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After Settlement with Howard University, Students Call for Sweeping Changes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The University takes our students’ safety and wellbeing with the utmost seriousness,” Howard University’s Office of Communications wrote in a statement. Dr. Milton Fuentes, associate chair for undergraduate education and professor of psychology at Montclair State University, New Jersey.

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How to Build a Sustainable Model for Student Equity and Increase Student Success

EAB

I spoke with Dr. Leslie Zenk, Assistant Provost, and Dr. Lisa Walker, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education and Dean of University College, to learn more about how they audited their policies using EAB’s framework. Ready to find out more? Learn more. Get more insights.

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The Transformational Power of Higher Education

The University Innovation Alliance

She quickly recognized that certain hierarchical modes of operation don't work very well in a pandemic: "We had to bring together teams with different expertise, make decisions in real time, translate those decisions into actions, and then be able to communicate broadly about what we were doing.