Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Ruth Simmons, the outgoing president of Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), will become a senior adviser to the president of Harvard University on engagement with historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), effective Jun. 1, The Harvard Gazette reported. Simmons’ ties to Harvard are longstanding.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

The center serves as a one-stop destination where students can access tutoring, academic advising, career counseling, and various support services designed to help them navigate their academic journey successfully. The introduction of the Fannie Jackson Coppin Scholars program has been another game-changer in student success.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 31, 2023

Image: Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania hosted a full-day advising and career exploration event in lieu of classes on March 21, giving students an opportunity to access resources and develop their success plans. And, as originally intended, faculty academic advisers were available by appointment to meet with students all day.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Image: North Dakota’s House majority leader has introduced legislation that would let presidents of at least two colleges, Dickinson State University and Bismarck State College, fire tenured faculty members based on those presidents’ own, unappealable reviews. But he nonetheless continues to support the bill.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2025

Roshaunda Breeden Dr. Roshaunda Breeden never expected to become a faculty member at North Carolina State University (NC State), the very same institution where her journey in higher education began. After receiving her masters, Breeden worked in student affairs at Spelman College, North Carolina Central University (NCCU), and NC State.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 27, 2023

Figure 1: Center for First-Generation Student Success Survey Given the importance of academic advising, research consistently highlights its great significance for students’ personal, academic, and social lives. In this respect, the academic advisors’ impact on a first-year student’s social integration (Robbins et al.,

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 27, 2023

Figure 1: Center for First-Generation Student Success Survey Given the importance of academic advising, research consistently highlights its great significance for students’ personal, academic, and social lives. In this respect, the academic advisors’ impact on a first-year student’s social integration (Robbins et al.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2025

percent increase, while contributions from donor-advised funds grew by 12.1 When combined with gifts restricted to academic divisions and faculty and staff positions, these priorities represented 87.2 Alumni giving saw the most significant increase among donor categories, rising 7.5 percent from the previous year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

Bermea Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) may be models for how institutions can organize to effectively serve and advise students, according to a new report from Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. It provides tips for effective advising and includes strategies to help ensure students receive needed support.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The piece argues forcefully for the need to place faculty at the forefront of the student success movement. It would be weird for me to argue with his thesis: my entire job is to engage my faculty colleagues in activities related to student success and educational equity. So where’s the problem?

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

MARCH 26, 2025

Automated email campaigns, segmented messaging, and personalized advising can go a long way in making students feel seen and heard. By promoting tutoring centers, academic coaching, and faculty office hours, your institution can reinforce its commitment to student success. Source: Nichols College | Instagram 3.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Image: Faculty diversity is positively associated with student success across a variety of metrics. So how are institutions doing with respect to faculty diversity? The colleges and universities were given a score of zero to 100 based on faculty diversity, hiring equity and tenure equity.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2024

What does mentoring other faculty mean? When our department was challenged with establishing a requested program for all faculty, three P’s were apparent: People, Place, and Purpose. Networking with each other establishes collegiality and camaraderie that strengthens reciprocal relationships among faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2024

College students are turning to faculty for career advice, but not as many of these educators are working with their school’s career centers to better respond, according to a new study from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Awareness is important,” NACE President and CEO Shawn VanDerziel said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2024

The California State University (CSU) has reached a tentative agreement with the California Faculty Association (CFA), ending their systemwide strike after one day. “I This tentative agreement makes major gains for all faculty at the CSU.” More details regarding the agreement are expected over the coming days.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

The North Dakota Senate on Friday narrowly rejected the bill that would’ve let the presidents of two state institutions review and then fire tenured faculty members—without review from, or the right to appeal to, a faculty committee. ” Ad keywords: executive faculty Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?:

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

An excellent and diverse faculty is vital to individual colleges and universities and to our communities, states, nation and globe. A diverse faculty brings diverse perspectives, and these diverse perspectives enhance teaching and advising, research and scholarship, clinical practice, and engagement with the community and world.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

As a law professor emanating from a primarily liberal arts institution, I deemed it invaluable that the author’s note in my law review articles could state that research was conducted, in part, as an FRN Scholar-in-Residence at NYU, courtesy of the Faculty Resource Network.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Editorial Tags: Career Advice Publishing Research Show on Jobs site: Image Source: ojogabonitoo/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 7, 2025

Causes for Concern Doctoral programs are wrought with pressure for students to conduct original research, publish papers and/or present their findings at conferences, and secure highly competitive research and publication funding, all while meeting advisers stringent expectations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Despite the fact that faculty are so crucial to students’ academic lives, they are often underutilized as levers of institutional change. Moreover, institutions are grappling with faculty burnout, dissatisfaction, and resignations at growing rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

Faculty advisers need to be having frank conversations, early on, with doctoral students about their Plan B. Walsh Anuj Shrestha for The Chronicle Faculty advisers need to be having frank conversations, early on, with doctoral students about their Plan B. By Patrick M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2024

Dr. Terri Gomez Gomez’s “deep understanding of our campus’ strengths and opportunities; her student-centered approach to leadership; her dedication to faculty and staff excellence; and her unwavering commitment to the success of our diverse students,” said President Dr. Soraya M.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2024

What does mentoring other faculty mean? When our department was challenged with establishing a requested program for all faculty, three P’s were apparent: People, Place, and Purpose. Networking with each other establishes collegiality and camaraderie that strengthens reciprocal relationships among faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In his sophomore year of college, Williams had begun to struggle academically and financially, but the leadership and faculty at Xavier gave him the opportunity to continue his education. Because of the dean leads, the vice provost, the team members working with me, we were able to do great things with faculty and faculty fellows.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 13, 2024

It can involve continued university responsibilities and geographical restrictions, writes Christine Tulley, who advises others on how to make the most of one. Yet many faculty members don't experience such luxury conditions.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Their roles typically involved assessing institutional climate, conducting training, and advising on policy changes related to DEIB. As a result, there was often insufficient collaboration with faculty, staff, and students, which hindered the development of comprehensive strategies for addressing diversity-related challenges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2024

The literal and physical road map to an academic record begins with what faculty identify as the course work and field experience necessary to represent the academy beyond its respective institutions in the workforce and in research. Johnson is University Registrar at Lincoln University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

CUNY’s central offices will use $150,000 on professional development, faculty engagement, and monthly discussions on issues related to discrimination. And the CUNY School of Law will have an adviser for faculty and staff on fostering a common understanding of discrimination and how to confront it.

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Liaison International

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Breaking Free From The Way Weve Always Done It Noting that flexibility is essential, Cornell advised against over-reliance on traditional funnels and linear processes. Cornell stressed the importance of cross-departmental communication, urging enrollment teams to work closely with faculty and other campus stakeholders.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

To combat any potential over-enrichment, instructors are advised to balance motivating course design with structure, routine, and clear expectations. Prior to joining K-State in 2020, she worked in industry, advising on a variety of safety, leadership, and human resource data analysis projects.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

Becker advises readers to be aware and wary of two types that often thrive unrecognized: the opportunist and the victim. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Feodora Chiosea/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?:

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University Business

DECEMBER 16, 2024

More from UB: See how many colleges may close after 2029 Some of the challenges that schools have encountered include setting a schedule that incorporates traditional and shortened academic terms, finding classrooms for courses that require labs or other specialized facilities and managing faculty workloads.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2023

Jackson – an urban researcher, media ethnographer, anthropologist of religion, and theorist of race/ethnicity – is currently the dean at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication and serves as the Richard Perry University Professor and is on the faculty at Penn’s Center for Experimental Ethnography.

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Liaison International

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Early advising sessions are an ideal setting for students to explore options that resonate with their interests and career plans. Faculty and staff can reach out if a student misses a class or falls behind. Advisors play a central role in identifying pathways suited to students objectives and grounded in real-world needs.

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MindMax

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The University also adapted to deliver comprehensive student support services, including helping students with financial aid, admissions, class registration, and academic advising. 6,742 of those students graduated elsewhere, leaving a pool of 19,143 potential completers for the Once a Toro, Always a Toro campaign.

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