Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

That’s apparently how long it takes for diversity to work it’s magic at what is considered, if not the top institution of higher learning, then certainly the oldest. Emil Guillermo But history has a way of catching up and exposing sins of the past, and then there is no good excuse. I took just one class, but I could see the divide.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 4, 2023

The faculty-led, multidisciplinary center will connect Black Studies faculty from institutions across the state of Michigan, the university announced in December. and global histories, culture, social, economic, legal, and health systems. Roy Wilson says in a statement. “We

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Williams School of Law is now called the University of Richmond School of Law. Williams, who attended the institution from 1846 to 1849 when it was Richmond College, was a trustee and a benefactor whose gift helped establish the law school. ” Editorial Tags: History Racism Virginia Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The report comes at a time when colleges and universities across the country are excavating their pasts and working to publicly acknowledge and correct for their roles in historic wrongs. “Everybody is taking a good, hard look at their own history,” he said. Examining the Past.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2023

Racial hiring practices in college athletics saw minor improvement but gender hiring practices declined, according to the 2022 College Sport Racial and Gender Report Card (CSRGRC) from the University of Central Florida (UCF). Notably, HBCU athletic departments have high percentages of both ethnic minorities and women.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

In August 2023, Kinloch became the 15th president of JCSU — the only historically Black college and university (HBCU) in the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, founded in 1867 by formerly enslaved Black people. She is only the second woman to hold the position in the school’s 157-year history. So that’s what I did.”

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University Business

JANUARY 12, 2024

Leadership at Harvard University will get to test their equanimity after a headline-worthy shakeup that shot one of the world’s most prominent institutions of higher education into the defensive on the first days of 2024. She was the shortest-serving president in Harvard’s history, last six months.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Edward Montgomery, president of WMU. "He He is a proven scholar who also has been elevated to leadership roles at major public universities in three states, including at Kentucky's flagship institution. Vasquez Helig to the faculty at University of Texas at Austin in 2006 that he was a rising academic star,” said Dr. Gregory J.

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University Business

JUNE 5, 2023

Despite recent efforts to raise state funding for higher education and consolidate public universities, its public university system and state-related institutions are desperate for more financing to curb Pennsylvania’s rapidly declining student enrollment and intimidating college costs.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Over the past four years, some higher education officials and politicians have pushed back: for example, in 2020, a group of university presidents and athletic directors in Massachusetts testified before the state Legislature with the strong recommendation not to legalize college sports betting in Massachusetts.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

“We’re talking about a person who, more than anyone else, is the thread that runs through the history of King since the middle of the last century,” President Alexander Whitaker said. “To have that history about the people, institutions and events right outside my door was phenomenal,” he said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Williams’s parents had met during their time at Southern and A&M College, a historically Black college and university (HBCU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Williams was raised Catholic and attended private institutions—he was often the only Black student in his class, or one of the few. From there, Williams’s career took off.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Prioritize competitive academic programs As higher education engages with a skeptical public over the value of a degree, some institutions have chosen to leverage emerging workforce demands to create sought-after academic programs. Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen is not shy about what she attributes the growth to.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 19, 2024

McDavis began his tenure as the university's first African American president and the second alumnus to lead the institution in its 211-year history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Freeman Hrabowski, president emeritus of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, aptly says, “By understanding human behavior and our values, we develop a moral compass that can guide our decision-making. This article serves as both a personal narrative and a broader examination of the evolving landscape of higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Image: Scholars in Florida are angry, disappointed and divided over a recent joint statement , signed by Florida College System presidents, promising to “not fund or support any institutional practice, policy, or academic requirement that compels belief in critical race theory or related concepts.”

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

Later they marched to the main campus to protest outside the residence of university president Sylvia Burwell. " Burwell added that recent financial setbacks—including nearly $100 million in losses during the first year of the pandemic—factored into the university’s offer.

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SRHE

AUGUST 22, 2024

by Paul Temple The easy way to tell authoritarian (or worse) states from ones that are, broadly speaking, liberal democracies is that in the latter you will find a range of public institutions that are significantly independent of the central state: this is what creates a plural society. Why does this matter?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Senate chair and university president are supposed to be consulted on nominees for CAFT, but a faculty nominating committee prepares the final list of nominees. Pam Scott, university spokesperson, said via email, "We are reviewing the correspondence we received from FIRE. Problem Faculty?

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University Business

JULY 31, 2023

Following the California State System’s high-profile hire of Mildred García as chancellor over two weeks ago, two major university presidents at Texas A&M and Stanford caught the national radar following their high-profile resignations. Stepping Down Jason Adsit – Mt.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Among the notable accomplishments during his tenure so far, President Randall brought the University of Utah into the UIA. We're going to redefine the student experience at the university. What are different ways we should be welcoming people to our institution? Randall is the 17th president of the University of Utah.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 11, 2023

So as we grew as an institution and my management responsibility started to grow, I realized the only shot that I had at being able to be the father, husband, and college president that I wanted to be was to reduce the number of people that I was managing. I understand the argument for why you use institutional resources to do it.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 22, 2023

President turnover is a major problem for higher ed leadership, with the average tenure of leaders serving in this capacity at one institution declining sharply from 10 years to a shocking 3.7 returned to Kentucky, and became a very distinguished history professor. Then he became president there.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

You’d find it somewhere after discrimination, assault, harassment, maleficence in the workplace and somewhere before paranoid university presidents stuffing full-length puffy coats under doors for soundproofing, deans asking for logos, and students asking if what I just said is going to be on an exam. I don’t care.

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2023

He also led the school through seven of its largest freshman enrollment classes in Langston’s 126-year history. VTSU is a new school made up of seasoned parts, consolidated from Castleton University, Northern Vermont University and Vermont Technical College. Despite this, Smith Jr.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 30, 2023

FIRE officials are asking for more clarity on the incident and how the university is handling it. “Reading a book on a college campus should not prompt formal administrative intervention,” a FIRE program officer wrote in a letter to Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

He also described the positive climate that can grow from shared leadership experiences and institutional data, and the importance of maintaining professional respect even during episodes of profound disagreement. Brian Blake sat down with us to discuss his first year at Georgia State University. Click here for the full audio.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JANUARY 19, 2024

Lisa Vollendorf ’s first presidency, she brings more than a quarter century of perspective and experience at public institutions. Sonoma State University ran an emergency operations center for ten days straight. During that time, the institution was threatened. And this puts a lot of pressure on us to up our game.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The presidential turnover crisis in higher education has seen university presidents’ tenures steadily diminishing for nearly two decades, now falling significantly short of the recommended ten-year benchmark. Historically, high presidential turnover has had detrimental effects on academic institutions.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2023

She immediately applied a lesson learned in her previous presidency: "Trust no one when you come in the door. They really are not, especially what I call the root guards, folks that have been rooted in the institution for years. You think that everybody is happy to see you there. I've gotten my cuts and bruises from that.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

He also described the positive climate that can grow from shared leadership experiences and institutional data, and the importance of maintaining professional respect even during episodes of profound disagreement. Brian Blake sat down with us to discuss his first year at Georgia State University. Click here for the full audio.

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EAB

APRIL 17, 2023

Here are four components of a successful health care administration program—and profiles of five institutions succeeding in this market. Specifically, our research team examined two institutions (i.e., Explore how institutions can expand their capacity to educate nurses amid shortages, a pandemic, and beyond.

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University Business

JULY 5, 2023

The Supreme Court’s long-awaited decisions on two cases that would implicate the fate of race-conscious admissions at public and private institutions’ undergraduate levels finally came out last week. But Wesleyan University President Michael S.

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University Business

MARCH 31, 2023

He discovered his passion for student affairs first serving as a resident advisor and as a graduate hall director at Miami University Ohio, and he went on to develop his craft in a pair of institutions in Maryland. He was the university’s first Black president. Located in Melbourne, Fla., ” Thomas K.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The need for university leaders to balance political pressures while upholding educational values. Strategies to navigate and mitigate political interference in academic institutions. Leadership in Challenging Times: Insights on effective leadership for current and future university presidents.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2021

In this second post of our five-part series on Embracing a New Higher Education Governance Model , we discuss the updated board duties in higher ed and how boards can embrace their new roles and responsibilities as they work to meet the challenges facing colleges and universities today.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Knight Commission had CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) perform some projections that are featured in a new report that looks at the top 54 public institutions’ football programs, particularly in regard to the incoming revenue from college football playoffs and new lucrative conference media contracts. She was honored as an ACC Legend in 2005.

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