Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America with Dr. Jacqueline Mattis, the university’s dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. In 2010, the Newark native became the first African American woman to serve as Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly and only the second in our nation's history to lead a state legislative house.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 2, 2024

Recognizing the profound impact of military history on global events, as well as the importance of understanding the experiences and contributions of those who have served, higher education institutions are increasingly creating and expanding military and veteran studies programs. The demographics of veterans continue to change.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

A new analysis of federal Survey of Earned Doctorates data by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences finds a substantial racial divide in who is accumulating debt in doctoral studies: from 2015 to 2020, approximately 55 percent of Native American and Black students with a Ph.D. Another finding: among new arts and humanities Ph.D.s,

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

We’ve done the same thing in the context of higher education. Another thing I’ve observed in higher education is a fishbowl, where students come and swim around in our courses and in our academic curriculum, but they fail to do anything with that knowledge outside of the context of the learning environment itself.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

by Marie-Pierre Moreau and Lucie Wheeler Cleaning, catering and security staff fulfil an important function in maintaining and enhancing the social and material environment of higher education (HE). Yet this group has attracted limited considerations from researchers and policy-makers alike.

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The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2024

Stakeholders in UK higher education are exploring a range of potential funding models for undergraduate education, against a backdrop of financial sustainability concerns, course cuts and redundancies for higher education institutions. “Higher education institutions across the UK are under financial strain.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Title: Professor of Political Science/Public Policy Duke University Paula D. McClain is professor of political science and professor of public policy and dean of the graduate school and vice provost for graduate education, having moved to Duke from the University of Virginia in 2000. A Howard University Ph.D.,

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Meaningful learning tasks are transformative and deep, and rooted in three key elements: emotional connection, sense, and significance (Barkley, 2010): Emotional connection. Strong emotional experiences have a high likelihood of being permanently stored (Willingham, 2009; Barkley, 2010). 2010; Bransford et al., What a waste!

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage. Many political science majors do become policymakers—and the degree is a well-trodden stepping stone to law school.

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University Business

JULY 11, 2023

Brown’s LGBTQ+ student cohort has more than doubled since fall 2010. More from UB: How one flaw exposed the data of countless students and educators LGBTQ+ threats In February, members of Montana State University’s unofficial club Queer Straight Alliance received death threats if they attended an off-campus dance party.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. After transitioning to the virtual classroom, my first semester was consumed with fear and anxiety.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. After transitioning to the virtual classroom, my first semester was consumed with fear and anxiety.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The First Amendment and academic freedom are the cornerstones of higher education.” He said he looks “forward to working with Auburn University, charting a new and positive path toward achieving our educational mission. Stern’s tenure was granted by appeal, in 2010. I’m going to hear about this.”

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

Welcome to the second post in our series on higher education enrollment shifts. The work group joins us today to discuss the ways higher education institutions are responding to the shifts in enrollment. Higher education institutions are responding to the ensuing financial instability in ways that are both predictable and creative.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

Welcome to the second post in our series on higher education enrollment shifts. The work group joins us today to discuss the ways higher education institutions are responding to the shifts in enrollment. Higher education institutions are responding to the ensuing financial instability in ways that are both predictable and creative.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Over the past decade, some historically Black institutions have developed women’s and gender studies programs and embedded courses within general education curriculum. Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Nobody is going to tell our story and keep it from erasure but us.” We are in the next phase of pushing forward.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception. Dr. Linda Darling- Hammond The leadership of the national research society that strives to advance knowledge about education and currently boasts a membership of about 25,000 scholars — remained exclusively white until the 1990s. Dr. Carol D.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

percent from 2012 to 2018, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators. Image: For students in Sarah Blackwood’s How to Read Moby-Dick class at Pace University, learning about Herman Melville’s work isn’t confined to lectures, essays or classroom discussions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

This marks an increase of more than 15,000 Asian people in the county since 2010. Department of Education, the school can better support and serve that sizable demographic, spurring them to become future leaders. That encompasses a whole other set of diverse ethnicities, covering Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, [and] Buddhist folks.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

But a combination of competitive pressures, demographic patterns and accreditation requirements in one of its most job skill–focused undergraduate fields has led the private liberal arts institution to create its first-ever master’s degree—and to consider adding others. percent from the previous year and about 18.4

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Image: Citing a structural deficit and the need to cut at least $1.5 million in faculty salaries while increasing its student-faculty ratio, Allegheny College in Pennsylvania charged a task force with reviewing its academic programs. Unanswered Questions. So why was Chinese targeted? “Why was Chinese language and culture cut?

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

However, the ‘dog-eat-dog’ culture of Higher Education (HE), austerity measures and more are leading to harmful consequences, and stakeholders with protected characteristics are worst affected ( Berg, Huijbens, and Larsen 2016 ; UKRI 2021 ; Bhopal 2020 ; Blell, Liu and Verma 2022 ). Octopuses and Tentacles. Three Hearts and Nine Minds.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The authors warn that limited access to active learning spaces may create a marginalizing force that pushes women, in particular, out of the sciences. candidate in educational psychology at the University of Kansas and a lead researcher at Multistudio, a Kansas City, Mo. Yet the growth of active learning spaces remains incremental.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

This marks an increase of more than 15,000 Asian people in the county since 2010. Department of Education, the school can better support and serve that sizable demographic, spurring them to become future leaders. That encompasses a whole other set of diverse ethnicities, covering Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, [and] Buddhist folks.”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 3, 2023

3 October · Episode 175 Building a Sustainable Higher Education Model: CSCU's Partnership for Workforce Readiness 34 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Learn how CSCU’s unification of its once-siloed community college is building a sustainable higher education model and helping improve retention and enrollment.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2023

29 August · Episode 170 Improving Presidential Tenure and Effectiveness in Higher Education 30 Min · By Drumm McNaughton Insights for universities to cultivate longer and more impactful presidential tenures, resulting in greater stability, improved institutional performance, and strengthened relationships. This process is flawed.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 22, 2023

For example, the governor of Florida recently directed his attorney general to file a lawsuit against the Department of Education on changing accreditors. In Ohio, a very anti-DEI bill was introduced that would restrict what higher education could do on diversity issues. Explore causes, DEI, governance issues, and retention solutions.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Drumm McNaughton Perspectives of a long-time R1 / AAU president that current presidents can put into use to overcome current challenges in higher education. In this episode, Dr. Drumm McNaughton invites Dr. Brit Kirwan back to discuss the dynamic and challenging landscape of higher education.

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HEPI

AUGUST 13, 2024

The Master of Arts degree could fit the description. This HEPI long read was authored by Dr Edward Hicks, who undertook a placement with HEPI during the General Election campaign. He usually works for the House of Commons, and has worked for three select committees as well as in the House of Commons Library. When is a degree not a degree?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

A recent article identified some of those processes: climate change, deglobalization, demographic decline, and digital technologies, to which I’d add, challenges to liberal capitalism, liberal democracy, liberal internationalism, and even liberal education. They are cultural, demographic, economic, historical, and sociological.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

” If nothing else, higher education must teach people how to know s**t from Shinola, fact from fiction, and truth from lore. On numerous occasions I’ve been asked, “How do you know that? ” Worse, some politicians want to dictate and police what can be taught as fact and what people are allowed to know. Who is speaking?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Between 2010 and 2020, the Houston metro area added 1.2 Houston has fewer educational institutions per capita than the state or national average. When I recently heard about the new Houston University of Science and Technology, I thought progress was being made. Not so scorching hot and humid it feels like swimming in soup.

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SRHE

JANUARY 17, 2024

What has this got to do with an academic conference on higher education? Both of these presentations and my wider interests look at discourse and narratives as data in higher education policy and practice. by Adam Matthews It’s January 2024 and I am sitting down to write up my reflections on the SRHE Conference 2023.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

There is a strategy in play, attempts throughout the United States, to ban books and subject matter in schools, what PEN America has called a “legislative war on education.” While most target K-12 education, an increasing number concern colleges and universities. Youngkin signed Senate Bill 656 into law in April.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 7, 2023

” Art Pope, a member of the Board of Governors since 2020 and a prolific Republican donor , denied that the compelled speech vote was motivated by politics. Of course it’s political; it's always been political,” said Thorp, now editor in chief of Science. ” N.C. Yes, we are.

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