Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

in educational policy and planning, Reid hopes to make an impact on federal and state policies related to education. Reid is already meeting with politicians in Texas about educational policy. which provided him exposure to policy networking with individuals in the federal government.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2023

The Ivy League, with some of the oldest institutions of higher education in the U.S., Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and Columbia University named new presidents, each to take office in July. Robert McCaughey, retired professor of history and Janet H. recently announced bold choices in leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

At the time, Darling-Hammond was an endowed professor at Columbia University, Teachers College. Today, she is the president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. “I

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Supreme Court’s decision to strike affirmative action, there are still ways to get diverse student populations into higher ed, experts and scholars said at a webinar hosted this week by California student success organization The Campaign for College Opportunity. And I don't think that that is the implication of this decision."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Julian Vasquez Heilig The selection of Vasquez Heilig as provost is a game changer for WMU, say higher education leaders who point to his tenure at UK where he strategically increased student enrollment in the College of Education by 63 percent, noting that his efforts have focused on increasing diversity among teachers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Ellis The National Council of Churches vehemently opposed the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action in college admissions. In the report, Bishop Vashti Murphy-McKenzie, NCC President and General Secretary notes: “Race has been a factor in making employment, housing, banking, health care and education decisions for centuries in America.

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HEPI

MARCH 7, 2023

I jumped at the chance to speak to London Higher in part because I am an alumnus of our host institution, having studied here at the end of the last century when Queen Mary University of London / QMUL was known as QMWC or Queen Mary and Westfield College. I am also lucky to be an Honorary Fellow of this institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The conference theme this year is humanizing higher education, and hundreds of scholars from across the country gathered here to share their research, resources, and make connections. They’re there to provide access to higher education to their communities.” We estimate about one million college interns are unpaid for their work.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

23 article in The New York Times , “ How College and Sports-Betting Companies ‘Caesarized’ Campus Life ,” which chronicled how universities have signed lucrative contracts with sports betting companies to promote online gambling to their students and campus communities. Nowhere has this been more evident than in a Nov.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Image: Much about Oberlin College is unique, including long-standing policies guaranteeing the faculty a say in matters that extend well beyond academics. So these faculty members are perplexed—and angry—that the college is trying to change its bylaws to restrict faculty control to academics only.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

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. Department of Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy. The data show that attainment gaps are narrowing.

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HEPI

AUGUST 31, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Alice Wilby , Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Access, Participation and Student Experience) at University College Birmingham. There are many FE colleges on the OfS register, with many more delivering HE through franchise arrangements and Institutes of Technology.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The review made a series of recommendations which have provided a reference point for comment on UK Government higher education policy ever since. This article looks back at the report and considers what the lessons might be for politicians, officials and higher education leaders contemplating a future review. and Johnson, J.

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SRHE

AUGUST 22, 2024

But those of us fortunate enough to live in liberal societies – being, as the poet Douglas Dunn puts it, “on the pleasant side of history” – cannot be complacent: the institutional structures that we all-too-readily take for granted and which underpin pluralism and support our freedoms are, we have seen recently, desperately fragile.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 18, 2023

Chaka Cummings The University of Kentucky (UK) College of Education’s PhD in studies in higher education with a specialization in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has presented its inaugural INSIGHT Into Diversity Champion Award to Chaka Cummings. We are poised to make our impact in DEI,” Cummings says.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As a policy area, it has evolved to incorporate a wide range of both policy sectors and policy actors on the federal level: GAC; Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC); Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC); and Research and Innovation. Creating consensus among all those diverse actors is difficult.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2023

This books is worth a mention here too because of the range of contributing authors, many of whom have been deeply involved in higher education policy debates, such as Sam Freedman, Claire Fox, Ralph Lucas, Ann Mroz and Jonathan Simons as well as the Vice-Chancellor James Tooley and the Social Mobility Commission Chair Katherine Birbalsingh.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. We offer faculty workshops on culturally sensitive teaching.” Morishita, interim president at CSULA.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But despite all that, Willowbrook Middle School — it has since been renamed Compton Early College High School — stood tall as a beacon of hope, a powerful symbol of what was possible if educators and policymakers made a serious investment in urban education. The two go hand in hand.”

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The book brings together 55 different authors – including academics, a vice-chancellor and numerous education policy experts (such as Sam Freedman, Lord Lucas, Jonathan Simons , Ann Mroz and Tom Richmond). 511-531 The post Just what is the state of private education in 2023? By Nick Hillman appeared first on HEPI.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2023

college or university say their barriers have been to finishing their education over three years. The results come from a study by the Lumina Foundation called “ The State of Higher Education: Breaking down the barriers to student enrollment and retention ” in partnership with Gallup. Courtney Brown 06:21 Yeah.

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

Back to the future I hope you will let me begin with some history. The full text of what Baker said that day has generally been very hard to get hold of, though I am pleased to say you can find it on the HEPI website along with other hard-to-find and important historical documents on higher education policy.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

” A “group of faculty,” added Burbules, Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, “is not the same thing as a department. And that was the distinction that really kind of started us off down this road.”

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SRHE

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Similar anti-austerity movements erupted worldwide, with student protests in countries like the UK, Chile, Colombia, Quebec, and South Africa challenging tuition hikes and market-driven education policies. These movements also pushed for free education and an end to student loans ( Cini, 2021 ).

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SRHE

JULY 20, 2022

There were other overshoots: in History, Cambridge submitted 170%, Oxford 120%, perhaps linked to college staff not based in a department. They noted concentrations of high quality work in history and philosophy in some smaller submissions. All those in the last two groups are post-92 designations.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Inside Higher Ed : How appropriate is it for federal and state governments to judge colleges based on the value they provide? For most Americans who are considering college or who enroll in college, they say they’re doing it to find a job, to enter a career, to make a decent living.

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University Business

JULY 6, 2023

Across the country, new education policies took effect on July 1st, the beginning of the new fiscal year in most states. A handful of them tackle some of the most pressing issues K12 and higher education leaders face today, including school safety and inclusion. The post New education laws took effect this month.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2023

I’ve been working on finalizing my spring course—Current Issues in Higher Education: Policy and Practice—and I’m really excited about focusing on the following big issues: Concurrent enrollment/dual enrollment/early college. Free community college movement. Basic needs (in)security.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 29, 2023

The History of Higher Education in the US over the last 4 centuries is worse than horrible--from a People's perspective. To make history, it's helpful to know history. At the front end of the higher ed pipeline, the US is not producing enough domestic students with the resources or skills to succeed in college and beyond.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

But the world of higher education will be listening carefully for what Biden may say about the many issues America’s colleges and universities are facing, several of which have assumed national prominence in recent months. Bumphus, president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges, by email. Dr. Kenneth K.

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SRHE

MARCH 14, 2023

She told Cherwell (7 March 2020) that she was ‘shocked to have been no-platformed by this event, organised by Oxford International Women’s Festival and hosted at Exeter College’. If this was a college event, the University’s conduct was not in question in this case.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 25, 2023

A higher education cocktail that mixes a university known for innovation , an experienced provider of compelling educational multimedia content and a behemoth online video-sharing website holds promise. Current courses in Study Hall’s “college foundations” offerings include English composition, college math, U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Proponents of eugenics relied on the convictions of educators to classify students for special education via their evaluations and use of intelligence testing , despite test bias. The APA apology to minoritized people for the history of test bias was finally issued in 2021. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Board of Education ruling. Blacks did not leave the education professions after Brown, the professions were taken from us purposely,” said Fenwick, who chronicled the history in her award-winning book Jim Crow’s Pink Slip: The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership. Supreme Court Brown v.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

This policy is most prevalent among selective private nonprofit institutions, of which 42% incorporate legacy status into their admission decisions, according to a recent report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP). So far, lawmakers in three states — Colorado, Virginia, and Maryland.—

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Liberty Jacket is one of at least a dozen conservative or right-leaning student newspapers that have launched on college campuses since the beginning of 2020. colleges that trains young people to become conservative leaders. ” Alex DiBranco, a Yale Ph.D.

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