Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

The budding Black studies department at the University of Rochester will fast-track their hiring of faculty with the help of a $3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation. chair of faculty programs and departmental initiatives in the university's Black studies department. Dr. Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. McCune, Jr.,

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2023

Vermont’s public four-year institutions in fall 2022; however, hit a whopping 12.2% Starting this July, Castleton University, Northern Vermont University and Vermont Technical College will consolidate into Vermont State University—a lean, cost-effective hybrid learning machine.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A 2022 survey conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse with support from Kaplan found a student’s satisfaction with course registration and financial aid office interactions was generally higher if their college had a one-stop shop for student services. The challenge is that data is siloed across campus.” Share here.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Back in September, Western Michigan University—a public research institution located in the southwestern corner of the state—released its fall 2024 enrollment and retention numbers, much to the delight of the school’s provost, Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig. Black student enrollment, for example, went up 2.3% in Hispanic enrollment.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

These are some of the questions we set out to investigate in the latest effort of the Transfer Opportunity Project ( TOP ; one of the A2B group of projects) housed at the City University of New York. CUNY is the nation’s largest urban public university. Alexandra W. Vita Rabinowitz Alexandra W. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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