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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 5, 2024
Across higher education, the desire for diversity among student populations is usually the responsibility of recruitment efforts but falls short in retention strategies. Colleges typically use a variety of assessments such as standardized tests, essays, and GPA to determine a student's readiness for life in academia.
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).
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University Business
MARCH 25, 2024
for physical science and history majors. For example, several survey respondents observed that academics were not required to connect academia to prospective employment opportunities. The unemployment rate for English majors was 2.3%, which is near that of all college graduates and those on different academic paths.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Gaston Gayles directly addressed the toxicity of the constantly productive, highly competitive environment in academia. The creation of a sense of family, and intrusive advising that comes not just from counselors but all touchpoints a student experiences, is crucial to student retention and student success, leaders told Youngblood.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 16, 2022
” After the Ivory Tower Falls is a book we in academia should be engaging with. Still, I wish Bunch’s reporting had surfaced some of the issues that those of us within academia are debating today as we try to confront challenges of student costs and access while navigating significant structural demographic and funding challenges.
University Business
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
. “We mustn’t kill liberal education in order to save it, but we must also recognize that it is under genuine threat and that if it fails to adapt, it will only become even more marginal and peripheral,” wrote Steven Mintz, a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. What can we do?
Insight Into Diversity
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Throughout 2022, Ball State University has made significant progress on its five-year Inclusive Excellence Plan, which aims to advance broad DEI goals across the university, including campus culture, policies and infrastructure, and recruitment and retention. Grant Supports Inclusive Teaching, Student Retention — Colorado School of Mines.
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