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Why Data Alone Won’t Improve Retention

Faculty Focus

To truly support student success, we must move beyond the metrics and prioritize the human connections that make higher education meaningful. Tintos Theory of Departure (1997) and Pascarella and Terenzinis (2005) Influence Theory emphasize the importance of student-faculty interactions in fostering academic success. and Patrick T.

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What Dr. Ibram Kendi’s Appointment to Howard Means for HBCUs—and Black Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he founded the Center for Antiracist Research under a five-year charter in 2020. In sharing the news of his appointment, the 2005 alumnus of Florida A&M University (FAMU) described his move as "the most fulfilling career choice I have ever made."

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Dubai’s growing student population fuels TNE expansion

The PIE News

By 2040, were anticipating that we will more than double enrolment in higher education, Nitesh Sughnani, director of university ratings at Dubais Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) told delegates.

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Open universities: between radical promise and market reality

SRHE

Similarly, Butler (2005) reminds us that the very categories of who counts as human, who is deemed grievable, and whose knowledge is legitimised are deeply political struggles. Arendt ( 1961 , 2005 ) warned that democracy is not self-sustaining; it depends on an informed citizenry capable of judgment, debate, and resistance.

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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. in New York University’s joint Ph.D.

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JAMES T. OVERTON

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This is his second time serving in the role, initially from 2005 to 2011. Overton holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Delaware State and a master’s degree in human resource management from Wilmington College in Delaware. Overton has been named chief of the police department at Delaware State University.

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Will GenAI narrow or widen the digital divide in higher education?

SRHE

From a Connectivist perspective ( Siemens, 2005 ), this lack of connection to digital, social, and institutional networks limits their awareness, confidence, and ability to engage meaningfully with available digital tools. Build digital communities and peer networks : Social connection is a key enabler of learning ( Siemens, 2005 ).