Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In 2021, Harvard University handed out 39 bachelor’s degrees in English language and literature, 118 in history, and 22 in philosophy. That “ elite colleges simultaneously reproduce class inequality and belief in the justness of that inequality.”

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The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2023

As someone who had the opportunity to study in another country, worked as an economist engaging with different cultures, served as a US college president seeing first-hand the benefits of global studies, and now CEO and president of a study abroad organisation, I can say that I would not be where I am today without my international experiences.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

“A student’s acceptance into a college should not hinge on whether their parents attended that school or donated a large sum of money,” Kaine said in the release. So far, lawmakers in three states — Colorado, Virginia, and Maryland.— The post Movement to Ban Legacy Admissions Gains Momentum appeared first on Insight Into Diversity.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It marked the first time in the test’s 53-year history that fourth grade math scores have gone down. One such model is the corequisite course, in which students are simultaneously placed in a college-level course and a mandatory additional course that provides extra support. ” Partnering With K-12 Schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 17, 2023

Not that long ago, higher education advocates regularly complained about the lack of national attention on colleges and universities. Which brings me to the Supreme Court’s long-awaited decision limiting the use of race as a factor in college admissions. Perhaps we should’ve been more careful about what we wished for.

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The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

The PIE identified 19 colleges in the US to date from the beginning of 2023 that announced their closure which are either listed as liberal arts colleges or carry “strong liberal arts traditions”.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

Dr. Anthony Carnevale, director of the CEW “We decided to disconnect affirmative action from America’s vulgar and violent racial history,” said Dr. Anthony P. In order to compensate for an adverse ruling, colleges will need to make drastic reforms of admissions policies, the report notes. Carnevale, director of the CEW. “It

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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 post Tribal College Campuses Are Falling Apart. Read more at Pro Publica.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A group of students at Spelman College are receiving a rare opportunity to start an investment journey through a new social impact initiative. The financial wellness initiative will offer a cohort of students a finance and investing course plus a seeded Stackwell account to begin building wealth during their college career.

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HEPI

JUNE 7, 2023

Another approach would be to accept grade changes for only the ‘fuzziest’ subjects (such as English and History). And there is plenty of evidence that institutions work hard to overcome such disadvantages. For example, simply consider grades plus one for a defined list of subjects, or all subjects except STEM.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Dr. Gilda Barabino Olin College of Engineering "Our use of AI in our teaching can be seen both as a threat to how students acquire foundational knowledge, but it can also be an enabler to enhance student learning,” said panelist Dr. Gilda A. Barabino, president of the Olin College of Engineering.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action in college admissions in June has left universities, nonprofit organizations, Richard Kahlenberg and other higher education stakeholders with a single question: What are the best paths forward? Programs like Landscape and the Davis Scale have been developed across the U.S.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

Torres and Anguiano (2016) point out that an instructor’s indication of errors in student assignments may be directed towards avoiding the same in upcoming projects, but since connotations are deciphered via one’s “personal history, social setting, culture” and existing sense of identity, the student may have a “competing interpretation” (p.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The Personal Statement is one of the few times in the entire UCAS process that we get to see the voice of the student, relatively unencumbered by pressure from parents, peers, schools / colleges and similar. That isn’t to say these groups of supporters may not have tried to help with the Personal Statement.

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The PIE News

MARCH 3, 2025

Officials across the political spectrum have supported providing a pathway to residency for international students graduating from US colleges and universities, including through bills like the Keep STEM Talent Act and the Dignity Act.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

There is no data or evidence that proves that DEI initiatives promote indoctrination or that diversity leads to white people falling behind, said Dr. David Canton, director of African American Studies and associate professor of history at UF. He is also the former interim dean of institutional equity and inclusion at Connecticut College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

For most of its 50-year history, the Pell Grant has not covered summer classes, with two brief exceptions: 2009-2011 and 2017 to the present. Students with summer Pell consistently made 6% more per year than students without, equivalent to over $1300 extra, nine years after entering college.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The report comes at a time when colleges and universities across the country are excavating their pasts and working to publicly acknowledge and correct for their roles in historic wrongs. Colleges have renamed campus buildings and programs in efforts to atone for past connections to problematic campus leaders and donors.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ask yourself: Would the $20 million gift that Bloomberg Philanthropies gave to Princeton in 2021 to support the university’s first-generation and low-income students have a greater impact at Tougaloo College, an HBCU with a $10 million endowment? The very question—posed by educational historian Bruce A.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In a recent opinion essay in The New York Times , Molly Worthen, a University of North Carolina professor of religious and intellectual history, follows up an earlier defense of lectures (“Lecture Me, Really”) and the study of the Great Books (“Can I Go to Great Books Boot Camp?”), Here, I must firmly disagree.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

Torres and Anguiano (2016) point out that an instructor’s indication of errors in student assignments may be directed towards avoiding the same in upcoming projects, but since connotations are deciphered via one’s “personal history, social setting, culture” and existing sense of identity, the student may have a “competing interpretation” (p.

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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. ” That bit of history wasn’t helpful to newbies.) But failing to notice the history doesn’t make it, or its effects, go away. ” I haven’t found one yet.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The vast majority (63.9%) are white, followed by Asian Americans at 20.6%, according to 2022 data from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). The socio-economic, disadvantaged scale really helps us put things in context. Where you go to college is strongly related to intergenerational wealth and privilege.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

An excellent and diverse faculty is vital to individual colleges and universities and to our communities, states, nation and globe. colleges and universities, the faculty is less diverse than the students. To improve faculty diversity, college and university leaders need data. Yet, at most U.S. What Do We Do?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

I recently had an opportunity to speak with Lori Pavese Mazor, who, for over two decades, has helped plan, manage, and operate some of New York City's leading institutions, including the CUNY Hunter College, New York University, Brooklyn Public Library System, and New York Presbyterian Hospital. It’s appearance is key to its brand.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Diversifying Our Curing Community (DOCC) Arkansas State University College of Science and Mathematics DOCC seeks to increase the number of under-represented students accepted into medical schools. Adelphi’s female faculty members in the industry serve as inspiring role models.

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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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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

San Diego Mesa College, California San Diego Mesa College embedded equity and engagement librarian, Edeama Onwuchekwa. The position, which rotates every three years, provides an interdisciplinary opportunity for community engagement and celebration of a diverse range of storytelling histories and experiences.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It was the Great Recession that brought mounting concerns over rising tuition and student loans, state cutbacks in higher ed spending, college graduates’ uneven employment outcomes, and return on investment to a head. Not only did the population become much more diverse, but college goers increasingly came from lower-income backgrounds.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

by GR Evans C ambridge has arcane and complex rules and policies for jobs in the university and its colleges; despite their idiosyncracy some of them may have lessons for other institutions. The University and College Union has launched an Anti-Casualisation Pledge. College posts A post in a Cambridge College may also look attractive.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This is especially significant when viewed next to the evolving demographics in higher education, where an increasing number of students of different races, ethnicities, nationalities, ages, sexual orientations, gender identities, socioeconomic statuses, abilities, and more are currently attending colleges and universities.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

To understand the potential role this model could play, we need to review a little history. On the bottom was the California Community College System. Community colleges accept the top 100% of students who apply. Colleges want to become universities and universities want to become research centers. It gets worse.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

To recap some basics, on October 31 the Supreme Court heard arguments related to lawsuits that Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) brought against Harvard College and the University of North Carolina, in connection with these institutions’ race-conscious admissions practices. The situation in brief. What has been contested since [Brown v.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The RAE Panels were made up of established academics in the relevant discipline and by the late 1990s there were complaints that this disadvantaged interdisciplinary researchers. The University of Strathclyde and King’s College London (Case Study 2) described a “multidisciplinary research environment”.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

o We were among the initial institutions to join the Liberal Arts College Racial Equity Leadership Alliance. He is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism, by preserving and communicating heroic sentiments, noble biographies, melodious verse, and the conclusions of history.

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