Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

Gilead Sciences Inc. Gilead Sciences recently announced awards totaling $12.6 million in grants to the medical school’s Department of Pediatrics and Child Health and 18 other organizations as part of its new Setting the P.A.C.E. Gilead Sciences recently announced awards totaling $12.6 Setting the P.A.C.E.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Thus, racial and class bias can be embedded in the policies, practices, and norms of institutions and organizations, and can result in unequal access to opportunities, resources, and power for individuals and groups. Blacks in every age group have significantly higher rates of diabetes, strike, heart disease, and death.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

While her accomplishments are impressive, what set Minouche apart as a candidate was her unshakable confidence in the vital role institutions of higher education can and must play in solving the world’s most complex problems,” said Jonathan Lavine, who chairs the university’s board of trustees. She replaces Lee C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I applaud [Harvard President Larry Bacow’s] vision and Harvard’s hopes for a more inclusive future for higher education,” Simmons said. She holds a Centennial Medal from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. 1, The Harvard Gazette reported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Dr. Darius Young Young is a history professor at the FAMU College of Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities. The center, which will open its doors during the 2024-25 academic year, is made possible in part, from funding from two major philanthropic organizations. Watson, provost and vice president for academic affairs at FAMU.

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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 in educational leadership and cultural foundations from UNC Greensboro. I was always writing.

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University Business

MARCH 28, 2024

Conservative groups, politicians and organizations launched a coordinated attack on DEI in higher education in 2023, in some cases disrupting these programs established to promote fairness and student success, and to address decades of exclusionary policies and practices in higher education. Remember the why.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

At the same time, this center will engage our students in hands-on learning about organic farming systems, the benefits of organic agriculture and careers in agroecology and integrated areas,” Taylor said. The dwindling number of Black farmers has long been a major cause of concern.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2024

The mission of the law school is to educate lawyer leaders for their communities, our state and nation,” said William Hubbard, dean of the Joseph F. World Food Programme, the world’s largest humanitarian organization, feeding hundreds of millions of starving people in more than 80 countries. Rice School of Law.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2024

SEATTLE-- Prominent student affairs practitioners of color shared powerful stories of leading in higher education amid major challenges, including the recent COVID pandemic and ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The panel was organized by the Melvin C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 23, 2023

String Theory Schools (STS), an education management nonprofit group, is looking to help Philadelphia’s educational system through a $1 billion offer to fix up the city’s schools and build new ones. So you can come and study anything from instrumental music to vocal music to fine arts or digital arts to robotics.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Students at Ohio University similarly celebrated Pride through art in late May. Ohio University MFA candidates and Majestic Galleries members Jacq Garcia and Selena Loomis were able to curate a queer art exhibit highlighting regionally based artists creating art about modern-day queer life. 25 at the gallery.

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Liaison International

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The partnership combines Liaison’s innovative technology with NAGAP’s graduate enrollment expertise to transform graduate education and enrich professional growth. Liaison and NAGAP’s partnership reflects a shared vision of fostering a more educated world by making graduate education more accessible and impactful.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Jackson was a 2009 recipient of the Dr. John Hope Franklin Award but was recognized at this year’s American Council on Education (ACE) annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The individuals and organizations chosen are those whose contributions to higher education are consistent with the highest standards of excellence.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

And Cabrini will make a big structural change, shrinking from three colleges to two, with the School of Education moving into the School of Arts and Sciences. Image: Years of dwindling enrollment and ongoing financial challenges have led to deep cuts at Cabrini University as administrators seek long-term stability.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 23, 2023

String Theory Schools (STS), an education management non-profit, is looking to help Philadelphia’s educational system through a $1 billion offer to fix up the city’s schools and build new ones. So you can come and study anything from instrumental music to vocal music to fine arts or digital arts to robotics.

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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 A continuous thread in each [story] was looking at how different organizations within the community can partner … and come together to support each other and support those affected by fire.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

HEPI’s previous work on the role of China the UK’s higher education sector includes UK Universities and China , HEPI Report 132, and Understanding China – The study of China and Mandarin in UK schools and universities , HEPI Report 148, edited and written respectively by Michael Natzler.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 17, 2024

Jones cultivated a promising profession as an actor and performing arts teacher at The City College of New York, where he found himself instructing theater students with whom he participated in creative projects. Theater was always on the radar,” says Jones, whose tenacity fed into a dynamic career in the performing arts. “I

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

Image: Huddled around a table in the Georgetown University Alumni House, roughly two dozen academics convened last week to address two of the most persistent challenges in higher education: improving student outcomes and lowering the cost of a bachelor’s degree. Now, nearly 15 years later, the idea has fresh momentum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Over the past decade, some historically Black institutions have developed women’s and gender studies programs and embedded courses within general education curriculum. Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Nobody is going to tell our story and keep it from erasure but us.” We are in the next phase of pushing forward.”

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As employers grapple with economic constraints of the post-pandemic world and workers re-evaluate their expectations for flexibility, equity and respect in the workplace, higher education continues to lag in preparing the workforce’s rising generation. Employers are desperate for prepared, career-ready talent.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer The broken record of broken transfer seems to be on constant repeat in the higher education sector. One key barrier to improving outcomes involves the way that higher education institutions typically identify and implement solutions, often derided by those working in the trenches as “solutionitis.”

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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. The Supreme Court’s decisions in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. Coleman was peppered with questions about what might happen and the potential implications.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The Journal of Public Health defines public health as “the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals.” Broad view St. Dr. Elimelda Ongeri, dean of the John R.

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University Business

JUNE 23, 2023

Money , an American personal finance website that writes about mortgages, loans, credit, investing and more, revamped its list due to the changing needs of lower- and middle-class Americans looking for the best investment based on what they personally value amid higher education’s inflated price tag.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 24, 2024

By ensuring that students acquire relevant, hands-on knowledge, this strategy raises educational standards and closes the knowledge gap between professional application and the rigid archaic theory. When creating curricula, LOCF organizes classes to meet these goals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Tenured: No Age: 40 Education: B.A., public & private sector organizations, Brown University; M.A., Title: Assistant Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University; Futurist, Latinx Pacific Archive; Co-Director, Situated Critical Race and Media (SCRAM). Dr. Alexandrina Agloro is an ASU futurist.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception. Dr. Linda Darling- Hammond The leadership of the national research society that strives to advance knowledge about education and currently boasts a membership of about 25,000 scholars — remained exclusively white until the 1990s. Dr. Carol D.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite recent pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion among several states , a number of colleges have recently hired presidents based on their commitment to that principle. Several of them are also coming in as either the first woman or the first of their race or ethnicity to lead their school. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Even though higher education has its own hazing rituals and rites of passage, it doesn’t impose tests of character. I raise these examples to prompt a bigger issue: Are there things that higher education should do but can’t or won’t? We can dismiss flawed graduates as a handful of bad apples.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching? I still vividly recall C.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 5, 2022

“You know, we’ve had decades of very solid support from the university leadership and there was a reason for that, because—I’m not sure if this is a little bit of vanity or just accuracy—I’ve done everything imaginable for years here to build trust between a university-based organization and the general public.

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