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Audit of Gallaudet University Shows Significant Administrative Salary Increases Amid Stagnant Academic Spending and Faculty Salaries

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A new audit of Gallaudet University has shown that administrative salary rose by 107% ($11.3 million) while overall spending on academics, including faculty salaries, fell by 6% ($4.8 million) since 2019.

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2022 Delphi Award Winners Share Practices to Support Part-Time Faculty

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Carolyn Terry The annual Delphi Award – sponsored by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and the University of Southern California’s Pullias Center for Higher Education – commends and rewards schools giving support to non-tenure-track, contingent and/or adjunct faculty, according to its website.

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Adler University Announces Tenure Program

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Adler University will offer a tenure program to full-time faculty for the first time beginning in the 2023-2024 academic year, university officials announced on Monday. and private universities offer tenure, very few faculty receive the honor and benefit of tenure.

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Tulane, U of San Diego Non–Tenure-Track Faculty Members Unionize

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Non–tenure-track faculty members at two more private universities have voted to unionize. At Tulane University, full-time teaching faculty members voted 146 to 29 to unionize, the university said. The new union, Tulane Workers United, is affiliated with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

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Fellowship Program Highlights the Work of Disabled Scholar-Activists

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Throughout the following 10 months, the fellows participated in meetings with their faculty mentors and optional monthly cohort-wide calls to discuss their progress. A lot of faculty see us as people not worth investing in,” Cho said. “So But it's important to keep in mind that the highest score in the rankings was a D,” Cho said.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

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“Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Dr. Erika D.

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Boldly Future Forward

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The number of master’s degree and doctoral degree programs continues to grow and the faculty is achieving national and international recognition for its research. Smith-Jackson Over the course of more than 30 years as a faculty person and researcher, Dr. Godfrey A. We have faculty from outside the College of Engineering.