Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It was the latest on a long list of accomplishments in Simmons’ career as one of the nation’s most prominent Black women in higher education. It’s an inspirational message from an inspirational woman who will go down in history as one of the most transformative leaders in higher education. Education is important. Dr. Ruth J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Back in September, Western Michigan University—a public research institution located in the southwestern corner of the state—released its fall 2024 enrollment and retention numbers, much to the delight of the school’s provost, Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig. The fact that we had an increase of 3% last year, we don’t take that for granted.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2023

Julian Vasquez Heilig , dean of the College of Education at the University of Kentucky, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Western Michigan University. Editorial Tags: College administration New presidents Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

programs will be represented by TRU-UE in collective bargaining with the university,” university provost Sunil Kumar announced in a statement. ” Ad keywords: administrators studentaffairs teachinglearning Editorial Tags: College administration Graduate education Unions/unionization Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Sara Goldrick-Rab With their well-being undermined, students find it much harder to focus on learning — let alone graduate — which, combined with growing debt, puts them at risk of ending up worse off than if they didn’t attend college at all. Ryan Stewart and Keith Curry.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Though it’s a smaller number—university officials said eight jobs were eliminated in the latest round—the cuts include Cabrini’s provost, associate provost and three deans. high school graduates and rising education costs. The university will also downsize from 18 department chairs to eight.

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FIRE

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

3, 2022 — Two down, one to go in a trio of lawsuits against the Texas college that just can’t resist firing professors for exercising their First Amendment rights. Public institutions like Collin College are bound by the First Amendment. McKINNEY, Texas, Nov. FIRE began representing Jones on Feb.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

A growing number of community college systems, in California , Florida , Louisiana , Tennessee , Texas , New York City and elsewhere, have stopped requiring students to take remedial courses before they can enroll in college-level courses—the long-standing model for remedial education. Disable left side advertisement?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Gustavus Adolphus already had a bachelor’s degree program in athletic training, so the college’s administrators decided to start a master’s program. The plan also looked ahead; the college’s future partly hinges on managing a shift in student expectations, said Chris Rasmussen, a Gustavus alumnus and former trustee.

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eLiterate

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

That makes it very difficult for anyone—faculty or even administrators—to have good information about transfer students. One of us was already provost of CUNY’s Hunter College for several months before realizing that fully two-thirds of the graduates she would celebrate at Hunter’s commencement were transfer students.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Katherine Baicker , Emmett Dedmon Professor and dean of the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, in Illinois, has been appointed provost there. Jay Gatrell , provost and vice president for academic affairs at Eastern Illinois University, has been selected as president there. Rear Admiral William G.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

David Doré , president of campuses and executive vice chancellor for student experience and workforce development at Pima Community College, in Arizona, has been appointed chancellor of the Virginia Community College System. Editorial Tags: College administration New presidents Presidents Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

That year, her lawsuit says, David Russell, who was then UT Southwestern’s new vice provost and dean of basic research, met with Vitetta for the first time to say he was planning on shutting down her manufacturing practice lab—where she made vaccines for clinical trials—in order to give this space to a younger male professor.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Image: The title of Administratively Adrift: Overcoming Institutional Barriers for College Student Success (Cambridge University Press) sounds a bit like that of Academically Adrift , a 2011 book that said students were not learning enough in college. Are there too many associations?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 31, 2023

Image: As Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, seeks to enact sweeping reforms to dramatically reshape higher education in the Sunshine State, students and faculty alike have protested legislation that would ban teaching certain topics, limit institutional authority and undermine tenure protections.

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