Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

About 30% of African American STEM professionals begin their higher education at a Historically Black College or University, according to the United Negro College Fund, but only around 1% of the Defense Department’s research funding is directed towards HBCUs and other minority serving institutions. This week, the U.S. This week, the U.S.

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University Business

JANUARY 26, 2024

Hired Lynne Coy-Ogan – Husson University (Maine) The board of trustees at Husson University has selected Lynne Coy-Ogan as its next president, marking the first female to lead the institution in its 125-year history. The university’s college of law officially gained accreditation under Mong’s tenure as well.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

I hope scholars in political science, history, psychology, sociology and other fields who are doing interesting work in politics and democracy studies will nominate their books for consideration. The prize will carry an honorarium of $10,000. The award is named in honor of former congressman Mickey Edwards.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

At the time, Darling-Hammond was an endowed professor at Columbia University, Teachers College. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. Tate IV, the current president of Louisiana State University. Dr. Carol D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. Gonzalez had an internship that took her to the Czech Republic.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

“The data shows conclusively that the rejections are the highest since records began in 2005 in terms of both proportion and the number of applicants being rejected,” Aird continued. “A ‘dozen’ dodgy providers need dealing with, and they take a hatchet to the entire sector, including leading state universities.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 26, 2022

As the first of a three-part series, I’ll be facilitating a webinar sponsored by OpenLMS on university/workplace partnerships on Wednesday, November 2nd at 1 PM EDT. I first met Phill in 2005 when we both participated in a panel on ePortfolios at SUNY Brockport. Register here. I’ve written about these events elsewhere.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Image: Patty Limerick, co-founder and longtime faculty director of the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Center of the American West, says her firing last week continues to shock her, especially as she had been planning to step down soon anyway. He referred questions Tuesday to a university spokesperson.

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HEPI

JANUARY 24, 2024

T his HEPI blog was authored by Vivienne Stern, Chief Executive of Universities UK, as an adaption of a speech she gave in response to a lecture by the Hon. He said that: “The false dream of 50 per cent of children going to university […] was one of the great mistakes of the last 30 years.” Our job must be to examine the evidence.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. It also was a serious loss for the Worcester region because of Becker College’s long and impactful history in the area and the prominence of several academic programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Schelling won the 2005 Nobel Prize in economic sciences with Robert J. The first refers to the course of studies in medieval universities comprising the trivium—the three arts of the humanities (grammar, logic and rhetoric), and the quadrivium (arithmetic, astronomy, geometry and music). Disable left side advertisement?

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 10, 2023

My History with Online Courses Welcome to the third and final post in our series on higher education enrollment shifts. Enjoy the read, Lindsey Downs, WCET When I first began teaching online in 2005, it came as no surprise that most of my students were working adults who had previously abandoned their bachelor’s programs.

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University Business

AUGUST 7, 2023

Rob Vischer took over the University of St. Thomas in January during a pivotal period in its 139-year history. Thomas is now the largest private university in Minnesota and is eyeing to expand its influence across state and national lines. Thomas maintain positive growth as a religiously affiliated university?

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

From Leonardo da Vinci (whose trans-disciplinary inventiveness was attributed to his ADHD) to bell hooks (whose professorial role drew on her activism and poetry practice), history has no lack of examples of how creative and neurodivergent processes have produced insights to catalyse social and culture change. Collage, Can-Do, Curiosity.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

University Business publishes a variety of content in support of finance, administration, auxiliaries, and facilities management. History Kimball, Bruce A.: Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education , expanded edition. History Kimball, Bruce A.: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.

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HEPI

JULY 23, 2024

This long read was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. From the inherent right to grant degrees to requiring permission The power to permit the award of degrees began as an inherent right of the first English universities.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 12, 2024

By Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. With Oxford and Cambridge as its book-ends, the ARC includes Cranfield University, the University of Buckingham, Buckinghamshire New University, and the Open University, all clustered in or near Milton Keynes.[1]

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2018

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, Scott was just six years into his tenure of 16 years at Tulane. Katrinas devastation was massive over $650 million in damages to the University alone. The University was shuttered for the entire fall term and didnt reopen until spring. I dont know how Im going to do it.

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HEPI

AUGUST 25, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for the HEPI 20th Anniversary Collection by Dr Jonathan Grant, founding Director of Different Angles Ltd, a consultancy that focuses on the social impact of universities and research. Clearly not all universities in the UK are over 100 years old but they seem solidly to meet these criteria.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 4, 2023

Technology Partnerships and Higher Education A Conversation With Drew Magliozzi, CEO of Mainstay Alan Thu, 05/11/2023 - 06:00 Chatbots Higher Ed Leadership Innovation Spotlight In our mission to promote equity in higher education, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) highlights the strategies of our member institutions.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

To get it done, university presidents will need to tell conference commissioners to work together for the collective good, or Congress will get involved. University presidents will need to identify what they want to achieve from college sports. Perko graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1987 with a degree in history.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The first half of this two-part series with Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU)’s Chancellor Terence Cheng explores how CSCU partners with local businesses to ensure equity and workforce preparation for its majority-minority student population. Both institutions are part of the City University of New York.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 6, 2025

By providing students with an opportunity to collectively share their views and potentially effectuate change, students are given the chance to become active partners in the teaching and learning process and, in so doing, help improve their own learning outcomes (Berk, 2005; Harris & Stevens, 2013; Holton, et al., 2016; Kite, et al.,

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

For the first time in history, substantial numbers of young women lived outside of a family home, not as servants but as mill girls, earning an independent income and living with other young women. Terenzini’s How College Affects Students (originally published in 1991 and revised in 2005 and updated in 2016 by Matthew J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Molly Corbett Broad Molly Corbett Broad, former University of North Carolina (UNC) System president, has died on Jan. Broad was system president 1997-2005 and was also the first woman to lead the American Council on Education (ACE). 2, 2023, at age 81. She oversaw a historic $3.1 Her voice will be missed.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Brown, who was vice president of government relations and public affairs for New York University (NYU) on that day, climbed to the roof of Bobst Library when she heard that an airplane had hit the World Trade Center. This year’s college freshmen were born in 2005. But some aspects of 9/11 are indelible. Everyone was on edge.”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Image: Leaders of historically Black colleges and universities have been working to achieve Research-1 status in recent years, the coveted Carnegie Foundation classification reserved for doctoral universities that demonstrate a certain level of research prowess. Meanwhile, North Carolina A&T State University earned $97.3

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University Business

JULY 11, 2023

The Brown Daily Herald , Brown University’s independent student newspaper, recently discovered that nearly 38% of its student body identifies somewhere on the LGBTQ+ spectrum, which is over five times the national rate. The post LGBTQ+ attacks mount as students, allies rally to defend rights appeared first on University Business.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 6, 2025

By providing students with an opportunity to collectively share their views and potentially effectuate change, students are given the chance to become active partners in the teaching and learning process and, in so doing, help improve their own learning outcomes (Berk, 2005; Harris & Stevens, 2013; Holton, et al., 2016; Kite, et al.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Edley spent more than two decades as a professor at Harvard Law School, where he and Orfield founded the Civil Rights Project in the aftermath of a 1996 court ruling that squelched race-conscious admission policies at many universities. Dr. Nathan Hare A graduate of Langston University, Hare earned a masters degree and Ph.D.

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ACPA

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Second, 1976 was the founding year of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), which started as a standing committee of higher education scholars in the American Association for Higher Education (which disbanded in 2005). Author Bio John A.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 6, 2025

Universities on Fire. Johns Hopkins University Press. The Road Ahead for America's Colleges & Universities. Oxford University Press. Harvard University Press. University of Chicago Press. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities. Creating the Market University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2024

So, it was imperative for me to create a space for our voices to be heard as we enter a scary era of American history. How can private and public universities work together to continue inclusive initiatives? Is there room for support?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Image: As an undergraduate at Christopher Newport University in Virginia almost two decades ago, Kristina Canfield felt helpless. Worst of all, Canfield said, was that the university wasn’t equipped to help her navigate those obstacles. But Canfield said she knew students in recovery needed—and deserved—more.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

With the COVID-19 pandemic subsiding, colleges and universities have tried to bring students back to campus and provide fresh inspiration. Stone Professor of Law and director of the University of Washington School of Law’s Native American Law Center. Matthews, with whom he founded Black Issues In Higher Education in 1984.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Falwell, born into evangelical royalty as the son of televangelist and Liberty University founder Jerry Falwell Sr., founds Lynchburg Baptist College, later renamed Liberty University. 2005: Liberty begins its push into online education. Image: Jerry Falwell Jr. has no apologies and no regrets. 1962: Jerry Falwell Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Presented with two cases about race-conscious admissions – one regarding the University of North Carolina and the other involving Harvard University — the conservative-leaning court ruled along partisan lines that the two schools’ affirmative action programs violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. I love this place.

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