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In 2015, I faced a negative credit outlook from Moody's, a challenge that jeopardized the "fresh start" I was brought in to achieve. Project aims to diversify the business world by increasing the number of Black, African American, Latinx, Hispanic American, and Native American faculty members in business schools.

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Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and of African American Studies, as University Professor, the institution's highest academic distinction for faculty members. In 2015, she was named by Diverse as one of the leading women in higher education. Farah Jasmine Griffin, the William B.

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The report, "Two Decades of Change: Faculty Discipline Trends in Higher Education," analyzes data from CUPA-HR's Faculty in Higher Education Survey from 2003-04 to 2023-24, revealing significant shifts in faculty size, tenure status, and salaries across academic disciplines. Business also showed robust growth of 20.8%

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She joined the School of Law's faculty in the fall of 2005 and was named the holder of the M.E. From 2015 to 2018 and for the fall semester of 2024, Rodrigues served as the law school's associate dean for faculty development. Rodrigues became dean of the University of Georgia School of Law on January 1, 2025.

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Meanwhile, Gallup and Lumina Foundation data shows that public trust in higher education has dropped from 57 percent in 2015 to 36 percent in 2023, its lowest point ever. When faculty and staff do not feel safe, they withdraw. When students do not feel they matter, they disengage.

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He was also the founding editor of Global Dialogue magazine and served as co-chair and secretary of the Berkeley Faculty Association from 2015 to 2021. His scholarly impact was profound, with his published works receiving over 50,000 citations.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Esther Jones Dr. Esther Jones has been named associate dean for faculty development in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty at Brown University. Before her latest post, Jones served in various leadership capacities including as an associate provost in the Office of Faculty Affairs at Clark University.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

David Beasley will join the faculty of its Joseph F. The flag was finally removed from the State House grounds in 2015 after nine people were killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. The University of South Carolina has announced that former South Carolina Gov. Rice School of Law.

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Among the latest efforts are HB 715 in North Carolina, which would remove tenure for future faculty in the University of North Carolina (UNC) system and at public community colleges, and SB 266 in Florida, which would give the state more control over the content of core classes and limit funding for DEI efforts.

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Earlham Summer: A Pre-College Program for High School Students will give up to 120 high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors the opportunity to take classes from Earlham faculty, stay overnight on campus, and learn about admissions and scholarship opportunities. 18-23 and 25-30. 18-23 and 25-30.

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In 1996, she returned to campus as a dean, and, in 2015, she became president of her alma mater. That dedication to hearing students’ voices helped her discover her students were concerned by a lack of diversity in the faculty and board of trustees. So, De Vinne created the Faculty Diversity Fellowship Program, where new Ph.D.

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Pierce has previously been a tenured faculty member in English and African American studies at the University of Kentucky and associate professor of religion and literature and founding director of the Center for Black Church Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

“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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APRIL 13, 2023

Glaude has been chair since AAS , originally a certificate program, became a department in 2015. With this move, he said he would be staying at Princeton and returning to full-time research and other responsibilities, such as “trying to help the nation imagine itself differently when it comes to race matters.”

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JULY 23, 2024

I look forward to working this year with the faculty, staff, students, and alumni as we lead the nation in our teaching, research, and land-grant and clinical activities,” said Fuchs, who starts in the role Aug. Fuchs served as the university’s 12th president from January 2015 to February 2023, before taking a yearlong sabbatical.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

She has been president at A&M-San Antonio since 2015. “Dr. It is a bittersweet moment as I am extraordinarily proud of all the students, faculty, staff and alumni of A&M-San Antonio,” Teniente-Matson said.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The University of Oregon (UO) drew FIRE’s ire due to its rubric for evaluating DEI statements from prospective faculty and faculty seeking promotion or tenure. FIRE described this as an “ideological litmus test” that “compelled faculty to pledge allegiance to contested ideological views.”

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At a time when some Americans are questioning the value of higher education, Gittleman — who joined the faculty at Tufts University in 1964 and rose through the ranks to serve as provost from 1981 to 2002, before he retired in 2015 — says criticism of higher education is nothing new. “If But truth be told, he most certainly is.

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Since 2015, Stout has served as president and CEO of Achieving the Dream (ATD), a network of over 300 community colleges, with the goal of being accessible hubs of learning, credentialing and economic mobility that eliminate inequities in educational and workforce outcomes. Moono, president of SUNY Schenectady County Community College.

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MARCH 31, 2024

Stout, who has led the organization since 2015. I think that is injecting new energy and new thinking into the movement,” says Stout, who previously led Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania from 2001 to 2015. “We There was also a robust focus on the humanities. ATD is not just a conference,” says Dr. Karen A.

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APRIL 3, 2023

The new music building was completed in 2015. “I Another achievement is that she managed to hire two-thirds of the music school’s faculty during her time as dean, said Montgomery, who also expresses regret in not being able to recruit more faculty members of color, primarily Latinx and African American faculty.

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JULY 7, 2023

There is considerable research generated about African Americans in higher education, specifically faculty. In fact, most studies concerning African Americans have focused on the retention of students or faculty (Wolfe & Dilworth, 2015).

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This newest study focuses on the enrollment data available for the community college cohort entering in 2015, which allowed for six years to complete their journey toward a bachelor’s degree. “No state is doing well in terms of getting their community college students to transfer and complete,” said Velasco Rodriguez.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Miami Dade College (MDC), located in Miami, Florida and one of the nation’s largest Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) received the classification in 2015 and is one of a handful of community colleges across the nation to hold the designation. Dr. Marybeth Gasman But why is applying for this Carnegie Classification important for HSIs?

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JUNE 26, 2023

Since the 2015 launch of Graduation Initiative 2025, a state-backed project to improve graduation rates, the California State University system (CSU) has made significant progress, with students from all groups earning degrees at higher rates. But disparities persist. The graduation rate gap between Black and white students is 22.2

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It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68 The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I Since 2015, 64 students, 93.75% of whom are Latino, have been placed in internships. “I Latino faculty at UTA closely mentor the students.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Associate Professor of Counseling, Department of Disability & Psychoeducational Studies, University of Arizona, Affiliate Faculty, Education Policy Center, University of Arizona Tenured: Yes Age: 37 Education: B.S., She also received a 2015 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

Montgomery previously served as chairman of the Florida A&M University's (FAMU) board of trustees but resigned from the board in 2015. “One of the things I had requested in my complaint letter was that they ask Trustee Montgomery for his resignation. And they said they would not do that."

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

“Students are getting validation from a Berklee faculty member who’s produced hundreds of professional artists out there, in some cases our professors have won a lot of notable awards and know people who are heroes to those kids,” said Moyes. Getting validation from someone like that can be lifechanging.”

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MAY 23, 2024

Pawan Dhingra first arrived on campus as a faculty member more than five years ago, conversations around wanting AAPI content were already being had, he says. Building the ranks One of the biggest hurdles hindering the creation of an AAPI studies major at Amherst had been not having enough faculty to teach courses. He joined in.

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JUNE 27, 2023

In 2015, Lieberman was named President of the Year by the Association of College Unions International for supporting an inclusive and engaged campus community. 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.

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in sociology in 2015 from Emory University’s Laney Graduate School and her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and political science from North Carolina Central University. She is also a columnist for the New York Times, an award-winning author, and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. McMillan Cottom received her Ph.D.

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Today, there are only 2,000 native speakers , but a 2015 Hawaii State Data Center census reported that 5.7% This authenticity and shared aloha will lead to stronger interrelations with students and the community as the candidate becomes an established faculty member at the site.

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

Falling in love with the work of the professoriate While becoming a dean of a college of education was an early aspiration, that career trajectory took a detour once Jackson joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison some 22 years ago. “I As a land-grant, it’s a “delicate dance,” as faculty and administrators see it.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

Dr. Shana Stoddard Having first come to Rhodes as a William Randolph Hearst Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in 2015, Stoddard has cemented a role for herself at the school over time, attaining the position of associate professor of chemistry in 2022. “I I knew that I wanted an undergraduate research lab,” Stoddard said.

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JULY 6, 2023

Film Culture in 2022, and Second-Generation Korean Americans and Transnational Media: Diasporic Identifications in 2015. Another aspect of his scholarly work is how different people and populations perceive Korean media, Oh said.

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JULY 19, 2023

At various times when concerns with Dr. Tessier-Lavigne’s papers emerged—in 2001, the early 2010s, 2015-2016, and March 2021—Dr. Although there was no evidence that Tessier-Lavigne himself manipulated or was aware of manipulations at the time, he has not adequately explained why he did not make corrections when given opportunities to do so.

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