Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

Williams-Goliday has been helping guide students for decades, first as an academic adviser for Eastern Illinois University’s Office of Minority Affairs beginning in 1998. And from 2002 to 2006, she served as academic adviser for Temple University. There, she worked with students academically underprepared for college, she says.

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University Business

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Since guiding the institution through the grips of the pandemic and navigating the liberal arts institution’s students and staff through new modes of learning and teaching, he’s finally returned to center. ALEX Advisers act as a librarian of sorts to whom students can reach out to find assistance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

The money will mostly go toward staffing – directors, program managers, academic advisers, and peer mentors – and student resources, such as books, school supplies, and transportation, Wheelock said. Back in December of 2020, the foundation awarded the then-budding EPP a $745,000 24-month grant that allowed the team to build up and grow.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Image: Adrian College president Jeff Docking has some innovative ideas for higher education leaders battling enrollment pressures and market forces. His dual capacity as president of Adrian and co-owner of Rize Education, however, has raised questions about a potential conflict of interest as use of the platform grows.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In conversation, one advisor also shared how much empathy they had gained and how their academic advising of international students on campus will be positively impacted. This newfound confidence and firsthand knowledge will translate into more effective advising sessions.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

million freshmen who enrolled in 2019, “this is a very promising sign for higher education,” said Doug Shapiro, the research center’s executive director. Still, it’s not entirely clear why students are returning to higher education now—or whether the trend is likely to continue into this fall.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

” The future of American higher education hinges on these campuses. The Ivies, the flagships, the land-grants and the extremely selective and even moderately selective private universities and liberal arts colleges will do fine. Second, our current approach pits teaching and research in opposition.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Strengthen advising and counseling by expanding opportunities for one-on-one interactions with designated professionals. Examples include: Purdue’s Cornerstone: Learning for Living, an immersive, integrated liberal arts certificate program. Offer specialized “Area of Study” orientations to entering students.

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University Business

APRIL 24, 2023

With a smaller pool of available students due to demographic shifts, a growing wake of attention to mental health and a swelling public skepticism of higher education, these leaders from Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts and Maine are redefining their job to guide their schools in murky waters.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Stepped-up advising, more aggressive interventions and academic and financial supports have made a genuine difference. A recent blog posting by Michael Feldstein, one of higher education’s most astute observers, asked a fascinating question: If you were designing Cal State today, what would you do differently?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Image: Rising numbers of community college students kept total enrollment across all sectors of higher education flat this spring despite a decline in the largest category of institutions by share of enrollment: public four-year universities. Community college enrollment increased by 2.1 percent at nonprofit institutions and 2.2

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University Business

MARCH 1, 2024

In the business of running an entire liberal arts college in South Carolina, the most cherished metric to study Furman’s success is student satisfaction. This is complex work, especially as one considers how susceptible the needs of students are to change in today’s new higher education marketplace.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

With efforts like these gathering steam across the postsecondary landscape, it looks like higher education is in the midst of a mission shift that positions career readiness as a strategic, campuswide priority. What could be wrong with this development? But the first step is to understand the problems currently plaguing the field.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

15, I concluded a class and walked out of the classroom to find the provost and the dean of the school of liberal arts and sciences waiting for me,” Joeckel wrote. ” According to his university biography, Joeckel’s scholarship is about issues of importance to Christian higher education (and others).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. I use this model when I advise students.”

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

With their enhanced academic experience, strong sense of community and emphasis on engaged learning, the public honors college provides a model of what public higher education can be. Writing as a relic of the 1960s, I ask, must we replicate within universities the status hierarchies that prevail in higher education as a whole?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 31, 2023

For each pathway change, the study asks what policy levers and interventions higher ed institutions can introduce to make them a reality. More outreach and advising can demystify college for students. There are so many things going on with the economy and especially with people’s perception of higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

” But detractors of Oubré and the board have questioned the authenticity of the concerns, alleging that the president and trustees are trying to stifle criticism of a leader they believe doesn’t have a plan to turn around slumping enrollment at the small liberal arts college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

When Cazenovia College, a 199-year-old private liberal arts school in upstate New York announced last Wednesday that it would close after the spring semester, sophomore Ally Ruetton was shocked. “No He advised those schools to start exploring creative ways to survive sooner than Cazenovia did.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Rodney Smolla, a veteran lawyer and higher education leader, took over as the Vermont Law and Graduate School’s president in July, just weeks after the changes were announced. ” Enrollment drops are a concern across higher education, but they have hit law schools particularly hard. Interest in J.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Within higher education, its historical sociologists, like Steven Brint and David F. Labaree, who have taken the lead in bringing theory to bear on the ongoing processes, trends, and developments that reshape higher education over time. Let’s begin with the history of American higher education.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2018

The purpose of higher education is in a state of transition. Therefore, our higher education consultants at The Change Leader want to offer a series of articles that lay out where we believe higher education is going in the face of all of these challenges. The question then becomes, Who pays?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Image: When Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity Washington University, was speaking at a conference on Catholic higher education last month, she referred to the university, a women’s institution in Washington, D.C., in a way that could also describe many women’s colleges across the country.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Principle 5: An education that offers more synergistic, integrated, coherent paths to a career and that supplements in-class learning with workshops and certificate to augment students’ job-aligned skills. These cohort programs, too, can be directed by staff who can provide dedicated advising and mentoring. So what can be done?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2023

The sad fact is that advising and career counseling resources on most campuses are grossly inadequate and that instruction in writing is insufficient. As Chamorro-Premuzic puts it succinctly, “If we want to retain an edge over machines, it is advisable that we avoid acting like one.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

How might this precept apply to higher education? As the historian Henry Steele Commager observed six decades ago, American higher education is an amalgam of four distinct educational traditions. ” Yet we can’t do better if we fail to reflect on the past and extract its messages and warnings.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

After announcing its founding in 2021, the University of Austin has won approval to issue liberal arts degrees and is now accepting undergraduate students for fall 2024, The Texas Tribune reports. UATX’s board of advisers includes former New York Times columnist Bari Weiss, former Harvard University president Lawrence H.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

As the Pitzer board interviewed search firms to administer the process, most of them “advised against” opening up the search, Brock said. Ultimately, though, “if you want to be president of a liberal arts college, you’ve got to be able to deal with cantankerous faculty members.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 11, 2022

Dr. Renick recently joined our panel discussion on the future of academic advising , hosted by the UIA and The Chronicle of Higher Education , during which he spoke about how academic advising has changed from a casual add-on to a necessary support for a very different generation of students. Proactive Advising in Action.

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Campus Sonar

APRIL 17, 2024

Prioritize Preparation Campuses are home to hard working, caring employees who are going above and beyond to support their students through academic and career advising, retention efforts, health and wellness, and other aspects of campus life. Make sure you read the other two recommendations we shared. Shifting demographics in the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The proposed substantive change was approved by Clark’s accreditor, the New England Commission of Higher Education, in April 2021. In fact, the move from opportunity to execution happened more quickly than is characteristic in higher education. There are some important lessons to draw from the experience.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The First Amendment and academic freedom are the cornerstones of higher education.” He said he looks “forward to working with Auburn University, charting a new and positive path toward achieving our educational mission.

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University Business

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Research by the Lumina Foundation found that providing advisers across academics, finances, mental health and other services is essential for the post-pandemic college cohort. However, this growing facet of higher education intersects with the public’s growing disdain for the degree’s price tag.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The department, higher education institutions and other agencies involved will now have to determine how to implement the regulations and the process to approve programs. Those entities are awaiting guidance, including an application template and how-tos from the department.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

AAC&U has been a leader in developing strong arguments for liberal arts education. When the political world started clamoring for evidence of outcomes, AAC&U championed the Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education and the development of the VALUE Rubrics.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

7 November · Episode 180 A Global Shift in Higher Education Requires a New Business Model 36 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton This conversation–rooted in the findings of E&Y white paper: How are you balancing the books for a digital future? covers the global shift in Higher Education.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Alphabet Soup - Higher-Education Organizations There are dozens of national, international, and regional organizations supporting higher education. They work on policies and best practices for research and scholarship in higher education. They focus on expanding access to all students.

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