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N.C. A&T Receives $4.8M NIH Grant to Study Alzheimer's Disease

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Before then, she held a faculty appointment as a research associate in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology in the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. We have to help ourselves by harnessing the resources and the strengths that are part of the Black community and its history.

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William Inboden

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

William Inboden William Inboden, an expert on national security and foreign policy scholar, has been appointed executive vice president and provost at The University of Texas at Austin, effective Aug. Chair and a joint faculty appointment with the Department of History and the School of Civic Leadership. He received Ph.D.,

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Fighting on Three Fronts

Academe Blog

They have encouraged the substitution of cheaper and more precarious contingent positions for faculty appointments with tenure. They have facilitated the rise of corporate management styles by administrators and trustees, with the consequent diminution of faculty participation in university governance.

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Why did U of Florida suddenly fire its honors director?

Inside Higher Ed

He said that while having a tenured faculty appointment offers some security after being fired from his longtime role, he’ll miss the job at which he was always told he was doing well, and he will miss students most of all. Law remains a distinguished professor of engineering at UF.

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Wave of Higher Ed Union Strikes Swells Nationwide

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They give us advice on how things went for them, advice on strategy, and just mutual support and encouragement, reminders of why we're doing this, why it matters, how we will be on the right side of history in the end, things like that." Contact and collaboration of this kind occur amid other higher ed labor organizations as well.

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Endowed Chairs and the "Dark Matter" of Higher Education

Higher Education Inquirer

More than a century ago, Thorstein Veblen and Upton Sinclair critically exposed the structure and history of US higher education. Donor influence: Donors offering significant financial contributions often have certain expectations, which may include influencing curriculum, research focus, or even faculty appointments.

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Lest We Forget

Susquehanna President's Blog

Some of these overreaches have been in response to faculty serving as expert witness in court cases in which their testimony was unfavorable to the state’s position; some are battles over ideology; some are acts of political theatre; and some are attempts to whitewash history. It is also our history.