University Business

JANUARY 14, 2025

Increased student enrollment and government funding in the 1960s and 70s spurred a building boom on college campuses across the U.S. Can we embrace the past while accommodating the future of academia? Movable furniture now allows students to sit individually or in groups. How does concrete make you feel?Regardless

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Kayon Hall wants to change the way academia thinks about undocumented students. Black and undocumented students are socially and politically left out of the conversation,” said Hall, an assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio. Black undocumented students] are invisibilized.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 30, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. In this blog, my aim is to bring together a few exemplars of experiences by people of colour within academia. There is also an added pressure to represent, due to being one of a few role models for students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

College students who graduate as English majors actually find jobs at about the same rate as those who major in other subjects, according to a recent report commissioned by the Modern Language Association (MLA). in history. “I The number of English majors has been on the decline. And in the U.S.

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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.

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HEPI

JUNE 27, 2024

In the gap between education and industry, there is an expectation that students’ demands for skills will align seamlessly with the dynamics of the workplace. Exploring the power of industry secondments Work placements have been traditionally perceived through the lens of the student experience and a paradigm shift is required.

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University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

Students with a special interest in humanities were found to experience a seven-grand bump, totaling $83,000. for physical science and history majors. Regardless of major, students’ unemployment rates were 2.17%. However, humanities-based students who earned a graduate degree reported a four percentage point bump to 91%.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This narrative is not only bad for our students’ mental health, it is also an ineffective strategy for building a lasting movement for change. The problem is not that our students are concerned; critical reflection on the world’s problems does, after all, require emotional work. Partner with local governments.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

The three presidents to step down demonstrate a variety of reasons for making a change: to reengage in academia, pursue other professional opportunities or make way for new leadership during trying times. One campaign he oversaw helped draw in $66 million, the largest in school history, Telegram & Gazette reports.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 31, 2023

It didn’t help that the editor who fired me was only slightly older than most of my students. That being said, what does this mean for teaching students to write well? I posit that what we will be focused on is helping students become good editors. ” After all, I had been so dutiful about my research and my writing.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Bolstered by state and national workforce needs and their promising return on investment, the STEM track represents a gold mine for colleges and universities that want to ensure credentials from their institution are providing students with good job prospects and gainful employment. What can we do?

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 30, 2024

Yale University has appointed Maurie McInnis, PhD, as its 24th president, making her the first permanent female president in the institution’s history. McInnis, a cultural historian, has had a notable career in academia, including significant roles at the University of Virginia and the University of Texas at Austin.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. A graduate of Morehouse College, Canton earned a master’s degree in Black studies at The Ohio State University and a doctorate in history at Temple University. there were protests on campus.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 2, 2024

Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned amid allegations of plagiarism and controversy surrounding her recent congressional testimony on campus policies related to student conduct and antisemitism. Garber, the provost and chief academic officer, was appointed interim president until a permanent successor is named.

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University Business

APRIL 4, 2025

billion in capital and operating budgets, the report is the premier publication on the key trends and data influencing facilities management in academia today. Among the many advancements witnessed throughout history, our world has arguably had few parallels with regard to pace and level of impact.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

To ensure music students gain a more inclusive education, universities are beginning to expand their areas of study. Through its new master’s program in Black sacred music, UA will train students to work in careers linked to gospel music. Both the center and master’s degree program were funded by a $848,000 donation from the Alice L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

On the opening day, academics shared findings on student success at Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), while others tackled issues of pay inequity in internships. Gaston Gayles directly addressed the toxicity of the constantly productive, highly competitive environment in academia. Kyoungjin Jang-Tucci, a Ph.D.

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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. International students comprise 30 percent of the student body.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

UAW members say that these adjustments address a worsening housing affordability crisis: according to union survey data, 92 percent of graduate student workers and 61 percent of postdocs are “rent burdened,” meaning that they spend more than 30 percent of their gross income, the federal affordability threshold, on housing.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Image: Fostering student success takes institutional leadership and collaboration. Barrington Price, Dominican University’s vice president of student success and engagement, knows this well—because he was a struggling first-generation college student himself. Q: What attracted you to your role? Many work full-time.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2022

She feels it’s important to share her stories with women — in and out of academia — and build community with other scholars. I was always very conscious of the small number of Black women in the profession, in academia, but then in the discipline of political science,” she continues. I thought, ‘Why don’t we know this history?’”

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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: How does being a first-generation, low-income or undocumented student play a role in student success?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

is not just about learning, reading, or writing Navajo, it’s really preparing [its students] with tools so that they will be efficient in designing their research studies, conducting research, and finding solutions to some of the challenges that we have,” says Guy. Those same students are talented, creative. Elmer Guy “The Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 19, 2023

Carey is president of ACT-UAW Local 7902, a union representing more than 4,000 part-time and adjuncts, student educators, and healthcare workers at New York University and The New School. The new contract allows our community to move forward fully focused on continuing to provide our students with an exceptional academic experience."

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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.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Checking to make sure the links are valid is something that should be done every time a course using OERs is made available to students. Therefore, it is important not only to test that links are still active, but also to regularly check that they lead where you want your students to go to access the OERs. Note the publisher.

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totallyrewired

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Mick Grierson (Professor and Research Leader, CCI) *AI and Languages with Helen McAllister (Associate Dean of International Student Experince, UAL) *A Short History of AI in Art Schools with Catherine Mason (Author) *Generative AI and the Automating of Academia with Prof.

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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.”

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

By exposing unethical practices and systemic problems, such as the growing burden of student loans, the corporatization of universities, and complicity in climate change and authoritarianism, we hope to prompt action from lawmakers and educators to implement more equitable solutions. Just as muckrakers' stories led to reforms (e.g.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Technology enables us to break the barriers of time and space to deliver quality instruction directly to students, when and where they prefer. New models are emerging that place students at the center of all we do. We’re rethinking financial aid and student loans in new and innovative ways. Others are much more pessimistic.

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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. Jackson did that by co-founding the Black Student Union. Within a year, the number of students of color increased exponentially.

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SRHE

MARCH 6, 2023

It is now accepted that the ‘leaky pipeline’ of academia, whereby ‘non-traditional’ ( eg working-class, BAME) participants remain absent from professorial and higher managerial positions within UKHE is adversely affecting the diversity of scholarship and leadership. arguing that the legacy of elitism persists in relation to higher education.

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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. Point Foundation Scholars “Students posted videos on Tik Tok of them having to pull down the rainbow flag and to shutter the doors,” says Hall. These are the real impacts.” of non-LGBTQ people.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2023

I don’t know that there’s been a point in time in history where we haven’t concerned ourselves with any of these.” In academia, she taught as an instructor in the Emory University Center for Human Health and assistant professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine, where she designed the Master of Public Health Global Health Track.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. With respect to service, women and minorities face a ‘Diversity tax,’ wherein they are called to increased service/support for community members (including students) from under-served groups. Moreno at al.

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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 I cannot believe everyone is white,” the student said. Those are places where we find hope, where we find a safe haven to sustain our work and to navigate academia.” students. “I

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