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HONOLULU— With a focus on paying homage and respect to the land, culture, and people of Hawaii, more than 5,500 higher education practitioners gathered here this week for the annual convening of the National Conference of Race and Ethnicity i(NCORE) in Higher Education. NCORE has morphed into the go-to place for students, faculty, staff, and…
Harvard University plans to implement a policy of institutional neutrality, meaning it will not weigh in on public matters that do not affect the university’s core function. Dr. Alison SimmonsThe university announced the policy following a report, “Report on Institutional Voice in the University,” issued by its Open Inquiry and Constructive Dialogue Working Group. The…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Marymount Manhattan College, in New York City, has struck a deal to merge with Northeastern University, in Boston. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The boards of both institutions approved the merger agreement, which…
Dawn Leaks RagsdaleDawn Leaks Ragsdale has been named executive director of the Center for Inclusive Growth for Yale University and the City of New Haven. She served as executive director of the New Haven-based nonprofit Collab. She holds a bachelor’s degree in information technology from Bay Path College as well as a master’s in communications…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Union members at the University of California’s Los Angeles and Davis campuses went on strike Tuesday over the system’s handling of pro-Palestinian protests and counterprotesters. UCLA and UC Davis union members are joining fellow UAW…
Before 2011, Amy Chua would have described herself as a “mild mannered professor.” She was teaching law at Yale University and raising her two daughters. “Nobody knew who I was, I had never been on major TV — I didn’t even have a Facebook,” says Chua. “And suddenly, overnight, there were headlines: ‘Most Hated Mother…
The government cannot jail journalists for asking a question. But local officials in Laredo, Texas, did just that, arresting citizen journalist Priscilla Villarreal for exercising her core First Amendment right to ask government officials for information as part of her local news reporting. The officials relied on a criminal statute, never enforced locally in the law’s…
Tim Eckenfels, head of IH Sydney Training Services, spoke with The PIE at the IH Directors conference, and said the fact the draft framework is being directed more at public universities is about the “most foolish thing the government can do” from its own cost perspective. “It’s been all the middle tier and lower tier…
Emilie Townes comes to Boston University from Vanderbilt University’s Divinity School, where she was dean emerita and the Distinguished Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society. She previously taught at Yale University and Union Theological Seminary.Photo courtesy of Vanderbilt Divinity SchoolDr. Emilie Townes has been named the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Religion and…
Dr. Maurie McInnis is set to become the next president of her alma mater, Yale University, effective July 1. Dr. Maurie McInnis“Through immense challenges, under President Peter Salovey’s leadership, you have worked together to advance our mission of education, research, scholarship, preservation, and practice to improve the world,” said McInnis. “For that, I thank you…