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Spartanburg Community College Faculty Criticize Administration's Governance

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Some faculty at Spartanburg Community College (SCC) are criticizing what they allege is heavy-handed governance and changes without faculty input by the school administration since new leadership in 2020, The Post and Courier reported. There have even been calls for outside oversight agencies to investigate SCC.

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MSU Tenure-Track Faculty Look to Unionize

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Michigan State University (MSU) tenure-track faculty have launched a public unionization campaign to gain more influence in administrative decision-making, The State News reported. Though MSU's non-tenure track faculty and many of MSU's non-academic staffers are unionized, its research-focused, tenure-track professors are not.

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Examining Educational Equity in Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title: Assistant Professor of Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies, School of Education, Howard University Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: B.A., student affairs administration/higher education, Ball State University, Teachers College; Certificate, College and University Teaching, Ball State University, Teachers College; Ph.D.,

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Strong Networks Help Turn Black Faculty into University Presidents

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The same report found that Black/African American administrators in higher education were just 8% of all senior leaders. How did this small percentage of Black administrators facilitate their success against the odds? Whites make up more than 75% of all professionals in higher education. More than 80% were white.

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UCLA Faculty, Staff Demand Chancellor’s Resignation

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More than 800 members of the University of California, Los Angeles, faculty and staff are calling for the resignation of Chancellor Dr. Gene D. The call is one of three demands the group made of the administration, during a May 9 rally amid antiwar protests. Dr. Gene D. The group also demanded that 1.) The group also demanded that 1.)

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The Future of Black Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

What followed was an impressive career in academe that took him to several institutions across the country as a professor and later as an administrator. During his time at the helm, he and his leadership team improved the six-year graduation rate from 39.4% and doubled the school’s endowment, from $9.8 million to $18.8 million. “In

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Unapologetic Leadership Thought: Freedom Dreaming

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I’m ready to share my unapologetic Freedom Dreaming thoughts, the full realization of unapologetic leadership, put into practice, in the name of student success. Community colleges will have funding to support endowed chair positions for faculty. Provide additional academic support for students to address their reading and writing.