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Report Highlights Key Challenges and Support Needs for Early Career Faculty at MSIs

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The Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSIs) has released a new report that highlights the unique challenges and needs of early-career faculty at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). That’s why professional development and mentorship play a critical role in fostering a diverse and dynamic faculty at MSIs.”

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Fuchs Returns to Leadership as Florida’s Interim President

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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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Earlham College to Launch Summer Immersion Experience for Indiana High School Students

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The grant – from Lilly Endowment Inc. 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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Pursuing Life’s Passion

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architecture, Columbia University Career mentors: Dr. Mabel Wilson, Columbia University; Danielle Smoller, Columbia University; Dr. Hazel Edwards, Howard University; Bradford Grant, Howard University; and Rashida Ng, University of Pennsylvania Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Your work matters. from 2015 to 2017.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

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“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.

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FIRE Releases List of Worst Campuses for Free Speech

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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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Unveiling An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education

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Along the way, he touches on the Black land grant institutions authorized in 1890 by the Second Morrill Act. We were needed to stand or sit in front of the exploding numbers of undergraduates and graduate students filling the campuses in the decades after World War II, when there were simply not enough faculty available.”