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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Time Magazine once referred to Jackson as “perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science.” Sponsored research awards tripled and more than 325 tenure-track faculty members were hired. You can’t be in the academy if you don’t have the best faculty and support those faculty.

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Open to Change

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

By summer, the college had taken decisive action — hiring Donald Jaamal to be dean of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and Title IX coordinator. “In While Coe has had previous diversity officers, Jaamal operates in an expanded capacity, which is what students, faculty, and staff requested.

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Hazing prevention to be reviewed at New Mexico State

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Jamie Bronstein, a history professor and vice chair of the university’s Faculty Senate, criticized the institution for caring too much about its image at the expense of other concerns. She said faculty members were told that mental health counseling services would be made available to students who want help.

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Belmont University hires new VP of hope, unity and belonging

Confessions of a Community College Dean

He and his team will be responsible for managing Title IX compliance and sexual misconduct prevention and all nondiscrimination and equity work. He will oversee the office and its staff members, including the director of institutional equity and Title IX coordinator and a new equity compliance specialist.

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When disgraced presidents return (or never go away)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

He told Inside Higher Ed , by email, he is “unaware of any perks” and declined to discuss payments he received as a faculty member. But critics of the board see a failure of transparency on the Gupta situation, which they say is consistent with how MSU typically handles Title IX matters.

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Chico State faces backlash for faculty discipline

Confessions of a Community College Dean

"I know this past week has been deeply disturbing and unsettling to our students, faculty and staff," President Gayle E. " Wolfe said he understood that "confidentiality and personnel rules limit what can be shared with faculty, staff and students." " Hassenzahl did not respond to a request for comment.

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Advocates call on White House to finish new Title IX regs in May

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: The Biden administration is planning to release the final set of regulations for Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 next month, and a coalition of more than 120 gender justice and survivor advocacy organizations are urging the department to stick to that timeline. April also is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

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