The PIE News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The challenges facing universities are wide-ranging and well-reported – which is leading them to seek out some creative solutions for their growing list of problems. According to Thomas, its partly as a result of global trends that have long shaped university strategy. A spluttering global economy.

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Wonkhe

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

An anti-Zionist academic has won a tribunal case against the University of Bristol, finding direct discrimination and unfair and wrongful dismissal. Jim Dickinson explains the judgement The post David Miller wins tribunal case against the University of Bristol appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Wonkhe

JANUARY 22, 2024

Jim Dickinson explains the judgement The post Jo Phoenix wins tribunal case against the Open University appeared first on Wonkhe. A gender-critical academic has won a tribunal case against the OU, finding discrimination, harassment and constructive dismissal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

More than 300 women faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder will receive back pay and a salary equity analyses every three years, following a $4.5 million settlement that the university reached following a class action lawsuit that was filed alleging widespread gender pay discrimination.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2025

Robin DiAngelo is an Affiliate Associate Professor of Education at the University of Washington. Her follow-up book, released in June of 2021, is: Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm. In addition, she holds two Honorary Doctorates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Robert Scott The University System of Georgia's Board of Regents has named Dr. Robert Scott as the sole finalist for the presidency of Albany State University (ASU), bringing a leader with extensive experience in both academia and corporate innovation to the historically Black institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2025

At the University of California, the percentage of graduate students facing food insecurity jumped from 21 percent in 2021 to 35 percent in 2023. "As Recent data shows nearly 95 percent of postdoctoral researchers report their salaries negatively affect their professional or personal lives.

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Wonkhe

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

An anti-Zionist academic has won a tribunal case against the the University of Bristol, finding direct discrimination and unfair and wrongful dismissal. Jim Dickinson explains the judgement The post David Miller wins tribunal case against the Open University appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Data Stories

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

I started this visualization to show how first-year classes at the highly rejective colleges had changed since COVID-19 forced them all to go to a test-optional approach for the Fall of 2021. But it sort of took on a life of its own after that, as big, beefy data sets often do.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Robinson, a foundational figure in University of Tennessee history, grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he and his mother, Alma, would listen to the radio, discussing historic elections and admiring the courage of civil rights leaders. It highlighted the University of Tennessee’s exclusion of Black students. Theotis Robinson Jr.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2025

Campaigners urged universities to be more cautious in their engagement with Facebooks owner Britains elite universities are continuing to benefit from multi-million pound funding from Facebooks owner, Meta, amid criticism over its approach to harmful content, ditching of independent fact checkers and political influence.

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Higher Ed Data Stories

AUGUST 27, 2024

Bad news: Because IPEDS is IPEDS, it's data from the 2021-22 Academic Year. Good news: We have new IPEDS data on average net cost. This is pretty straightforward: Each dot represents a public institution, colored by region, showing the average net price for first-year students entering in that year.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

For instance, utilizing high-quality, audio-visual equipment, such as multiple microphones and wide-angle cameras, can help remote students feel more connected to the physical classroom (Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning, 2021). Building a sense of community across campuses is crucial (Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning, 2021).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

By now many people have read the recent article by the New York Times that critically examines the state of DEI at the University of Michigan. This article prompted other criticisms against the University of Michigan’s DEI initiatives in media outlets including the New York Post and USA Today and follows other attacks.

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 10, 2023

As concerns over campus antisemitism engulf US universities, Jim Dickinson wonders when England's new free speech chief will offer clarity on the line between what's protected and what's prohibited The post Universities and students need answers on antisemitism appeared first on Wonkhe.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Often presented as a training ground for the country’s future journalists, the student press plays an important role in keeping UK universities and their various institutions to account. Breaking national stories Universities are breeding grounds for scandal. Huge national stories have been broken by student newspapers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Robinson, a foundational figure in University of Tennessee history, grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he and his mother, Alma, would listen to the radio, discussing historic elections and admiring the courage of civil rights leaders. It highlighted the University of Tennessee’s exclusion of Black students. Theotis Robinson Jr.

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Wonkhe

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Jim Dickinson sets out an alternative The post Free speech is not universities’ problem. Conflict on campus feels more intractable than ever - yet methods to resolve it are increasingly legalistic, silencing students in the process. It’s students’ appeared first on Wonkhe.

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SRHE

APRIL 22, 2025

by GR Evans The Office for Students has found that the Trans and Non-Binary Equality Policy Statement of the University of Sussex involves breach of two of the relevant OfS Regulatory Requirements in late March 2025, and imposed an unprecedentedly substantial fine. Sussex was created among the batch of new universities of the 1960s.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Neel Ganta has been appointed director of Player Personnel at the University of Illinois. Ganta graduated from Kansas State University in May 2020, earning a bachelors degree in finance with a minor in computer science and certificates in data analytics and investment management. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Colleges and universities adpating to the digitization of course materials are finding new functions for their campus bookstore, the once-ubiquitous center for students’ academic needs. However, the university’s physical store still sells school merchandise. It may also be boosting student outcomes.

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University Business

JANUARY 9, 2025

Cyberattacks on colleges and universities have been on the rise for years, and this trend will likely continue in 2025. Increase data transparency In 2025, colleges and universities will likely need to respond to growing demands around data transparency. In fact, this is already happening.

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HEPI

APRIL 22, 2025

Amira Asantewa is Director of Programmes, Grit Breakthrough Programmes Reuel Blair is Lead Diversity Programmes Coordinator at the Centre for Student and Community Engagement, Nottingham Trent University Progress on the Black-white degree awarding gap has gone into reverse. Across the sector, institutions are responding.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Elsewhere on the site, Professor Harriet Dunbar-Morris, Pro Vice-Chancellor Academic and Provost at The University of Buckingham, highlights what is, in her view, a critical flaw in the LLE: the unfair funding gap facing students on accelerated two-year degree programmes, despite their clear benefits for employability and skills development.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

Fostering student success may be highly individualized, but there are four universal practices that might yield successful student outcomes. Communication Effective communication between university faculty and students is fundamental for enhancing academic success, student engagement, mental health, and trust.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

To earn the Seal of Excelencia a college or university must demonstrate an intentional, institutional focus on advancing Latino student success by aligning data and practice. Colleges and universities that have received the Seal of Excelencia enroll 17% of Latino students in the U.S. California State University, San Marcos Dr. Ellen J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 2, 2024

Hollins University is launching a scholarship initiative to enable academically talented young women to complete a four-year degree in which direct costs of attendance are fully covered. The HOPE Scholars Program originated in 2021 covering tuition for qualified students living within a 40-mile radius of Roanoke, Virginia.

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Higher Ed Data Stories

DECEMBER 23, 2022

You'll notice that between 2019 (the last normal year before COVID) and 2021 (the first year things returned to something closer to normal), that most selective (more about that) institutions did, in fact, become more diverse. So, the viz: Only the last view is interactive.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2025

Sharon Tran Dr. Sharon Tran, an assistant professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), has established herself as a rising voice in Asian American literary studies. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles, before completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Southern California.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 10, 2025

“Were in an extremely interesting but difficult policy environment for international education,” said Jamie Arrowsmith, director of Universities UK International. “We have a government that is naturally inclined to support universities and welcome international students,” he said.

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Wonkhe

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The real problem that universities have with freedom of speech is that they are no good at talking about it, argues Paul Greatrix. The post The real free speech problem in universities appeared first on Wonkhe.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 29, 2024

I’ve just been all over our colleges and universities and there were 18% students from around the world taking our kids’ seats and not even staying here but going back to their country,” Ford claimed. So we can recruit them globally but not educate 0.26% here?”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

Eva Martinez Powless Eva Martinez Powless, who served as MATC's first DEI officer starting in 2021, claims in the lawsuit filed December 30 in the U.S. Eastern District Court that she faced retaliation after advocating for a Black employee with disabilities and speaking out against discriminatory practices at the college.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

billion in 2021—has led to an explosion of options as more institutions and specialized platforms enter the space. The post The 6 trends shaping the online business education landscape in 2025 appeared first on University Business. billion in 2017 to $8.3 Online business education isn’t just meeting the moment; it’s leading the way.

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The PIE News

MARCH 5, 2025

The findings come from University UK International’s Gone international, a new generation report, which updates 2016 data to reflect the shifting mobility landscape post-Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2021/2022, mobile graduates were 5.1% more likely to be in a professional-level job than their non-mobile peers.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 9, 2025

The recent allowance for international universities to set up campuses in GIFT City further strengthens India’s position as a global education hub, offering students access to world-class education locally. This diversity enables students to choose courses tailored to their academic interests and career aspirations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Jhaneil Thompson After graduating from high school, Thompson enrolled in a community college and when it was time for her to continue her education at a four-year-institution, it was Florida A&M University (FAMU) that welcomed her right from the start, even before she officially enrolled in fall of 2019.

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