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JANUARY 23, 2025

For example, in the K-12 context, research has shown a dearth of Black male teachers, disparities between how schools located in underserved areas are financed vis-a-vis schools in affluent neighborhoods, and uncertified educators contribute to the learning gap between Black and White students.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

“When we received the federal COVID funds, it allowed for students to be able to take summer school courses and not have to worry about the tuition of those classes,” said Dr. Dwayne L. Tutt, assistant vice provost of student success at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, an HBCU.

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JUNE 6, 2023

Jose Coll will become provost and vice president of academic affairs at Western Oregon University, effective June 30. Dr. Jose Coll He is currently dean of the School of Social Work and interim dean of the College of Education at Portland State University.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff. Morales, president of CSUSB.

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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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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 14, 2025

Faculty Focus , March 2022.) We piloted the two bots in a Strategic Communications course taught at the NYU School of Professional Studies, Division of Programs in Business, during the spring 2024 semester. Dr. Steven Goss is the dean of the School of Professional Studies at Manhattan College. So, how did the bots do?

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The report provides an outline for how faculty, staff and administrators can infuse the curriculum with informative material, forge partnerships with community-based organizations and create opportunities for students to learn and practice the relevant skills. “We

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. ” That is, undergraduate programs with fewer than 12 students per full-time faculty member over a period of five years are no longer accepting new students.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Image: Faculty members at the College of William & Mary are concerned that the institution is purposely excluding them from conversations about the future. Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Julian Vasquez Heilig, an educational researcher whose work on racial equity and teacher preparation has received national recognition, will be the next provost and vice president for academic affairs at Western Michigan University. He will do the same as provost at Western Michigan University.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Levon Esters will become vice provost for graduate education at Penn State and dean of its Graduate School, effective May 1, 2023. He is also director of the Mentoring@Purdue program and director of Cornell University’s Thomas Wyatt Turner Fellowship 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

JANUARY 5, 2023

Keona Lewis will become assistant provost for academic diversity and inclusion at the University of Notre Dame, effective Feb. In this role, she will report to the vice president and associate provost for faculty affairs.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Yale University faculty and staff will not be mandated to get a second booster shot before returning for spring semester, Yale Daily News reported. To note, students – undergraduate, graduate, and professional students – will be required to get a second booster shot , the school announced Oct.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2025

The decision came just two weeks after the college announced a tentative agreement with the Faculty and Staff Federation, which represents college employees. He has committed to remaining in Philadelphia at least until his son, a high school junior, graduates. The Faculty and Staff Federation did not respond to requests for comment.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Williams spoke to Inside Higher Ed about her career journey, managing her own professional development, the value of the student success offices housed within the provost’s office, and how others can position themselves as student success champions. At UT, my job would be much more difficult if I didn’t report to the provost.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2023

Faculty members at the University of Illinois at Chicago plan to strike today. The faculty union, UIC United Faculty, tweeted shortly after midnight: "@UICUF is On Strike! Earlier notice of reappointment for NTT faculty. Due process for TT faculty. Due process for TT faculty." Hide by line?:

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 17, 2023

Cinnamon Piñon Carlarne , associate dean for faculty and intellectual life at Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law, has been named president and dean of Albany Law School, in New York. Danielle Ren Holley , dean and professor of law at the Howard University School of Law, in Washington, D.C.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Yolanda Pierce will become dean of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School, effective Jul. Cybele Raver, Vanderbilt provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. A public theologian and leader on the role of religion in public life, Pierce is currently dean and professor of religion at the Howard University School of Divinity.

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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. Hide by line?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

Wayne State University has received $6 million for a cluster hire program to recruit and hire 30 new humanities faculty and create a Black Studies center. The grant also helps fund the launch of the Detroit Center for Black Studies, which will be faculty-led and help connect Black Studies faculty from Michigan institutions.

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MAY 16, 2023

Patricia Timmons-Goodson will become dean of the North Carolina Central University (NCCU) School of Law , effective Jul. NCCU provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. from Duke University Law School. She retired from the Supreme Court in 2012. Jackson, Jr., Timmons-Goodson holds a bachelor’s degree and a J.D.

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APRIL 9, 2025

It brings together presidents, provosts, faculty, funders, policymakers, and industry leaders to address big questions facing HBCUs. DIVERSE : In addition to policymakers, faculty, and administrators, students play a major role in UNITE. At the end of the day, UNITE isn't just a conference; it's a movement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2024

Victor Pasley, president of the Lincoln Board of Curator, wrote in a statement about the school's commitment to prioritize the mental health and dignity of Lincoln employees. Dr. Stevie Lawrence, provost and vice president of academic affairs at Lincoln, will serve as acting president. 8, regarding reaching out to her family.

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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? Our courses in VPAL are all designed and led by Harvard faculty, with the help of our instructional design and media productions teams (we have 75 staff). We need to change our way of thinking.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert , associate dean of the faculty at Scripps College, in California, has been selected as provost and executive vice president of University of the Pacific, also in California. Pattee Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, has been chosen as president of Bates College, in Maine.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 6, 2023

Borgman, distinguished research professor in information studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, The study was based on interviews with 12 university leaders, including provosts, vice presidents for research, librarians, and chief information officers from a variety of types of institutions across the country.

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MARCH 22, 2024

James Ryan, UVa President Ian Baucom, UVa Provost Deans, UVa Schools Michael Kennedy, Chair Faculty Senate Amanda Flora, Chair General Faculty Council Dear Colleagues, The University of Virginia (UVa) Chapter of the American…

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

2 response to a separate survey question about which faculty actions students believe would promote their academic success. 3 faculty action students say would promote their academic success. School-life balance: The third-biggest challenge for students over all is balancing schoolwork and other responsibilities, at 47 percent.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

“At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, we clearly have a world-class faculty that exists and teaches students and creates leaders of the future,” Boliek said. So this is an effort to try to remedy that with the School of Civic Life and Leadership, which will provide equal opportunity for both views to be taught.”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Woodruff, who has been provost since 2020, will become MSU’s fifth president—including interims—since 2018. Woodruff’s appointment was approved unanimously by trustees and supported by faculty. Woodruff steps into the position vacated by Dr. Samuel Stanley Jr., Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?

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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

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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MindMax

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Former Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Emeritus Dean of the School of Professional Studies at Brown University Gary W. Former Dean, Continuing Education, Vice Provost Career Pathways Each panelist expressed thoughtful insights on higher education trends, and I’d like to share some of those insights with you today.

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