HEPI

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Today on the HEPI website, Annamaria Carusi challenges the common assumption that translational research is only relevant to STEM fields, making the case for a broader, more integrated approach that fully values the contributions of the arts and humanities. You can read that piece here.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Image: Faculty members at the College of William & Mary are concerned that the institution is purposely excluding them from conversations about the future. Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Safa Zaki will become president of Bowdoin College, effective Jul. McCoy Professor of Psychology at Williams College. I am elated by Safa Zaki’s appointment,” said Trustee Bertrand Garcia-Moreno, professor in the Jenkins Department of Biophysics and vice dean in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

Smallwood has been appointed dean of the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at North Carolina Central University (NCCU). He served as professor and chair of the department of history and political science at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

The first, which initially arose in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent a millennium ago, offered professional training in law, medicine, and the church and later in such fields as architecture, business, engineering, and the sciences. These four traditions co-exist uneasily within the contemporary college and university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Donovan Livingston, award-winning educator, spoken word poet, and public speaker, has spent his career in education bridging the gap between his artistic sensibility and commitment to college access, and social justice. “A A lot of my work is grounded in how Hip Hop informs student experiences in college,” Livingston said.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., The college says it froze undergraduate majors with “very low student enrollment.” Multiple faculty sources declined to speak on the record, saying that Manhattanville required departing professors to sign nondisparagement agreements in order to receive severance pay.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

If Blackwood’s course sounds like a divergence from the humdrum small-group discussions that college English courses bring to mind, well, you probably haven’t taken a college English class recently. “We’re not just marching through the archives,” said Blackwood, who chairs the English department at Pace.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

Gilead Sciences Inc. has awarded a grant worth nearly $1 million to the Howard University College of Medicine to promote HIV prevention among Black women and girls. Gilead Sciences recently announced awards totaling $12.6 Gilead Sciences recently announced awards totaling $12.6 Setting the P.A.C.E.

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The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

Humanities departments in the US may need to shift their focus so international students can find better post-study work and garner a “wider variety” of international enrolments, stakeholders have suggested. Liberal arts students are afforded the fewest official opportunities for post-study work.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 28, 2024

As beacons of potential for individual growth and social mobility, community colleges often serve as a catalyst for underserved students to pursue a path in higher education. Partnerships between prisons and community colleges can lead to significant benefits for all involved.—

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Higher Education Inquirer

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The US Department of Education (ED) has placed a number of religious colleges and universities under Heightened Cash Monitoring (HCM). For a complete list of institutions under HCM, and a brief explanation of each institution's status, go to the US Department of Education website. Paul's School of Nursing St.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Embracing Leadership Opportunities From department chair to interim chancellor, President Stokes served in leadership positions at three institutions before joining UNM. My parents had high school degrees but didn't talk much about college. Florida State had a lot going on at that time.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Two presidents have been hired at small private colleges in the past two weeks and one leader is choosing to retire after four decades in higher education. Hired Trevor Bates – Mercy College of Ohio Trevor Bates Mercy College of Ohio has announced Trevor Bates as its next president.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Aherial Polite Aherial Polite has been appointed dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Augusta Technical College in Augusta, Georgia. She served as served as the department chair of chemistry, physics, and nuclear technology at Aiken Technical College.

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University Business

JANUARY 10, 2025

Policymakers will most likely focus on the return on investment, or ROI, of college programs in 2025 to appease taxpayers who are skeptical of higher education. The other four programs in the study are computer science, civil engineering, finance and nursing. One private liberal arts college overhauled by Florida Gov.

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Liaison International

OCTOBER 31, 2024

However, colleges and universities still have important work to do in order to ensure the success of their institutions and students. A Department of Education pilot program to test this year’s form has been generating positive feedback from participants. The feedback thus far, from those in the beta group, is positive.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The grant – from the National Science Foundation (NSF) – is a first-of-its-kind awarded to a historically Black college or university (HBCU) through the NSF Decision, Risk and Management Sciences , Office of Integrative Activities , and HBCU Excellence in Research (EiR) integrated programs, for this type of research.

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University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

Despite questions around the value of an English degree, graduates who earned one were found to possess similar rates of life satisfaction, peak salary earnings and unemployment rates to non-English degree graduates, according to a recent report by the Association of Departments of English (ADE), a subsidiary of the Modern Language Association.

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University Business

AUGUST 6, 2024

For the last decade, computer science majors have become highly prized by many colleges and universities. Colleges and universities have slowly begun to launch undergraduate degrees in AI. News & World Report, Computer Science Degree Hub and TechTarget. The school offers a B.S. Arizona State University: Offers a B.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

At a time in academia when STEM is increasingly evolving into STEAM, colleges and universities with intensely driven, career-focused students are endeavoring to create space for arts education. STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is expanding into STEAM, with the addition of art.

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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). According to the report, the unemployment rate for English majors, 2.3%, was not far off from that of all college graduates, 2.17%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 31, 2023

The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has been awarded a $4.6 Yuliang Zhang, chair of UAB’s computer science department. million grant renewal to support cybersecurity workforce development programs. 32 students will be selected over five years.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

” Stern was removed as chair of his department in 2018 but has remained a professor at Auburn. In retaliation for Stern’s internal and external activism, Auburn in 2009 suddenly moved the department of economics out of the College of Business and into the College of Liberal Arts, the lawsuit said.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

The provost of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University has cited overall enrollment decreases and specifically low enrollments in these courses. ” But he said there are financial issues at smaller colleges that “are general problems, not just of humanities. percent,” the association wrote.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

But institutions need to start preparing now for a range of possible outcomes, said Art Coleman, co-founder of EducationCounsel, a consultancy that works with schools on issues of diversity. But the overarching message was that the decisions will reverberate far outside admissions offices and that colleges need to get ready now.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 20, 2024

Universities such as Rose Bruford College, Leeds Arts University, University of Guelph, EHL and University College Birmingham conducted sessions for high school counsellors and principals from over 75 schools in India. Though STEM remains dominant among Indian students, alternative courses are increasingly becoming popular.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Paul Sniegowski has been named the 21st president of Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion. Earlham has an important and longstanding place within the distinctive liberal arts tradition in the United States. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Sabrina Ali Jamal-Eddine Institution: University of Illinois Chicago, College of Nursing Graduate Program: Ph.D. These are experiences that are unfortunately shared by disabled clinical healthcare students across the nation, including disabled nursing students, medical students and applied health sciences students.”

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has launched investigations into alleged incidents of antisemitism and Islamophobia at seven U.S. This marks the first time the department has conducted such investigations since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. educational institutions.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 18, 2023

José Luis Bermúdez, the interim dean of Texas A&M University’s College of Arts and Sciences, resigned on Monday after the university backtracked on its hiring deal with renowned journalism professor Kathleen O. My continuation in this role would be a needless distraction as you all continue the work that we have begun.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: The Whittier College Board of Trustees was scheduled for a rare in-person meeting this Friday, after conducting most business virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with her address looming, Oubré and her critics have radically different views of what the state of the college is.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences Native Explorers Program Governor Bill Anoatubby of the Chickasaw Nation on the left has supported the Native Explorers Program for 15 years. The full list of 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners can be found here.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

According to the Institute of International Education Open Doors Report 2020, over 3,300 US students studied in India in 2018-2019, which further fell to 1,736 students in 2019-20, according to the US Department of State. When I read many great religious, philosophical, historical texts of India it changed my life and perspective.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

When the instructors of business or science courses cannot (or would rather not) deal with the students who do not know certain basic math, they send the students to a developmental math class and make it a prerequisite. For college algebra, the underprepared students must take a developmental course called Intermediate Algebra.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

His mission is to transition the long-time program into a department. 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.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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