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These leaders’ commitment to DEI got them the nod for president

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John Karl Scholz (Photo: UO Website) With experience as a professor, economist and provost (which he currently still serves at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), his focus at Oregon will be student career readiness and postgraduate success. As the provost of Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.,

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

Feroe, former acting president and interim provost, was named interim president. The humanities are well represented in the new programs we are developing.” Manhattanville also opened a Center for Design Thinking in 2019, in what had long been the president’s cottage. Geisler last summer. Focus on the Future.

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Support for Educators Is All Around

Today's Learner

While faculty are in academia because we love making a positive difference in students’ future growth and development, we are only human. may turn into thirty, leaving that report you need to turn in to the Provost waiting, but that’s okay. But what about us? Faculty faced increased workloads as their classes transferred to online.

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

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The Human Cost: Emotional and Professional Toll The report and subsequent discussions shed light on the significant emotional and professional impact these developments have had on faculty and students. These changes speak to the human cost of political interference, affecting the very heart of educational institutions.

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Universities on Fire

HESA

Not just climate science, but how humans respond to it and how we think about it. BA: Well, one that really stands out for me as an outlier in Pennsylvania, Dickinson College has had a President, Provost, and a faculty consensus that they need to take sustainability very seriously. They’ve done some unusual things.

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A Dynamic Thinker

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Allen spent about a year in corporate law before returning to higher education because, in her “heart and soul,” she was an academic. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Penn Carey Law School, has had a storied career in the fields of law, bioethics, data protection, and privacy.

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Some Stanford professors oppose closed event on free speech

Inside Higher Ed

Both Jonathan Levin, dean of the business school, and Persis Drell, provost, faced questions about it last week while addressing the Faculty Senate. Her panel is called “Are the Humanities Liberal?/How But these steps haven’t relieved opponents’ concerns. She, too, is scheduled to speak at the conference.