Georgia university regents restart search for new chancellor
JEFF AMY, Associated Press
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ATLANTA (AP) Regents who oversee Georgia’s 26 public universities and colleges are restarting the search for a chancellor, saying they are still trying to find a permanent replacement for outgoing leader Steve Wrigley before he retires June 30.
Regents voted Tuesday after a nearly three-hour-long executive session to hire a new search firm after the previous search firm quit. The resolution by regent Neal Pruitt Jr. said the firm will consider current applicants and recruit new ones. If no permanent replacement is chosen by June 30, regents voted to appoint an interim leader for the 340,000-student system.
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. The University of Evansville s Class of 2020 returned Friday night to close a chapter of their lives upended by the COVID-19 pandemic at the tail-end of their senior year of college.
Members of the Class of 2020 attended commencement
at the Ford Center Friday, albeit 12 months a little bit late, University President Christopher Pietruszkiewicz noted in his remarks.
Last year s graduation was postponed because of the pandemic. The delayed celebration was held ahead of the Class of 2021 s commencement events on Saturday.
Out of the more than 400 that graduated in 2020, more than 130 former students attended, with some traveling from other cities and states to be there in person.
Academic tenure is in desperate need of reform
In order to promote diversity and better protect academic freedom, universities should begin introducing term limits for tenured faculty.
By The Editorial BoardUpdated May 9, 2021, 4:00 a.m.
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Widener Library at Harvard University. Harvard reported that, in 2021, the number of tenured women faculty from underrepresented minority communities was 33 and the number of white male tenured faculty was 620.Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg
In 1902, G. B. Halsted, a mathematician at the University of Texas at Austin, was miffed when the school passed on his recommendation to hire someone he saw as a promising young talent in favor of a well-connected and less qualified teacher. So he publicly admonished the university for its
The University of Missouri s diversity director on Thursday apologized to the Faculty Council for communication missteps in a plan to restructure social justice centers on campus. I certainly take ownership over the way this rollout happened and particularly for our failures in communication, said Maurice Gipson, vice chancellor for inclusion, diversity and equity.
The restructuring plan has been halted in order to gather feedback from stakeholders, he said. July 1 is no longer a target date for implementing the plan. We ve put this on pause right now, just to listen, Gipson said.
Campus protests developed when information leaked that a restructuring of the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center, LGBTQ Resource Center, Multicultural Center and Women s Center was planned and that the center coordinators may lose their jobs.
Update: As of Tuesday, April 4, OT-AAUP reached an agreement with the administration to negotiate a union contract, ending the Oregon Tech strike. Faculty at the Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) went on strike on April 26, marking the first faculty-wide strike in Oregon higher-education histor