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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Cluster hiring instantly injects diversity into departments that have little, while making the experience easier for minoritized faculty members. Steele remembers being at an event for new faculty. They were hiring three.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. Canton, who is also an associate professor of history, hired two faculty members in year one. Last year, he hired another faculty person. there were protests on campus.

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Lieberman Expected to Lead La Verne to Next Stage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Early on, the university developed a more robust advancement office and hired a consulting firm. To accomplish the goals that the fundraising will enable, she sees it as essential that the faculty, staff and board work collaboratively on the visioning for the university. “In the last 12 years, we’ve raised at least $170 million.”

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Dr. Timothy Alvarez Retires from Otero College in Purpose, with Satisfaction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

million over five years, that enabled the school to focus on mentoring, professional development for faculty and undergraduate research. Although it was difficult to sustain a sense of community when people were working remotely, “I was still very proud of our faculty,” Alvarez said. It was eye-opening for students and faculty.

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Back-and-forth over faculty agreement divisive at Maricopa

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: A debate over how to achieve pay parity between two groups of faculty members has left lingering tensions among professors in the Maricopa Community College District in Arizona. Adjuncts who work as service faculty currently make $53 per hour, and those who only teach earn $32 per hour.

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President mulls firing complainers after end to Faculty Senate

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Leaders of West Virginia’s Bluefield State University eliminated the Faculty Senate and instituted a posttenure review process that an American Association of University Professors officer says diverges significantly from that organization’s recommendations.

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A Commitment to Help Others

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I think it evolved naturally,” said Armstrong-Mensah, who is also the lead faculty member for the school’s Ghana study abroad program, referring to her focus on public health. “I I started out in my country of origin, which is Ghana.