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An academic administrator on teaching career-ready skills in class

Confessions of a Community College Dean

These are social workers in our school of social work who are part of the individual college’s leadership team, who serve as a subclinical counseling coach resource to both students and faculty. A: I believe that excellence and talent are equally distributed, but opportunity isn’t. So for me, student success is: How do I help?

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York College academic administrator won't leave students behind

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A: I went to graduate school for a master’s in experimental psychology at Central Michigan University, and there were two faculty members who would argue, but friendly [natured]. This position, in what was then Academic Services, came open, and we revamped it into a student success division. I loved the back-and-forth banter.

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Johanna Bond Appointed Dean of Rutgers Law School

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Johanna Bond Bond is currently the tenured Sydney and Frances Lewis Professor of Law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law and an affiliate faculty member in the university’s Africana Studies and the women’s, gender, and sexuality studies programs. “An

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Colleges should help disadvantaged faculty attend conferences (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Category: Conditionally Accepted How much an institution helps pay for financially disadvantaged BIPOC faculty to attend conferences indicates how equitable and embracing it truly is, writes Reem Khamis.

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Tenured faculty in steady decline while part-time and graduate workers rise, per report

University Business

The academic workforce in the U.S. is slowly but surely relying more heavily on contingent faculty and graduate student employees as tenure and tenure-track faculty positions decline, according to a key summary from the American Association of University Professors. In 1987, part-time faculty made up 33% of the workforce.

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Penn State provides voluntary buyouts to mitigate its deficit

University Business

The Voluntary Separation Incentive Program (VISP), announced last week, financially incentivizes eligible faculty and staff to retire early or leave their jobs and still receive one year of their base salary and six months of subsidized health insurance. Employees also must have been hired before April 1, 2023.

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A New Era of Excellence

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I was meeting all of these wonderful faculty members and staff members and being told that I can become and do anything that I wanted to become and do,” says Kinloch. “I I was meeting all of these wonderful faculty members and staff members and being told that I can become and do anything that I wanted to become and do,” says Kinloch.

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