Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

They shared their convictions with their two sons, including the importance of education and social service. It took him awhile to connect the dots from his passion to higher education. His efforts helped to lead to the graduation of the most diverse class in the history of Northwestern. “We Dr. Dereck J. Rovaris, Sr.,

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transitioned from a speculative concept to a transformative tool in higher education, particularly within community colleges. Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Testy Association of American Law Schools “I am deeply honored to have been chosen as Judy Areen’s successor and am committed to advancing excellence in legal education at a time of heightened challenges and changes in law and higher education,” said Testy. Kania Dean of the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law.

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University Business

JUNE 5, 2023

Pennsylvania is facing a double-edged sword in funding its higher education system next year, so much so that Gov. Josh Shapiro proclaimed his state’s public higher education system “isn’t working. ” Long-term problems Due to long-term trends, Pennsylvania is partially trapped in a poor higher education model.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Shorter Photography “I am very grateful for the opportunity to lead Benedict College into the next chapter of her storied history,” said Artis, during the March 22 rededication. Dr. Roslyn Clark Artis A. Thank you for your decision to memorialize my work in such a profound, powerful, and lasting way.” Board Chairman Dr. Charlie W.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

Jacqueline Núñez, ’61, advocated for the college to enact a non-discrimination clause before it became standard in higher education. We have been identifying people in Colby’s history who have made important contributions to the college but who have not been fully recognized,” said Greene.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 9, 2024

Frye Hall is one of six buildings on campus designed by the architectural firm of the late Phil Freelon, a nationally recognized figure in the architecture community who led the design team for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 27, 2024

Grambling State University (GSU) has made history with the opening of their Digital Library and Learning Commons. The ribbon-cutting ceremony on August 22 celebrated the culmination of a project that began in 2017 under the leadership of former GSU President Rick Gallot.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. The institution has a storied history. In New York City?

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SRHE

MARCH 19, 2025

Rachel Reeds short but comprehensive book, Surviving and Thriving in Higher Education Professional Services: a guide to success (Routledge, 2025), is both an instruction manual for the professionals it was written for and an illuminating account of what they do for the academics and students who benefit.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Last month, alongside her announcement that tuition fees would be increased in line with inflation, Secretary of State for Education Bridget Phillipson wrote to universities setting out her priorities for higher education reform. Adult education appears to have psychological benefits too.

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WCET Frontiers

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

WCET Frontiers would like to honor our veterans by sharing about the history of Veterans Day and also share some updates on federal policy issues for institutions to watch that affect the process and delivery of Veterans benefits. Bill education benefits receive a Monthly Housing Allowance (MHA) for the terms that they are enrolled.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 24, 2024

While this playful interaction between users may seem like the antithesis of serious learning, Tara Martin (2017) found a way to channel student interest in sharing annotated images toward an educational purpose by creating what she calls a BookSnap. 2017, August 14). Booksnaps Snapchat in education. References Martin, T.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Tim’s Neurodiversity in the Arts Symposium , which took two years of advocacy and planning, and draws on several more of research across neurodiversity and art education, took place at the University of the Arts Helsinki , modelling best practices for inclusivity, not just for neurodivergent folx. Universities, watch and learn.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

Gilbert – also the first Black student in Baylor’s graduate religion program – went on to become an educator, pastor, and civil rights leader. In 2017, Walker was given Baylor’s Medal of Service for Contributions to the Professions, Christian Ministry. And in 2020, Baylor established the Robert L.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2025

Such experiences can help engage and enthuse students to be attentive to related material in the rest of the course, and students who perceive their instructors as more authentic indicate higher levels of learning and understanding (Johnson & LaBelle 2017).

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University Business

APRIL 2, 2025

We are committed to securing the best possible options for our students, faculty and staff and believe this merger with Villanova offers the best opportunity to ensure that the Rosemont College history and legacy endures.” Centuries of serving higher education erased. If not, the institution shuts its doors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Vegas is no stranger to shootings, having suffered in 2017 the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, which killed 60 people and wounded hundreds. “I was trying to hold it together for my students, and trying not to cry, but the emotions are something I never want to experience again.” This shooting puts the U.S.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

In this educational quagmire, Pecha Kucha is an answer. And for history? IAFOR Journal of Education. Two decades of detailed slide presentations have resulted in students who multitask during class. During a two-hour lecture, the average student spends 37 minutes doing non-class related activities on their devices (Ravizza et.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Tamwood International College has been acquired by Canadian private education company ILAC. The deal, announced by Tamwood’s CEO on LinkedIn, confirmed months of speculation that the company would be selling to ILAC, which is the country’s biggest private education group. We are more than ready!”

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Image: Harvard University announced its 30th president Thursday, drawing from within to hire Claudine Gay, the first Black president in the institution’s nearly 400-year history. Though Gay has not previously held a presidency, she has a long history with Harvard. My parents believed that education opens every door.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

For most of its 50-year history, the Pell Grant has not covered summer classes, with two brief exceptions: 2009-2011 and 2017 to the present. Students studying in the summer may be more likely to remain engaged with their education and can progress to a degree more quickly. They may also avoid summer learning loss.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

and NYU have all recently elected a Black or female president—or both—for the first time in their schools’ histories. She understands the power of a liberal arts education to create the visionary leaders the world sorely needs. She is the first Black female president in the school’s 186-year history.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 17, 2025

Department of Education (Department of Education) can collect the outstanding balance through forced collections, including the offset of tax refunds and Social Security benefits and the garnishment of wages. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Education paused collections on defaulted federal student loans.

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

from 2017 to 2022. It makes sense, considering how higher education faces revitalized pressure from students— and the federal government —to ensure high-value degrees with strong returns on investment. While most institutions and their academic programs faltered during the worst of the pandemic, this STEM subset thrived, growing 6.2%

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University Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

She also spearheaded the college’s rebranding initiative in 2017 and helped open a new media center. The first female president in the institution’s history, Larson returns to academic leadership after having served as the president of Adler Planetarium, a public museum for the past 12 years. Hardin begins in July.

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The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2023

In 2017 a report from the Observatory On Borderless Higher Education praised BSIS as a blueprint for how branch campuses should operate in Europe, successfully securing research and university partnerships in Belgium and northern France.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

Image: Public university employees in states lacking collective bargaining rights aren’t letting that exclude them from the current wave of union organizing and action in higher education. Herbert, executive director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions.

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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. Banks to serve as president.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Meredith—whose study abroad program has long occupied a 16th-century palazzo in Sansepolcro, Tuscany—first offered this kind of trip to employees in 2017. My paycheck, like many in the field of education, is not keeping up with rising costs, so I value any job perks that come my way. It offered a second opportunity in 2019.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. There is now an enormous range of ‘higher education providers’. The history of ‘institutional autonomy’ The insistence on the importance of institutional autonomy has a long history.

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University Business

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Education Secretary who served under former President Barack Obama from 2016 to 2017, was named State University of New York chancellor Monday afternoon, setting him up to lead the largest public university system in the country. John King Jr., the former U.S. link] pic.twitter.com/NEUEoQhwHP. — Dr. John B.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

In this educational quagmire, Pecha Kucha is an answer. And for history? IAFOR Journal of Education. Two decades of detailed slide presentations have resulted in students who multitask during class. During a two-hour lecture, the average student spends 37 minutes doing non-class related activities on their devices (Ravizza et.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

The group of scholars recently published an article in the journal Educational Researcher outlining the complexities of MSI classifications and proposing clearer definitions, and they created a new database using those standards in hopes of providing a more accurate picture of the MSI landscape.

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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. The throughline of Bates’ career is his passion for healthcare.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, the researchers found that the racial diversity of U.S. At this rate, the paper says, “higher education will never achieve demographic parity among tenure-track faculty.” ” Looking at data from the U.S. percentage points per year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2023

Now, the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health is recognizing and honoring her with the 2023 ASPPH Early Career Teaching Excellence Award for her most recent work as a clinical associate professor at the Georgia State University School of Public Health, a role she has held since August 2017. “I Armstrong-Mensah holds a Ph.D.

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