Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida and other right-wing conservative legislators would like us to believe that the field of African American studies is “woke’ indoctrination and has no value in K-12 classrooms or college and university curricula. He instituted Black History Week, which is now called Black History Month.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Image: Some colleges and universities have offered mental health days or experimented with work-from-home policies to address burnout and low employee morale during the pandemic. Meredith College, a private women’s liberal arts institution in Raleigh, N.C., And due to high demand, longer-serving employees get priority.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The reaction to making a broader stream of knowledge and information available in colleges and universities has provoked a highly predictable, extremely negative reaction from political conservatives.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

The group of scholars recently published an article in the journal Educational Researcher outlining the complexities of MSI classifications and proposing clearer definitions, and they created a new database using those standards in hopes of providing a more accurate picture of the MSI landscape.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

Content ranges from the history of money to saving money, budgeting and using credit cards. The app provides courses, strategy tips, quizzes, term definitions and other resources. Students earn credits, called pineapples, as they play and can cash them out for gift cards or donate their money to a charitable cause.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

India has such a rich creative history and culture across all disciplines, so it’s wonderful to be here and experience that. Design is definitely expensive as compared to other fields because of the quality of the curriculum and faculty. Students here are very knowledgeable about college searches and have done their homework.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2023

While defenders of the nickname – especially older alumni – have argued that it represents Americans in the British colonial era, it is historically inaccurate, said Dr. Denver Brunsman, associate professor of history, given that George Washington and his contemporaries would not have identified as colonials. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. Two new hires are expected this year.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2025

For instance, students might apply principles of narrative analysis to make sense of a patients medical history in a clinical setting, or students might conduct a historical analysis on a textual document in an attempt to date it for a manuscript library. The ROI of a History Degree. College Hopes and Worries Survey.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

A more recent Supreme Court ruling relates to restrictions on affirmative action in higher education, which negatively impacts the opportunity for low-income Black and other minority students to make a successful high school to college transition. Board of Education , but it also represents a new definition of public schools in the U.S.

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SRHE

MARCH 19, 2025

CUA traced its history back to the Meeting of University Academic Administrative Staff, founded in 1961. Yet the two ancient English Universities have their own centuries-long histories of creating and multiplying administrative roles. The Colleges of Oxford and Cambridge similarly distinguish their academic from their other staff.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

On the opening day, academics shared findings on student success at Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), while others tackled issues of pay inequity in internships. We estimate about one million college interns are unpaid for their work. Kyoungjin Jang-Tucci, a Ph.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

One of my greatest pet peeves—as an educator, academic and human being—is the myth that life on a college campus is not “the real world.” ” And yet, this myth lies at the center of all the challenges facing colleges and universities today.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Image: Three California community colleges are fighting to start new baccalaureate programs, which their leaders insist would fill critical local workforce needs and help students who couldn’t otherwise afford to pursue a four-year degree. ” Half of states now allow community college baccalaureate degrees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Coupled with the $400 increase in the 2022 fiscal year, this is the largest two-year increase ever in the history of the grant. Dr. Linda Oubré, president of Whittier College in California. At Whittier College, Oubré has witnessed firsthand how more funding can make the difference in a student’s ability to complete college.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It follows the Nixon review, which found that agents working as part of criminal gangs brought non-genuine students to Australia and enrolled them in colleges owned by members of the network.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 13, 2024

. ‘Miss, the Year 12s are so lucky – Personal Statements are being scrapped for them…’ Writing etiquette precludes me from including an ‘eye-roll’ emoji here, but that was definitely my first reaction when one of my Year 13 Politics class said this to me while they chatted about preparing their UCAS applications.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Of course, the entire AP-pre-college industry is problematic. Top colleges often ignore AP scores and require students to take a placement test. A profit-making enterprise, AP classes (like early college courses) have become a way for states like mine to reduce college costs. I don’t think so.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

At college and university academic libraries, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives often involve improving item-collection policies and enhancing access to materials for students and community members, resources for faculty research, and educational programming on related topics.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 3, 2023

“You can create a net-zero campus pretty easily by just shutting it down,” quips Jay Antle, executive director of the Center for Sustainability and a history professor at Johnson County Community College, in Kansas. “Across many college campuses, sustainability took a back seat,” Nelson says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Now almost a year since its release, Brown says CSU faculty and administration are coming to terms with the fact that “policing students’ use [of ChatGPT] is probably impossible, usually ineffective, and definitely inefficient.” We need to teach our students the places we’re likely to see bias in a particular discipline,” says Scott. “I

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Gretchen Buggeln, a professor of art history and the humanities who serves on the collections committee for the Brauer Museum of Art on the campus of the Indiana institution, said it’s “completely beyond the pale to use an arts collection as an ATM. “The arts are such a huge part of our education.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

’” As a chemistry professor at a small liberal arts college, I was immediately intrigued and eagerly climbed into this rabbit hole, because in my courses on general chemistry, there are many concepts that would never occur to my students, even after several lectures and homework assignments.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2023

Ramirez said the thing people typically think of when they hear “young voter” is a young white person on a college campus. We need to remember this is the most diverse generation in American history. His campaign efforts tended toward community colleges because those students typically live in the community year-round.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Since the Great Recession of 2008, but especially after 2012, the share of majors in the humanities has continued to decrease precipitously among American college-goers. Furthermore, those who have a talent for, say, history and English literature would not be inefficiently compelled to major in economics simply because of high tuition costs.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

While we definitely haven’t gotten to perfection, we’re way past checking a box,” says Willette Burnham-Williams, PhD, chief equity officer at MUSC. We now have more [underrepresented] scholarship funding available through The Duke Endowment Fund than we’ve ever had in the history of MUSC,” says Burnham-Williams. .

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University Business

MARCH 24, 2023

The authors—Ed Felten, Manav Raj and Robert Seamans—specified that their definition of “exposure” does not delve into the specific effects of AI on an occupation, which leaves the question of whether these jobs will be augmented—or, as you may fear, substituted—undefined. History Teachers, Postsecondary 14.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 21, 2022

A document shared on LinkedIn by Marco Magalhaes, associate sales and business development director of the New College Group, said that the British Embassy of Bogotá was “delighted to share” the news. “In . — Embajador Británico – George Hodgson (@HodgsonGeorge) October 18, 2022.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. The “should colleges be politically neutral” debate has surfaced again. Each time that it does, I wait for a convincing definition of “neutral.” ” That bit of history wasn’t helpful to newbies.) ” I haven’t found one yet.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

Although its definition is somewhat abstract, active learning is an approach to instruction that involves actively engaging students with the course material through activities such as discussions, problem solving, case studies, and role playing. And for history? One might imagine how a PK presentation might look in an anatomy course.

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WCET Frontiers

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Concerns Have Been Raised that Online Recruitment Benefits Companies and Not Students There have been plenty of concerns raised about issues with OPMs and companies performing significant services (especially in recruiting) for colleges and universities. One can imagine the distasteful image of bounty hunting such actions raise.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

In April, Dr. Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. CPE is a coordinating board that oversees Kentucky’s public universities, community colleges, and technical colleges.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

” So far, students have given him relatively safe answers to his questions, despite a history of racial tensions on campus, but he hopes his peers start to open up. “It’s definitely helped me step out of my comfort zone, having more deep discussions with people and dismantling stigmas,” she said. Charles H.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean “Journalism is paywalled, but disinformation is free.” That means some history and civics, so they know some basics of what and why. Someone who knows no American history might not catch the Stassen reference. is getting most of the attention.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Chad Orzel’s piece this week, “ Physics Is a Liberal Art ,” is a must-read. He’s a physicist who attended a small liberal arts college and works at another one, so he’s well acquainted with the various ways in which the term “liberal arts” is used.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 15, 2025

GallupLumina data shows why trust in higher ed is decliningand what colleges must do to regain credibility, relevance, and workforce alignment. Only one-third of Americans now say they have confidence in colleges and universitiesdown from more than 60% less than a decade ago. Courtney, welcome back to the program.

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