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Dr. Levon Esters Appointed Vice Provost for Graduate Education at Penn State

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Levon Esters will become vice provost for graduate education at Penn State and dean of its Graduate School, effective May 1, 2023. He is also director of the Mentoring@Purdue program and director of Cornell University’s Thomas Wyatt Turner Fellowship Program.

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How Colleges and Universities Nationwide are Commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For many of them, the school has scheduled a “day of service,” wherein students, faculty, and staff can volunteer in their community. In 2023, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of hip hop. Penn State , for instance, has events lined up for a number of its campuses.

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Preparing Students for Future Work Using Narrative Approaches

The Scholarly Teacher

We contend that all educators should consider responsibility for students’ career education. Faculty and instructors, through intentional curriculum design, play critical roles in supporting students to prepare for seismic shifts in future work. Introduction The world of work continues to change. Image courtesy of Wix.

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3 Questions on UT Austin’s New $10K Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence

Confessions of a Community College Dean

I was (and still am) the first faculty director of the MSCS program. Using online learning platforms like edX and distance-ed focused instructional design, programs like MSAI can achieve efficiencies that allow us to offer a master’s degree for a fraction of the cost of a traditional graduate program. First, obviously, is price.

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Mentors should be gate openers, not gatekeepers (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Recently, those of us who serve as McNair Scholars directors around the nation were informed that some faculty members become frustrated when participating students don’t send a thank-you note (or email) after spending time with them. Faculty members are often gatekeepers to our scholars’ entrance and success in graduate school.

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2024 Path of Professorship builds up women in academia

CAPD

On November 18-19, 2023 CAPD and the Office of Graduate Education (OGE) successfully organized the 18 th annual Path of Professorship program. Path of Professorship offers such value to participants because it helps create a safe community and jumpstart for women exploring faculty careers, an area that needs their leadership.

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Can the English Major Be Saved?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

How have English departments responded to the canon wars, the globalization of Anglophone literature and the campaigns to decolonize the canon and embrace cultural criticism (not just literary criticism)—and has their reaction undercut the rigor and quality of the education and training the departments provide? into their operations?

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