The PIE News

JANUARY 15, 2024

The g2 ARC (Admissions, Recruitment, & Counselling) series kicked off in August 2023 , providing a platform for high-school counsellors and IECs to collaborate with university admissions and recruitment professionals from around the world.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

It is evident that the low African American male student graduation rates at a predominantly Black institution in the northeastern United States continue to be a concern for higher education administrators. There are serious inequities among students who graduate from colleges. This may be a difficult task to pursue.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2023

Academia and industry alike have long grappled with the lingering issue of gender equity in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and professions. The National Girls Collaborative Project’s 2023 “State of Girls and Women in STEM” report revealed much of the same. We also try to lead by example.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. At the same time, they struggle to retain the women and minoritized faculty who they have recruited. Moreno at al. External letters are free-form — varying in length, criteria, and stringency.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

She was hired by SIUE in 2020 as part of a cluster hire designed specifically to recruit faculty members of color. Hall was so enamored of her cluster that she produced a short film about it, documenting how the relationships that she and the other professors had formed helped them navigate being people of color in academia.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Administrators say the lure of better-paying industry jobs coupled with the high cost of living in Flagstaff, Ariz., ” The faculty member hired to lead the program decided to leave for another job in February, and administrators have struggled to fill the position ever since. ” Still, administrators haven’t given up.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The Ohio State University College of Nursing uses its Summer Institute for Future Nurses as a recruiting tool for high school students. Information was not provided about new nursing hire recruitment. She also encourages nurses of color she meets at various events and offers to mentor individuals who are considering entering academia.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 5, 2023

But not every institution has the funding or administrative structures in place to initiate such changes, especially for postdocs, positions that have historically been underrecognized in academia and broader scientific culture.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2022

Similarities Between Industry and Academia. So by the time I got into this perspective of being in academia, that piece was part of how I operated. My favorite term is 'a thousand flowers blooming,' because what you can do in academia which works out really well is that you can literally start a lot of things going.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Campus administrations have urged instructional continuity during the strike, but it’s unclear to what extent that will be possible, given the scale of the labor action and the apparent support for it. Compensation that doesn’t match the cost of living and inequitable working conditions are pushing scholars out of academia.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 27, 2025

These schools often lack the resources to aggressively recruit nontraditional students, such as adult learners, career changers, or international students, who could help offset declining numbers. Changes in administration or legislative priorities can lead to significant shifts in funding, compliance obligations, and accreditation standards.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. Upon completion of her Ph.D.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2025

He also acknowledged that his impatience for change, developed during his years in industry, had to be balanced with the collaborative culture of academia. From Georgia Tech, I actually went into industry and worked for about 10 years before I realized that there’s a better career in academia. Initially, when I first got my PhD.

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HEPI

JULY 9, 2024

Then of course there are ‘events’ which can swipe an administration from the side like an unexpected storm. Because to really engage a new administration with a long-term ambition for the country and a plan for how to achieve it, we need to start talking to and about the country, less about ourselves. And so we joined forces.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. She joined the task force, and over the next year, members laid out a program for recruiting and retaining minority students.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 28, 2024

As music education continues to embrace DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) principles, those at every level in the field are pushing for greater representation and exposure of music beyond the boundaries of the classical, Caucasian-centered curricula typical of academia. Washington University (WashU) in St.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

In your view, how will this decision affect academia in the long term? Vick: In some ways, we had a preview of how academia will be affected by this decision in California and Michigan, when race-conscious admissions practices were overturned there. Vick is chief diversity officer at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

13 Benefits of Having Same-Raced Educators - Teachers, Counselors, and Administrators We are proposing that racial and ethnic educators are not just meaningful for students of color; they are important for white students, who have benefited from racial and ethnic matching since the first school and classroom doors opened.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

A-State has also impacted recruiting through the Student Diversity Recruitment team and the A-State INSPIRE program for first-year students. . Willard leads and manages Ball State’s Office of Inclusive Excellence, which is dedicated to the recruitment, retention, and celebration of diverse faculty, staff, and students.

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University Business

JANUARY 12, 2023

Key prerequisites for this leader included a track record in faculty recruitment and a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. And as Clemson’s senior assistant provost for Faculty Affairs before that, she spearheaded efforts in faculty recruitment and retention. Granberg earned her Ph.D.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Disturbing Trend in Florida Under Governor DeSantis’s administration, Florida has witnessed legislative maneuvers aimed at reshaping the educational landscape. However, the process faced challenges, notably the reluctance of current administrators and political leaders to engage, signifying the deep-seated nature of this issue.

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University Business

JULY 14, 2023

Her administrative experience expands across at least five schools, including Pennsylvania State University and Columbia University. She will be remembered for prioritizing student career development and her innovative hiring structures that ensured the recruitment and retention of a talented and diverse faculty body.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

There were a lot of warm words expressed about both HEPI and Wonkhe at last week’s Society for Research into Higher Education ( SRHE ) event on bridging academia and policymaking. HEPI, Wonkhe, the SRHE and the CGHE.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

APRIL 2, 2025

First, I advocate for explainable AI systems that allow humans to comprehend and justify AI decisions, especially in critical areas such as college admissions and recruitment. This transparency is crucial for building trust and ensuring that AI tools serve their intended purpose ethically and equitably.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2021

In this way, board members’ work broadens to include regular interactions with faculty, students, and alumni and creates more of a partnership to work alongside the administration to guide the institution. Those responsibilities do not stop with the university administration. Take duty of loyalty, for example.

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Creatrix Campus

MARCH 17, 2022

ABET executes accreditation with a "network of experts" who come from various industries and academia to validate and ensure that the institute’s programmatic standards are upheld. The staff, faculty, students, administrators should be ready to face panel interviews. Aids industry in recruiting best students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2025

But a serendipitous journey of studying journalism would eventually lead her to become one of higher educations most innovative researchers examining how university recruitment practices affect access for underserved students. This work has taken on new urgency following the Supreme Court's decision restricting race-conscious admissions.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 25, 2023

This includes the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, which supports recruiting, preparing, and developing effective, diverse, and capable STEM teachers who can teach in high-need school districts and serve a diverse student population. Education features interventions that enhance educational opportunities. So, NSF is all about people.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

DECEMBER 1, 2023

But I know in academia, management is considered the dark side. She set the tone of her administration with a statewide listening tour to frame her presidential priorities of promoting campus safety, supporting student veterans, and advancing UNM’s mission as an R1 university. That's what attracted me.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Academia is excellent at identifying the problem. He holds a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA), from the University of Phoenix, an MBA from the University of Maine Orono, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from the University of Maine at Fort Kent. We are excellent at deconstructing it.

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Echo Delta

OCTOBER 7, 2021

?. For small, tuition-driven colleges and universities, the challenge of recruiting right-fit students has never been greater. ” If we’re talking about enrollment, “What’s your recruitment strategy or retention strategy?” I did all the time, when I was in academia full-time. I frustrate people.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

If you’re going to ban DEI as an office, does that mean you are banning support, retention, and recruitment programs in which underrepresented minorities are being recruited or are there retention efforts specifically for women in STEM?” It’s such a broad topic that general threats to ban it alarm practitioners, he says. “If

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 19, 2022

Earlier this year, for instance, she accused Walsh’s production team of misrepresenting itself in order to recruit trans people to interview for his online documentary, What Is a Woman? Drug Enforcement Administration. program: those who support trans people in academia are fair game for attack.”

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

A bit more open to technology are the administrative and student life departments. They have fully turned to online sources, databases, and social media in recruitment and residential life.

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HEPI

JULY 21, 2023

The study examines the role of hybrid managers in academia, focusing on the motivations of university Heads of Departments, challenges that affect the successful enactment of their role, their relationship with power dynamics and their development needs for undertaking leadership as a hybrid manager.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

A bit more open to technology are the administrative and student life departments. They have fully turned to online sources, databases, and social media in recruitment and residential life.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998) created Pan-African and Africana studies and professional institutions in academia as a historian and professor. Blacks “have experienced greater gains in securing administrative positions than faculty” appointments. Black women have made more advancements in administrative positions than Black men.

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