Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

For two decades, the gradual decline of the liberal arts degree has been met with both resignation and celebration. As higher education faces growing pressure to invest in academic programs that provide direct pathways to a career, many resource-strapped colleges have responded by making significant cuts to their liberal arts offerings.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

Dr. Paula Krebs Report on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes draws on findings from a number of different sources, including the Hamilton Project, the National Humanities Alliance, the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, and Humanities Indicators. But for women, that number falls to around $61,000.

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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. Department of Education report entitled “Partnerships Between Community Colleges and Prison,” states. “[The

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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. in Nursing with a Certificate in Disability Ethics Education: B.S. She was taken into an administrative office and questioned why she had applied to a major she wasn’t physically capable of doing.

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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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University Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In his 2011 The New Yorker essay , Harvard professor Louis Menand conceptualized the function of higher education in three ways: to develop life skills, enhance career prospects and improve social status. “It takes courage to be an institution of education, and it takes courage to develop it in other people,” she says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Dirks, president and CEO of The New York Academy of Sciences. Paul Getty Trust, which funds research and visual art preservation, and Dr. Josef Sorett, dean of Columbia College at Columbia University and vice president for undergraduate education. Nicholas B. Dr. Nicholas B. Dirks was joined by Dr. Katherine E. Dr. Katherine E.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This week, the British Council Scotland and Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities awarded 13 international EARTH scholarships to early-career researchers. One EARTH scholarship recipient is Camellia Biswas, who is a doctoral researcher in Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indiana Institute of Technology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Collaborations between Virginia Tech and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) or other minority-serving institutions (MSIs) have led to 15 research projects supported by grant funding. This effort is one of several seed investment programs by Virginia Tech’s Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS).to

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HEPI

APRIL 18, 2023

This blog has been kindly written fro HEPI by Professor Marion Thain, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Culture and Technology at King’s College London. However that doesn’t mean humanities disciplines don’t have to change.

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University Business

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Not a week goes by without new laments about the decline of the humanities and social sciences. Many of these op-eds blame the utilitarian popularity of the STEM disciplines for declining enrollments and diminishing support for the traditional liberal arts. My experience is different.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 18, 2023

It felt … connective, hopeful, powerful,” says Megan Davis, U of I Art + Design program student and graduate research assistant. “A Final products will include a published book, a digital art exhibit, essays and other writings, and visual artwork. It was really moving to see.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUCC), an organization made up of four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), is planning to launch a new institute in an effort to increase the number of engineers from underrepresented communities, using a $1.5 million investment from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2025

Title: Associate Teaching Professor, Drexel University Tenured: No Age: 40 Education: B.S., physics education, West Chester University; M.A., Loves current focus is a web-based citizen science project called Name That Neutrino that she and her students created in 2023, seeking a multitude of volunteers to participate in the process.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

Kenro Kusumi Kenro Kusumi has been named university senior vice provost and dean of The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. He serves as a professor of life sciences and dean of natural sciences. Kusumi holds a bachelor’s degree in biochemical sciences Harvard University and a Ph.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

I suspect this pattern of continuous review and adjustment will define all of higher education in this country going forward.” Previously frozen programs are those in African studies, Asian studies, film studies, French, museum studies, music, music education and world religions, professors said.

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WCET Frontiers

JUNE 18, 2024

For educators, this day can inspire curriculum development, community engagement, and reflection on policies to ensure a commitment to equity and inclusion. As we observe Juneteenth this week, I hope we can embrace the chance to educate ourselves and others about this important day.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2023

Sabrina Jamal-Eddine During her Bachelor of Science in Nursing studies, Sabrina Jamal-Eddine informed a clinical instructor about her back disability and lifting limitation as well as explaining that she could do everything but except lift a patient.

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. However, there is one subset of this group that stands out in popularity and workforce prowess: computer and data science.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2024

Victoria McCall The webinar gave a platform to Victoria McCall, director of eLearning at The Center for Black Educator Development, to provide ample advice and instruction on how educators can better forge strong and positive relationships with the people they serve. And it should not be left to them.

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HEPI

JULY 9, 2024

For higher education, a political affairs reset began long before the polls concluded. For higher education, a political affairs reset began long before the polls concluded. This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Ruth Arnold , Director of External Affairs at Study Group. And so it is decided. It’s been a long wait. No contest.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 9, 2024

As colleges and universities across the country face declining enrollments caused by rising tuition costs, changing job market demands, and demographic shifts, institutions are getting creative with solutions. This method leverages online education technologies that have become more familiar and advanced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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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University Business

MARCH 14, 2024

“When you say you’re going to welcome people in, you can do it with a slogan or a campaign, but that’s only the visuals,” says Joseph Becherer, director of the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame. However, the newly opened Raclin Murphy Museum of Art signifies a return to relevance.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Here, she writes about US liberal arts degrees. What is the purpose of a university education? Computer Science and Engineering are the most highly recommended courses of study. If nothing else, the common wisdom is clear about what a student should avoid: a course in the liberal arts. Yet, this picture is a sham.

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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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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Here, representatives from China, Korea, and Japan shared what each country has done to boost their visibility in the international education sector. Here, representatives from China, Korea, and Japan shared what each country has done to boost their visibility in the international education sector.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

The Atlanta-based institution was founded in 1881 and is considered a leading liberal arts college and global leader in the education of women of African descent. in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Spelman College has received a historic $100 million gift. Stryker is also vice chair of Greenleaf Trust.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

higher ed institution. DePauw University DePauw’s Bold and Gold 2027 strategic plan seeks to bolster the university around four principles: the liberal arts and sciences; the student experience; institutional equity; and responsible financial and operational management. The school is set to launch this coming fall. “We

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Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

“ Technology can become the wings that will allow the educational world to fly farther and faster than ever before – if we allow it (Arledge).” ” ChatGPT has given the field of higher education another opportunity to fly farther and faster. Will we allow it? Every time I use ChatGPT, I am amazed at its capability.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

Gilead Sciences Inc. Gilead Sciences recently announced awards totaling $12.6 Gilead Sciences recently announced awards totaling $12.6 Prevention, Arts and Advocacy, Community, Education) initiative. As the number of new HIV infections has decreased, education and prevention efforts have stumbled,” said Dr.

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The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2024

Stakeholders in UK higher education are exploring a range of potential funding models for undergraduate education, against a backdrop of financial sustainability concerns, course cuts and redundancies for higher education institutions. “Higher education institutions across the UK are under financial strain.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Alejandro Hernandez “Education creates opportunity, and I’ve dedicated my life to the idea that we can build institutions that get students READY, not by luck or privilege, but by design,” Hernandez said. Alejandro “Alex” Hernandez has officially been inaugurated as the 10th president of Champlain College.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 9, 2025

The recent allowance for international universities to set up campuses in GIFT City further strengthens India’s position as a global education hub, offering students access to world-class education locally. International students registered on the SII portal are eligible to apply for the e-student visa.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

Evans’s astute understanding of higher education trends, particularly as they relate to smaller, private institutions, and her track record of developing and activating growth and transformation strategies, impressed the entire committee,” said Ken Charles and Anne Gotte, presidential search committee co-chairs at St. Marcheta P.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2024

Andrews University as well as a master’s in science education and a doctorate in higher education administration from East Carolina University. Pharr has been named president of Pitt Community College (PCC). Pharr starts the role Aug. 13, becoming the first woman in the college’s 63-year history to serve as president.

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