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Dr. Safa Zaki Appointed First Woman President of Bowdoin College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A psychologist and cognitive scientist, her research centers on the human mind and how people divide the world into categories. “In Safa is the perfect choice to guide the College through the fascinating chapter that lies ahead.

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Association Expands ‘Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Campus’ Effort

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The campus centers seek to prepare the next generation of leaders and thinkers to build equitable and just communities by dismantling the false belief in a hierarchy of human value.

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Maya Wiley Announced as Keynote Speaker for New College of Florida Alternative Commencement Ceremony

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Maya Wiley Wiley – civil rights activist, attorney, and professor – is the CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. Civil rights leader Maya Wiley will be the keynote speaker at the New College of Florida (NCF) graduating Class of 2023’s alternative commencement ceremony May 18, the Herald Tribune reported.

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College presidents move to cultural institutions (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

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. Why is that?

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The Faculty Resource Network of New York University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a law professor emanating from a primarily liberal arts institution, I deemed it invaluable that the author’s note in my law review articles could state that research was conducted, in part, as an FRN Scholar-in-Residence at NYU, courtesy of the Faculty Resource Network.

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Manhattanville College’s Administration Tries to Save School.by Removing its Heart (Bob Frank)

Higher Education Inquirer

Last month, for the first time in Manhattanville's history, tenured faculty in the arts and humanities were pushed away. Today, there are no more tenured faculty in many of the humanities and art disciplines and degrees such in Art History, Languages, Music, Technical Theatre, and many more, have been frozen.

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Penn’s Sniegowski Named Earlham President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Earlham has an important and longstanding place within the distinctive liberal arts tradition in the United States. He will take the helm Aug. 1, succeeding Dr. Anne M. Houtman, who will retire in July after a five-year term as president.