Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 6, 2025
In September 2023, the Rutgers University Senate passed a no-confidence vote (89-47) citing concerns about shared governance following decisions including the merger of medical schools and his handling of a faculty strike. Despite these challenges, Holloway championed several initiatives during his Rutgers presidency.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Dr. Shewanee Howard-Baptiste After a tough love encounter with science and biology courses, she realized the medical field wasnt her calling. Her pivot from medical school aspirations to a career in health education is now a lesson she shares with young people: life is a journey, not a checklist.
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Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Retired clarinetist Edward Avedisian has donated $100 million to the Boston University medical school, the university announced Thursday. Avedisian, a BU alumnus, spent nearly four decades playing clarinet with the Boston Pops and Boston Ballet Orchestra while amassing a fortune in personal investments on the side, according to BU.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 8, 2024
Calhoun, serves as the university’s executive vice president for health affairs and vice provost and is a board-certified physician in pulmonary and critical care medicine. She played an instrumental role in launching the UT Tyler School of Medicine, the UT System’s seventh medical school. Dr. Julie V.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 24, 2024
Jessica Berg “The School of Law and overall university’s commitment to serving first-generation students, to social justice, and to academic and scholarly excellence all attracted me to this position,” she said. She was a visiting professor at Michigan State University Medical School.
Insight Into Diversity
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Gilliam, an accomplished scholar, research scientist, and physician, currently serves as the executive vice president and provost of The Ohio State University. Gilliam holds degrees from Yale University, the University of Oxford, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health.
University Business
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
. “This is the next phase of how to address what we might call a social conversation, a social problem, a current issue that needs all hands on deck,” says Jessica Halem, former LGBTQ+ director at Harvard Medical School and current senior director of Eidos. as of 2022, double the rate it was a decade prior.
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