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Demotion of USC Administrator Leads to Accusations of Racism

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

USC declined to make administrators available for interviews with Diverse. The USC Chan Justice Collective is calling for Anvarizadeh’s reinstatement, a public apology, and the resignation of two administrators who they say were involved in her demotion. “I really think that she’s so powerful that they felt threatened,” she said. “Dr.

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Faculty-Student Partnerships in Curriculum Design and Review

The Scholarly Teacher

Reprinted with permission. Background As faculty, our (Assif and Kim) collaboration started during COVID. These five students, including Sonya Ho (a coauthor of this article), received research-assistant pay during the first two months and continued their work on a volunteer basis for the rest of the academic year.

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Calls for Change at Penn State

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Gary King, professor of biobehavioral health and African American studies at Penn State, and one of the members of the Committee of Black Scholars, which includes faculty and graduate students at the public state institution. Proportionately, the percentage of Black faculty fell from 4% to 3%. Dr. Marcus A. Dr. Marcus A.

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Historic faculty pay increase still beaten by inflation

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: While this academic year saw the largest one-year increase in full-time faculty members’ average salaries in over three decades, that still wasn’t enough to stop their real wages from falling due to inflation, the American Association of University Professors noted this Thursday alongside its latest salary survey data.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Confessions of a Community College Dean

laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. “This will result in both academic and administrative staff changes. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members.

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Faculty—not just students—are stressed out and considering leaving, per survey

University Business

The telehealth provider surveyed over 500 faculty and staff at two- and four-year institutions last month for this survey. president, contributing to the suicide of an administrator for sustained mental abuse and bullying, KCTV 5 reports. The cumulative stress faculty carry led half of all surveyed to consider leaving their job.

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Are Career Paths of Young Black Professionals in Higher Education Being Impeded by Implicit Racism?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This is the case even at our storied Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), which are diversifying their workforce with non-Black senior-level administrators and members of the professoriate. The article was unequivocal about what led to such dismal numbers: “…not enough Black Ph.D.