Welcome to The EDU Ledger.com! We’ve moved from Diverse.
Welcome to The EDU Ledger! We’ve moved from Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.
Subscribe
Students
Faculty & Staff
Leadership & Policy
Podcasts
Top 100
Advertise
Jobs
Shop
Search
Article
Podcast
Video
Awards/Honors
Community Colleges
Demographics
Faculty & Staff
Health
Institutions
Leadership & Policy
Military
On the Move
Opinion
Sports
Students
Enter search phrase
Search
Home
DUSTIN FULTON
DUSTIN FULTON has been appointed associate director of student affairs for conduct and community standards and student conduct officer at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and a master’s degree from the University of Memphis.
May 31, 2018
Home
MELLISSIA ZANJANI
MELLISSIA ZANJANI has been named vice president for institutional advancement at Lincoln University. Zanjani was previously vice president for institutional advancement at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Chatham University, a master’s degree from Towson University and a Ph.D. from Oregon State University.
May 31, 2018
Home
BRIDGET TERRY LONG
BRIDGET TERRY LONG has been named dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education (HGSE), effective July 1. Long currently serves as Saris Professor of Education and Economics at HGSE. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a master’s and Ph.D. from Harvard University.
May 31, 2018
Home
LA JERNE TERRY CORNISH
LA JERNE TERRY CORNISH has been appointed provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Ithaca College. Cornish previously served as associate provost for undergraduate studies at Goucher College in Baltimore. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Goucher College and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
May 31, 2018
Home
WILLIE E. MAY
WILLIE E. MAY has been named vice president for research and economic development at Morgan State University. May previously served as director of major research and training initiatives for the College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Knoxville College and a Ph.D. […]
May 31, 2018
Home
NSOMBI B. RICKETTS
NSOMBI B. RICKETTS has been named vice president for diversity, equality and inclusion at Pratt Institute, effective July 5. Ricketts was previously assistant provost for diversity and inclusion at Northwestern University. Ricketts holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and a master’s degree from Goizueta Business School at Emory University.
May 31, 2018
Home
DON C. SAWYER III
DON C. SAWYER III has been appointed associate vice president and chief diversity officer at Quinnipiac University. He is also an associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice and Anthropology. Sawyer earned his bachelor’s degree from Hartwick College and two master’s degrees and a Ph.D. from Syracuse University.
May 31, 2018
Other News
Grand Canyon U. Rebuts Testimony from Hearing
On May 24, 2018, the National Advisory Council on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) convened a hearing on the topic of “Oversight of For-Profit Institutions’ Conversions to Non-Profit Entities.” As subsequently reported in various media accounts, the hearing quickly devolved into a one-sided, partisan attack on the for-profit education sector, promulgated by a lineup of […]
May 31, 2018
Home
KEITH AYTCH
KEITH AYTCH hase been appointed president of Evergreen Valley College. Aytch has been serving as EVC’s interim president since July 2017 and vice president of academic affairs since 2011. He earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree from California State University, Sacramento, and a K-12 administrative credential from National University.
May 31, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
Avoiding Burnout
There are lots of benefits for establishing a career in the military for both the service and for servicemembers. From the service’s perspective, a lot of time and money is spent to screen candidates and provide them with proper training. In addition, servicemember longevity means that the valuable experience and technical expertise that servicemembers accumulate […]
May 31, 2018
Veterans
Connecticut Gets $1.1 M to Turn Veterans Into Teachers
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The federal government has awarded Connecticut a $1.1 million grant to help military veterans become school teachers. The funding, announced Friday, comes from a U.S. Department of Defense program known as Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support. It will provide service members transitioning into civilian life and those who’ve already left […]
May 31, 2018
Home
NANCY FAHRENWALD
NANCY FAHRENWALD has been named dean and professor of the College of Nursing at Texas A&M University, effective June 1. Fahrenwald was previously dean and professor of the College of Nursing at South Dakota State University. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Portland and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska Medical […]
May 31, 2018
Veterans
Professor Unearths, Publishes Poetry of WWII Soldiers
Robert A. Shearer, retired criminal justice professor of Sam Houston State University, is a literary archaeologist.  He uncovers the past, something forgotten after 70 years. In a Texas A&M Library in College Station, he uncovered hundreds of poems written by U.S. Army military personnel during World War II, while looking for information for a […]
May 31, 2018
Academics
Colorado’s New Policy Will Allow Military, Others Credit for Experience
BALTIMORE – Military and veteran students now can get college credit for career experience and knowledge through DSST ® prior learning assessments (PLAs), due to a policy expansion by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE) earlier this month. This change in policy provides Colorado citizens, including the over 400,000 military veterans who reside there, […]
May 31, 2018
Other News
For-Profit Colleges Seek Nonprofit Status
WASHINGTON—Ashford University is one of more than a dozen for-profit colleges across the country looking to become nonprofit institutions, a change that would make them subject to less federal oversight and shed the often-maligned “for-profit” designation. Switching “to nonprofit status will allow Ashford University to…be judged and measured as colleges and universities should be—on their […]
May 31, 2018
Veterans
Trump’s Pick for V.A. Boosts Hopes for Reform
President Trump’s selection of Robert Wilkie to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is being praised by veterans groups as a safe, stabilizing move in the aftermath of the failed nomination of former White House physician Ronny Jackson. Wilkie, who is serving as acting VA secretary, is a Washington insider with years of administrative experience […]
May 31, 2018
Students
More than Just a Brotherhood
As a first-generation college student, I had a very stereotypical view of fraternity and sorority life and did not know that multicultural Greek letter organizations existed. I thought fraternity life was all about partying, living in mansions and that joining would negatively affect my grades.
May 31, 2018
Home
A President Committed to Service
An accomplished businessman, Rhodes Scholar and retired Air Force reserve lieutenant colonel, Dr. Christopher B. Howard has moved his institution forward by integrating his prior military experience into his role as the eighth president of Robert Morris University, a private institution in the suburbs of Pittsburgh.
May 31, 2018
Previous Page
Next Page
