Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration, University of Vermont Tenured: No Age: 34 Education: B.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Hampshire College; M.A. in Sociology of Education with a policy concentration; Teachers College Columbia University; and Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Jermaine Whirl as the sole finalist for the presidency of Savannah State University, the state's oldest historically Black Dr. Jermaine Whirl university. Whirl, who currently serves as president of Augusta Technical College, has built a reputation for strengthening workforce education programs and fostering community partnerships.

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Edu Alliance Journal

APRIL 21, 2025

April 21, 2025, by Dean Hoke : With this profile of Davidson College, I complete the tenth and final entry in my series exploring small colleges across the United States. Background Founded in 1837 by Presbyterian leaders, Davidson College is a private liberal arts college located in Davidson, North Carolina, just north of Charlotte.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2025

Marlene Tromp The University of Vermont (UVM) Board of Trustees has selected Dr. Marlene Tromp as the institution's 28th president. Tromp, who is currently serving as president of Boise State University, will assume her new role later this summer. "Dr. Tromp's rural background appears to have been a significant factor in her selection.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor, Womens Health Occupational Therapist, University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences; Dr. Djora Soetman, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Always strive to see the bigger picturehow your teaching, research, and advocacy can ripple outward to impact lives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2025

Nicole Sampson Nicole Sampson has been named the permanent provost and chief academic officer at the University of Rochester. Sproull Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences at the university. She will continue to hold her position as University Professor in the Department of Chemistry while serving as provost.

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Background Established in 1832, Wabash College is a private liberal arts institution dedicated exclusively to undergraduate education for men. As one of the nation’s few remaining all-male colleges, Wabash upholds a tradition of academic rigor, personal responsibility, and close-knit community engagement.

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

February 17, 2025, by Dean Hoke: This profile of Earlham College is the second in a series presenting small colleges throughout the United States. Background Founded in 1847 in Richmond, Indiana, Earlham College is a private liberal arts institution with deep Quaker roots. For the 2023-24 academic year, U.S.

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University Business

APRIL 9, 2025

It is certificate programs, not associate or bachelors degrees, that are drawing students into colleges today. Students earning certificates led to an increase in the number of undergraduate degrees awarded for the first time in three years. That surge, however, masked a pair of significant drops in higher ed completion rates.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 28, 2025

Florida governor Ron DeSantis intervened in the search for a new dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida, according toreportingfromThe Miami Herald.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 7, 2025

A 2018 study published in Nature, a journal focused on advancements in science, found that nearly 40% of graduate students globally experienced symptoms of anxiety or depression. A 2020 Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Consortium survey of graduate students at 10 U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 24, 2025

The University of South Carolina has received a $75million gift to enhance its College of Arts and Sciences, officials announced Wednesday. The gift comes from alumnus Peter McCausland and his family foundation.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 17, 2025

March 17, 2025, by Dean Hoke : This profile of Whitman College is the sixth in a series presenting small colleges throughout the United States. Background Founded in 1859, Whitman College is a private liberal arts institution located in Walla Walla, Washington. Since 2000, students have secured more than 600 awards.

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Higher Education Inquirer

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Will college pay off for you, the student/consumer/worker? In 2017, we co-authored a video called the College Meltdown. A February 2024 report by the Burning Glass Institute and the Strada Institute for the Future of Work found that 52% of recent four-year college graduates are underemployed within a year of graduating.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 3, 2025

March 3, 2025, by Dean Hoke : This profile of the College of Wooster is the fourth in a series presenting small colleges throughout the United States. Background The College of Wooster, founded in 1866, is a private liberal arts institution located in Wooster, Ohio. states and 76 countries.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 4, 2024

A liberal arts and sciences college from New York has pledged to support 425 refugee and displaced students in the next four years as the UN seeks to reach its 15by30 target. In December, Bard represented the Open Society University Network at the second Global Refugee Forum in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The University of Wyoming (UW) and five community colleges in the state are building a faculty network to share best practices and make science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education more inclusive. The IE3 initiative will function similarly to a pilot program instituted by UW and NWC in July 2022.

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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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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 14, 2025

We tested this theory by working with a client, Artists Alliance Incorporated, a non-profit arts organization in New York City, who needed to rebuild its web presence. In that article, we made a case for enabling real-world clients as partner educators. Both are time-intensive, yet essential, components for implementing a real-world project.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) recognizes the following 11 evidence-based practices as integral to student success. In fact, the National Association of Colleges and Employers lists communication, critical thinking, equity and inclusion, and teamwork as four of the eight career readiness competencies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2024

Pharr has been named president of Pitt Community College (PCC). Dr. Maria Pharr “I am grateful for the opportunity to serve as next president of Pitt Community College and look forward to contributing to the college’s legacy of leadership excellence,” said Pharr. Pharr starts the role Aug.

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University Business

AUGUST 7, 2024

With pandemic-era federal stimulus money drying up, the dust is beginning to settle on private colleges’ and universities’ balance sheets. A private college had to have enrolled at least 500 full-time students to be considered. Schools scoring above an A+ in financial health University of Pennsylvania Penn.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Art Pimentel will become president of Folsom Lake College, effective Jan. Dr. Art Pimentel Most recently, Pimentel was president of Woodland Community College. Pimentel holds a Bachelor of Arts in social sciences and a Master of Arts in educational leadership from California State University, Sacramento and a doctorate.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Land-grant universities are building new colleges , HBCUs are racing to secure better funding and even liberal arts colleges are reviewing their general education curriculum. Georgia Tech has been at the forefront of melding often siloed disciplines of the humanities, arts and social sciences with STEM.

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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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University Business

APRIL 18, 2025

Hired Shari Olsen – Northland Community and Technical College (Minn.) Shari Olson, Northland Community College Shari Olsen has been promoted to permanent president of Northland Community College, effective immediately. Gonzalez – Kalamazoo College (Mich.) She has served in the interim since July 2024.

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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. “I

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

Fostering student success may be highly individualized, but there are four universal practices that might yield successful student outcomes. Fostering student success may be highly individualized, but there are four universal practices that might yield successful student outcomes. What motivates one may not motivate all.

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University Business

MAY 14, 2024

Deliberately integrating the humanities into Georgia Tech University’s armada of world-class STEM-based programs is the future of pedagogy at the R1 Atlanta university—and perhaps for all of higher education, says Richard Utz, interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, in this installment of the “University Business Podcast.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2023

The department – housed in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences – is making the change to better reflect the range of its scholarship and teaching, according to the formal name change proposal. The change will become official in the next few months, pending final trustee approval. specific. “We

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

DePauw University has received its largest gift yet in the form of $200 million in support of its strategic plan. Adding in this substantial gift, the university’s strategic plan has raised $240 million in major gifts. higher ed institution. The school is set to launch this coming fall. “We White said.

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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

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Jerry Fliger has been appointed president of Bakersfield College. Dr. Jerry Fliger Fliger is currently vice president for instruction at College of the Mainland. Previously, he has served as dean of arts and sciences at Alvin Community College and associate dean at Florida State College at Jacksonville. “Dr.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 7, 2023

Hartwick College is starting academic minors in game development, cybersecurity, data analysis, web design and digital marketing. New Mexico State University and the University of New Mexico are starting a Ph.D. in health equity sciences. Editorial Tags: New academic programs Is this diversity newsletter?:

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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. “Theatre as an industry has contributed approximately £11.5

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2024

As colleges and universities try more than ever to engage with those outside of their walls, leaders are looking for ways to do so genuinely and with care. Here is how Notre Dame and one prestigious California university reflect that in their building construction. “This is a way for you and me to become a ‘we.’

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