Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2023

Given the urgent matters now facing the university, particularly campus safety, the board and the administration will ensure the highest level of focus on these serious issues,” wrote Mitchell Morgan, chair of Temple’s board of trustees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

has resigned his post as president of Knoxville College. Adams, who serves as the college’s 31st president, announced his decision to step down from the role June 18. 30, to transition the historically Black college into new leadership. Bowie, chair of the Knoxville College Board of Trustees.

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APRIL 17, 2023

Blogs Looking to Grow Your Health Care Administration Program? Here Are Four Tips Health care administration programs are increasingly attractive to both students and employers. Here are four components of a successful health care administration program—and profiles of five institutions succeeding in this market.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

As of May 7, Dr. Ivy Taylor, president of Rust College, is no longer with the school, bringing an end to her almost three-year tenure as the institution’s head, Mississippi Today reported. Dr. Ivy Taylor It is unclear whether Taylor – appointed in June 2020 as the school’s first female president – stepped down or was fired.

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

Texas A&M University’s Interim President Mark Welsh III told faculty and staff in College Station on Wednesday that the university will largely stay the course on many unpopular organizational changes initiated by his predecessor. Read more from The Texas Tribune.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The UNCF (United Negro College Fund) and Robert Kraft’s Foundation brought a diverse group of Black and Jewish students, faculty and administrators together for a series of Unity Dinners across the nation. The dinners - which kicked off at the National Civil and Human Rights Museum in Atlanta before moving to George Washington University in D.C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2024

Gender-based violence, harassment, and sexual assault continue to be rampant on college campuses across the country. Specifically, the time has come for college presidents to step up and lead the fight for the safety of our campus communities. Faculty and staff are also at risk of harm.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 31, 2023

Lindenwood University in Missouri is expanding its reach with the acquisition of for-profit Dorsey College, a vocational school in Michigan, the St. Lindenwood Education System, the parent entity for Lindenwood University, is the official purchaser in the deal, and the two institutions will maintain separate accreditation.

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MAY 8, 2024

Police cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the University of Chicago on Tuesday after administrators who had initially adopted a permissive approach said the protest had crossed a line and caused growing concerns about safety. Read more from AP News.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Supreme Court heard arguments regarding race-conscious admissions policies, higher education stakeholders gathered to discuss the barriers keeping more women and people of color from becoming college and university presidents. According to 2021 data, 60% of the University of California (UC) chancellors are white.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The University Budget Committee held the first meeting of the academic year presenting budget cuts to all six colleges and a 25% cut to faculty affairs. These are people,” said San Francisco State University President Lynn Mahoney. “We We’re going to have to make do with fewer administrators, lecturers and faculty.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2023

Racial hiring practices in college athletics saw minor improvement but gender hiring practices declined, according to the 2022 College Sport Racial and Gender Report Card (CSRGRC) from the University of Central Florida (UCF). As a whole, the combined grade for the 2022 CSRGRC was a "C" with 73.7 There are points of improvement.

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Inside Higher Ed

JULY 24, 2023

The Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling could force colleges to rethink them. Precollege programs can help boost access for students from underrepresented communities.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. Why is that?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

More than a decade ago, in 2011, former Cornell University president David Skorton penned an op-ed for The New York Times after a 19-year-old Cornell sophomore named George Desdunes “died in a fraternity house while participating in a hazing episode that included mock kidnapping, ritualized humiliation and coerced drinking.”

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MAY 16, 2023

As the Spring semester ends, administration across Florida’s public colleges and universities will have to work quickly to descale most programs or resources related to diversity, equity and inclusion. Moreover, the bill places higher accountability on university presidents to fire faculty. On Monday, Gov.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Image: Scholars in Florida are angry, disappointed and divided over a recent joint statement , signed by Florida College System presidents, promising to “not fund or support any institutional practice, policy, or academic requirement that compels belief in critical race theory or related concepts.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Welch has been named president and CEO of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU). He will succeed Dr. Mildred Garcia who left the organization in October to become chancellor of the California State University system. Dr. Charles L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

Montana State University President Dr. Waded Cruzado has been named winner of the American Council on Education’s 2024 ACE Council of Fellows/Fidelity Investments Mentor Award. She also chaired the board of directors of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and HERS.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

It’s an innovative approach to a growing trend at colleges and universities: making naloxone widely accessible across campus, and training as many students as possible to use it. Opioid use is fairly low among college students as a whole—according to a 2021 survey by the American College Health Association, only 0.5

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Image: In the perpetual tug-of-war between openness and confidentiality in searches for new college and university presidents, secrecy has been winning in a rout. The recent search for a new president at Pitzer College offers a counterpoint. They thought we would try to elude their meaningful participation.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 6, 2024

After months of deliberation, Brown University administrators announced the reinstatement of SAT/ACT testing requirements across the institution. The new policy will launch with next year’s application cycle, effective for the class of 2029.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

That’s how Dr. Carrie Besnette Hauser became president of Colorado Mountain College (CMC) in 2013. She had once told the former president of Metro State University of Denver, Dr. Stephen M. Jordan, that she would consider becoming a university president if she could lead CMC.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Antoinette “Bonnie” Candia-Bailey Lincoln University In an email sent on the day of her death , Candia-Bailey, who served as vice president of student affairs at Lincoln University in Missouri, a historically Black university, accused Dr. John Moseley, the university's president, of harassment and bullying. “You

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MAY 8, 2023

While the pandemic is often partly blamed for the recent surge in presidential departures, the trend of shorter tenure among college and university presidents has been underway for several years. Indeed, a recent American Council on Education report noted that, in 2022, presidents had been in their position an average of 5.9

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University Business

JULY 31, 2023

Following the California State System’s high-profile hire of Mildred García as chancellor over two weeks ago, two major university presidents at Texas A&M and Stanford caught the national radar following their high-profile resignations. I don’t trust the administration in their ability to have the best.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2024

Schexnider — a retired university president — has given us much to reflect upon in his newly published memoir titled, Confessions of a Black Academic (McFarland & Company, Inc.). in political science from Northwestern University in 1973. Dr. Alvin J. He went on to earn a Ph.D. and doubled the school’s endowment, from $9.8

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

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JANUARY 12, 2024

Leadership at Harvard University will get to test their equanimity after a headline-worthy shakeup that shot one of the world’s most prominent institutions of higher education into the defensive on the first days of 2024. Three administrative leaders featured here did just that.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

The State University System of Florida Board of Governors decision to eliminate all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs from the University of Florida is the latest example. The role of the university is to commit to understanding and embracing a diverse student body, faculty, staff, and administrators.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2024

Schexnider — a retired university president — has given us much to reflect upon in his newly published memoir titled, Confessions of a Black Academic (McFarland & Company, Inc.). in political science from Northwestern University in 1973. Dr. Alvin J. He went on to earn a Ph.D. and doubled the school’s endowment, from $9.8

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University Business

AUGUST 30, 2024

Could your students recognize the dean of their college if they passed them in a hallway? A seemingly simple question, but for Sacred Heart University President John Petillo this present-mindedness is a difference maker in convincing students to return to an institution.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 19, 2024

Supreme Court (SCOTUS) recently declined an injunction request by Spectrum WT, an LGBTQ+ student group at West Texas A&M University (WT), seeking permission to host a drag show on campus despite a ban from university administrators.

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FIRE

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Spooky season came early last month for Tennessee Technological University President Phil Oldham, who claimed he was “disturbed ” after watching a viral video clip of a student-run drag show at the university’s Backdoor Playhouse. And they’ve been left uncertain about the future of their expressive rights at Tennessee Tech.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As the wave of closures of small liberal arts colleges across the United States continues, merging with a larger institution is increasingly seen as an attractive alternative. I am particularly concerned about my own institution, Bloomfield College, in New Jersey. More than 81 percent of our students are people of color.

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AUGUST 23, 2024

The new Arizona president, who replaces Robert Robbins after the state flagship discovered a jaw-dropping budget deficit last November, will head a research unit that expends about four times more than Vermont. Dan Kelting – Paul Smith’s College (N.Y.) Retiring Barbara Altmann – Franklin and Marshall College (Pa.)

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

But shared governance means that the duty of ensuring that students graduate prepared for career, community and citizenship comes from the partnership of board, administration and the faculty. Countless surveys and polls show a surge in political polarization and point to the decline in civic education as a main contributor.

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