Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 25, 2024

Kimbrough has been appointed interim president of Talladega College, a historically Black college in Alabama. the college’s vice provost for Lifelong Learning and Professional Development and Dean of Graduate Studies, served as the immediate interim president following the June 4 resignation of Dr. Gregory J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Heather Crabbe Heather Crabbe has been appointed assistant dean for the Center for Professional Development in the University of Cincinnati College of Law. She served as associate provost for academic support at Mount St. Joseph University in Ohio.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 25, 2025

Through a dynamic partnership with global business management consulting and accounting firm EY (formerly Ernst & Young), the State University of New York at Albany (UAlbany) is equipping students with critical skills and real-world experience in cybersecurity, business, and professional development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Delisle Warden Delisle Warden has been appointed vice president for policy and general counsel at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland. He served as associate dean for the Center for Professional Development and Career Strategy at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

The Georgia State University College of Education & Human Development is expected to support the professional development of 270 metro Atlanta educators over three years. The college is expected to support the professional development of 270 educators over the three-year project.

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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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WCET Frontiers

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Today, we’re excited to spotlight the Mississippi Virtual Community College (MSVCC) and hear from Christa Wilhite and Krista LeBrun from the Mississippi Community College Board. The consortium model united community colleges across Mississippi, pooling resources to offer instructional support, training, and cutting-edge technologies.

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ACPA

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

During his presidency, professional development access and opportunity was the core of his direction for the Association. Shang continues to be an active supporter of ACPA and professional development. Heather Shea on Mixed Race College Students and Colorism: Considerations for Post- Secondary Institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2023

Offering advice about professional development opportunities, shared governance, and health benefits were but some of the practices presented and discussed by Montgomery College and the Dominican University of California, the two winners of the 2022 Delphi Award, at a webinar onWednesday.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

In 2022, student leaders launched a campaign to challenge the long-standing stigma associated with attending community colleges. To overcome negative stereotypes, the CCSmart advocacy campaign tells the stories of students’ educational journeys and the positive impact community colleges had on their lives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

In fact, studies indicate that having a Black teacher significantly increases the likelihood of Black students graduating high school and enrolling in college. Specifically, Black students who have one Black teacher by third grade are 13% more likely to graduate high school and 19% more likely to enroll in college.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

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. “For the past nine and a half years, I have devoted myself to advancing educational excellence and equity at this College.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

But aside from being an effective tool, the advent of the revolutionary technology can help institutions thrive in a changing landscape and improve their commitment to student equity, according to a new report from Complete College America.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 27, 2025

Our professional science masters (PSM) in biotechnology degree is designed for working professionals, offering primarily online and evening courses that emphasize applied learning and professional development. A required industry internship ensures graduates enter the biotech workforce with real world experience.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

Faculty professional development follows as the goal of an ID should always be toward faculty autonomy. She was the previous Director of Online Learning and Instructional Technology at Albany Law School and was an a ssistant p rofessor for 10 years at Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. References Binder, M.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Many colleges and universities have struggled to prepare for generative AI on campus, for instance, by providing guiding policies or pedagogical support. Need #2: Offering professional development workshops on interrogating and integrating AI in the classroom, including a series on developing AI-informed writing intensive courses.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

She couldn’t imagine herself, a Mexican Filipina American, as a college president, much less a university chancellor, because she’d never seen someone like herself in those positions. “Serving as chancellor was a natural progression, given my professional history,” she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 27, 2023

The initiative offers scholarships up to $10,000 per academic year, books and support for testing, seminars, professional development, and community service hours.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Many colleges and universities have struggled to prepare for generative AI on campus, for instance, by providing guiding policies or pedagogical support. Need #2: Offering professional development workshops on interrogating and integrating AI in the classroom, including a series on developing AI-informed writing intensive courses.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2025

This reliance on numbers has driven many colleges to focus heavily on metrics in an effort to improve outcomes, streamline operations, and secure funding. As community colleges across the United States struggle with declining retention rates, it has become increasingly clear that institutional focus should not be limited to numbers alone.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).

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The PIE News

APRIL 24, 2023

The partnerships will also look at professional development and exchange opportunities for academic staff. “These partnerships will achieve those objectives while also broadening collaboration networks for our researchers and creating opportunities for our academic staff to develop their careers and connections.”

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2023

Succession planning is paramount in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) as it can play a critical role in preserving these institutions' legacy, values, and unique contributions. Academic leadership: Developing a pipeline of leaders for academic positions, including department chairs, deans, and academic program directors.

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University Business

AUGUST 28, 2024

But costs, opaque data and unfruitful corporate outreach efforts have prevented colleges and universities from implementing the programs at scale, to name a few barriers. Schoolcraft College Schoolcraft and UPCEA conducted labor market research and interviewed local employers in southeast Michigan to understand the needs of the workforce.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

Students from underrepresented backgrounds face considerable barriers when it comes to completing a community college program. But Dougherty Family College (DFC), a two-year associate degree program at the University of St. How has the college pulled this off? That’s just how Dr. Buffy Smith, DFC’s dean, intended it.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Williams spoke to Inside Higher Ed about her career journey, managing her own professional development, the value of the student success offices housed within the provost’s office, and how others can position themselves as student success champions. She helped me navigate many personal and professional challenges.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Elevating Stories of the Unrecognized — Agnes Scott College. In July, Agnes Scott College launched the Acknowledging our Past: Acting Now for a Transformed Future project, which aims to elevate the lives and stories of the people of color who built the college. Multicultural Mentorship — Augustana College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

of full-time nursing school faculty are minoritized, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. You probably over-prepare for meetings,” says Dr. Rolanda Johnson, associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. This paucity is mirrored in academia, where only 19.2%

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For college algebra, the underprepared students must take a developmental course called Intermediate Algebra. To help more students complete their college math requirements, higher education must stop using the student-deficiency mentality and start adopting a student-growth mentality. And the list goes on.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Shared governance stands in the way, even though it is conceivable, in theory, to measure student persistence within a particular discipline and student performance in subsequent classes (performance measures that some for-profit colleges actually use). Therefore, colleges and universities need to be more enterprising.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

Image: When a college president resigns or retires, the institution’s governing board usually announces the steps it will take to replace the outgoing leader. The Board of Trustees of Parkland College followed that script in 2019 when Thomas Ramage told board members he planned to retire in 2022.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Then, the same small group of us were invited by our dean’s office to put together a professional development event, which was on Zoom, which we called Faculty Sharing Circles, where we invited faculty to come and we put them into Zoom breakout rooms,” she continues. When Dr. Gale Gibson-Gayle was hired by St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 9, 2023

Delnita Evans dreams of being a dean because she wants to help underrepresented students succeed. “I I think it’s because I’m a first-generation student from a low-income area,” said the master’s candidate in educational leadership at the California State University, Fullerton College of Education.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. As many colleges have downsized their faculty ranks in the wake of enrollment and tuition shortfalls, I’d bet they’re becoming even more common. Professional development is the tough nut to crack. I could see how it would become isolating.

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