Higher Education Quick Takes

An appeals board of the U.S. Department of Labor this week issued a ruling backing the right of the University of Texas at Brownsville to use online advertising to show that it had attempted to recruit an American for a position for which it wanted authority to hire a non-citizen. An FAQ from the Office of Foreign Labor Certification has said that an employer must use a print advertisement for such purposes. But the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals ruled that the regulations on this subject do not require a print ad, so the FAQ cannot be relied upon. Further, the board found that the official who rejected the Brownsville request to be certified based on an online ad offered "no rationale or explanation as to why an electronic national professional journal is somehow inadequate." Full disclosure: The ad that Brownsville fought to get certified ran in Inside Higher Ed, which as an online publication stands to benefit from the ruling because it ends a motivation for some institutions to advertise some positions in print.

The American Council on Education has named 50 faculty members and administrators as the newest cohort of ACE Fellows, a program known for producing future provosts and presidents. The fellows work on campus that isn't their own, receiving guidance and assignments from presidents and other senior leaders.

Here are the new fellows:

• Sheila J. Amin Gutiérrez de Piñeres, dean of undergraduate education at the University of Texas at Dallas.
• Phyllis L. Baker, director of women's and gender studies at the University of Northern Iowa.
• Anne C. Bartlett, chair and professor of English at DePaul University.
• Linda Bennett, associate dean of educator preparation at the University of Missouri.
• Mohammad A. Bhuiyan, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Fayetteville State University.
• Janet S. Bowers, chair and professor of family and consumer sciences at Central Washington University.
• María R. Bozón, director of the Division of Continuing Education at Universidad El Bosque (Colombia).
• Andrew S. Buckser, professor of anthropology at Purdue University.
• John B. Buckwalter, associate dean for research and graduate studies at the University of Texas at Arlington.
• Juan Cantú Luna, director of marketing and recruitment at the Universidad de Monterrey (Mexico).
• Patricia A. Carney, associate director for population studies at the Knight Cancer Institute of the Oregon Health and Science University.
• Scott A. Carnicom, associate dean of the honors college at Middle Tennessee State University.
• Stacey K. Close, professor of history at Eastern Connecticut State University.
• Finnie D. Coleman, special assistant to the provost and director of Africana studies at the University of New Mexico.
• David J. Cook, associate vice chancellor for outreach of the University of Kansas Medical Center.
• Timothy E. Elgren, professor of chemistry at Hamilton College.
• Jim B. Fatzinger, associate vice president for student affairs at Georgia Gwinnett College.
• Rosemary G. Feal, executive director of the Modern Language Association.
• Carlos A. González-Campos, dean of the Engineering School at CETYS University (Mexico).
• Joy Griffin, special assistant vice president in the Office of Equity and Inclusion at the University of New Mexico.
• Jürgen Heinrichs, associate professor of art history and museum professions at Seton Hall University.
• Robert D. Hill, professor of educational psychology at the University of Utah.
• Judith L. Hunt, associate dean of College of Humanities and Natural Sciences at Loyola University New Orleans.
• Ananthanarayana V. Iyer, director of the Dauch Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises and the Global Supply Chain Management Initiative at Purdue University.
• Camille L. Kluttz-Leach, general counsel of Winston-Salem State University.
• Wanda M.L. Lee, dean of faculty affairs and professional development at San Francisco State University.
• George S. Low, chair and associate professor of marketing at Texas Christian University.
• Susan B. Mackey-Kallis, chair of the Academic Policy Committee at Villanova University.
• Sandra A. Mayfield, assistant provost/assistant vice president for academic affairs at Governors State University.
• Kelli McCormack Brown, associate dean for academic affairs at the College of Health and Human Performance at the University of Florida.
• Stephen C. Myers, assistant director of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center at Ohio State University.
• David H. Olwell, professor of systems engineering at the United States Naval Postgraduate School.
• Gwendolyn D. Packnett, assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Missouri at St. Louis.
• Donald E. Palm, assistant vice president for academic affairs at Florida A&M University.
• Elissa J. Palmer, director of rural residency at the University of Nevada at Reno.
• Joan M. Prince, vice chancellor for partnerships and innovations at the College of Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
• Shirley A. Quarles, chair and associate professor of physiological and technological nursing at the Georgia Health Sciences University.
• Mike Lee Racy, vice president of Division II of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
• Rafael Sánchez París, administrative vice president of Universidad El Bosque (Colombia).
• Adolfo G. Santos, chair of social sciences at the University of Houston—Downtown.
• Andreas E. Savakis, chair and professor of computer engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
• Patricia Sendall, president of the Faculty Senate at Merrimack College.
• Laura R. Severin, professor of English at North Carolina State University.
• Christopher J. Sindt, vice provost for graduate and professional studies at Saint Mary's College of California.
• Eileen L. Strempel, assistant president for academic advancement at Syracuse University.
• Elizabeth L. Tutelman, senior vice provost for strategic initiatives and communications at Temple University.
• Felix E. Vallejo, vice president of operations for the Northern Region of Universidad del Valle de México.
• Arturo Villanueva González, director and professor of humanistic education at Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (Mexico).
• Peter W. Wooldridge, executive dean of student learning and assessment at Durham Technical Community College.
• Joseph Youngblood II, vice provost of Thomas Edison State College.

In today’s Academic Minute, Ilya Buynevich of Temple University explains what studying the
structure of today’s coastlines can teach us about the geology of the past. Find out more about the Academic Minute here.

The heads of four major archaeological institutes at Israel universities have written to Limor Livnat, the country's culture minister, to ask that she withdraw proposed changes to the Antiquities Authority Law, Haaretz reported. Currently the chair of the Antiquities Authority Council must be a scientist who is a member of the Israel's National Academy of Sciences. Livnat has argued that the pool of candidates isn't large enough so she wants to be able to select someone after consulting with the National Academy of Sciences, but not necessarily from that body. The academic institute leaders argue that this shift is an attempt to put a right-leaning scholar in charge of the council and its work.