Faculty Focus

APRIL 29, 2025

These hostile work environments have profound consequences, leading many talented educators to leave academia entirely or return to clinical practice. The Scope of Bullying in Nursing Academia Bullying in higher education is a widespread and systemic issue.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

To meet the growing demand, many are developing distinctive degrees, certificates, and other programs that help graduate students, faculty, and workforce professionals develop the required skills. DEI-focused degree programs like those at UK serve as pathways to chief diversity officer (CDO) and other DEI leadership roles.

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The PIE News

JUNE 5, 2024

Each team created a three-minute video pitch, evaluated by a panel of SAEC award sponsors, with the help of assigned mentors from Australian academia and business, who guided them with their video pitches. Runner-ups bagged scholarships and cash prizes. Runner-ups bagged scholarships and cash prizes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

But her scholarship focuses on those stars she can barely see. The San Francisco Bay Area native developed her passion for astronomy at San Diego State University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in astronomy with a mathematics minor, before obtaining a master’s degree in astronomy from the University of Maryland. “It

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Israeli institution Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has launched a new aid scholarships program for new immigrants following the war in Ukraine. The post Israel: BGU launches new aid scholarships appeared first on The PIE News.

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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. However, there is an oversight that continues to happen. Dr. Merrill L Irving Jr.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

But if top universities genuinely want to lead, a key roadblock remains: around the nation and the world, leading institutions are structurally unprepared for the fossil fuel industry’s assault on the interests and values of academia. Sometimes, fossil fuel companies’ routes of influence on scholarship can be very direct.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 3, 2025

Wooster does not have any graduate degree programs. Degrees Awarded by Major In the most recent report, 18 majors had graduates Wooster Degrees Conferred. This endowment supports scholarships, faculty positions, and various institutional initiatives, ensuring the college’s long-term financial health.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

In the landscape of higher education, African American men face a unique set of challenges that significantly impact their ability to obtain a college degree. Financial aid and scholarships are available, but often not sufficient to bridge the gap, and the burden of student loans can be a daunting deterrent. Not dropout rates.

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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. education often manifests as an outright rejection of academia in favor of populist rhetoric that prioritizes "common sense" over expert knowledge.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

In a career that has included both academia and the private sector, Dr. Teik C. Teik Lim “My family did not have much money, but with the help of a generous undergraduate scholarship from Michigan Tech, I was able to support myself through college and become the first member of my family to earn a college degree,” said Lim.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Although she has reached such heights in her scholarship, she began her college journey with little information or direction about academia, in part because she lacked counseling in high school. “I Mayes is a transformational leader in counselor education as seen by her scholarship and impact on the profession.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

“This is not just a matter of visibility or the fairness of representation…but it’s also about the diversity of experiences that people bring both into academia and into the professional world,” says project director Dr. Volker Janssen. Also, advanced degrees are increasingly important for lifetime career advancement.”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 27, 2025

High-profile examples of student debt crises and underemployment among graduates have fueled skepticism about the value of a traditional college degree, leading some students to pursue alternative pathways, such as trade schools, apprenticeships, or immediate entry into the workforce.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In the wake of these demographic trends, a recent TASO publication (Andrews et al , 2023) reports that the sector is gripped by a high degree of uncertainty over the most expedient institutional approaches to adopt in dealing with disparities in progression and attainment.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

Drawing on over two decades in academia, Michele Poulos specializes in general psychology, social psychology, and human growth and development. Before embarking on her professional journey, Poulos attended Arizona State University, where she obtained a bachelor of arts degree in elementary education and teaching in 2001. Nissley, N.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Thinking of students as “buyers” or “consumers” is a concept that might make academia squirm. While the term “buyer” is traditionally associated with commerce, in this context, it signifies the transactional nature of selecting a higher ed program: an exchange of tuition and commitment for an education, an experience, and a degree.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

They empowered my hope, and I became the first in my family to earn a bachelor’s degree. Today, I embrace my role in helping Dominican University pursue its mission to help underresourced students achieve the opportunities that a college degree provides. Q: What makes Dominican unique as an institution and as a student body?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

Image: Latinx students can have a tough time navigating the numerous structural and institutional challenges that work against them in academia, especially when it comes to attending and succeeding in graduate school. Q: What do you know now that you would’ve told yourself before receiving an advanced degree?

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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. We practice theater as scholarship, as performance and as activism,” Akbar said.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Explaining or discussing faith can ignite heated, passionate and explosive debates in academia. Over time, the degree to which institutions align themselves with a particular faith waxes and wanes. Blog: Just Explain It to Me! And yet, faith has played and continues to play a large part in higher education.

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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. After earning her bachelor’s degree, Jackson became the first African American woman to receive a doctorate at MIT. During her 23 years at the helm, more than $1.25

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Those New York residents who make it receive full-tuition scholarships or tuition waivers (for individuals from out of state). Photo Credit: Macaulay Honors College Finding a lack of diversity Access to higher education has been an important theme in Byrne’s life in academia. Less than 10% of applicants are accepted.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

Drawing on over two decades in academia, Michele Poulos specializes in general psychology, social psychology, and human growth and development. Before embarking on her professional journey, Poulos attended Arizona State University, where she obtained a bachelor of arts degree in elementary education and teaching in 2001. Nissley, N.

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UW Presidential Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

The close of the academic year is an incredibly special time in academia, and at the University of Washington, our own unique array of traditions, milestones and rituals makes this one of the most joyful – and busy!– Congratulations to all our graduates – we are so proud of all that you have accomplished in earning your degrees.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Offering prospective students something that isn’t widely available, such as a limited-time scholarship opportunity, can create a sense of urgency, pushing them to act quickly to not miss out on potential financial aid. Scarcity: We Want Things That Are Hard to Get We all know that the harder something is to get, the more value it often has.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Building Pathways to Academia — Columbia University in the City of New York. to offer scholarships to DACA students. Diversity Awards Program Raises Scholarship Funds — Texas Tech University. Columbia University launched the Inclusive Faculty Pathways initiative to support students in pursuit of an academic career.

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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. He referred questions Tuesday to a university spokesperson.

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Creatrix Campus

MARCH 17, 2022

Software Engineering is the latest undergraduate degree program that is added to the ABET accreditation, effective from Fall Semester 2021. 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.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We are reminded that what’s happening in Florida is not just an isolated issue but a warning sign of the potential nationwide impact of political interference in academia. And that got me really interested in issues of intellectual freedom, free speech, and, once I did get back into academia, academic freedom.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Khoury notes that 90% of individuals in academia, especially on residential campuses, lack certain skills that are necessary for adapting to new models of teaching and governance. And the idea of a democratic representation in lieu of expertise representation hurts us in academia when we are not sitting on a pile of money. [00:34:52]

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idfive agency

APRIL 8, 2022

And while efforts have taken many forms, none have become more visible and have built more momentum than the increasing efforts in business, government, and academia to address the issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB). . While students in the program receive scholarships, that’s just the beginning.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

He recently led a project to develop a data-driven metric for identifying rural-serving institutions (RSIs), and he has been invited to speak by a number of organizations, including the American Association of State Colleges & Universities, National Scholarship Providers Association, and the Oregon Community College Association.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?

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SRHE

OCTOBER 20, 2022

After musing about Degrees of freedom (No 14) by early 2015 we had resorted to satire (with topical cricket references): This editorial is in affectionate memory of policy making for English higher education, whose demise is deeply lamented. (No Then academia could be a beautiful game. No 17 This is an ex-Minister ).

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2023

million annually for student scholarships. We also have CCU Academy, which is feeding the university with dual credit and associate degrees. Let’s just forget academia for a moment. So we have an online component that’s about 9,000. We have a traditional residential count of about 1,550 or 1,600.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Several Black academicians can be noted as a respected authority in their discipline advancing the field through research and scholarship. Regarding achievement in higher education , baccalaureate degrees were obtained by 29 Black Americans from 1619 to 1850. Of all persons 25 and older earning bachelor’s degrees or higher , 40.8%

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