Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Louis, Dr. Shewanee Howard-Baptiste was certain shed become a doctor, but her college years told a different story. She is also a professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance. As a teenager growing up in St. It wasnt a role she was chasing, but an opportunity she welcomed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Joy Gaston Gayles will become head of the NC State College of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development (ELPHD), effective Jul. She also received NC State’s University Faculty Scholar in 2018 and is the winner of the Zenobia L. Hikes Woman of Color in the Academy Award. Gayles holds a Ph.D.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 7, 2025

A 2018 study published in Nature, a journal focused on advancements in science, found that nearly 40% of graduate students globally experienced symptoms of anxiety or depression. one for STEM and professional schools, the other for arts, humanities, and social sciences. Studies consistently reveal troubling statistics.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

If Blackwood’s course sounds like a divergence from the humdrum small-group discussions that college English courses bring to mind, well, you probably haven’t taken a college English class recently. ” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S. million Andrew W.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

College students who graduate as English majors actually find jobs at about the same rate as those who major in other subjects, according to a recent report commissioned by the Modern Language Association (MLA). According to the report, the unemployment rate for English majors, 2.3%, was not far off from that of all college graduates, 2.17%.

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University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

government resources and contributions from independent research centers, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Humanities Alliance and the Hamilton Project. The majority of data was pulled from records between 2018 and 2021. For example, the rate was 2.13% for humanities degree holders, 2.0%

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Higher Ed Data Stories

JULY 7, 2022

So the visualization allows you to look at the types of colleges you or your students might want: Select a state, select public or private, select by Carnegie type if you wish. It's the NSF, so they break degrees in science down farther than they do humanities degrees. No surprise there. You can also look at HBCUs if you'd like.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Recognizing diverse participation and communication styles builds inclusivity and reduces the pressure to perform in a single, narrow way (Gay, 2018; Dweck, 2006). Teachers College Press. Teaching at its best: A research-based resource for college instructors. Instead, these tools should guide and empower students. Hammond, Z.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 9, 2024

As colleges and universities across the country face declining enrollments caused by rising tuition costs, changing job market demands, and demographic shifts, institutions are getting creative with solutions. The number of humanities degrees has declined by 14% in the past decade, according to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

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University Business

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The essay has always been integral to a student’s college application. With the pressure to shine in their college essay increasing, students have also become fully aware and accustomed to generative AI to create fluid text. If colleges use the essay purely for an academic gauge, then it’s time for an overhaul.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

By one count, the United States is home to more than one million unique educational credentials, which represents a more than threefold increase since 2018. And colleges struggle to deliver what employers want. ” This dynamic presents challenges and opportunities for colleges. Some are offered by nonacademic providers.)

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

Emotions were considered “an additional variable” indicating “irrational aspects” of the human brain not relevant to cognitive functions of the brain (Zhao & Song, 2022, p. Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly 5(4) (Jan 2018): , 159-164. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9 , 58 [link]. Meacham, M. 2014, October 16).

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Certainly, K-12 education has the potential to play a key part in this work, but as a longtime college professor, I want to see colleges and universities take a more proactive role. Walmart in 2019, killing 23, were both recently enrolled college students. The perpetrator of the May 14 mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y. ,

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It is no secret that there has been a sharp rise in rates of depression among college students (Alamo et al., Below are six check-in ideas to build community in college classrooms. Ecological models of human development. College Students’ Sense of Belonging: A National Perspective. Islam et al. Vella-Brodrick, D.,

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Generative AI poses a potential threat to originality, emphasizing the need for human thought, discussion, and creativity to provide a benchmark for comparing the quality and intentionality of AI contributions. Moving forward, this skill will be vital as they navigate the intersection of human creativity and AI assistance.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Image: A new report finds that the closure of a college or university has a devastating effect on the educational attainment of the students enrolled at the time. percent—re-enrolled at another college or university. percent—and more Pell Grant recipients as well. Of those who re-enrolled, only 36.8

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For his leadership, LeBlanc – a first-generation college graduate – was named one of Forbes Magazine’s 15 “Classroom Revolutionaries” and one of the “most influential people in higher education,” in addition to winning the TIAA Institute Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence in Higher Education in 2018.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

Emotions were considered “an additional variable” indicating “irrational aspects” of the human brain not relevant to cognitive functions of the brain (Zhao & Song, 2022, p. Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly 5(4) (Jan 2018): , 159-164. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9 , 58 [link]. Meacham, M. 2014, October 16).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

However, to move beyond a slogan, community college leaders need to examine how they are creating bridges of empathy (Yelich Biniecki & Berg, 2000) and pathways for success (Kirchner & Yelich Biniecki, 2019) to serve active duty and veteran service members and their families. Dr. Susan M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 10, 2023

She has also served as Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and President of Hunter College of the City University of New York. In 2018, Diverse published a story about prominent scholars who were mentored by her. She has also held a tenured professorship at Columbia University.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 25, 2024

The McKinsey Institute for Black Economic Mobility reported that while in 2018 Black students only earned seven percent of all STEM baccalaureate degrees, HBCUs produced almost a quarter of those graduates. Additionally, HBCUs have long played an outsized role in producing STEM graduates.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 5, 2023

There is more responsibility than ever for college faculty to deliver outstanding instruction in the classroom. With less than half of students who enter four-year colleges finishing within six years, they assert that faculty cannot be allowed to simply just be the expert in their field in the classroom. And Mittelmeier et al.,

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

According to the Institute of International Education Open Doors Report 2020, over 3,300 US students studied in India in 2018-2019, which further fell to 1,736 students in 2019-20, according to the US Department of State. If we are going to build a human bridge, we have to know each other and understand our histories,” said Garcetti. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

Sarita Cargas, associate professor of human rights at the University of New Mexico Honors College. They talked about having headaches and trouble staying awake in class, feeling anxious that other people would hear their tummies grumbling,” said Cargas, an associate professor of human rights at the UNM Honors College.

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University Business

MAY 23, 2024

One recent survey found that more than half of college students now report feeling lonely. In response, colleges and universities have worked to create a stronger sense of belonging among their learners. Despite this, online learning has remained in higher demand, especially at community colleges and among busy adult learners.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2023

Proximity of human relationships One of the greatest challenges for an online asynchronous program is the lack of proximity the faculty has with their students. Teaching in a traditional classroom arena has a clear understanding of the proximity of the faculty to the student (Dyer, Arox, & Larson, 2018). Aroz, J., & Larson, E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2024

Marion Ross Fedrick likes to point out that she has “a very different background” than most college presidents. During her five-year tenure at ASU, Fedrick helped to rebuild the campus after the devastation of Hurricane Michael in August 2018. One of the big lessons I learned is doing more with less,” she says.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

Image: Some members of the Renegade Institute for Liberty, a controversial group of professors at Bakersfield College, are enmeshed in an increasingly vitriolic dispute playing out on the California campus that has pitted students and faculty members against each other and prompted their supporters and critics to take sides.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 5, 2023

There is more responsibility than ever for college faculty to deliver outstanding instruction in the classroom. With less than half of students who enter four-year colleges finishing within six years, they assert that faculty cannot be allowed to simply just be the expert in their field in the classroom. And Mittelmeier et al.,

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 19, 2023

Leading human resource associations such as the Society for Human Resource Management advocate using design thinking to redesign careers by focusing on curiosity, finding the right problem to solve, prototyping various career options, and seeking help from others (Hirsch, 2017). Society of Human Resource Management.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

While ChatGPT seems to have sprung up overnight to dominate current headlines, legislative discussions, and professional debates—ranging from doomsday predictions to practical celebrations related to improved efficiency with menial labor tasks—the introduction of this online Artificial Intelligence (AI) program can be traced back to 2018.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Since their creation, tests have disproportionately hindered access to gifted and talented education (GATE), AP, college acceptance (particularly to elite higher education institutions), scholarships, and so on. f. Under-preparation for College and Careers. Gifted and talented under-referrals and underrepresentation.

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HEPI

APRIL 30, 2024

The UK’s Data Protection Act 2018 introduced strict rules and fines for data mismanagement, forcing a shift in data processes. The panic around AI replacing human effort has calmed as knowledge has grown. Each of these areas has AI implications, implementations and ethical aspects that universities can work on.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

With the advent of AI, the limitations of ChatGPT are a good reminder that effective writing is human writing. Conveying our “humanity” through writing, especially in digital spaces, is also something we need to model for learners. 2018) Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice. Teacher’s College Press.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

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. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes , 150, 1-15. Hagtvedt, L. Dossinger, K., Harrison, S. H., & Huang, L. Huettel, S. Adcock, R.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Fortunately there are practical steps that colleges can take to make climate action compatible with personal well-being. These findings , from a survey conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse and sponsored by Kaplan, are consistent with research literature on climate anxiety , which is especially prominent among younger adults.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) stand out for recognizing that every student deserves access to quality education and are also centers for research and innovation (TEConomy, 2022). 2018; Zhao et al., How College Contributes to Workforce Success: Employer Views on What Matters Most. 2019; Morelot et al.,

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