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Faculty & Staff

VICTORIA WATTS

VICTORIA WATTS has been appointed chair of dance at Cornish College of the Arts. She is currently lecturing at the University of South Australia. Watts earned a bachelor’s from the University of Surrey, a master’s from The Ohio State University and a doctorate from George Mason University.

Faculty & Staff

BRANDEN GRIMMETT

BRANDEN GRIMMETT has been named associate vice provost for the Office of Career and Professional Development at Loyola Marymount University. He will assume the position June 1. Grimmett is the current and founding director of the Piper Center for Vocation and Career at St. Olaf’s College in Northfield, Minnesota.He earned a bachelor’s from St. Olaf’s and a master’s from Harvard University.

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Faculty & Staff

KANWAL SINGH

KANWAL SINGH has been appointed dean of the college at Sarah Lawrence College, effective August 1. She was associate dean of the college at Sarah Lawrence. Singh earned a bachelor’s from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a master’s and a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley.

TRAVIS HILL

TRAVIS GILL has been named director of institutional equity at Kansas State University. He was director of investigations and outreach, institutional Title VI coordinator and deputy Title IX coordinator in the Office of Institutional Equity at The University of Texas at Austin. He earned a bachelor’s from the University of Oklahoma and a juris doctor from the University of Houston Law Center.

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KHRISTINA GONZALEZ

KHRISTINA GONZALEZ has been named associate dean of the college for programs of access and inclusion at Princeton University. She was associate director of the Writing Center at Princeton. Gonzalez earned a bachelor’s from Dartmouth College, a master’s from Notre Dame University and a doctorate from Brown University.

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Leadership & Policy

Former S.C. State Board Chairman Gets 5-year Sentence

COLUMBIA, S.C. ― Jonathan Pinson, former board chairman of the South Carolina State University, was sentenced this week to five years in prison for skimming money and receiving kickbacks from several projects. Pinson, a Greenville businessman, also must pay restitution in the amount of $337,843.05 and is subject to five years’ supervision after his release. […]

University of Minnesota Honors Dr. Robert J. Jones

The University of Minnesota Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC) has been renamed The Robert J. Jones Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center in honor of the State University of New York at Albany president.

Proving the Possible

The University of New Hampshire’s Dr. Yitang Zhang becomes an overnight sensation after solving a centuries-old mathematical riddle.

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Coppin State University Names First Female President

Dr. Evelyn Maria Thompson, who has served as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at SUNY at Oneonta since 2011, will be Coppin State University’s first female president.

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Black Caucus Announces Tech Diversity Push

The Congressional Black Caucus became the latest and the most visible group of advocates to call on Silicon Valley technology companies to boost minority employment in their firms.

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Thomas Sanchez Commencement Speech at Northwest Missouri State University

Thomas Sanchez, CEO of Social Driver, talks about the challenges he faced as a Hispanic growing up in rural America, rising in positions in corporate America, and then becoming an entrepreneur.

U.Va. Dean Sues Rolling Stone Over Debunked Gang Rape Story

A University of Virginia associate dean sued Rolling Stone magazine on Tuesday for more than $7.5 million, saying a debunked account of an alleged gang rape on campus cast her as the “chief villain.”

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