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Western Michigan University Provost Heilig Steps Down After Two Years of Record-Breaking Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Julian Vasquez Heilig, the first underrepresented minority Provost in Western Michigan University's history, announced his resignation from the position after a two- year tenure marked by significant institutional achievements. During his leadership, WMU set all-time records for online programs, graduation rates, and student retention.

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Ripe for poaching: Will DeSantis’ higher ed policies drive out Florida faculty?

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One university provost has already publicly promised to recruit Florida students and professors amid the state’s political strife.

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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

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With the demise of affirmative action, threats to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives (DEI), and policies in higher education there might not be an immediate increase in the number of Black men seeking to enroll in higher education. The nation cannot return to de facto policies that impede Black male progress.

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Annual Provosts’ Survey Shows Need for AI Policies, Worries Over Campus Speech

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Annual Provosts’ Survey Shows Need for AI Policies, Worries Over Campus Speech Ryan Quinn Tue, 04/16/2024 - 03:00 AM Many institutions are not yet prepared to help their faculty members and students navigate artificial intelligence. That’s just one of multiple findings from Inside Higher Ed’s annual survey of chief academic officers.

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Working to Keep Minoritized Students Safe - Dr. Kaleb Briscoe

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Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, University of Oklahoma Age: 38 Education: B.S., Business Marketing, Albany State University; MBA., Albany State University; M.S., Student Affairs and Higher Education, Indiana State University; Ph.D.,

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Dr. John L. Jackson, Jr. Appointed Provost at the University of Pennsylvania

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will become provost at the University of Pennsylvania, effective Jun. Previously, he was dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice and senior adviser to the provost on Diversity at Penn ; junior fellow in Harvard University’s Society of Fellows; and assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University.

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Report Details How Titles III and V of the Higher Education Act Could Better Serve Students of Color and Low-Income Students

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Elliott, director of workforce policy at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and one of the authors of the report. Tutt, assistant vice provost of student success at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, an HBCU. Today, one in five higher education institutions has MSI status.