Insight Into Diversity

MAY 17, 2024

On May 6, 2024, Dorothy Jean Tillman II walked across the stage at Arizona State University (ASU), making history as the youngest person in the country to earn a doctoral degree. A Chicago native, Tillman began taking college classes at age 10.

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University Business

APRIL 2, 2025

(Updated: April 2, 2025) With college closings expected to uptick over the next five years due to the demographic cliff, two small regional colleges avoided shutting their doors by merging with larger institutions. The college closings and mergers of 2025 Rosemont College (Penn.) Cornish College of the Arts (Wash.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2023

Black history — and Black Americans — are under attack. Since 2021, legislatures and governors in 19 states have enacted educational gag orders that restrict teaching and learning about allegedly divisive concepts such as race, racism, and American history. The fate of affirmative action in higher education awaits a U.S.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

For only the second time in history, state funding to public colleges in 2023 exceeded per-student funding levels unseen since before the Great Recession. Following a brief recession in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, historical patterns following economic recessions reversed in 2021, ’22 and ’23, the research adds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2023

and Jorge Estrada, writing in the Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (2019). After completing his undergraduate studies at Manhattanville College in New York state, Gonzalez worked for College Track, a nonprofit college completion program in California. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

When my mother went to college in the 1990s, she says her classes were split pretty evenly between men and women. This shift represents one of the most substantial changes in educational attainment patterns in recent history, with implications that reach far beyond the classroom walls and into the fabric of American society.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

New faculty unions at Howard Community College and Frederick Community College have been certified and recognized, with full-time faculty recognized as AFT-Maryland members, Maryland Matters reported. Members said they unionized to address issues such as increasing workloads and inadequate compensation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2023

Racial hiring practices in college athletics saw minor improvement but gender hiring practices declined, according to the 2022 College Sport Racial and Gender Report Card (CSRGRC) from the University of Central Florida (UCF). points, a decrease from 2021’s 75.8 points in 2021. points in 2021. in 2020-2021, and 33.2%

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University Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Jessup University, located across state lines in California, calls the move a “merger of missions,” due to their “remarkably similar histories of equipping students to make positive impacts in their local communities and the world,” according to a press release.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Williams College faculty voted 81-5 to approve the creation of an Asian American studies (AAS) concentration beginning Fall 2023, The Williams Record reported. s history of anti-Asian racism and the upsurge in attacks against Asian people during the pandemic, such as the March 2021 Atlanta shooting killing six Asian American women.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. Dr. DB Poli This will make Roanoke College the first college in Virginia to offer a four-year degree in the field of cannabis studies, according to the school. According to U.S.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Image: Community college baccalaureate programs in California can help more Black and Latino students earn bachelor’s degrees in a state that badly needs a more educated workforce, according to a new report. ” There are currently no community college baccalaureate programs in nursing in the state. Hispanics make up 38.1

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University Business

MARCH 7, 2025

An experienced leader in his own right, Benson is the current president of Coastal Carolina University, where he secured a $10 million gift, the largest in school history, according to a university statement. Charles Edmonds, Lycoming College Charles Edmonds – Lycoming College (Penn.) He begins his new position in July.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2024

California’s public schools didn’t teach Asian American history to a young Dr. Beth Lew-Williams. Neither did college. history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. “The history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. Holding several degrees in history, including a Ph.D.

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Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

JUNE 3, 2021

At Lorain County Community College, we celebrated the class of 2021 with unforgettable tributes to our remarkable graduates. What’s more, 46% of this year’s graduates are the first in their families to earn a college degree. In short, the class of 2021 is remarkably resilient and will make an impact on our world like no other.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 25, 2023

percent of the 156,257 total students from 95 college or university counseling centers who had a CCMH case closure form on file. Factors such as demographic information, past mental health treatment and distress levels can help predict whether a student entering counseling will voluntarily withdraw from college. percent and 2.7

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Emory University and the College of the Muscogee Nation (CMN) in Oklahoma have partnered and received $2.4 The Mellon Foundation award is a huge acknowledgement of the healing work that has been taking place between Emory University, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and the College of the Muscogee Nation,” says Randall. “As

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2022

College students are taking fewer credit hours than before and conscious course scheduling is becoming more relevant, according to a new report from higher education resource company Ad Astra. fewer credits in Fall 2021 than they did two years earlier and that enrollment of full-time students decreased from 66.8%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

It's one of the new offerings coordinated by the National Education Equity Lab, an educational justice nonprofit that brings credit-bearing college courses into Title I and Title I-eligible high schools, at which large numbers of students come from families with little money. The Lab is looking to change that.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Born in Grinnell, Iowa, Edith Renfrow Smith graduated from Grinnell College in 1937 and was the only Black student on campus during the 4.5 years that she attended the small, private liberal arts college. At 110 years old, she is the college’s first Black alumna and the oldest living graduate of the institution.

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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. A case study from a California community college illustrates these principles in action. Davidson, 2021; Pritts, 2023) to position AI as a partner in faculty development.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

” As Axios explains, “The school’s entire annual operating expense in 2021 was $1.86 In 2021, after the endowment had risen to $53 billion, the first-year class consisted of 1,675 freshmen. That “ elite colleges simultaneously reproduce class inequality and belief in the justness of that inequality.”

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University Business

MARCH 4, 2024

Administrators from Notre Dame College in Ohio have announced that the century-old Roman Catholic school in Ohio will be closing its doors at the end of the semester. The college has already coordinated Teach-Out agreements with several neighboring colleges and universities to ensure the closure does not hurt its students.

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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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University Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

This year marks 100 since Spelman Baptist Seminary became Spelman College, the all-women HBCU in the heart of Atlanta, Ga., Spelman College is just one of the several prestigious HBCUs in Atlanta. Who are Spelman College’s donors? which we know today. In 2018, the couple donated $30 million.

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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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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Cleveland-Marshall College of Law will now be known as the CSU College of Law, according to a university news release. The decision comes after an ad hoc committee recommended the university rebrand the law school to cut association with Marshall due to his history of owning enslaved people.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2024

California’s public schools didn’t teach Asian American history to a young Dr. Beth Lew-Williams. Neither did college. history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. “The history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. Holding several degrees in history, including a Ph.D.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Land-grant universities are building new colleges , HBCUs are racing to secure better funding and even liberal arts colleges are reviewing their general education curriculum. Higher education is re-envisioning its offerings from the ground up to acclimate itself to the emerging demands of a digital workforce.

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WCET Frontiers

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Van joined the (WCET) in 2021 as chief strategy officer, where he was instrumental in helping WCET develop its overall strategy, mission, and vision. in 20th-century US history with an emphasis on civil rights from Vanderbilt University and a Bachelors in history from Southwestern University. He earned a Masters and Ph.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Failed searches for college presidents are now commonplace. At the same time, presidential turnover has intensified , with 123 resigning in 2019 and 107 in 2021. Given the pay, benefits and prestige, candidates for college presidencies aren’t in short supply. First, vision.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

The private, for-profit Bay State College in Boston will lose its accreditation unless an appeal is granted, the interim president of the financially troubled institution told students in a letter obtained by The Boston Globe. 31 and will mean that the college cannot disburse federal financial aid funds. Hide by line?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2023

More college students than ever were anxious, depressed, and struggling with suicidal thoughts last school year. It’s a disheartening finding from the Healthy Minds Study (HMS), which conducts an annual online survey of nearly 96,000 college students on 133 American campuses that was released last Friday.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

She couldn’t imagine herself, a Mexican Filipina American, as a college president, much less a university chancellor, because she’d never seen someone like herself in those positions. “Serving as chancellor was a natural progression, given my professional history,” she said.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

This finding leans toward establishing the correlative—perhaps causative—nature of emotions and pursuant action (Huberman Lab Podcast # 39, 2021). Neurobiologist Andrew Huberman has called the adaptive and transformative ability of the human brain the factor that has made humans “the curators of the planet and the species in charge” (2021).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The first college in the U.S, American higher education remained the purview of men until the 1830s, when women’s colleges were established. In 1856, Martin Henry Freeman became the first Black college president (Avery College). Today, the California Community College System, with more than 1.8 Dr. Kimberly R.

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