Today's Learner

MARCH 17, 2025

Reading Time: 7 minutes During the month of March, we celebrate Womens History Month. So far, thats included College Physics I & II and University Physics I. ” – Kim Zoldak Janalyn Kehm Janalyn Kehm is the Department Chair in the School of Business & Computer Engineering Technology at Spartanburg Community College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

a pioneering educator who served for more than a decade as provost of his alma mater, Morehouse College, and later acting president, died last week at the age of 80. Economic History. Willis Braswell Sheftall Jr., Dr. Willis Braswell Sheftall Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Heather Shotton In a historic move that signals a significant step toward reconciliation with its past, Fort Lewis College (FLC) has named Dr. Heather J. Shotton currently serves as FLC's inaugural Vice President for Diversity Affairs and Acting Dean of Students. Shotton as the sole finalist for the institution's presidency.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Only 3% of college students have had an international experience abroad and only 10% at the university level,” said Imad Al-Sukkari, director of international, at Cambrian College, while speaking at the 2024 CBIE conference. Everything but the jet lag could be recreated, Granger said.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Walker has become dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, effective immediately. Walker Walker, a scholar of religion, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, and ordained American Baptist clergyperson, has been the school’s interim dean since January. in American studies from The College of William & Mary.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education tells the unique story about what Americans think of higher education. Dr. Sol Gittleman Gittleman, who is the Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor Emeritus, has emerged as one of the nation’s most important interpreters of the history of higher education.

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MARCH 24, 2023

Johanna Bond will become dean of Rutgers Law School, effective Jul. An accomplished legal scholar and a strong academic administrator, Professor Johanna Bond is uniquely qualified to serve as the dean of Rutgers University Law School,” said Dr. Antonio Tillis, chancellor of Rutgers University-Camden. from Colorado College, a J.D.

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Background Established in 1832, Wabash College is a private liberal arts institution dedicated exclusively to undergraduate education for men. As one of the nation’s few remaining all-male colleges, Wabash upholds a tradition of academic rigor, personal responsibility, and close-knit community engagement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2023

The dean of Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music was the first woman in the role and first African American dean at the university in general. Montgomery, who joined Northwestern in 2003, said she was also the first African American dean at the University of Kansas, serving in its School of Fine Arts. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sacramento State — home to the largest number of Black students within the California State University (CSU) system — is launching what will become the nation’s first-ever Black Honors College. Slated to begin operating in the fall, the honors college will enroll students who have a GPA of 3.5

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 5, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Sue Lorenson , vice dean for undergraduate education at Georgetown’s College of Arts and Sciences, is a close colleague and good friend of Eddie’s. This is what happens, I suppose, when you never leave college. I babysat for the dean of students. Q: Your Ph.D. is in linguistics.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Williams’s parents had met during their time at Southern and A&M College, a historically Black college and university (HBCU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His first ambition after college was to make money, and he entered the corporate world and earned his MBA from Fontbonne University. Everyone didn’t feel that way.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2024

Pharr has been named president of Pitt Community College (PCC). Dr. Maria Pharr “I am grateful for the opportunity to serve as next president of Pitt Community College and look forward to contributing to the college’s legacy of leadership excellence,” said Pharr. Pharr starts the role Aug.

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JULY 8, 2024

Smallwood has been appointed dean of the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at North Carolina Central University (NCCU). He served as professor and chair of the department of history and political science at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. Smallwood Arwin D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Erika Endrijonas will become superintendent and president of the Santa Barbara Community College District (SBCC), effective Aug. Dr. Erika Endrijonas Endrijonas is currently superintendent and president of Pasadena City College. Previously, she was president of Los Angeles Valley College. “Dr.

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AUGUST 9, 2023

Grinnell College is launching a Department of African Diaspora Studies. Part of Grinnell College’s mission is to help create citizens that go out to do wonderful things in terms of social justice and community,” said Dr. Stephanie Jones, an associate professor at Grinnell. “I

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University Business

JANUARY 14, 2025

Increased student enrollment and government funding in the 1960s and 70s spurred a building boom on college campuses across the U.S. Max Lowenthal Hall, home of the Saunders College of Business, was completed in 1977. Regardless of your stance, odds are youve encountered an academic space flush with hard, gray concrete.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 28, 2023

Massasoit Community College in Brockton, Massachusetts, will begin offering a Black Studies degree. Everyone should be taking these subject matters,” said Dr. Carine Sauvignon, an executive dean at Massasoit. “It But for this to happen at the community college level is very significant.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Innovation And Growth The seeds of BMI were first planted in 2000 at Medgar Evers College, a CUNY institution in central Brooklyn. John Jay College of Criminal Justice is a great examplewe have three programs there. James says early engagement can create an impact, make an easy transition into college to be successful.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

From the moment ChatGPT hit the scene, articles proclaimed the death of the college essay , and students have begun questioning the need to develop skills in writing. Smart is a former Dean of Arts & Sciences at QU, Professor Emeritus of English, and resident of the great state of Maine.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. Dr. DB Poli This will make Roanoke College the first college in Virginia to offer a four-year degree in the field of cannabis studies, according to the school. According to U.S.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 19, 2023

Rhodes College has received an $800,000 grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation to create a new program that will focus on researching and developing curricula related to racial equity, discrimination, and justice in Memphis and the Mid-South region.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education. UC Irvine was one of the earliest colleges to have such a center.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

These colleges may all be well over a hundred years old, but there is still a first time for everything: Mount Holyoke (Mass.), Norbert College (Wis.) and NYU have all recently elected a Black or female president—or both—for the first time in their schools’ histories. Norbert College all fall somewhere around 2,000.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Some of his previous roles include dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at The George Washington University; vice dean for interdisciplinary programs and graduate education at Johns Hopkins University; and founding director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIU Carbondale) and historically Black college Tougaloo College have partnered for a 3+3 dual degree program, wherein Tougaloo students who qualify will be able to complete both their bachelor’s and SIU School of Law law degrees in six years instead of seven.

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MAY 6, 2024

For many, that future commences with an anxious summer followed by the start of college. Well before the first college lecture, however, newly enrolled college students should consider a couple questions and a few simple steps that can lower barriers to college success. The who and the what ? and ‘What do I want?’

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Rhodes College will receive an $800,000 grant to expand their research on racial equity, discrimination, and justice in the Memphis and Mid-South region. We are grateful for support from the Mellon Foundation,” said Dr. Jennifer Collins, president of Rhodes Colleges. According to the US Census, the city's population is 64% Black.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

Image: Connecticut College president Katherine Bergeron is stepping down in the wake of student protests and widespread calls for her resignation over missteps on diversity, equity and inclusion. While Connecticut College ultimately canceled the event, the move came too late, prompting King to step down. That is my wish for Conn.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Emory University and the College of the Muscogee Nation (CMN) in Oklahoma have partnered and received $2.4 Carla Freeman, interim dean of Emory College of Arts and Sciences. million from The Mellon Foundation to help develop programs advancing Native and Indigenous Studies and the preservation of the Mvskoke language.

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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. As part of the settlement, the college agreed to a two-year, $230,000 teaching contract with Jones and to pay $145,000 in attorneys’ fees. . “I McKINNEY, Texas, Nov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2023

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. Cole Cole is currently vice president for student affairs at Marquette University.

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MAY 10, 2023

She previously served as executive vice chancellor for academic affairs; dean of the school of social sciences; coordinator for the department of history; coordinator of the Gender and Women’s Studies program; and professor of history at the school. in history from George Mason University; an M.A. Ryan holds a B.A.

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AUGUST 2, 2023

Letitia Williams Letitia Williams has been named associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Morgan State University in Baltimore. Williams earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of the West Indies, a master’s in education policy and leadership and a Ph.D.

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Today's Learner

MARCH 21, 2025

Its a role music has played throughout history, from ancient traditions to the rise of modern media. Music is also fundamental to our personal histories. Back in college, when asked what music I liked, I answered with brutal honesty, even when it worked against me. Consider the early days of radio in the United States.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Susanna Rinehart, associate professor of theatre history, literature, and performance, has been named associate dean for academic and faculty affairs for Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture, Arts, and Design (AAD).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Educators who train and prepare students to become teachers, gathered this weekend at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) to call attention to the ongoing challenges that face K-12 learning. AURORA, Colo.—

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