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York College academic administrator won't leave students behind

Confessions of a Community College Dean

He had not declared a major or developed an awareness of his needed academic tools, but Landau was motivated to learn for the sake of learning. Now, as a higher education professional, he wants to support others to succeed in the ways he did. Q: What inspired your career in higher education?

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An academic administrator on teaching career-ready skills in class

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Q: What led you to your career in higher education? I was an elementary education major as my undergraduate training, and I kept having this real itch along the way, though: I really liked college. A: I was a first-generation college student from a small coal-mining community in east Kentucky. Like, I can not quit.

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Indiana University faculty vote no confidence in President Whitten, provosts

University Business

Indiana University’s Bloomington faculty declared no confidence in President Pamela Whitten and two top academic administrators in a vote held Tuesday. The Bloomington Faculty Council hosted the vote and reported that 948 faculty attended the meeting at the IU Auditorium. Read more from WFYI.

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Johanna Bond Appointed Dean of Rutgers Law School

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Johanna Bond Bond is currently the tenured Sydney and Frances Lewis Professor of Law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law and an affiliate faculty member in the university’s Africana Studies and the women’s, gender, and sexuality studies programs. “An

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Transitioning from Faculty to Administration

Higher Ed Connects: Faculty Development

Tammi Cooper, Associate Dean in the School of Business at Northcentral University, shares her knowledge from her own often-bumpy transition from faculty to academic administrator, covering the following key topics: The challenge of the transition. Key areas for administrator success. Creating a personal development plan.

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Tenured faculty in steady decline while part-time and graduate workers rise, per report

University Business

The academic workforce in the U.S. is slowly but surely relying more heavily on contingent faculty and graduate student employees as tenure and tenure-track faculty positions decline, according to a key summary from the American Association of University Professors. In 1987, part-time faculty made up 33% of the workforce.

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An Activist-Scholar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title: Professor, Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Director, Asian American Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison Tenured: Yes Age: 40 Education: B.A., I’ve always been interested in academic administration,” says Lopez. “I media studies and Asian studies, Pomona College; M.A.,