Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Williams’s parents had met during their time at Southern and A&M College, a historically Black college and university (HBCU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His first ambition after college was to make money, and he entered the corporate world and earned his MBA from Fontbonne University. Everyone didn’t feel that way.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

The long-standing collaboration between LSAC and AALS and the impressive histories and strengths of both organizations will ensure a smooth transition in July,” she continued. “In Testy served as Dean and Professor of Law at University of Washington School of Law from 2009 to 2017 and at Seattle University School of Law from 2005 to 2009.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

in New York University’s joint Ph.D. program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The institution has a storied history.

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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. Not only is this landmark facility the first digital library ever established at a Historically Black College or University (HBCU) in the US, but it is also the first digital library in the state of Louisiana.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 9, 2024

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has renamed its Academic Classroom Building, one of its most high-profile buildings. In 1959, he became the first African American student to complete study and graduate from the University of North Carolina School of Law and, in 1963, the first African American assistant U.S.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Rossum’s Universal Robots) , where artificial beings, created to serve, ultimately undo their creators (apek, 1920/2004). For community college faculty, this history contextualizes AI’s rapid ascent, highlighting its capacity to augment teachingyet it also underscores the need for critical oversight, a theme explored next.

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APRIL 2, 2025

This page will be continuously updated as University Business monitors the changing landscape of college closings, mergers and acquisitions in the coming year and beyond. Villanova University announced on March 31 that it had entered a merger agreement with Rosemont College. Cornish College of the Arts (Wash.)

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Sandeep Mazumder, Berry College The Berry College Board of Trustees has tapped first-time president Sandeep Mazumder , dean of Baylor University’s business school beginning in July. He received his bachelor’s and master’s from the University of Cambridge. Gayle had served as president since 2022.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

We’ve also seen a succession of extremely short-lived presidencies, at universities including Auburn, Central Florida, Colorado, Louisville, Oklahoma, Oregon State, Tulsa and Wyoming, no doubt partly because fewer presidents are hired without sufficient vetting or due diligence or faculty and student input.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Cantwell – Washington State University Elizabeth Cantwell, after less than two years at the helm of Utah State University, has accepted an appointment elsewhere. In April, she becomes the first female president at Washington State University. Marie Hardin – Quinnipiac University (Conn.) Elizabeth R.

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MARCH 19, 2025

The Higher Education and Research Act of 2017 therefore includes what is now a considerable range of higher education providers in England, traditional Universities among them, but also hundreds of alternative providers. By 2016 the Registrar was manager to half the Universitys staff. It adopted the current name in 2023.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

and NYU have all recently elected a Black or female president—or both—for the first time in their schools’ histories. Mills’ extensive involvement with the university since 1999 put her at the forefront of the race. in health policy in 1994 from Brandeis University. Since 2017, she’s been at the helm of St.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

And for history? The Impact of Pecha Kucha Presentations in the Assessment of a Translation Studies Unit at The University of Western Australia. Two decades of detailed slide presentations have resulted in students who multitask during class. Studies show that the Pecha Kucha style can improve English speaking skills in general.

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JANUARY 25, 2025

In 2020, the University of Arizona acquired Ashford University , an online for-profit college that a California court later found guilty of having deceived students about job prospects, transfer opportunities, and degree costs. Criticism from some of the University of Arizonas faculty has also erupted.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Dr. Nicholas Bell Further entrenching this racialized injustice is more recent research that inappropriately uses achievement covariates in statistical models to make universal problematic claims that Black and Latinx students are underrepresented in special education. A disability history of the United States. Bruinius, H.

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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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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. She earned her Ph.D. The Announcement.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. from 2017 to 2022. From fall 2021 to fall 2023, enrollment in computer and information sciences increased by 21.4%

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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. Liu found clear advantages for the students who got summer money. African American students also had increased earnings in their sixth and ninth years from college entry.

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MAY 3, 2024

His last academic appointment was at Mercy from 2017 to 2020 as the vice president of academic affairs. Prior to that, he served as the president of Wilmington College (Ohio) and the founding associate dean of health sciences at Heidelberg University. Cloud State University (Minn.) Cloud State University, MPR News reports.

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JUNE 5, 2023

Despite recent efforts to raise state funding for higher education and consolidate public universities, its public university system and state-related institutions are desperate for more financing to curb Pennsylvania’s rapidly declining student enrollment and intimidating college costs. While the governor’s proposed 7.1%

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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. Since 2017, Barron said, UCW has expanded into 10 new states in the South and West. “And then also staff issues.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Many aspire to transfer to a four-year college or university. Now that we can look at data from the fall 2017 cohort, we see just three percent of community college transfer students enrolled at selective schools. Blog: Beyond Transfer Millions of community college students are pursuing their higher education journeys right now.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

civil rights history was made with the Brown v. Toldson, a professor of counseling psychology at Howard University and national director of Education Innovation and Research for the NAACP. Ford, a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at the Ohio State University. “We Seven decades ago, U.S. Dr. Ivory A.

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JANUARY 20, 2023

These kind words speak to the character and professional integrity of Nemat “Minouche” Shafik who is set to become Columbia University’s 20th president. She will also be the woman in the institution’s history to lead the university.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

And for history? The Impact of Pecha Kucha Presentations in the Assessment of a Translation Studies Unit at The University of Western Australia. Two decades of detailed slide presentations have resulted in students who multitask during class. Studies show that the Pecha Kucha style can improve English speaking skills in general.

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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. Under HERA, powers to register ‘higher education providers’ and grant degree-awarding powers and university title passed to the Office for Students.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Image: Some colleges and universities have offered mental health days or experimented with work-from-home policies to address burnout and low employee morale during the pandemic. Sumner, director of career planning at Meredith and a 22-year employee, traveled to Sansepolcro in 2017 with her mother. The pandemic put things on hold.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

At the time, Darling-Hammond was an endowed professor at Columbia University, Teachers College. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. Tate IV, the current president of Louisiana State University. Dr. Carol D. Dr. Joyce E.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Image: College and universities will need to diversify their faculties at about 3.5 Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication and information science at Cornell University; Neil A. Hope, assistant professor of psychology at North Carolina State University. population in terms of race by 2050.

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University Business

APRIL 27, 2023

Leaders at Temple University in Philadelphia can’t seem to catch a break. More than 800 union members (81%) cast a vote of no confidence in their ability to lead one of the state’s leading research universities. In January, Temple’s graduate student union went on its first-ever strike in school history.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

” The database features dashboards with data on MSIs from 2017 to 2021, including information about how many institutions are eligible for MSI status and how many receive federal funding under each MSI category, and enrollment and graduation rates for different types of MSIs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Sniegowski holds a bachelor’s degree in music from the Indiana University School of Music; an M.A. in biology from Indiana University, Bloomington; and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

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MARCH 16, 2022

(Sara Gothard, Library of Babel , 2017, in the Jamaica Plain branch of the Boston Public Library, part of their recently digitized art collection.). So I am eagerly following where this lab experiment heads once it scales (I hope) beyond wealthy universities. Just witness what has happened on the web and in social media.)

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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

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JUNE 21, 2024

by Kyuseok Kim The UK’s Strategic Moves Transnational Education (TNE) has been a significant strategy for UK universities seeking to expand their global footprint. Continued Success in TNE UK universities are the second largest exporter of international branch campuses next to the United States.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

Although he doesn’t engage directly with grizzlies, as an assistant professor of wildlife biology at the University of Montana (UM), Gómez has found his niche at the home of the “Griz.” Erim Gómez speaks about the negative effects of climate change at a rally against The Dakota Access Pipeline at Washington State University in 2017.

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