Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

The profile of the average community college student is changing. While two-year institutions still have significant populations of adult students and people desirous of enhancing their career options, there is a growing number of first-time college students, age 18 to 22, that are seeking a traditional college experience.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 17, 2025

March 17, 2025, by Dean Hoke : This profile of Whitman College is the sixth in a series presenting small colleges throughout the United States. Background Founded in 1859, Whitman College is a private liberal arts institution located in Walla Walla, Washington.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2024

Nel Hyrdogen’s electrolyser production facility, expected to create more than 500 high-tech jobs, will make a significant contribution to energy transition that stimulates a clean energy economy.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

As a respondent to a recent Student Voice survey on facilities, a student at a private university in Idaho, noted, “The parking on campus is my least favorite thing about going to school. However, he explains, it’s not always a facilities issue in need of a fix. I avoid going to campus to study because of this.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

The University of Utah College of Engineering will receive $50 million and a new name, honoring benefactor John Price, a university graduate and former diplomat. Pending approval from the Board of Trustees, the college will be named the John and Marcia Price College of Engineering. Hide by line?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

When Imperial Valley College (IVC) conducted a student survey seven years ago, they discovered over 200 students experiencing food and housing insecurity. While visiting the kitchen, then Dean of Student Services Dr. Lennor Johnson, president and superintendent of Imperial Valley College in El Centro, California.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Meridith Randall has deftly stabilized Golden West College (GWC) and moved it toward its future. Assuming the position when the previous president resigned, she knew everyone was looking to her to bring stability to the community college. Also, the college’s nursing program is experiencing exciting growth. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

She recently accepted a new position as director of nursing and the Clara Adams Ender Endowed Associate Professor at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, a public historically Black college and university (HBCU) in Greensboro, N.C. Dr. Tiffany D.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2024

Through the November 2023 HBCU/MSI Research Summit — a joint effort between Virginia Tech’s Graduate School and the Pamplin College of Business — the university welcomed 25 visiting faculty and staff from participating institutions. Photos by A’me Dalton, courtesy of the Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business.)

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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

Roberta Waite is a tenured professor in doctoral nursing and associate dean of Community-Centered Health & Wellness and Academic Integration at Drexel University. Effective July 1, she will be the next dean of Georgetown University’s School of Nursing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

In August 2023, Kinloch became the 15th president of JCSU — the only historically Black college and university (HBCU) in the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, founded in 1867 by formerly enslaved Black people. She is only the second woman to hold the position in the school’s 157-year history. She does both well.”

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Two presidents have been hired at small private colleges in the past two weeks and one leader is choosing to retire after four decades in higher education. Hired Trevor Bates – Mercy College of Ohio Trevor Bates Mercy College of Ohio has announced Trevor Bates as its next president.

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University Business

JANUARY 10, 2023

President Meredith Woo has spearheaded Sweet Briar College’s triumphant revival over the past several years, and now she is making way for the institution’s next leader. Meredith Woo (Sweet Briar College). Sweet Briar College has already been comprehensively restructured under Woo’s leadership.

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University Business

OCTOBER 15, 2024

These tribal colleges and universities were intended to serve students who’d been disadvantaged by the nation’s history of violence and racism toward Native Americans, including efforts to eradicate their languages and cultures. The facilities remained closed into late September. The post Tribal College Campuses Are Falling Apart.

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MindMax

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Today, colleges and universities everywhere increasingly embrace the concept of a holistic year , and summer sessions have become an essential component of both standard and alternative educational pathways. Standard two-day pre-college orientations aren’t sufficient for all students. College credit programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., The college says it froze undergraduate majors with “very low student enrollment.” After the nearby College of New Rochelle closed in 2019 amid financial woes, Manhattanville hired its dean of nursing and launched its own School of Nursing and Health Sciences.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

” As two leaders of honors colleges, we agree. And, indeed, we and many others are doing just that on our college campuses. The issue is not that public honors colleges are failing to reach more students. ” (We both served as co-chairs of this task force.)

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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. Keeping the Heat at Bay.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2022

The Path From College to Careers. President Blake has proposed a four-pillar strategy for the shared aspirations of Georgia State: research and innovation; student success; college to careers; and identity and placemaking. So my college-to-careers pillar is all about creating that ecosystem here. Kauvar, and E. Grady Bogue.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Whether the president of a state system or a college within, leaders across the country have shifted their focus to new opportunities, sometimes crossing state lines. At WSU, Elliott served as a faculty member, department chair and dean before becoming vice president of academic affairs in 2016. as a first-time president.

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University Business

MARCH 6, 2023

Carnegie Mellon University’s highly anticipated Cloud Lab will finally open its doors for student and faculty use in a soft opening in early July, and Glen de Vries Dean of the Mellon College of Science Rebecca Doerge is on a mission to make one thing clear. “We are automating science. Submit the code, the science is done.”

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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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UW Presidential Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

That is why environmental resilience is one of the three pillars of the UW’s Population Health Initiative , launched in 2016; why we started the College of the Environment, still the largest in the country; and why UW’s EarthLab was created to spur novel, equitable and scalable climate change solutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image: Last week, Vermont State University announced plans for an “all-digital” academic library when the new institution, formed from the consolidation of three colleges, officially launches on July 1. A (Brief) Pre-History of Vermont State University Technically, Vermont State University does not yet exist.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

“Faculty need to be clear when they are working with students that one of the primary limitations of AI, generative AI, and LLMs is they are crowdsourcing information — by definition, providing for you a majoritarian view of the world,” says Dr. Inara Scott, senior associate dean in the College of Business at Oregon State University.

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University Business

AUGUST 30, 2024

Could your students recognize the dean of their college if they passed them in a hallway? Would your students feel comfortable striking up a conversation, and would the dean be mindful enough to ask about their classes and the semester? More from UB: Do you agree with this ranking of the best public colleges?

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University Business

DECEMBER 21, 2023

“People should know that this is the second quantum revolution,” said Yves Idzerda, physicist and dean of MSU’s College of Letters and Sciences and principal investigator for the grant. The grant will establish a facility, named the Applied Quantum CORE, with roughly 10 employees.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MARCH 15, 2023

But then there's maintenance of the cost, not only our classrooms and labs, but also our dining facilities, our residence halls. If you have a hospital and college of medicine , it adds an important dimension to the job that's hard to visualize. Academic Affairs is this incredible infrastructure for research, for teaching.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean I read last week about the Association of Community College Trustees and Head Start teaming up to place more Head Start locations on community college campuses. If students want to study it, I strongly encourage them to choose a community college as the place to do it.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Image: Since its launch in 1997, Education City in Qatar has grown to host eight universities, most of which are branches of prestigious American colleges. Many would still be tempted by the impressive facilities and opportunities for career progression, added Harkness, now associate professor of sociology at Rhode Island College.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

percent of them are practicing nurses, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). And when it comes to dedicating one’s career to health advocacy, Jasmine Travers, PhD, New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing professor, speaks widely about health equity for vulnerable adult groups. Jasmine Travers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

It took a university-wide approach to zero in on opportunities to rebound the enrollment numbers, particularly in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic, which paralyzed colleges and universities across the nation. From 1998 to 2003, Floyd served the university before going on to lead the University of Missouri and Washington State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As researchers, practitioners, and healthcare workers reflect on the events of the last two and a half years, programs related to public health have become a priority at many colleges and universities. In response, colleges and universities are seeing increased interest in courses and programs that address issues of public health.

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University Business

JUNE 28, 2024

Hired Lori Barber – College of Eastern Idaho College of Eastern Ohio President-elect Lori Barber Lori Barber has served as the vice president of academic and student affairs at the College of Eastern Idaho for the past five years; before that, she was the dean of general education. Barber begins in August.

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University Business

APRIL 5, 2024

Hired Andrea Chapdelaine – Connecticut College Andrea Chapdelaine, president of Hood College in Maryland, has been tapped as the incoming leader at Connecticut College. Patricia Draves – Monmouth College (Ill.) Patricia Draves will be embarking on a new chapter as the president of Monmouth College.

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