University Business

JANUARY 14, 2025

Increased student enrollment and government funding in the 1960s and 70s spurred a building boom on college campuses across the U.S. Can we embrace the past while accommodating the future of academia? Max Lowenthal Hall, home of the Saunders College of Business, was completed in 1977.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Colleges typically use a variety of assessments such as standardized tests, essays, and GPA to determine a student's readiness for life in academia. When students from diverse backgrounds step onto campus, they are not just seeking a college degree. The decision to attend college is a transformative journey for a student's life.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MAY 1, 2025

While conservative scholars have long been underrepresented in academia, a growing number of universities are seeing new initiatives to diversify intellectual perspectives. the growing influence of right-wing thought on college campuses is contributing to a narrowing of intellectual diversity. status as a democratic superpower.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

His scholarly focus is on African American religion, philosophy, history, and culture. He has established rich partnerships with area churches and nonprofits, and across campus with the College, the School of Business, the School of Law, the School of Professional Studies, and the School of Medicine.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Two presidents have been hired at small private colleges in the past two weeks and one leader is choosing to retire after four decades in higher education. Hired Trevor Bates – Mercy College of Ohio Trevor Bates Mercy College of Ohio has announced Trevor Bates as its next president.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

College students who graduate as English majors actually find jobs at about the same rate as those who major in other subjects, according to a recent report commissioned by the Modern Language Association (MLA). According to the report, the unemployment rate for English majors, 2.3%, was not far off from that of all college graduates, 2.17%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. Two new hires are expected this year.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 30, 2024

Yale University has appointed Maurie McInnis, PhD, as its 24th president, making her the first permanent female president in the institution’s history. McInnis, a cultural historian, has had a notable career in academia, including significant roles at the University of Virginia and the University of Texas at Austin.

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University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

The unemployment rate for English majors was 2.3%, which is near that of all college graduates and those on different academic paths. for physical science and history majors. For example, several survey respondents observed that academics were not required to connect academia to prospective employment opportunities.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Image: When Julianna Barnes set her sights on a career in academia, she envisioned eventually becoming a vice president of an institution and assumed it would be her pinnacle role in the profession. “Serving as chancellor was a natural progression, given my professional history,” she said.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The institution has a storied history. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. In New York City?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

On the opening day, academics shared findings on student success at Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), while others tackled issues of pay inequity in internships. Gaston Gayles directly addressed the toxicity of the constantly productive, highly competitive environment in academia. Kyoungjin Jang-Tucci, a Ph.D.

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Higher Education Inquirer

APRIL 30, 2025

colleges and universities have increasingly adopted surveillance technologies, often in ways that blur the lines between student safety, security, and governmental overreach. Little Resistance: The Silence of Academia Despite these troubling developments, resistance within academia has been minimal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Among the latest efforts are HB 715 in North Carolina, which would remove tenure for future faculty in the University of North Carolina (UNC) system and at public community colleges, and SB 266 in Florida, which would give the state more control over the content of core classes and limit funding for DEI efforts.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It by Will Bunch. ” After the Ivory Tower Falls is a book we in academia should be engaging with. Published in August of 2022. I’m hearing rumbles of book clubbing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Kayon Hall wants to change the way academia thinks about undocumented students. college and university leaders connecting the dots between immigration policy and its impact on students. Of the approximately 427,000 undocumented students attending a postsecondary institution, only 12.5%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2022

She feels it’s important to share her stories with women — in and out of academia — and build community with other scholars. I was always very conscious of the small number of Black women in the profession, in academia, but then in the discipline of political science,” she continues. I thought, ‘Why don’t we know this history?’”

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Bolstered by state and national workforce needs and their promising return on investment, the STEM track represents a gold mine for colleges and universities that want to ensure credentials from their institution are providing students with good job prospects and gainful employment. What can we do?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

They see ChatGPT writing papers, maniacal zealots indoctrinating young minds with woke, left-wing ideology, or, alternatively, right-wing idealogues banning books and prohibiting the honest teaching of history. I was weighed down by the centuries of history that had shaped my place in America, but I was also determined to make a difference.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It became the first tribal college and university, or TCU, to offer a Ph.D. TCUs are unique in that their founding principle is to serve indigenous people and their nations, connecting their history to their future, and empowering a new generation of learners with the skills to uplift their communities. Tuttle “We are a tribal college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 19, 2023

Earlier in 2022, the union at Barnard College was able to win compensation for out-of-class work for adjuncts and full-time faculty there. the highest number in academia in at least 20 years, according to The Guardian. So academia is actually the extreme case of that. Meanwhile, they accumulate often, a lot of student debt.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

HEI delves into in-depth investigative reporting, uncovering scandals, institutional failures, and systemic inequalities in colleges, universities, and their related businesses. The Higher Education Inquirer (HEI) follows the legacy of the muckrakers from the early 20th century.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite recent pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion among several states , a number of colleges have recently hired presidents based on their commitment to that principle. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. Safa Zaki, Bowdoin College (Williamstown, Mass.) Safa Zaki, Bowdoin College (Williamstown, Mass.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Despite being immensely privileged with respect to other K-12 teachers, whose ranks I left to join academia, and to the growing number of non-tenure-track colleagues at UPR, my teaching and activist commitments leave me very little time for scholarly production.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Fortunately there are practical steps that colleges can take to make climate action compatible with personal well-being. These findings , from a survey conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse and sponsored by Kaplan, are consistent with research literature on climate anxiety , which is especially prominent among younger adults.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

The question made Galan reflect on his own college journey, which started just three years after he arrived in America from El Salvador, knowing little English. Those are places where we find hope, where we find a safe haven to sustain our work and to navigate academia.” Higher Education Administration and Policy Education:   M.Ed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

People outside of academia may be better positioned to evaluate the impact of candidate’s scholarship. · Carefully assess why disconnects occur between external and internal evaluators. Conclusion: Tenure processes have remained essentially unchanged for decades in many universities/colleges/departments. Dr. Donna Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. Unquestionably, the past 40 years have brought many steps forward in terms of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights, visibility, and consciousness, but in academia it is still a work in progress.

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ACRLog

APRIL 18, 2023

Last semester, I taught my first semester-long class at the community college where I work. Many community colleges offer both credit courses and classes that are for continuing education, workforce training, and recreation — my class was one of these, based on a class that a previous librarian taught.

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#Deaning

MARCH 27, 2023

[link] ◾ In hiring news, we are excited to welcome Ann Vandergust to the College of Arts! She completed a minor in German Studies during her undergrad and joined the Department of History in 2020 as their Academic Programs Assistant. Ann will be joining us as the Manager, Facilities and Operations. and new colleagues.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

At a time in academia when STEM is increasingly evolving into STEAM, colleges and universities with intensely driven, career-focused students are endeavoring to create space for arts education. Akbar, professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Fort Valley State University, an HBCU institution in Georgia.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Barrington Price, Dominican University’s vice president of student success and engagement, knows this well—because he was a struggling first-generation college student himself. Half of our students are the first in their families to attend college. I should know—I failed out of college my freshman year.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Navigating the Crossroads of Tradition and Modern Market Dynamics Colleges and universities have a long history of helping students transform their lives. Thinking of students as “buyers” or “consumers” is a concept that might make academia squirm.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The university said in a statement late Tuesday that it "appreciates former director Patty Limerick’s significant scholarly contributions to academia and the American West. This does not affect Limerick’s tenured position as professor of history or her ability to conduct research."

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 31, 2023

A college history professor declared she would have given what the program spat out in response to an exam prompt “ an F- if that’s possible.” Recent articles in the press have quoted instructors keen to disparage what ChatGPT is producing.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Elevating Stories of the Unrecognized — Agnes Scott College. In July, Agnes Scott College launched the Acknowledging our Past: Acting Now for a Transformed Future project, which aims to elevate the lives and stories of the people of color who built the college. Multicultural Mentorship — Augustana College.

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PeopleAdmin

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A tenured professor is a faculty member at a college or university who has a full-time teaching position and strong job security that protects academic freedom. They teach, conduct research in their fields, serve on college committees, and mentor students. Today, they make up the majority of professors on any college campus.

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