept.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JULY 30, 2023

The provost, Bradley Thiessen, described the number of faculty openings as “ridiculously high”, and the disclosure was the latest evidence of a brain drain afflicting colleges and universities throughout the Sunshine state.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2023

Thought leaders and high school scholars left the symposium invigorated and informed,” said Dr. Daniel Jean, Assistant Provost for Special Programs at Montclair State University. Strayhorn, well-known author and professor of Higher Education at Illinois State University.

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ACRLog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Additionally, we welcomed a new University President and Provost. As institutions evolve, academic libraries have a responsibility not only to adapt but to thrive in the new environment, continuing their legacy of nurturing knowledge, innovation, and intellectual growth. My story is not uncommon.

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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. LaVar Charleston had a crush on Dr. Sherri Charleston from the moment he met her in ninth grade. She was Claire Huxtable—beauty, brains, and personality,” said LaVar Charleston.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Participants offered several ways to alleviate some of the everyday stress in their work environments, including hiring additional staff, having more flexibility, adding more resources, and receiving greater support from leadership. These findings are similar to the results from the January survey. Explore how we can help.

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