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JUNE 3, 2024

Columbia College Chicago has laid off 70 faculty and staff members with plans to remove 32 vacant positions to address financial concerns amid declining enrollment numbers. Adjunct professors at the college went on a weeks long strike in October 2023 with demands for job security and health insurance.

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JUNE 3, 2024

Columbia College Chicago has laid off 70 faculty and staff members with plans to remove 32 vacant positions to address financial concerns amid declining enrollment numbers. Adjunct professors at the college went on a weeks long strike in October 2023 with demands for job security and health insurance.

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MARCH 18, 2025

Nicole Pulliam In my first year as a faculty member, I was the shiny new object. Rashma Saujani, in her 2023 commencement speech, likened societal pressures on women to the 1890s concept of bicycle facea fabricated ailment used to deter women from gaining independence. Impostor Syndrome or Systemic Failure?

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APRIL 4, 2023

Martha Enciso, associate vice president of student affairs at California State University, Fullerton, has won the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators’ (NASPA) 2023 Mena Valdez Award.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has announced the 2023 recipients of its annual K. It is open to doctoral-level graduate students planning careers in higher ed and nominated by faculty or an administrator. 18–20, 2023. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Supreme Court decision in June 2023 to ban race-conscious college admissions, and the fallout since then, have been sobering, including for Asian Americans who were swayed by SFFA. Despite the media attention and racialized division that this case drew, the U.S.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

Prior to her role at MATC, Martinez Powless accumulated 17 years of higher education experience at Marquette University and MATC, working in administration, enrollment, student affairs, and multicultural outreach. In September 2023, she was promoted to interim vice president of enrollment and retention, reporting to King.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

“This is an HBCU-centric program, and we are unapologetic about it,” says Dr. Elfred Anthony Pinkard, who served as president of Wilberforce University from 2018 until his retirement in 2023. But we look at them as absolute crisis-related departures and I think we really need to move away from that.” From May 12-14th, H.E.L.F. Innovation.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Investigations Conclude College Administrators Lied to Media, Mistreated Faculty Sara Weissman Fri, 12/15/2023 - 03:00 AM The investigations found that Spartanburg Community College disbanded its Faculty Senate and surveilled faculty members, then lied about it to media outlets and South Carolina’s inspector general.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2023

Cloud State University’s financial issues and cuts are getting worse, with its $18 million budget deficit in fall 2023 projected to grow to $24.5 The school is planning to cut approximately 100 more faculty within five years, on top of the previously announced 20-plus faculty positions to be phased out next year.

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APRIL 9, 2023

In recognition of his commitment to inclusive excellence, servant leadership, and his devotion to lifting up the disenfranchised in the community college space, Gonzales has been named a 2023 recipient of the Diverse Champions Award. A passion for education Dr. Steven R. He pays attention. He’s grounded and he just truly cares.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The board of trustees and administration thoroughly restructured the college's academic offerings without meaningful faculty involvement and denied academic due process to multiple faculty members during their tenure applications and renewals. The report details the restructuring of New College of Florida led by Gov.

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JANUARY 21, 2025

With the reinstatement of Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated students in July 2023, approximately 760,000 incarcerated people can have college dreams. Their trauma is exacerbated not only by systemic exclusion from opportunities and programmatic support but also by ungenerous and unfair treatment by faculty and staff.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2024

AAUP President Dr. Irene Mulvey made this case in a May 22 statement durimh the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing with higher education administrators. Several states have successfully begun efforts to defund campus diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and weaken tenure and accreditation.

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AUGUST 14, 2024

The American Association of University Professors, or AAUP, has responded to a proliferation of administrative actions it deems as hastily enacted policies restricting rights to assemble and protest on college and university campuses. AAUP is condemning the increasing number of new administrative policies restricting on-campus demonstrations.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Despite National Pushback, West Virginia Will Cut Faculty, Programs Ryan Quinn Fri, 09/15/2023 - 11:42 AM A month of intense public and on-campus pressure did not dissuade the Board of Governors from siding with the administration to slash programs and positions. Byline(s) Ryan Quinn

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Over the course of 2023, the Institute will help campus teams implement strategies to expand student and faculty/staff engagement with ePortfolios. The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has chosen the schools that will participate in the third annual Institute on ePortfolios , which will begin on Jan.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

West Virginia Students, Faculty Cry Out on Final Day Before Vote on Deep Cuts Ryan Quinn Thu, 09/14/2023 - 07:30 PM At a raucous public comment session Thursday, the WVU Board of Governors heard final pleas to reject university administrators’ proposed cuts. Byline(s) Ryan Quinn

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University Business

MARCH 12, 2024

Education and how professors, administrators and their institutions can deliver content are bristling with innovation thanks to cutting-edge technology. Unfortunately for higher education, college administrators still seem ill-prepared for the disruption such technologies are bound to generate.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Throughout the 2022-2023 academic year the scholars in their respective Higher Education Administration/Student Affairs master’s programs will fully emerge in their academic programs along with professional development, mentoring, and a research study on graduate student identity and The Black Lives Matter movement.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Pierre, a seasoned legal scholar, had been serving the Southern University Law Center in numerous roles since 1990, first as a faculty member and then as an administrator. I think you’ve heard it from faculty and others about the impression he has left on this campus in an interim (executive vice president) position.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It is filled with information based on lived experiences of Black women who are currently administrators. They say the role of department chair should be in service to an institution, fundamentally providing care, guidance, and support to not only faculty colleagues but to support staff and students as well.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

These plans were subsequently executed when Acebo took the helm as interim president of the university in January 2023. Some of those difficult decisions had to do with cutting employees – faculty and professional staff – and downsizing NJCU’s academic offerings. AFT 1839 represents faculty and professional staff.

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JULY 13, 2023

Amid a hazing scandal and the subsequent firing of Northwestern University football coach Pat Fitzgerald , some faculty, alumni, and investors are pushing back against the school’s plans for a $800 million renovation of its football stadium, CBS reported. But calls to delay are increasing.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The fiber optic upgrades will begin this summer to be finished by Fall 2023, Harper said. And the wireless network overhaul is expected to be finished by the end of 2023. “A Stillman College has received $2.7 million to improve its internet access and performance through fiber optic infrastructure upgrades.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In response to Abbott’s memo, Texas A&M University in College Station recently said it changed hiring policies, with the vice president of faculty affairs telling deans to look at only cover letters, resumes, personal statements, and professional references.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Lesley Shawler Title: Assistant Professor, School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences; Faculty Supervisor, Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders, Southern Illinois University Age: 38 Education: B.A., psychology, California State University, Sacramento; M.A., psychology, California State University, Sacramento; Ph.D.,

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

He previously announced that he would step down at the end of the current 2023-2024 school year and return as a communications professor. Rothman said he has placed Gow on paid administrative leave as he transitions into his faculty role, filed a complaint to review Gow's tenure status, and has contacted an outside law firm to investigate.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 2, 2025

This spring is going to be quite busy for me with three faculty searches, our once-a-decade academic program review, the most travel for presentations that I have had since before the start of the pandemic, and responding to a host of media and policymaker requests about what will be happening over the next few months. 2023, August 10).

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JUNE 30, 2024

In 2023, the American Council on Education (ACE) released their study of over 1,000 college presidents, which revealed the tenure of the presidency has diminished. Vincent, a seasoned higher education administrator, said he plans to return to the practice of law. He has led the institution for the past five years. years in charge.

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JUNE 7, 2023

This comes after the Tougaloo Alumni Coalition – not directly associated with the Tougaloo Alumni Association – started a petition to remove Walters earlier this year, citing concerns such as declining student enrollment, loss of faculty and staff, vacant key positions, and questionable fiscal issues. Dr. Carmen J.

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AUGUST 13, 2024

In August 2023, Kinloch became the 15th president of JCSU — the only historically Black college and university (HBCU) in the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, founded in 1867 by formerly enslaved Black people. “I Whether she could visualize it or not, that young freshman at Johnson C. And that’s how it started for me.”

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MAY 23, 2024

The Georgia Board of Regents in 2023 ended the practice of providing diversity statements for faculty hiring. Shared governance is the principle that decision-making in higher education should involve collaboration and consultation among faculty, administrators, students, and other stakeholders.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

As a student activist, a longtime faculty member, and an administrator in higher education, I am particularly proud of two career accomplishments. Unfortunately, students had to repeatedly make their case to skeptical and unsupportive university administrators, trustees, alumni, donors, and legislators.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

Having spent more than a half-century as a faculty member, administrator, and advocate in higher education, I lost count a long time ago of the number of meetings I have attended, as well as the number of speeches and presentations I’ve made, all of which I gifted to the Indiana University Archives.

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University Business

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The pandemic occurs, steepening downward trending enrollment and shortening administrators window to adjust operational strategy. It will slowly absorb its administrative support operations over the next year, pending review by their shared accreditation body and the Department of Education. Year founded: 1997 Wells College (N.Y.)

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

Ask anyone and they’ll tell you it’s been a challenging year for both students and faculty in both higher education and K-12. As for 2023, there’s a lot to look forward to. ” Predicting trends for 2023. ” What’s expected for K-12 in 2023, he says, is increased integration and accessibility.

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