Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2024

DeCuir-Gunby, a prominent educational psychologist and racial equity expert who is on the faculty at the USC Rossier School of Education, has been named the next executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center. She will replace Dr. Shaun R. Dr. Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby DeCuir-Gunby is a tenured full professor and holds the Robert H.

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2023

Higher education enrollment at Northeastern schools has collectively fallen into a downward spiral since at least 2017, a phenomenon that has plagued every region since the pandemic, according to National Student Clearinghouse Research Center data. A great incentive will be the school’s low in-state tuition: $9,999 a year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

An additional 1,600-1,700 students at Emory University received grants and scholarships instead of loans in their financial aid packages this fall, the Atlanta-based institution announced recently, more than doubling the number of undergraduates expected to finish school with limited or no debt. This allows us to enroll those students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

It’s a challenging class that Dr. Kendrick Brown, Morehouse’s provost and senior vice president of academic affairs, describes as the best of what the school has to offer. It now coordinates classes from over a dozen colleges and universities, including Yale, Stanford, and Wharton, at over 100 high schools.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Alston was a previous member of the county’s school board, a position he gained by appointment from Florida Gov. The Illinois Commitment, a free tuition program that began in 2019, contributed to the university’s new enrollment record this past fall. Prior to that, she was vice provost at Utah State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Michael West, head of Penn State’s Department of African American Studies, has resigned from the role, alleging that leadership broke promises and questioning the school's commitment to diversity and equity, Centre Daily Times reported. Dr. Michael West West will continue to serve as a tenured professor in the department. West resigned Apr.

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University Business

JUNE 17, 2024

The University of North Florida is bucking declining college enrollment trends in higher education, and John Kantner, University of North Florida senior associate provost of faculty and research, credits some of this growth to its focus on continuing education (CE) programs.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In 2019, the US Department of Education reported that one in every three American high school students participates in dual enrollment courses (Shivji & Wilson, 2019), a number expected to rise in the coming years. Dual credit programs also help students transition from high school to college more efficiently.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Sylvia Burwell Burwell had an unusual background for a college president, never having been a professor, a dean, or a provost, and never having earned an advanced degree. Burwell has emphasized that she is not retiring, nor is she moving to another school. secretary of health and human services under President Barack Obama.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Sylvia Burwell Burwell had an unusual background for a college president, never having been a professor, a dean, or a provost, and never having earned an advanced degree. Burwell has emphasized that she is not retiring, nor is she moving to another school. secretary of health and human services under President Barack Obama.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

2019) found that academic engagement and psychological capital resources were significant antecedents of academic performance among university students. Page in a book published in 2010 concluded diversity created “better groups, firms, schools and societies.” A study by Martínez et al.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2023

Now that college acceptance letters have been sent, the pressure is on students to choose what schools to attend by May 1 st , National Decision Day. million students since the fall of 2019, and notable decreases in students with several under-represented backgrounds. But institutions are under pressure, too. So, we eliminated that.”

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In 2019, the US Department of Education reported that one in every three American high school students participates in dual enrollment courses (Shivji & Wilson, 2019), a number expected to rise in the coming years. Dual credit programs also help students transition from high school to college more efficiently.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

After the nearby College of New Rochelle closed in 2019 amid financial woes, Manhattanville hired its dean of nursing and launched its own School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Manhattanville also opened a Center for Design Thinking in 2019, in what had long been the president’s cottage. Geisler last summer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Childcare, housing, balancing school with work and family obligations are key issues. We hope higher ed leaders—campus presidents, provosts, chancellors—read these reports and ask within their institutions who are the student parents on campus and what are their outcomes,” said Jez.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

The private nursing school will officially welcome its fifth president on May 6, according to school communications. One campaign he oversaw helped draw in $66 million, the largest in school history, Telegram & Gazette reports. The work was done in collaboration with the provost.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

Dr. LaVar Charleston is the deputy vice chancellor for diversity & inclusion, vice provost and chief diversity officer at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. They collaborate on projects that improve access to graduate school for under-resourced students and students of color. Jerlando F.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

She has been supported in her studies and research by numerous grants and fellowships including a 2022 grant from the Office of the Provost Research Development Academy at UT-Knoxville; she was a 2023 Faculty Fellow with the Association of American Hispanics in Higher Education, Inc.;

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The PIE News

MAY 4, 2023

But the figures still lag behind 2019 pre-pandemic levels, when there were 1,523,758 international students in the country. David Di Maria, associate vice provost for International Education at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, said he felt ‘optimistic’ about the numbers in the report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Justin Ortagus, an associate professor of higher education administration and policy and the director of the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Florida, examined over 40,000 student transcripts from a diverse, high-enrollment community college from between 2009 and 2019. Smith Jaggars attributes this to systemic barriers.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Will your school benefit? Murray will be the third consecutive female president at Hamline, according to the school. She has extensive experience as provost, serving seven years at Macalester College (Minn.) More from UB: ACE is restructuring the Carnegie Classification. and three at Birmingham-Southern College (Ala.)

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Previous to her position as CEO for the Girl Scouts, she served as the the vice president of human resources for the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation, senior director of human resources at Vanderbilt University, and is a trustee emerita for the Haslam School of Business board at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, The Tennessean reports.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Since starting these efforts, preliminary data shows the number of incoming aspiring teachers increased 83 percent at the University of Kentucky, going from 118 incoming education majors in fall 2019 to 216 in fall 2022. As dean of an education school, the pressure to create solutions to a cacophony of issues is mounting.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

” Leffingwell is slated to teach at New York City’s New School in the spring—an institution comprised of the Parsons School of Design, a liberal arts college, a performing arts college, the Mannes conservatory and several graduate schools. The institution has a storied history. In New York City?

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

MAY 11, 2022

By way of review, a lawsuit filed in April 2022 charged that Rutgers Business School sought to improve its rankings by creating bogus temporary jobs for graduating MBA students. Claremont McKenna College, a small, prestigious California school, admitted in 2012 that it had submitted false SAT scores for years to publications such as U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The second issue centers on the resignation of former business school dean Sanjay Gupta, who was asked by Michigan State officials to step down after allegedly not reporting an incident in which he witnessed an intoxicated business school employee touching a student inappropriately.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Howard’s successor will be Dr. Janelle Scott, a professor in the School of Education and African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Ducommun Endowed Professor (Emerita) in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University, was president in 2011-2012. Dr. Carol D. Scott also holds the Robert J.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

“It seems natural that something like this would be our first step into a master’s program or a higher-level degree,” said Brenda Kelly, provost and dean of the college, citing the lengthy history of the undergraduate athletic training program, which began in 1976. ” said Rasmussen. “They

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

My friend, Dr. Quentin McAndrew , current academic strategist at Coursera and former Assistant Vice Provost at CU Boulder, who helped archetype the degree, says, “When we were creating the program, ‘Why?’ Any students who maintain a B average in a series of gateway courses are automatically admitted.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 15, 2023

Since then, prospective students (and their parents) have used the rankings as a guide for where to consider going to school. While the rankings can be a valuable tool, they’re also quite controversial in that they tend to favor prestigious schools where the student populations largely come from white, affluent families. The problem?

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Blogs Two ways to improve support services for adult learners with learning disabilities In our new survey , 100% of university presidents and provosts identified graduate and adult learner enrollment as a priority. And the accommodations that support high school students with ADHD do not always work for adults.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

At the same time, presidential turnover has intensified , with 123 resigning in 2019 and 107 in 2021. Most of the college presidents who rose through the ranks made their reputation not as scholars but as administrators, typically as provosts or deans. First, vision.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 28, 2023

The latest to speak out against the frustration is Awad Ibrahim, vice-provost for equity, diversity and inclusive excellence at the University of Ottawa. If racism is the reason, denying someone housing or proper education will result in homelessness and dropping out of school.” “However, its outcome is quite visible. .

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University Business

APRIL 27, 2023

Following President Jason Wingard’s resignation last month , the Temple faculty union has now turned its ire towards Provost Gregory Mandel and Board of Trustees Chair Mitchell Morgan. An overarching cause for tension is the school’s depleting enrollment. ” One state representative called it “despicable.”

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The PIE News

MARCH 16, 2023

From investment banking, to owning an executive search company; from leading Edinburgh Business School to becoming a dame , Heather McGregor really has done it all. Speaking with The PIE at Heriot-Watt in Dubai, McGregor reflects on her career after six months in the position of provost at the university’s UAE campus.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 22, 2024

The school in Kingston, Ontario, is part of the U15 of top Canadian research universities, but has only had modest success in recruiting international students. This is very, very serious,” said Queen’s provost Matthew Evans earlier this month. This forced schools to turn to international tuition to make up the difference.

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EAB

JANUARY 17, 2023

To understand this complicated market and to help you decide if launching a master’s-level cybersecurity program is right for your school, my team and I analyzed the last five years of job postings, competitive landscape data, and employment projections. The grad programs presidents and provosts are prioritizing. 2019 – Oct.

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