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New Presidents or Provosts: Brown U, Colorado State U, Harvard U, Luther College, Miami U, New England College, Pennsylvania State U–Altoona, San Antonio College, U of New Mexico–Gallup
Bradley Chamberlain, vice president for mission and communication at Luther College, has been appointed provost there. Ron Darbeau, vice president...
In Black Professor’s Firing, AAUP Finds ‘Racist Tropes’
Indiana University Northwest fired a Black professor after alleging he said something about killing white people. An AAUP report found “racist tropes of incompetent, angry and physically violent Black men in the language used to justify his dismissal.”
An Unlikely Pairing
Hilbert College, a nonprofit Catholic institution in New York, is purchasing for-profit Valley College, which has four sites in Ohio and West Virginia. That makes for an unusual match.
Opinion
Accreditors Are Sleeping on the Job
The accrediting agencies’ collective failure to hold low-performing colleges accountable against objective standards harms students and taxpayers, Jay Urwitz writes.
New Presidents or Provosts: College of Wooster, Illinois Valley CC, Johnson & Wales U–Charlotte, Lawrence U, NHTI–Concord’s CC, Regis U, Rocky Mountain U, West Virginia U Institute of Technology
Salvador D. Aceves, senior vice president and chief financial officer at Regis University, in Colorado, has been named president there...
New Presidents or Provosts: Eastern New Mexico U, Ocean County College, Piedmont U, Siena College, State U of New York System, Tennessee College of Applied Technology–Athens, U of Connecticut, U of South Florida
Marshall Criser, former chancellor of the State University System of Florida, has been chosen as president of Piedmont University, in...
Students and Experts Agree: TikTok Bans Are Useless
With cellular data and VPNs, it’s easy for students to circumvent the TikTok bans sweeping the nation’s universities. That makes experts wonder: What do these bans hope to achieve?
A Harbinger for 2023? Presentation College to Close
The small private institution is closing due to enrollment challenges and other issues exacerbated by COVID-19. Some higher education experts expect more closures to follow.