Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

In 2015, I faced a negative credit outlook from Moody's, a challenge that jeopardized the "fresh start" I was brought in to achieve. The Land of Oz: Financial Storm Clouds Gather My career, which has spanned from the Federal Reserve to leading struggling universities, has highlighted the significance of credit agency evaluations.

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ACRLog

MARCH 21, 2024

Surely, the kids who have grown up with technology are good at it, right? Those of us who work in universities, whether as faculty, staff, or otherwise, need to remember that students using technology for interaction and leisure doesn’t necessarily translate to familiarity with tools for academic or professional work. link] Prensky, M.

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The PIE News

APRIL 8, 2025

Both BridgeU and Cialfo, with their strong emphasis on international students, provide platforms that help users explore universities, career paths and connect with higher education institutions – offering college and career planning support on a global scale.

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Campus Technology

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A new state-by-state analysis by national nonprofit organization Complete College America (CCA) found that while on-time graduation rates at both two- and four-year higher education institutions improved significantly between 2015 and 2021, graduation rates for students of color and those over 25 years old have lagged.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. Moono, president of SUNY Schenectady County Community College. Felder, president of Harford Community College in Maryland, where Stout began her community college career in 1984.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Such policies demonstrate compassion and respect for the complexities of students’ lives (Nilson, 2016; Hammond, 2015). Teaching with Technology: Empower and Encourage, Don’t Police and Instill Fear Technology tools like plagiarism detectors and AI checkers can erode trust if used as punitive measures. Hammond, Z.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

Professional schools cater to a diverse student body with varying learning preferences, needs, and accrediting bodies to answer to (Coble, 2015). In essence, an instructional designer leverages technology by marrying pedagogy and practice with selective and useful innovations. Coble, R (2015). The word selective is important.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

Pima Community College (PCC) received $1.7 Some of the money helped build the school’s Automotive Technology and Innovation Center to train future automotive technicians. Arizona is a center of emerging technologies, such as semiconductors, electric vehicles, and aerospace, said Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs. “To

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GlobalHigherEd

JULY 14, 2016

Or might the Euro-UK equivalent of Singapore’s Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE), in a similar location, be a creative post-Brexit option? Corbett, LSE Commission on the Future of Britain in Europe, 8 December 2015). Research Councils UK – Written evidence (4 December 2015).

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The PIE News

JUNE 4, 2024

Imperial College London achieves its highest place in the table in a decade since it came second in 2015 MIT sits in first place for a record 13 years in a row Rankings are suggesting the US, UK and Canada are all seeing marked drops that could spell change in the air The Massachusetts Institute of Technology took the top spot for the 13 th year in (..)

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Factors such as technological isolation caused by geographical distance and stakeholder digital fluency may hinder the ability of students to receive the full spectrum of support that in-person PLCs provide (Ribon et al. This technique has been utilized with students from 4th grade up to the college level with great success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2024

As part of this development, Wayne State University’s College of Engineering will provide hands-on experiences to high schoolers and establish workforce training in hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.

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Campus Technology

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Rice University's OpenStax initiative has welcomed the largest cohort of colleges and universities to its Institutional Partner Program (IPP) since its founding in 2015. Sixteen new institutions have joined the program to give their students free or low-cost access to textbooks and other educational materials.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 17, 2023

Time management experts and seasoned online instructors encourage faculty to be pro-active in managing their workload and workspace (Kondo 2015; Rubin 2009; Shi, Bonk & Magjunka 2006). She writes, “As a result, you can see quite clearly what you need to do in life and what you don’t, and what you should and shouldn’t do” (Kondo, 2015, p.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Recent changes in the laws in many states have moved to a bifurcated system in which students must have 120 credit hours of college education to sit for the CPA exam and 150 credit hours (225 for quarter schools) to be licensed as a CPA. Consider that only recently has technology knowledge become a must for most practicing CPAs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2024

Tressie McMillan Cottom McMillan Cottom is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill and a senior principal researcher at UNC’s Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life. She is also a columnist for the New York Times, an award-winning author, and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow.

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EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

Blogs 6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023 For the past two years, it’s been difficult to focus on anything beyond the immediate consequences of the pandemic. But now as we find ourselves stabilizing, it’s time to pause and take stock of the full landscape facing community colleges. 6 trends to watch in 2023 1.

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Coursera blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Similarly, learners without a college degree or only a high school education were 10.8% 2015) can all deter women or those with less formal education experience to continue in their learning. Creative approaches to technology-enhanced learning for the workplace and higher education. Guralnick, M.E. Auer, & A. TLIC 2023 (pp.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 17, 2023

Time management experts and seasoned online instructors encourage faculty to be pro-active in managing their workload and workspace (Kondo 2015; Rubin 2009; Shi, Bonk & Magjunka 2006). She writes, “As a result, you can see quite clearly what you need to do in life and what you don’t, and what you should and shouldn’t do” (Kondo, 2015, p.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

More students earned certificates than any year in the past decade, while associate degrees awarded fell to its lowest point in a decade and bachelor's degrees awarded fell to its lowest since 2015–16 academic year. These drops “erase the gains made between 2015 and 2020,” said Dr. Pietro A. asked Sasso.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Over the last 30 years, federal laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) opened the door for more students with disabilities to enroll in college. A Majority of College Students with Disabilities Do Not Inform School, New NCES Data Show. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). FAST FACTS Students with disabilities.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With so many perspectives, how can instructors meaningfully address them in college or university classrooms? Using a linear teaching approach, the subject matter is presented in a way that enhances the understanding of content across standard taxonomies (Meadows, 2015). A systems approach offers a bimodal solution. What comes next?

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 11, 2022

This certainly is not part of the expected college experience for students or parents. Rather than focusing first on the negative impacts of not implementing citation guidelines, Moore (2019) confirms students with limited experiences in research writing at the college level will often make mistakes in documentation and attribution.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 15, 2023

News & World Report released its first list of annual college rankings in 1983. News college rankings often point out that much of the data used to compile the rankings is provided by “experts” who range from high school guidance counselors to admissions counselors and faculty members at various higher education institutions.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As defined by Carless (2015), feedback is a dialogic process in which learners make sense of information from varied sources and use it to enhance the quality of their work or learning strategies. Martin is the director of the Quality Enhancement Plan at Miles College. Hughes, Gwyneth, Holly Smith and Brian Creese (2015). ‘

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

As learners and teaching technology continue to evolve, faculty are recognizing the importance of teaching for active learning. This has particular relevance when teaching international students who speak English as their second language (Robinson, 2015). The task of embracing change can be daunting for both faculty and students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

She has been president at A&M-San Antonio since 2015. “Dr. Last year, she discussed being a first-generation college student on Diverse's " In the Margins" podcast. . Cynthia Teniente-Matson Teniente-Matson will step down from her current position at A&M-San Antonio and start at San José State in January.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. Based on data gathered, we increased support services such as Ram Pantry, counseling, technology availability, and academic advising,” he continues.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With so many perspectives, how can instructors meaningfully address them in college or university classrooms? Using a linear teaching approach, the subject matter is presented in a way that enhances the understanding of content across standard taxonomies (Meadows, 2015). A systems approach offers a bimodal solution. What comes next?

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

They face pressures in their research, service, and increasingly in their teaching that the pandemic has made almost unbearable, and there seems to be no end in sight when it comes to the new tools, technologies, tips, and programs that faculty developers are rolling out to “support” their career advancement. 2 (Fall 2015): 96–103.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As defined by Carless (2015), feedback is a dialogic process in which learners make sense of information from varied sources and use it to enhance the quality of their work or learning strategies. Martin is the director of the Quality Enhancement Plan at Miles College. Hughes, Gwyneth, Holly Smith and Brian Creese (2015). ‘

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It has been estimated that college students across the globe devote in excess of a billion hours per year to “disposable” assignments (Wiley, 2016). 2015, Chu et al., Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty. The use of emerging technologies for authentic learning: A South African study in higher education.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Or, in an Italian Studies class, students could create an open access eBook that teaches younger students about the Italian language and culture (see “ Empowering College Students to be OER Creators and Curators ”). Yet, many college assignments lack the opportunity for students to construct knowledge with others. 2015, May 20).

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Or, in an Italian Studies class, students could create an open access eBook that teaches younger students about the Italian language and culture (see “ Empowering College Students to be OER Creators and Curators ”). Yet, many college assignments lack the opportunity for students to construct knowledge with others. 2015, May 20).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“This is the first exposure many incarcerated learners have to independent, self-directed research, which is foundational to an immersive, quality college education.” But with the revival of a way for those in prison to better access higher education, per the Second Chance Pell pilot program in 2015 , ITHAKA saw the potential to do more.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2023

Many times, learning a new educational technology tool is time-consuming. In this case, I am proposing using technology that we already use in our daily lives and applying it to our classrooms. Why are professors not using them in their college classrooms? We have seen them at bus stops, outside storefronts, and on event flyers.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, new AI chatbots have made their debut, including Google’s Bard and ChatGPT for Microsoft Bing, and new generative AI tools that use GPT technology have emerged, such as Chat with any PDF. Banning the use of technology for exams can create an inaccessible, discriminatory learning experience.

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