Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor, Womens Health Occupational Therapist, University of St. Chan School of Public Health Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Always strive to see the bigger picturehow your teaching, research, and advocacy can ripple outward to impact lives. Dr. Arlenys Loffredo at the University of St.

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Academe Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

BY MICHAEL SCHWALBE Right-wing attacks on academia allege that modern secular universities are hotbeds of liberal orthodoxy and must be reformed to expand the range of views on offer to students.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 31, 2025

In many academic institutions, faculty, staff, and students often navigate strict hierarchies and narrowly defined roles, which can create significant barriers between these groups. Administrators focus on policies and data, while faculty members concentrate on teaching and research.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2025

Title: Associate Teaching Professor, Drexel University Tenured: No Age: 40 Education: B.S., physics education, West Chester University; M.A., physics, Temple University Career mentors: Dr. A.J. Dr. David Goldberg recalls that Love was hired when the department was seeking new teaching faculty with a focus on STEM.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Robert Scott The University System of Georgia's Board of Regents has named Dr. Robert Scott as the sole finalist for the presidency of Albany State University (ASU), bringing a leader with extensive experience in both academia and corporate innovation to the historically Black institution.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

More than 100 graduate students of color from 18 institutions gathered at Northern Illinois University (NIU) in February for the eighth annual Preparing Future Faculty of Color Conference , which strives to demystify having a career in academia. Attendees at the Preparing Future Faculty of Color Conference.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2025

Jacinta Saffold In a world where academia often overlooks the nuanced narratives of Black women, the Black Womens Studies Association (BWSA) is spearheading a movement that seeks to center the lived experiences of Black women across disciplines, identities, and generations. Farmer, a prominent historian at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2025

Without considering the emotional and social aspects of a student’s educational journey, particularly the connections they build with faculty and peers, institutions risk overlooking the things that keep students engaged, motivated, and ultimately enrolled. Simply put, data is not enough.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Those opportunities led Howard-Baptiste to Miami University in Ohio where she earned degrees in exercise science, health promotion, and a Ph.D. Continually going back to that same campus was ideal because I still was able to connect with mentors and faculty and staff and it really just nurtured my journey in higher education, she says.

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Academe Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

BY MICHAEL SCHWALBE Years ago, I was speaking with a colleague about one of the paradoxes of university life: tenured faculty enjoy more job security than almost any other occupational group in US society, yet they are often afraid to fight for their interests as a group. My colleague accounted for this lack of collective…

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The bill will overhaul Ohio’s public universities and community colleges, with provisions including the banning of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, limiting faculty strikes, and restricting certain foreign partnerships. I think thats a mistake.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

One day, while walking to a work meeting at a university in a supposedly progressive Northeast state, I encountered a disheartening sight. The shock of this encounter was amplified by the fact that it occurred at a predominantly white university. A photo depicted an individual holding a sign that read: "Please Speak English."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Using social media as a way to amplify one’s own reach in academe, was one of many topics discussed during a University of Michigan panel on how diversity scholars have navigated this tool. As a faculty member, I've always been either the only Black person in my entire college or in my department. My work is not my life.

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University Business

JANUARY 28, 2025

In 2013, Harvard Business School professors Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn made a striking prediction in the New York Times , forecasting that a host of struggling colleges and universities the bottom 25 percent of every tier, we predict will disappear or merge in the next 10 to 15 years. Monetizing assets through innovation hubs.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The recent settlement between Ferris State University, in Michigan, and Barry Mehler, a professor who was suspended earlier this year for sending students a video that referred to them (jokingly) as “c s” and “vectors of disease,” raises important questions about academic freedom in the classroom.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Attempts to clamp down on free expression do little to combat antisemitism or other unacceptable forms of hate and prejudice, according to the leader of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Universities have an obligation to protect the safety of their students and to promote a healthy campus culture,” said Mulvey. “At

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration, University of Vermont Tenured: No Age: 34 Education: B.A. in Sociology of Education with a policy concentration; Teachers College Columbia University; and Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Hampshire College; M.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Faculty from the University of Kentucky (UK), Vanderbilt University, and University of North Carolina Greensboro have received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support underrepresented minority faculty at predominantly white institutions (PWIs).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

To earn the Seal of Excelencia a college or university must demonstrate an intentional, institutional focus on advancing Latino student success by aligning data and practice. Colleges and universities that have received the Seal of Excelencia enroll 17% of Latino students in the U.S. and graduate 19%.

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ACRLog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Now, in my first proper fall semester as a liaison librarian at a mid-sized R1 University, I find the same statement— I thrive at the moment right before I’m totally overwhelmed, running through my mind, but with less self-assuredness.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Educators from underrepresented backgrounds and diverse disciplines at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) continue to build a campus-wide support system and sense of community through Faculty Link, an opt-in program now entering its third year. Sharon Inkelas. “I Serena Chen.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

Some faculty members and institutional technology specialists are concerned about the speed of Turnitin’s rollout, as well as aspects of AI-detector technology more broadly. Chief among them were the inability of faculty and institutions to opt out of the service and the speed at which Originality would be introduced. ​He

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University Business

MAY 14, 2024

Deliberately integrating the humanities into Georgia Tech University’s armada of world-class STEM-based programs is the future of pedagogy at the R1 Atlanta university—and perhaps for all of higher education, says Richard Utz, interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, in this installment of the “University Business Podcast.”

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The PIE News

MARCH 31, 2025

Italy sees significant opportunities in such initiatives but we are currently [looking] at legal aspects to work out a little more recognition, Ledda told The PIE News, when asked about the possibility of Italian universities having an institutional presence in India.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

A new study by Course Hero, an online learning platform for educators, suggests that a rise in job satisfaction among faculty has improved since the start of the pandemic. According to the American Association of University Women (AAUW) women make up the majority of non tenure-track faculty across institutions in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

The Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) will host its 8th annual early-career faculty professional development program, ELEVATE (Enriching Learning, Enhancing Visibility & Training Educators), this week. I arrived at ELEVATE wondering if the tenure track was right for me. "I

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation Should top university leadership roles be open to non-PhDs? " The (mostly) accepted consensus within academia is that a terminal degree is almost always table stakes for most academic leadership roles. Increasingly, I've become convinced that the answer to this question should be "yes."

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2025

Reflecting on my years in academia, I find myself increasingly drawn to the challenge of designing the optimal classone that not only engages students but also maximizes student learning. Michael Kiener is a professor at Maryville University of St. Louis in their Clinical Mental Health Counseling program.

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HEPI

APRIL 30, 2024

But in the midst of an artificial intelligence gold rush, can universities ensure everyone plays fair? With world-class research and global partnerships, universities have an opportunity, and a responsibility, to shape AI’s trajectory. AI is no longer a buzzword in lectures. Yet the path is fraught with complexities.

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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 14, 2024

Yet another noticed anti-Black racism increase at their institution when the university publicly declared its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). The report’s lead researcher, Dr. Becca Franssen, is a partner at the British talent-search firm GatenbySanderson, where she helps British universities fill executive roles.

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The Academic Designer

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This anthology features faculty and writers from the Mile-High MFA Program at Regis University. Andrea Rexilius discusses her edited anthology, We Can See Into Another Place, highlighting its multi-genre approach to social justice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2025

As a soon-to-be septuagenarian, current university faculty member and educational researcher, the guiding principle learn throughout life resonates with me. Both then, as K-12 educator and grandmother of six, and now in my university work, my life is iteratively enriched through intergenerational learning.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The largest strike to ever disrupt higher education by teaching assistants, tutors, graduate student researchers, and postdoctoral scholars at the University of California (UC) System is entering its fourth week. Protesters say the system is pushing scholars out of academia by not meeting workers’ needs. The strike continues.”.

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University Business

JANUARY 14, 2025

Can we embrace the past while accommodating the future of academia? Opening the black box: Helping faculty and staff understand an AI-driven world While many of these features are classic examples of modernist design, we now know that these academic spaces are not conducive to modern teaching and learning.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The California State University (CSU) system has announced a groundbreaking initiative to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into higher education at an unprecedented scale. With AI tools and training set to be available across all 23 campuses, the initiative will benefit more than 460,000 students and 63,000 faculty and staff.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

Image: Campaigners want to stop Spanish universities from obtaining the right to take positions on nonacademic issues guaranteed by law, which they claim will muzzle minority views. “If a university expresses opinions like that, the people who don’t share them are going to feel excluded.”

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