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Harvard Names Dr. Claudine Gay to Presidency

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Gay will be the second Black woman to lead an Ivy League university, following Dr. Ruth Simmons, who served as president of Brown University from 2001 to 2012. Liann Herder can be reached at lherder@diverseeducation.com Jon Edelman and Arrman Kyaw contributed to this article.

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Promotion and Tenure: Guidelines to Succeed

The Scholarly Teacher

With this emphasis on publications, presentations, service, and grants, the importance of effective teaching decreases (Trower, 2012). Hallmarks of Effective Promotion and Tenure Systems Good promotion and tenure systems have clearly communicated standards to include the number of journal articles, presentations and grants expected.

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Out With the Old, In With the New: Decolonizing the School Counseling Profession to Support Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sample preventions, interventions to decolonize school counseling Professionally, we have been troubled by the disproportionate focus on intervention rather than prevention among educators — teachers, counselors, and administrators. Decolonizing preparation and training In a recent Diverse article, Dr. Kelly A.

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Iowa Wesleyan University announces closure

Confessions of a Community College Dean

She was president of Burlington College in Vermont from 2012 to 2014, serving as vice president of administration and finance for almost five years before ascending to the top executive post. Yes In-Article Careers: 3 With the pending closure of Iowa Wesleyan, Plunkett will have led two colleges that shut down.

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Community colleges' positive, pervasive digital leap

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Against the backdrop of headlines blaring news about declining community college enrollments, one bright spot has emerged: community college students, faculty and administrators are broadly aligned in their enthusiasm for the digital transformation that has occurred at their institutions since the start of the pandemic.

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Colleges deploy new strategies to revive English programs

Confessions of a Community College Dean

With the discipline facing a surge of scrutiny in the wake of a viral New Yorker article published in late February called “ The End of the English Major ,” English faculty are employing a range of efforts to give their field new relevancy and pizzazz. Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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Colleges hire directors to tackle student basic needs

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: When Andrea Mora enrolled at University of California, Irvine, in 2012, she was a low-income, first-generation student. College administrators nationwide were already starting to tackle the issue in recent years but homed in on it after the pandemic revealed stark economic disparities among students.

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