Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2024

A special kind of energy comes with doing something no one else has, and it’s buzzing around California State University, Sacramento (Sacramento State), this spring as early applications are being reviewed for the inaugural cohort of 70 students who will enroll in the trailblazing Black Honors College (BHC).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

The annual forum brought together more than 650 students, faculty, athletic directors, and administrators for a three-day conversation focused on enhancing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging initiatives at colleges and universities. The forum also focused on the intersectional identities of student-athletes.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 23, 2023

In my position as a community college president, a large part of the work is showing up as my authentic self. Being a part of the community at Compton College, where I serve as president and CEO, is essential to my work. This was especially true when I was hired as acting dean of student affairs at Compton nearly 18 years ago.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 3, 2023

Image: December was a whirlwind month for members of the North Idaho College Board of Trustees. 21 , where critics blamed a faction of the board for placing the college’s accreditation in jeopardy. “We don’t have a bunch of communists or anti-Christian people on staff at North Idaho College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2023

Cole Cole is currently vice president for student affairs at Marquette University. Before Marquette, Cole was vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Washington College and assistant vice president at Loyola University Maryland. “Dr.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Image: Efforts to improve college access and support for foster youth have spurred new laws in multiple states, with legislators from both major parties heeding calls to do more for a group of students often without family to call on for help. ” Tata said this includes community colleges and trade schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

During her 17-year tenure at Ohio State, she also served as associate dean of the graduate school, associate provost and director of the Center for Teaching Excellence. State College. From the start of her career, she has focused on improving access to education for underserved populations.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

For about two weeks, rain or shine, the senior and political science major stood outside between his classes, holding a sign that read, “Tell Temple to Cancel Classes on Election Day,” above a QR code that students could scan with a cellphone to sign his petition. Nationwide Movement.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In March 2021, the chair of the Board of Trustees of Becker College announced that the institution would close its doors due to financial difficulties accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a blow to the students, faculty and staff of this private college in Worcester, Mass.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Warner, a former GCU School of Business dean herself, said that during her time as dean, all three of GCU’s academic deans were women then as well. Increasingly, other colleges and universities are also following in this tradition. Historically, we were a women's college. And in 2022, women make up 67% of faculty.

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Helix Education

APRIL 21, 2024

Everyone loves a David and Goliath story, and at this moment in the history of higher education, small colleges could use one. I think it is easy for lawmakers, the media, and even large sectors of higher education to dismiss small colleges. What is the real impact if a few small colleges close? The news has not been good.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

For a college or university to be designated a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), at least 25% of full-time equivalent students enrolled must be Hispanic. These two-year and four-year institutions must also enroll a significant number of students who require needs-based financial aid.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

About seven years ago, Columbia University welcomed its first HBCU Fellowship cohort, allowing students who had graduated from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to pursue select master’s degrees in the university’s School of Professional Studies (SPS), all the while getting financial, career, and academic support.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

It is up to you to decide when these tools might be allowed in your courses and to make that clear to your students. Tell your students what YOU allow Every college and university has an academic integrity/honesty or academic dishonesty statement. Be referred to the Dean of Students? oral exam)?

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

I have been an educator for 41 years and have worked with students from Pre-K through college. Both courses are designed to prepare students with the necessary academic learning and study skills to tackle the rigors of college. Whether a new semester or new school year, it just doesn’t get old! Rowman & Littlefield.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Image: Like many institutions aiming to better serve student mental health needs, Wright State University in Ohio is redesigning its counseling center. Rando had worked at Wright State for 24 years; in 2017 he received a lifetime achievement award from the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD).

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Image: A powerful heat wave that began a week ago is forcing colleges and universities across the West Coast to take extra safety precautions, such as providing additional air-conditioned places to study on campus and advising students on how to recognize heat exhaustion. ” the community college tweeted.

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Liaison International

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

AI can tell you not only where your line should be drawn, but also if it should be different by program or academic college. It seems counterintuitive to employ a computer to foster student success and improve student care, but this is exactly what higher education needs. There is nothing magical about a 3.0

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 3, 2023

That report, Supporting Instruction and Learning Through Artificial Intelligence: A Survey of Institutional Practices and Policies , found that only four percent of respondents reported that their institution had an overall institutional strategy for approaching AI, and only seven percent had strategies at the department or college level.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

I have been an educator for 41 years and have worked with students from Pre-K through college. Both courses are designed to prepare students with the necessary academic learning and study skills to tackle the rigors of college. Whether a new semester or new school year, it just doesn’t get old! Rowman & Littlefield.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

It is up to you to decide when these tools might be allowed in your courses and to make that clear to your students. Tell your students what YOU allow Every college and university has an academic integrity/honesty or academic dishonesty statement. Be referred to the Dean of Students? oral exam)?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

” Jamie Bronstein, a history professor and vice chair of the university’s Faculty Senate, criticized the institution for caring too much about its image at the expense of other concerns. She said faculty members were told that mental health counseling services would be made available to students who want help.

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University Business

OCTOBER 25, 2022

He’s also had the opportunity to hold other positions, among them assistant director of student activities, assistant vice president and dean of student development, before taking on the role of vice president for student affairs in 1993. Paul is well-known to the campus community and truly needs no introduction.

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Liaison International

MARCH 27, 2024

In the first weeks of college, students learn that success isn’t just about grades and getting involved. But over time, it’s easy for students to lose sight of these crucial support systems. A recent study found that up to 60% of students had no idea how many support services were available on their college campus.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Place matters, Medlin adds, because students think it matters. Summing up the latest Student Voice survey, which asked 2,000 college undergrads about their impressions and experiences within facilities as well as outdoors on campus, Medlin says, “They get aggravated and annoyed when things are not as they should be.

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The Student Affairs Collective

MAY 28, 2020

As a student myself, what I thought was the most important aspect of this Virtual Welcome is that our Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs and Dean of Students appeared in the webinar with supportive and empathetic messages for students.

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ACPA

JANUARY 17, 2024

She later held the positions of Dean of Women and Dean of Students at Albany State College in Georgia and in a similar position at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. During her years at Fisk, her students helped to institute the Student Sit-ins and Freedom Rides that galvanized the non-violent Civil Rights protests.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Form a Powerful Guiding Coalition Dr. King assembled a diverse and powerful coalition of individuals from various departments and disciplines, including academic staff, faculty, administrators, and students, all working together towards a common goal—improving retention and graduation rates for minoritized students.

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ACPA

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

My daily lived experience and evolved intersectional-identity (from being an international student from India to a woman of color here in the U.S.) keeps me grounded in the importance of student success–especially, the success of those communities who have been historically pushed out, othered, and marginalized in U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The American Council on Education (ACE) selected 26 emerging college and university leaders for the 2024-25 class of the ACE Fellows Program. Danielle Egan, dean of the faculty and chief academic officer at Connecticut College.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Graff, an expert on literacy who also writes widely on colleges and universities. Too many students feel disconnected, unsupported, and directionless. Campuses need to do more to cultivate a sense of belonging and connection with faculty, classmates, and the campus itself. offer more workshops on topics of high student interest.

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University Business

DECEMBER 12, 2023

His interest in divorcing higher education from what he perceives as a far-left agenda antithetical to American democracy has invited judges, faculty and administration, and similarly skeptical conservatives across state lines to deliberate on the current state of higher education. “He is taking names. “Be wary and be aware.

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FIRE

OCTOBER 18, 2022

And let’s not forget that, in response to a faculty member’s free speech lawsuit , Yale disavowed its free speech promises, saying commitments like the one contained in its famous 1974 Woodward Report aren’t contractually binding. . And that’s a good thing, as secretly recording instructors can be used to censor or intimidate faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU) in Los Angeles, opened in early July with 60 students. CDU joins Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, the Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C., Supreme Court decided in July to strike down race-based college and university admissions.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: The reaction was swift when an anonymous student wrote “Black people suck” on a library whiteboard at American University in February. He also noted antibias and antiharassment training provided by the university is required for all students, faculty and staff members. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

University Diversity and the Drive for Inclusive Campuses of Tomorrow In the wake of SCOTUS’ ruling against Affirmative Action in college recruitment, higher education institutions are struggling to identify alternative ways to diversify their student bodies. This move couldn’t have come at a worse time.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Image: College and university campuses are highly permeable environments. This dual reality was thrown into stark relief last week when Thomas Meixner, professor and chair of hydrology and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona, was shot dead in his office building, apparently by a former graduate student in the department.

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