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Four Powerful Practices to Promote Student Success 

Faculty Focus

Incorporating four simple practices through collaborative learning communities could be a game changer for teachers willing to embrace a more humane approach to teaching and learning. Fostering student success may be highly individualized, but there are four universal practices that might yield successful student outcomes.

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JAMES T. OVERTON

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Overton has been named chief of the police department at Delaware State University. 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 James T.

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Brown University Exhibit on Mumia Abu-Jamal to Highlight American Prison System

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

An upcoming exhibition at Brown University will depict the incarcerated life of political activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, through a collection of written papers and other materials, to educate people on the realities and inequalities of the American prison system. He previously was given a death sentence, but that was overturned in 2011.

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The UK University-Territory Relationship in a Post-Brexit World

GlobalHigherEd

Post-EU Referendum turmoil in the UK (and the EU) continues, for all sorts of reasons, but soon more serious and sustained assessment of the post-Brexit landscape for UK universities will occur. In such a context here is the question to consider: is an Oxbridge-Lille (a joint Cambridge-Oxford university) or equivalent (e.g.,

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A Scholarship in Telling Stories in the African Diaspora

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brooks recalls his father’s experiences in the Merchant Marines in the 1950s, visiting West Africa, and how the parental influence extends into his work as an anthropologist and professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. Tales of Koehler Hollow is a fascinating read which I highly recommend.”

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Why Do Universities Lie About Program Information?

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

I have previously blogged about doctored program information submitted by four prominent universities—Rutgers University, Temple University, Claremont McKenna College, and Iona College. The goal was to make their programs look better to university rating outlets such as U.S. News & World Report. Boosting Ratings.

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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

granting universities. Over all, we found that the number of assistant professors increased in 101 of 154 academic disciplines between 2011 and 2021. But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors.