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

“We recognize that some may be disappointed or disagree with this decision,” university president Kevin Hallock and the board wrote in a letter to the community. “We also recognize the role the Williams family has played here and respect the full and complete history of the institution.” Hide by line?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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HEPI

MARCH 7, 2023

I jumped at the chance to speak to London Higher in part because I am an alumnus of our host institution, having studied here at the end of the last century when Queen Mary University of London / QMUL was known as QMWC or Queen Mary and Westfield College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

She had once told the former president of Metro State University of Denver, Dr. Stephen M. Jordan, that she would consider becoming a university president if she could lead CMC. When the job opened up, he nominated her for the role, and the rest is history.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Kelman, chair of the Stanford task force and Jim Joseph Professor of Education and Jewish Studies, sees Stanford’s deep dive into its history on admissions as a part of this broader movement. “Everybody is taking a good, hard look at their own history,” he said. Examining the Past.

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University Business

JANUARY 12, 2024

Claudine Gay – Harvard University Harvard University President Claudine Gay was pressured to step down due to mounting allegations of plagiarism and public blowback from a miscalculated Congressional hearing on campus antisemitism. She was the shortest-serving president in Harvard’s history, last six months.

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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

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.

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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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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The Class of 2027 at the University of South Alabama is one of the largest in school history, bumping first-year enrollment by 19% compared to last year. Similarly, Iowa State University saw its most significant first-year enrollment increase since 2018, Ames Tribune reports. It’s proven to be the right call.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

College enrollments last year were lower than they were 12 years earlier in 2011, the first sustained drop in American history — and low birth rates suggest the pool of future college students may fall rather than increase. University presidents at recent congressional hearings publicly favored policies highly objectionable to most Americans.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

For example, under his leadership, first-year students majoring in teacher preparation programs grew by 275% and he was intentional about recruiting faculty of color to the university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2023

The report examines personnel data – from sources such as the NCAA Demographics Database – concerning university presidents, athletics directors, coaches, administrative staff, and faculty athletics representatives for college sports. As a whole, the combined grade for the 2022 CSRGRC was a "C" with 73.7

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University Business

JANUARY 26, 2023

Faculty leaders at a Minnesota college that dismissed an art history instructor who showed depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in a course have overwhelmingly called for the university president to resign.

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University Business

JUNE 5, 2023

If the state’s allocation for PASSHE doesn’t increase at all, universities could be looking at a 7.5% tuition increase, which would be “horrific” for future enrollment trends in the state, according to one PASSHE university president.

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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. His leadership over 13 years as president is described as transformative, championing initiatives that reshaped the institution’s approach to education and community engagement.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Orla Feely, University College Dublin’s first female president in its 169-year history, is hosting a series of events this autumn focusing on Irish culture and tradition to kick off her historic tenure.

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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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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

The Board of Visitors affirmed the importance of various diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the University in the full Board meeting Friday from 1:45 p.m. University President Jim Ryan opened the discussion with an overview of the history and importance of diversity, equity and inclusion at the University.

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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. Another allegedly blacklisted professor says he’s talking to a lawyer about his situation. CAFT members are elected by the general faculty for three-year terms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As his reputation grew, Williams was recruited by Northwestern University, where he served as assistant dean of diversity and inclusion between 2017 and 2021, and then until 2022 as the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion lead of Northwestern’s Public Health Program. We did some great work.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

” Bruce Strouble, an adjunct professor at Tallahassee Community College and Florida A&M University for over a decade, said he was “outraged” by the statement. He teaches African American studies and history, among other courses. Presidents likely feel like “you either fall in line or you get run over.”

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SRHE

AUGUST 22, 2024

But those of us fortunate enough to live in liberal societies – being, as the poet Douglas Dunn puts it, “on the pleasant side of history” – cannot be complacent: the institutional structures that we all-too-readily take for granted and which underpin pluralism and support our freedoms are, we have seen recently, desperately fragile.

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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. He said that while there is a long history of union organizing among professional staff at colleges and universities, militant tactics have become more common in recent years.

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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. His leadership career has spanned several HBCUs, and he is currently writing a history of African Americans in Alabama. Despite this, Smith Jr.

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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. His discipline was history.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

President Randall said, "I find history to be the most instructive leadership manual I've ever seen." One of his favorite histories is Doris Kearns Goodwin's No Ordinary Time , about Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt's tenure in the White House.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 11, 2023

Sorrell is the longest-serving President in the 151-year history of Paul Quinn College. While in law school, he was a founding member of the Journal of Gender Law & Policy and served as the Vice President of the Duke Bar Association.

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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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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.

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University Business

JULY 5, 2023

But Wesleyan University President Michael S. Roth and Amin Abdul-Malik Gonzalez, Vice President and Dean of Admission and Financial Aid, find the ruling tone deaf.

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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. A case in point is West Virginia University, which recently contended with a staggering $70 million deficit.

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University Business

MARCH 31, 2023

He was the first president to leave the school with a positive enrollment rate since Hurricane Katrina, and he was also the first president to lead a major comprehensive fundraising campaign in the school’s 65-year history. He was the university’s first Black president. Located in Melbourne, Fla.,

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Brian Blake sat down with us to discuss his first year at Georgia State University. President Blake recalled how his path to the presidency of this historic institution had included his previous career in the technology sector, well outside of academia. Click the banner below to watch the video.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2023

Willis began her educational career in 2007 teaching at Florida A&M University before transitioning to Tallahassee Community College. Starting in 2010, Dr. Willis served as an Assistant Professor of History, department chair, faculty senate president, and Executive Dean of Centers at Lone Star College (Houston, Texas).

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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. As we move forward, let us draw inspiration from the resilience and adaptability demonstrated throughout our shared history.

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