Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2023

I am aging faster in academia. Over the past few weeks, we suddenly and unexpectedly lost two Black female college presidents. Montague, President of Volunteer State Community College in Tennessee, and JoAnne E. Tricia Hersey, author of Rest is Resistance, reminds us academia is the headquarters for grind culture.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

However, as Black women in academia, many of us, otherwise strangers to her, felt it too. Just two days later, on September 22, in Gallatin, Tennessee, Volunteer State Community College announced that Orinthia T. The pain of their deaths is not unlike the experiences Black women in academia have long endured.

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University Business

MAY 23, 2023

Secondly, first-generation college students are 44% less likely to graduate than students with at least one parent with a bachelor’s degree, according to the Pew Research Center. Without proper guidance from family members, men who are first-generation college students may not be able to visualize success in academia truly.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2024

6) If you think you may want — ever — to go out on your own, outside academia, then start an LLC immediately. Sara Goldrick-Rab is author of Paying the Price, College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream , senior fellow at Education Northwest, and an adjunct professor at the Community College of Philadelphia.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Within academia, the most common feedback approaches, whether summative or formative, are often guided by criticism because assessment traditionally focuses on what is missing or incorrect. She also teaches writing and ESL courses at Pima Community College and has developed online course materials.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Image: A new automotive technology program at Coconino Community College, launched last fall, is on pause as campus leaders struggle to hire a full-time faculty member to keep it afloat. The college offered four automotive technology classes last fall and five courses in the spring, serving 46 students.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 8, 2023

I’ve not heard institutional status as an argument to invest in the English department (at least not since I started working in academia), so maybe my friends in the humanities have found a champion in Cowen. Third, Cowen worries that the best and brightest choose any career path as long as it is not academia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

universities and colleges were founded before 1900. This demographic and economic boom period in the country created the foundation on which academia rests today and, in many ways, is still seeking to recapture. Dr. Mordecai Ian Brownlee is president of the Community College of Aurora in Colorado. According to the U.S.

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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. Dr. Patricia Benson is chief executive officer at CT State Community College Housatonic. However, there is an oversight that continues to happen. Dr. Merrill L Irving Jr.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

” After the Ivory Tower Falls is a book we in academia should be engaging with. I hope that readers come away convinced that: A) We must support policies and politicians committed to investing in public colleges and universities, especially community colleges. The answers to all these questions are “yes.”

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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. years on average, according to the Community College League of California’s CEO tenure and retention dashboard.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2025

As community colleges across the United States struggle with declining retention rates, it has become increasingly clear that institutional focus should not be limited to numbers alone. Recommendations for Practice While data is still essential, community colleges should balance it with creating solid student relationships.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2024

Colleges and universities are getting some harsh lessons in economics, as financial and demographic realities collide with the loftier ambitions of academia. Another - Notre Dame College in South Euclid - already has crunched the numbers and called it quits.

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MindMax

MARCH 18, 2024

After spending years in the Greater Boston area, a hub of academia teeming with colleges and universities, I relocated to upstate New York. Comparatively, there are fewer college degrees per capita, but no less intelligence, warmth, or success.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Both academia and security experts add that schools must emphasize law and ethics so students "don't cross the line" and misuse their hacking abilities. Many of these are being offered in the public sector within community colleges and universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

From a sample of over 560,000 first year, first time community college students and over 32,000 instructors in Texas between 2013 and 2020, researchers found that 77% of white students experienced a racial match. That means making sure that people get tenure and stay in academia.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

Black students continue to be overrepresented among those who are the first in their families to seek higher education and, thus, are often the first ones to navigate professional environments like academia and corporate America in their Black bodies. We are their last stop before entering the workplace as professionals. Dr. Kelly A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

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. of LGBTQ people experienced bullying, harassment, or assault at college, compared to 18.9% These are the real impacts.”

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Associate Level English for Academic Purposes Reading Area Community College (Reading, PA) The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at Reading Area Community College (RACC) began in 2012 to strategically reduce credit requirements and accelerate student progression with the goal of boosting enrollment and success rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

She also encourages nurses of color she meets at various events and offers to mentor individuals who are considering entering academia. Focusing on the associate degree programs at the community colleges and public universities really helps to address medically underserved areas and populations,” Mahon says.

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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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Continuous Learning Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

In addition to her work with faculty to boost awareness of disability, especially hidden disability, in academia, she is working with a group of disabled-in-higher-ed peers on an edited collection of narrative essays about the intersection of disability and education. She was diagnosed with anxiety in 2016 and autism in 2023.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 7, 2023

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas appointed the members, representing a diverse range of individuals and organizations in academia. The HSAPC focuses on various missions, with a primary emphasis on enhancing safety and security on high school and college campuses.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This mind-set is driven by the increasing importance of “corporate” leadership models as well as the growing predominance of STEM research culture in academia. Is it accessible to readers outside academia? Is our scholarship arguing for, rather than just, something?

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Within academia, the most common feedback approaches, whether summative or formative, are often guided by criticism because assessment traditionally focuses on what is missing or incorrect. She also teaches writing and ESL courses at Pima Community College and has developed online course materials.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

First-generation college students surveyed are also less likely to have had in-person internships. When it comes to the journey students take from academia into the professional world, we cannot allow the old system that only worked for some to keep out the talent. The pandemic opened our eyes to inequities in many parts of our world.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 17, 2022

During the pandemic, there’s been a lot of concern among campus leaders about enrollment losses among Black men, and some colleges have recently launched new initiatives dedicated to their enrollment and retention. What do you think of those discussions and efforts happening in academia right now in the context of your research?

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

The worriers of academia envision a dystopia where students outsource thinking and creativity; where intellectual property theft and plagiarism unchecked and undetectable will lead to a generation of writers with no syntax mojo or ability to communicate without generative assistance.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

One underlying premise here is that AI will not produce texts with resonant personal perspective; but even if AI can replicate this type of writing, a second premise is that a writing assignment that invites students to share the ways in which their lives intersect with academia will motivate students to write their own papers.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

The worriers of academia envision a dystopia where students outsource thinking and creativity; where intellectual property theft and plagiarism unchecked and undetectable will lead to a generation of writers with no syntax mojo or ability to communicate without generative assistance.

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2023

will be moving into entrepreneurial pursuits after serving in academia for 30 years, according to The Oklahoman. steps down at a time when Langston’s total enrollment has been steadily declining for the past decade, like other regional colleges in the state. Previous to that at Saint Paul College (Minn.)

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

President Cartwright also illustrated that university partnerships with local community colleges can help uplift the regional economy, and how the pandemic reshaped educational and organizational practice at every level of UCF. The Rewards of High-Level Collaboration. The Impact of Alliances in Higher Education.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 4, 2022

As institutions, as individual people affiliated with schools, as groups within a college or university, academics have a broad range of strategies and responses available. Seen through our macro lens, academia can act on three levels, starting with the smallest events and actions taking place on campus: The physical campus.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

One underlying premise here is that AI will not produce texts with resonant personal perspective; but even if AI can replicate this type of writing, a second premise is that a writing assignment that invites students to share the ways in which their lives intersect with academia will motivate students to write their own papers.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

The discourse regarding the position of AI-generated writing in academia is in its early stages. Balch has been awarded excellence in teaching by the Universities of Redlands and La Verne, and has also been awarded “Realizing Shared Dreams: Teamwork in the Southern California Community Colleges” by Rio Hondo College.

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