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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S.

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Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield, Wabash College

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Nancy Lynne Westfield is director of Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Theology and Religion. Known for her pedagogical and administrative vision and creativity, Westfields dynamic leadership focuses upon teachers who want to improve their teaching and have a more balanced teaching life.

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Kenyon College President Dr. Sean Decatur to Depart for American Museum of Natural History

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years — to learn, to teach and to grow alongside you — and to aspire together to what I know is a very bright future for Kenyon,” Decatur wrote in a Dec. Decatur has been on the pages of Diverse across the years, and was recognized by the publication in 2007 as an Emerging Scholar. . 6 message to the Kenyon community.

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Bazan Named Union College's Next President

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As vice president of Student Life at La Sierra University from 2007 to 2021, she led 10 departments ranging from athletics and counseling to campus security and spiritual life.

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AAUP Launches Investigation of Hamline

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After a student complained, L ó pez Prater was told that she would not be teaching a course in the spring semester. This would create a classroom environment inimical to the free and vigorous exchange of ideas necessary for teaching and learning in higher education.” Many Muslims believe that such depictions are forbidden to view.

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Dr. Erika A. Taylor

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Title: Associate Professor of Chemistry; Director of McNair Program, Wesleyan University Taylor, associate professor of chemistry, environmental studies and integrative sciences, joined the Wesleyan faculty in 2007. She holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry with honors from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, a Ph.D.

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At University of Hawai’i at M?noa, Native Hawaiian Representation is Growing

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noa’s Native Hawaiian population has grown tremendously since the 1990s, and doubled between 2007 and 2020, thanks to deliberate efforts to recruit and retain these students, said Dr. Willy Kauai, director of Native Hawaiian student services at UH M?noa. Dr. Willy Kauai, director of Native Hawaiian student services at UH M?noa.