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Career Q&A: UT Knoxville's vice provost for student success

Inside Higher Ed

Williams spoke to Inside Higher Ed about her career journey, managing her own professional development, the value of the student success offices housed within the provost’s office, and how others can position themselves as student success champions. At UT, my job would be much more difficult if I didn’t report to the provost.

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COVID-19 masking policies for fall are all over the place

Inside Higher Ed

At Temple, meanwhile, the faculty union continues to ask the administration to break with Philadelphia’s mask-optional policy and mandate masks indoors, or at least allow individual professors to require them. A New Accommodations Process. The agreement does commit Pitt to making a good-faith effort to meet reasonable requests.

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Brown faculty votes to restrict P&T committee to full profs

Inside Higher Ed

Proponents of the measure have said that the committee faces logistical problems when judging promotions to full professor, as associate professor members who have not yet experienced that process personally have to recuse themselves, per Brown’s policies. The university referred questions about the new policy to Wong.

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Why did U of Florida suddenly fire its honors director?

Inside Higher Ed

Mark Law, the director, also says he was told that the university’s Board of Trustees insisted on his ouster, against the will of the university’s president and provost. ” The university did not respond to a question about this change in policy Monday, or provide any details about how Law was fired, or why, when asked.

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West Virginia U proposal outlines process for firing faculty

Inside Higher Ed

A recommendation for noncontinuation triggers a multilevel review, including by the provost. Standing WVU policies only allow faculty members to grieve negative decisions, per state laws for public employees. WVU’s tenure and promotion policy was last updated in 2014–15. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Auburn professor awarded $646k in damages in speech case

Inside Higher Ed

The jury did not agree with Stern’s similar claims against two former provosts, however. Beyond that, it is our policy not to discuss specific personnel matters publicly.” He was denied a platform, however—allegedly because the Senate’s steering committee feared the provost at the time, Timothy Boosinger.

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Passionate pleas for and against tuition-sharing agreements

Inside Higher Ed

Like just about every policy discussion in Washington these days, this one found the students, consumer advocates, college officials, corporate leaders and others who shared their opinions in three-minute increments to be sharply divided, with little to no middle ground to be found. What Is the ‘Bundled-Services Exemption’?

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