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. Are students being serviced in an efficient manner or are they struggling to understand which department to go to next? However, there is an oversight that continues to happen.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Recommendations: · Pre-work: University should provide departments with an anonymous, structured evaluation forms (with decision criteria and clear rubrics, just as is used to facilitate fairness in student grading) to rate the candidate both quantitatively and qualitatively. Committee members often arrive unprepared.

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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.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

Two prominent efforts to diversify music in academia are the new University of Arkansas’ (UA) Arkansas Center for Black Music and the creation of the George Walker Center for Equity and Inclusion in Music at the University of Rochester’s (UR) Eastman School of Music (Eastman). This article was published in our June 2023 issue.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It’s a development historians say follows movement—particularly within the field of public history—toward broader recognition. history, writes that “If we believe that historical thinking and knowledge should inform public policy, then we need to make our work accessible to policymakers and influencers.”

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Higher Education Inquirer

APRIL 30, 2025

Additionally, some universities have partnered with police departments or government entities to share data from campus surveillance, effectively extending the governments reach into spaces historically seen as separate from state control. Throughout history, mass surveillance has been a hallmark of authoritarian and fascist regimes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Gaston Gayles directly addressed the toxicity of the constantly productive, highly competitive environment in academia. Joy Gaston Gayles, president of ASHE and distinguished graduate professor and senior advisor for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion at North Carolina State University. Kyoungjin Jang-Tucci, a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Erik Gellman, a tenured associate professor of history at UNC, of HB 715, officially called the Higher Education Modernization & Affordability Act. Eichner was particularly concerned about the bill in light of recent history. Our rankings would fall precipitously.” It’s going to have an inherent fear factor,” she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

A Latino student researching a university department observed that hardly any of the faculty had backgrounds similar to his own. “I Those are places where we find hope, where we find a safe haven to sustain our work and to navigate academia.” Carlos Galan Institution:  University of California, Riverside Graduate Program:   Ph.D.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 19, 2023

Ruth Milkman Job security in higher ed is one of the biggest issues, particularly for those in lecturer and adjunct positions at schools, said Dr. Ruth Milkman, chair of Labor Studies department at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Labor and Urban Studies. So academia is actually the extreme case of that.

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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. A tragic moment in history propelled the theoretical physicist’s decision to attend MIT for graduate school and to bring about meaningful change as a leader. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

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. The distinctive cultural focus of TCUs is now paired with the academic rigor of a Ph.D.,

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Limerick,” Chris Whitney, the board’s vice chair and brand commissioner for the state of Colorado’s Department of Agriculture, wrote to Glen Krutz, CU Boulder’s dean of arts and sciences. This does not affect Limerick’s tenured position as professor of history or her ability to conduct research."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Kathleen Belew says she studies “the history of the present.” Put another way, she studies the history that shapes issues of the modern day. Belew is in her first year as an associate professor in the department of history at Northwestern University. But the other threat is a broader attack on our political institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The average graduate student worker within the UC system spends more than 52 percent of their income on rent, making them “extremely rent burdened,” per federal Department of Housing and Urban Development guidelines, according to the UAW.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. Treasury Department and the Council of Economic Advisors. As Dean of the Faculty, she reviewed their recruitment, appointment and promotion; additionally, she oversaw the budget, personnel and graduate programs across multiple academic departments.

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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, who teaches in the department of arts and communication, sees it as a vital means of communicating.

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ACRLog

MARCH 31, 2024

I am particularly proud of my involvement in creating virtual and in-person book displays for Latinx Heritage Month and Black History Month. Additionally, I have been spreading awareness about the OCE to professors and lecturers in the department of Central American & Transborder Studies.

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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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HEPI

JULY 9, 2024

When you ask the Department for Business and Trade about exports, higher education is clearly one sector where the British offer has the attention of the world. The Prime Minister will personally Chair new ‘mission boards’ to aid cross-department collaboration. We make our own history but not in the times of our own choosing.

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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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#Deaning

MARCH 27, 2023

She completed a minor in German Studies during her undergrad and joined the Department of History in 2020 as their Academic Programs Assistant. More recently, she’s been an Administrative Officer in the Department of Chemistry. She completed both her BSc and MSc here at Guelph and is no stranger to the COA.

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The PIE News

MAY 16, 2023

Semester at Sea has a storied history that began with its maiden voyage in 1963. On past programs, learners have met heads of state, Nobel Laureates, and other notable figures in politics, academia, and entertainment Over the past 60 years and 100 plus voyages, more than 74,000 voyagers have become SAS alumni.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The college centers the histories, traditions, cultures, experiences, struggles, and accomplishments of diasporic communities of color, making connections between the local and transnational. Building Pathways to Academia — Columbia University in the City of New York. Kendi, author of “How to Be an Antiracist.” .

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. If no one studies history, we don’t get the next Doris Kearns Goodwin; if no one studies English literature, whence the next David McCullough? New tools.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Work has emerged from within individual universities driven by the academic, personal or political motivations of individuals and departments, rather than by a national agenda. The acronym prioritises analytical convenience and flattens nuanced representations and histories of the groups captured within.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

” This report marks a critical juncture in the AAUP’s history, being one of only eight special reports issued, and underscores a growing concern over political interference in the realm of academic governance. Professor of History, CSU East Bay1989-2010, Prof. Emeritus, 2015-present. [00:00:28]

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HESA

APRIL 5, 2023

Is a University a University without the Liberal Arts” asks Devereaux, referring to a recent shuttering of nine programs in mathematics, history, art, English and philosophy at Marymount University in Virginia. Let’s ignore the headline, which the author doesn’t necessarily choose, and get to the crux of the argument. “Is

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Echo Delta

JANUARY 20, 2023

For years, we’ve felt like every problem at a college or university has been blamed on the enrollment department, and the enrollment department has been expected to solve all of the college’s or university’s problems. To our friends in academia: we urge you to hold up a mirror and take a look around. They can’t and shouldn’t.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 11, 2024

A CMS serves as the digital backbone of a campus, linking different departments, procedures, and stakeholders, going beyond simple administrative efficiency. Important courses in academia usually consist of: 1. Speeds up cooperation between teams, departments, and campuses, and provides one hundred percent data analysis.

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

However, Riverso does have a background in developing young talent through academia. Gustafson served in faculty and administration at Presbyterian for nearly two decades before departing to Mercer University (Ga.) An avid professor, she taught history at Presbyterian and Mercer University while dean.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

They know what colleges the other students are applying to and want to ensure their students have a similar or better college experience, including more physical and mental health services, nicer campus facilities, larger research departments, more public services for the community, and other ancillary services.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

For example, an institution known for forensic science might develop an online MBA program with a specialization in that area, leveraging its unique history and specialization. But lately, there’s been so much significant change in academia, that I’ve fallen much more into a role of looking at the bigger, broader trend.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

About Our Podcast Guest Catherine Friday EY Oceania Managing Partner, Government and Health Sciences; EY Global Education Leader Catherine has spent much of her career providing services to state and federal departments and regulators, ministerial councils, not-for-profits, and NGOs in every state and territory in Australia and in New Zealand.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 28, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Teacher Education and Higher Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Tenured: No Age: 36 Education: B.A. in History from Coastal Carolina University, and a certificate in Program Evaluation from Florida State University; M.Ed.

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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. Last semester I taught 800 students and this semester 80.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Significant progress has also been made in academia. Dr. Donald Collins, an assistant professor for the Department of History at Loyola University Maryland, said people have to consider the history of what this report has highlighted. Black high school attainment in the last 60 years has increased from 24.8%

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