Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The events of 2020 are still resonating. Dr. Brooke Vick, chief diversity officer, associate provost for equity and inclusion, and coordinator of the new DEI certificate program at Muhlenberg College. Dr. Brooke Vick, chief diversity officer and associate provost for equity and inclusion at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa.,

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Image: Facing financial pressures, the King’s College made a recent appeal to donors for $2.6 So far, the college has raised $178,000, according to an email sent to supporters earlier this week. College officials have said the money is needed to meet basic needs such as rent and payroll. The deadline to raise the $2.6

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Image: Hilbert College is marrying outside the faith. The four-year Roman Catholic nonprofit college in New York announced Wednesday that it would acquire Valley College, a for-profit career institution with four sites in Ohio and West Virginia. And despite the unusual pairing, Hilbert College officials say the move makes sense.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Freyer, inspired by the project’s success, launched the free naloxone bike as a kind of spinoff in February 2020. It’s an innovative approach to a growing trend at colleges and universities: making naloxone widely accessible across campus, and training as many students as possible to use it.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

Image: The King’s College has long relied on the generosity of billionaires. Bill Hwang, a trader who earned billions on Wall Street, pumped several million into the college before his 2022 arrest on fraud charges. Now another billionaire, Peter Chung, may hold the key to the fate of the King’s College.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Image: Bloomfield College will become part of Montclair State University, the institutions announced Wednesday, formalizing a merger that had been in the works for months since Montclair State stepped up to help the financially struggling Bloomfield. Going forward, Bloomfield will be known as Bloomfield College of Montclair State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

Gonzales’ passion for education has culminated in a swift rise to being named chancellor of the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) last September. The district comprises 10 independently accredited colleges in Arizona serving over 94,000 students. He became president of GateWay Community College in MCCCD in 2013.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 25, 2022

But hiring a faculty member with expertise to develop and teach new courses was not an option; the Pennsylvania university had suspended tenure in 2020 and had lost faculty positions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Colleges have partnered with companies to share their courses by way of online platforms in the past.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 22, 2022

Image: Ousted last fall as CEO of Manchester Community College, Nicole Esposito subsequently sued the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system, alleging gender discrimination and a number of other issues, including violations of her First Amendment and equal protection rights.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: The Whittier College Board of Trustees was scheduled for a rare in-person meeting this Friday, after conducting most business virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with her address looming, Oubré and her critics have radically different views of what the state of the college is. We’re very proud of that.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 30, 2023

When the pandemic closed down my university in spring 2020, most folks assumed that we would be back up and running a normal slate of face-to-face courses in fall 2020. In mid-August 2020, the pandemic infection rates still exceeded the local disease control agency’s guidance.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Image: A new report , released today, concludes that community college leaders and employers are failing to partner with each other in ways that meet both of their needs. Researchers also conducted field interviews with college and business leaders. Most industry leaders, 84 percent, said that they hire community college graduates.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Image: Gustavus Adolphus College went 161 years without any graduate programs. Like other small private institutions, Gustavus Adolphus, a Lutheran college in southern Minnesota, faces a shrinking pool of traditional-age students, even ahead of the projected decline in college-age students due to kick in later this decade.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 26, 2022

The University of Minnesota is re-establishing ties with the Minneapolis Police Department two years after distancing itself in the wake of the brutal killing of George Floyd by an MPD officer, an incident captured on video that sparked nationwide protests and prompted colleges to rethink such partnerships. Hide by line?:

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The ACE report is based on a survey conducted every five years, in which college and university leaders answer questions about how their institution is engaging on a global scale. But despite the bleak outlook, the report found that colleges and universities remain largely committed to internationalization.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 30, 2023

When the pandemic closed down my university in spring 2020, most folks assumed that we would be back up and running a normal slate of face-to-face courses in fall 2020. In mid-August 2020, the pandemic infection rates still exceeded the local disease control agency’s guidance.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Now, as university officials and the governor trade blame, the college is set to close in May. The other three colleges all told Inside Higher Ed they are not at risk of closing.) It also sought a partnership with Saint Leo University, an idea that was ultimately dismissed in 2020 due to various issues, including IWU’s debt load.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The person will replace Dr. Alex Johnson, President Emeritus of Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C), who has been serving as interim president since July 2023, after Dr. Jack Thomas announced that he would not seek a renewal of his contract. These were just untrue and harsh criticisms,” said Schlag, who left the university in December 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

In a similar survey published by Course Hero in September 2020, about 40 percent of all faculty respondents were considering leaving their job as a result of COVID-19 related impacts. Though the positive results of the survey provide Morris and his team optimism, there were other concerning facts that were revealed in the results.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic only exacerbated the problem, with over 60% of college students meeting the criteria for at least one mental health issue in the 2020-21 school year. It seems as though high-level administrators are aware. That has resulted in them being more likely to want, and in some cases, demand more resources.”

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 19, 2022

Image: The University of Southern California is one of the top-ranked campuses for Greek life in the country: almost 30 percent of undergraduates—about 7,300 students— were members of a Greek organization in 2020. Sexual assault is reportedly more pervasive at USC than on other college campuses.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

” The Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System shows that full-time freshmen from families with incomes over $110,000 paid an average of $42,108 a year, whereas those in the $75,001-to-$110,000 band paid $9,562 in the 2020–21 academic year, according to the most recent data available.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

He often jokes that he uses his therapy skills as much as a college administrator as he ever has in any other job. percent—in CCMH’s 2019 pre-pandemic survey, showing that despite increased concern about student mental health, most colleges that cap counseling center visits haven’t made the switch post-pandemic.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Image: Faculty members at Lakeland Community College in Ohio are voicing opposition to a motion passed by the Board of Trustees to create a special committee of trustees to “review equity, diversity, and inclusion language in Lakeland Community College’s plans and policies.” The strategic plan was kept as is.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Colleges are under growing pressure to prove their value to students, parents, legislators and others. Itzkowitz: Over the past year, we’ve seen an uptick in students and families wanting to know what type of return on investment they’re going to get from the college education.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

Image: Increasingly aware of the toll the past two years of political and pandemic-related upheaval have taken on student mental health, college administrators are seeking to provide better support by establishing crisis response teams and adding trained counselors to campus police departments.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 31, 2023

The study defines a good job as one that pays a minimum of around $38,000 in 2020 for workers younger than age 35. Examples include expanding recruitment efforts and creating stronger partnerships between high schools and colleges. More outreach and advising can demystify college for students.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

And when that decision did finally arrive in Vitetta’s favor, in 2020, COVID-19 and shakeups on UT Southwestern’s legal team brought other delays. Fearing that “this was never going to end,” Vitetta settled with UT Southwestern this fall for an undisclosed amount.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Image: A flurry of Board of Trustees meetings marked by surprise resolutions and public business conducted defiantly out of view has led to a leadership vacuum at North Idaho College. On Thursday, trustees placed President Nick Swayne on administrative leave; days later, the successor they handpicked to replace him turned down their offer.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Image: Over the last five years, most of the Confucius Institutes hosted at American colleges and universities have closed down—but now a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine outlines a process for their potential return. Whether U.S. Whether U.S. higher education and the U.S.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Although we can expect some clarity in the coming months, college administrators are left trying to guess what comes next. American universities and colleges recruited over 1.05 of the US college student population. The stakes couldn’t be higher.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 16, 2023

According to research by the Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF), the percentage of women athletes competing on college teams has risen from 15% in 1972 to 44% in the 2020-21 academic year. Title IX impacts not only athletics, but it affects sexual misconduct policies on college and university campuses.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

“Regarding the 2020 presidential election, I was not retained as a lawyer by any individual or organization and did not serve as counsel of record in any legal proceeding,” Martin told Inside Higher Ed , noting that he was not present for the events that unfolded in Washington on Jan. As it relates to the events of Jan.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Image: House Republicans say that a Biden administration plan to rescind part of a Trump-era rule that required public colleges and universities to give faith-based student organizations the same resources as secular groups is “wholly unwarranted.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As the countdown to the midterm elections crosses the two-week mark, college students are poised to make a difference at the ballot box. But will college students turn out at the polls? College voter participation has traditionally been low. But without Trump in office , college voting should remain high, according to experts.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 29, 2024

As an aging college professor, I found myself in a surprising position on the evening of May 1: face down in the grass of the Dartmouth College Green, with a heavily armored riot policeman kneeling on my lower back, and three others holding me immobile. Why now are we seeing beatings and arrests of thousands?

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