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.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. At my university, the provost has put in place a prerecorded self-paced, self-directed asynchronous U.S.

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University Business

MARCH 12, 2025

As Adelphi University maintains a “human-centered approach”, the private New York university has embraced AI as a means to improve communication with prospective students at whatever time they need assistance, Shawana Singletary, assistant vice president and chief enrollment officer, said in an email.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Jonelle Knox When I reviewed the question posed to me about [re]engaging the college community, I started thinking about a missed opportunity that many colleges and university leaders are not taking advantage of; the collaboration of student affairs and human resources to create [re]engagement activities.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

These developments have thrust some higher education leaders to defend the place the humanities hold in the halls of our most prestigious institutions. Georgia Tech has been at the forefront of melding often siloed disciplines of the humanities, arts and social sciences with STEM.

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Insight Into Diversity

JUNE 14, 2023

Starting this fall semester, employees currently assigned to the DEI office will be relocated to Student Success, Student Affairs, Human Resources, Office of Equal Opportunity and Compliance, and University Advancement positions, the nonprofit news source Arkansas Advocate reports.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 1, 2023

Dr. Badia Ahad Ahad is currently vice provost for faculty affairs and professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. “I Badia Ahad will become dean of Oxford College at Emory University, effective Aug. She is also the author of Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture in 2021. Ahad holds a B.A. and a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

Sandra Hinski Sandra Hinski has been appointed provost and executive vice president of academic affairs at Coconino Community College. in human systems engineering from Arizona State University. She served as the Dean of Career and Technical Education at Paradise Valley Community College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Dr. Darius Young Young is a history professor at the FAMU College of Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities. Watson, provost and vice president for academic affairs at FAMU. Young will serve as director of the new Center for African and African American Studies at Florida A&M University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2024

It is expected to fund six endowed professorships in the college’s Division of Business and Economics; the Division of Humanities, Social Sciences, Media, and the Arts (HSSMA); and the Division of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, including the Office of Health Professions. “At

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 7, 2023

Dr. Pardis Mahdavi Mahdavi served as provost and executive vice president at the University of Montana most recently. An author, public speaker, and anthropologist, Mahdavi’s scholarly work focuses on gendered labor, human trafficking, migration, human rights, and public health in the context of changing global and political structures.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

Duane Watson Duane Watson has been named associate provost for faculty development at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Mayborn Professor and professor of psychology and human development at Vanderbilt. Watson serves as the Frank W. He holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Princeton University in New Jersey and a Ph.D.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 3, 2024

If you can have an AI model run through and then a human just sort of spot checks it, and it can go ahead and make those decisions, that’s just going to let your team focus on what’s viable or important,” Rick Clark, assistant vice provost and executive director of undergraduate admission at Georgia Institute of Technology, told USA Today.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Wayne State University has received $6 million to recruit and hire 30 new humanities faculty and create a Black studies center.

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Campus Sonar

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Perception is shaped by human feelings and opinions, and is dynamic in nature. Understand and align perceptions The power of social intelligence is its ability to understand authentic human perception by uncovering stakeholders voices. Stakeholder engagement Leverage human-centric strategies to support revenue growth.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The author of Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (2015), her interdisciplinary research in the field of the medical humanities engages literary, historical, philosophical, and ethical explorations of black women’s health and medicine.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8 percent between 2011 and 2021. is growing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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. Walker has become dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, effective immediately. Dr. Corey D.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 10, 2024

The provost, chancellor, and six academic deans supported the move to eliminate this piece of their employment practice, along with president Sally Kornbluth, PhD, who said in a statement released this week, “My goals are to tap into the full scope of human talent, to bring the very best to MIT, and to make sure they thrive once here.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

Image: When humans write, they leave subtle signatures that hint at the prose’s fleshy, brainy origins. Human writers also draw from short- and long-term memories that recall a range of lived experiences and inform personal writing styles. Such attributes betray the text’s humanity.

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Computer Science Humanities Technology Provost 145

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

McCall is currently provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Xavier University of Louisiana. She has also served as associate dean for Tulane University's School of Liberal Arts; dean of arts, humanities and social sciences at the University of Denver; and dean of Harpur College of Arts and Sciences.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Hartwig , dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of communication at Colorado Christian University, has been selected as vice president for academic affairs and provost at Vanguard University, in California.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

Hank Weddington The grant is designed to address science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teacher shortages and create pathways for underrepresented students to become STEM educators, according to Dr. Hank Weddington, dean of the College of Education and Human Services.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

She is currently executive vice president and provost at The Ohio State University, the first Black to hold that role in the school’s history. There is so much talent and human potential, I figure in 2023 it should be commonplace. Block Distinguished Service Professor of Health Justice and vice provost. And it just isn’t.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

As former provost, Fleming spoke at length about how tuition is the grease that spins the wheels of higher education. As tuition continues to rise, so does the question of return on investment for students and their parents, which inevitably targets less lucrative fields of study like the humanities. Dr. Nicholas B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2023

“They have done it in refugee camps, in low-income communities, and with students who are too often left behind by traditional higher education – this is disruptive education in service to humanity.” She is currently the school’s provost. Lisa Marsh Ryerson will become SNHU president, effective Jul.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Bellamkonda, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, in a statement. “By By combining state-of-the-art approaches to precisely treat each person’s unique disease with a broad focus on enhanced efficacy, affordability, and access, AI.Health will advance Emory’s mission of serving humanity both in Georgia and worldwide.”

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: Twenty-three Lafayette College department heads and program chairs say there are serious issues with governance at the college, according to “points of concern” four of them shared with the president and provost. “Trust and institutional culture are broken,” the first of the five points said.

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HEPI

JANUARY 4, 2024

Professor Guo spent 34 years at Imperial College London studying AI, data mining, machine learning, and large-scale data management before becoming Provost of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2022. This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Yike Guo.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Lee’s board appointees include: Trevia Chatman, president, Bank of America Memphis; Jeffery Norfleet, provost and vice president for administration, Shorter College; Marquita Qualls, founder and principal, Entropia Consulting; Terica Smith, deputy mayor and director of human resources, Madison County; Charles Traughber, general counsel, Division of (..)

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Blog: Just Visiting I see we are in another cycle of concern for the academic humanities, this time triggered by a long article in the New Yorker by Nathan Heller titled “The End of the English Major.” We shouldn’t be surprised that the decline in humanities faculty has led to a decline in humanities majors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

He previously served as provost and vice president for academic affairs and founding dean of the College of Nursing, Health and Human Services at Indiana State University as well as an associate dean of the College of Education at the University of Northern Iowa. Williams served as president of Utah Tech University.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

Image: As part of a new $560,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation, humanities scholars at Wheaton College in Massachusetts are developing 10 curricular modules on the role of race, cultural backgrounds and global perspectives in health and medicine—and professors beyond Wheaton will be able to incorporate them into existing courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Preparing STEM-focused professionals to see the world through technological, human, societal, and cultural lenses is distinctive, especially when so brilliantly coupled with WPI’s research and innovation ecosystem.” “WPI is a world-class institution with a unique and vital approach to teaching, learning, and discovery.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

“King recognized that the work of the civil rights movement increasingly needed to be connected to the work of the labor movement — since without safe, well-paying, meaningful work all other human rights are in jeopardy,” according to the website. Francis College, in 1964, said Shannon Zlotkowski, assistant provost for DEI at UNE.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

“At the heart of the resolution agreement is our reaffirmation that when an act of antisemitism occurs, we will take appropriate and necessary action to address the act, prevent its recurrence, and support those impacted,” UVM’s Office of the Provost said in an Apr. 3 statement. In 2021, two nonprofit Jewish advocacy groups, the Louis D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Sylvia Burwell Burwell had an unusual background for a college president, never having been a professor, a dean, or a provost, and never having earned an advanced degree. secretary of health and human services under President Barack Obama. That experience was critical as she led the university through the COVID-19 pandemic.

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