Academia Community College History 
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. We know with the history of higher education that dominant voices have been heard. Dr. Patricia Benson is chief executive officer at CT State Community College Housatonic.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
A professor of Chicano/Latino studies and history at the University of California, Irvine, Anita was a high school teacher at 23, then a K-12 school director of curriculum and assessment, a freelance journalist and a migrant rights activist, before earning her Ph.D. We need it desperately, both to be able to survive and to thrive.
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