Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2023

When Brown University released its landmark 2006 report documenting the institution’s historical involvement in slavery, many of its recommendations were one-time fixes: revising the university’s official history, creating memorials, and the like. For Dr. Ruth J. Dr. Ruth J. Simmons is former president of Brown University. “If

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

About Tulane University Tulane University has a long history at the forefront of education, blending top-tier research, engaging faculty, and community impact. Tulane is the model for online education, offering bachelor’s and master’s programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

And from 2002 to 2006, she served as academic adviser for Temple University. She says intersectional existence sometimes means having to educate one community on the plight and discriminatory rhetoric used against the other. Erasing anybody from what we call history … is dangerous,” says Williams-Goliday. “I

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Two presidents have been hired at small private colleges in the past two weeks and one leader is choosing to retire after four decades in higher education. Bates has a proven track record as a higher education leader around Ohio, as well as in the private sector.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig The selection of Vasquez Heilig as provost is a game changer for WMU, say higher education leaders who point to his tenure at UK where he strategically increased student enrollment in the College of Education by 63 percent, noting that his efforts have focused on increasing diversity among teachers.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

14 November · Episode 181 Tough Times Ahead for Higher Education Enrollment 42 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Dive into the complexities of higher education enrollment–navigate through its current challenges, and uncover strategies for the tough times ahead.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Goucher College Though Goucher’s study abroad requirement was implemented in 2006, the motivations behind it can be traced back to the school’s founder, the Rev. At Goucher College, every single student pursuing a degree is expected to study abroad for at least some amount of time.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

As universities “ascend” from one Carnegie Foundation classification to another, alarm bells often go off—particularly among those who study higher education. To answer these questions, we turned to data, peer institutions and history. Towson, like many institutions, identifies a set of institutional peers.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Someone who can speak out effectively on behalf of higher education? Weinberg, who transformed their institutions to much deserved acclaim, or the current or recent crop of higher ed innovators who are much in the news, like Joseph E. Not impossible (think of Michael Sorrell), but exceedingly difficult. Why is this the case?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

While disagreements about ideological bias in higher education dominate headlines, what is often missing from the discussion is that both sides are actually joined together by a fundamental point of agreement: curriculum and pedagogy must adapt and respond to the needs of students and our democracy. is going in the wrong direction.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Brown University issued a groundbreaking report in 2006 uncovering its ties to the slave trade, jump-starting similar efforts at other institutions, including Georgetown University, which has made efforts to make amends for the sale of 272 enslaved people in 1838. Examining the Past.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Banks chronicled the history of Black AERA leadership in a March 2016 article, titled “Expanding the Epistemological Terrain: Increasing Equity and Diversity Within the American Educational Research Association,” that appeared in the journal Educational Researcher. In 2021, AERA’s leadership named Dr. Edmund W.

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WCET Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Not only did the landscape of higher education change, but many of us changed jobs, homes, roles, and even our expectations for how our life worked on a day-to-day basis. An important element of any higher education project is leadership buy-in and support, and that wasn’t any different here.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

What histories are important to consider when evaluating this case? Terra Gargano teaches in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC, and has worked in international higher education for over 25 years. Where else may we see a similar situation? References Kofoed Wind, D. 2020, September 28).

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SRHE

OCTOBER 3, 2022

A recent Times Higher Education article explored ‘academic impostor syndrome’ from the point of view of an academic whose teaching and research crossed conventional subject boundaries. Crossing paths: interdisciplinary institutions, careers, education and applications was published by the British Academy in 2016.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

2006) referred to this as the ‘revolving door’ problem, finding that one in every two minority hires was a replacement for a previous minority who had left the institution. Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. Moreno at al.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

What histories are important to consider when evaluating this case? Terra Gargano teaches in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC, and has worked in international higher education for over 25 years. Where else may we see a similar situation? References Kofoed Wind, D. 2020, September 28).

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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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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Rodney Smolla, a veteran lawyer and higher education leader, took over as the Vermont Law and Graduate School’s president in July, just weeks after the changes were announced. He said the college’s innovative restructuring plan and progressive history drew him to the job. Interest in J.D.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The presidential turnover crisis in higher education has seen university presidents’ tenures steadily diminishing for nearly two decades, now falling significantly short of the recommended ten-year benchmark. years in 2006, 6.5 ACE respondents stated the average tenure was 8.5 years in 2016, and 5.9 years in 2023.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 16, 2023

The goal of our awards program is to highlight those doing great work in higher education digital learning. While I’m mostly a studio arts guy, drawing, sculpture, painting, and the like, I do have some art history background, both in the classroom and taking students abroad to London.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

For example, an institution known for forensic science might develop an online MBA program with a specialization in that area, leveraging its unique history and specialization. Therefore, technology is playing an important role in addressing these broad megatrends and reshaping the landscape of higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Esther Kim Lee uncovers largely untold stories of Asian American history. “In My class dealing with history, it’s much more real,” she continued. in theater history from The Ohio State University. General education courses are very valuable,” said Lee. Theater is a communal experience. should be, Lee notes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Dr. Claudine Gay is making history. Experts in higher education, diversity, equity and inclusion celebrated the news, hoping it could signal to other institutions that it is time for more diverse leadership. She joined Harvard in 2006 as a professor of government and African and African American studies.

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HEPI

MARCH 26, 2024

This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. On 6 June 2023, in ‘ How franchising higher education became big business’, Wonkhe found that progression beyond the first year and completion is less likely at franchisee providers.

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APRIL 12, 2023

The main reason I was looking for historical data in the first place was that I was trying to resolve a long-standing puzzle around federal investments in higher education. A little bit of history first. If we look over the history of these expenditures, three key things stand out. Here’s what I found out.

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Echo Delta

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Jeff brings with him 20 years of experience in and around higher education and I don’t think you will find a more passionate advocate for both schools and the students they hope to reach. In 2006, she returned to her alma mater where she has been in admissions ever since. Jeff Kallay: Okay.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Understanding the rising cost of producing higher education starts with the fact that the wealthiest, most elite colleges and universities, which set the norms in higher education, are admitted "cookie monsters," whose insatiable and competitive need for revenue has long been viewed as beneficial -- until recent decades.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Proponents of eugenics relied on the convictions of educators to classify students for special education via their evaluations and use of intelligence testing , despite test bias. The APA apology to minoritized people for the history of test bias was finally issued in 2021. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It was a remarkably forward-looking essay that did much to transform higher education and higher thought in our nation, and ultimately, the world. 4] As ground breaking as Emerson’s words may have been to his audience, liberal education has always had its roots in application. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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University Business

JANUARY 1, 2024

It’s been quite the year for higher education in 2023. Ron DeSantis to extract the “woke” from higher education. The issue also contributes to the wave of student and faculty union strikes across higher education institutions. The fervor over U.S. Wellesley College (Mass.),

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

million investment in the institution, and in higher education development across Africa. campus in Africa, other American institutions have sought to invest in higher education on the continent by working with local institutions. “Higher education development used to be, the Global North leads and Africa follows.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Image: Arizona voters will decide next month whether to allow undocumented students in the state to receive in-state tuition—one of three statewide measures on the ballot this November related to higher education. Harnisch said Arizona’s Proposition 308 is “the marquee higher education ballot measure this year.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 3, 2023

“You can create a net-zero campus pretty easily by just shutting it down,” quips Jay Antle, executive director of the Center for Sustainability and a history professor at Johnson County Community College, in Kansas. On the one hand, closures had a positive impact on energy usage. Student perceptions, of course, are just that.

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