Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Simmons busily prepared to deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. 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. Dr. Ruth J.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

Image: Some members of the Renegade Institute for Liberty, a controversial group of professors at Bakersfield College, are enmeshed in an increasingly vitriolic dispute playing out on the California campus that has pitted students and faculty members against each other and prompted their supporters and critics to take sides.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

The rest is history. Gonzales’ passion for education has culminated in a swift rise to being named chancellor of the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) last September. The district comprises 10 independently accredited colleges in Arizona serving over 94,000 students. A passion for education Dr. Steven R.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

“This new agreement formalizes Brown’s commitment, and we look forward to building on our history of support for career development among construction laborers and seeing even more local residents thrive and succeed.” Paxson said in a university news release announcing the agreement to use all union labor. Hide by line?:

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FIRE

OCTOBER 28, 2022

FIRE explained in its brief that, throughout our history, we’ve seen rogue public officials — from police to college administrators — violate well-established First Amendment rights far too often. If you are a student or a faculty member facing investigation or punishment for your speech, submit your case to FIRE today.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

“It’s spring break,” Mity Myhr, professor of history and associate dean of the School of Behavioral and Social Sciences at St. Primary Research Group’s survey considered the views of 954 instructors from colleges that grant associate, bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral and specialized degrees.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Temple University graduate students began striking Tuesday for the first time in that union’s history, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The union] members would continue to receive free tuition for their programs of study, on average, valued at about $20,000.” Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 30, 2023

Due to my personal history as a college administrator (thus I was known to nearly everyone), and someone who enjoyed a spontaneous conversation, I took up my department chair’s offer to host a weekly online meeting place. Spring 2021 offered options to teach hybrid (some folks online, some folks in-person) courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The person will replace Dr. Alex Johnson, President Emeritus of Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C), who has been serving as interim president since July 2023, after Dr. Jack Thomas announced that he would not seek a renewal of his contract. These were just untrue and harsh criticisms,” said Schlag, who left the university in December 2023.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The ACE report is based on a survey conducted every five years, in which college and university leaders answer questions about how their institution is engaging on a global scale. But despite the bleak outlook, the report found that colleges and universities remain largely committed to internationalization.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2023

Mentors can help them navigate the complexities of college life and provide insight into how to succeed academically. Judith Blakely is certified in several states as a school administrator, superintendent, director of special education, gifted instruction, and bilingual education. Care, Community, and Higher Ed Administration.”

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 30, 2023

Due to my personal history as a college administrator (thus I was known to nearly everyone), and someone who enjoyed a spontaneous conversation, I took up my department chair’s offer to host a weekly online meeting place. Spring 2021 offered options to teach hybrid (some folks online, some folks in-person) courses.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2023

Mentors can help them navigate the complexities of college life and provide insight into how to succeed academically. Judith Blakely is certified in several states as a school administrator, superintendent, director of special education, gifted instruction, and bilingual education. Care, Community, and Higher Ed Administration.”

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2023

He also led the school through seven of its largest freshman enrollment classes in Langston’s 126-year history. steps down at a time when Langston’s total enrollment has been steadily declining for the past decade, like other regional colleges in the state. Previous to that at Saint Paul College (Minn.)

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University Business

JANUARY 22, 2024

“The ruling, which the public views favorably and aligns with prior views on using race as a factor in college admissions, is now settled law. Administrators stated their top concerns were how the decision would make it more challenging to recruit and retain a diverse student body, resolve legal issues and attract the best candidates.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. If no one studies history, we don’t get the next Doris Kearns Goodwin; if no one studies English literature, whence the next David McCullough? New tools.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

The message to readers is that our collective histories, values and ways of engaging in community can be our sources of strength as scholars. What should college administrators do to dismantle them? And being on that journey does not mean that you have to abandon your family, community or cultural values.

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eLiterate

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Let’s start with the very basics of understanding the problem with this beautifully written passage by the authors: “To the best of your knowledge, about what percentage of the graduates of your primary college every year are vertical transfer students?” What Faculty Know (and Don’t Know) About Transfer—and Why It Matters. Lab science?

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Chicago Sun-Times Collection, Chicago History Museum, Getty Images. Should institutions remain neutral on controversial issues? Is that even possible? By Adrienne Lu. Statements on racism and abortion have renewed a debate over institutional neutrality and free speech.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2023

“This is nothing new,” Edwards said of the recent attacks on voting, LGBTQ, women’s rights and the ongoing attempt by state legislators to eliminate college diversity offices and programming aimed to support students of color. “I So yes, that level of concern, I think, is warranted.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 31, 2023

college presidents to have served in recent years. Anna Pegler-Gordon, a Michigan State history professor, also spoke at the board meeting, criticizing the lack of communication around the portrait unveiling. Barbara Gitenstein, senior vice president for AGB Consulting and president emerita of the College of New Jersey.

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University Business

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I cannot think of a single other comparable case in the entire 32-year history of the Clery Act.” Liberty regularly touted itself as the “safest college in Virginia,” the report found. And for the assault to occur in the first place, college administrators contended that it proved they had pre-marital sex.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But Vitetta says that UT Southwestern damaged this partnership when it began to insist that Enterprise Mimetics pay three months at a time, in advance, despite the company’s history of on-time payments. But her relationship with Russell became untenable after that, she said.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

College instructors, in increasing numbers, have begun to think seriously and systematically about how to enhance student learning and engagement, remediate content and skill deficiencies, close achievement gaps, and build upon students’ prior knowledge and skills. Supplement grading with formative feedback.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

College administrators and faculty have to be much more aggressive in reclaiming the importance of a liberal education, particularly in the wake of sweeping legislative efforts in some states to restrict academic freedom and to outlaw the teaching of some subjects. We need to start controlling the narrative.” That’s a hard question.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Image: Over the last five years, most of the Confucius Institutes hosted at American colleges and universities have closed down—but now a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine outlines a process for their potential return. Whether U.S. Whether U.S. higher education and the U.S.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Although we can expect some clarity in the coming months, college administrators are left trying to guess what comes next. American universities and colleges recruited over 1.05 of the US college student population. The stakes couldn’t be higher.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

A 2016 report from the Center on Young Adult Health and Development argues that on-campus resources are crucial for students looking to get or stay sober, because off-campus resources “are not tailored to address the unique set of challenges college students face.”

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

Given that most accrediting bodies require some form of DEI commitment and practice, including diverse hiring and recruitment, public colleges and universities in both states could potentially lose such accreditation. Ron DeSantis’ efforts to defund DEI offices at Florida’s public colleges and universities.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 29, 2024

As an aging college professor, I found myself in a surprising position on the evening of May 1: face down in the grass of the Dartmouth College Green, with a heavily armored riot policeman kneeling on my lower back, and three others holding me immobile. Why now are we seeing beatings and arrests of thousands?

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