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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Image: New data from the Lumina Foundation on college degree or credential attainment rates for U.S. The national share of working-age Americans who hold college degrees increased across racial and ethnic groups and rose in all states between 2019 and 2021. adults show both good and bad news. ” The U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

“These new rules crack down on some of the most deceptive practices we see in higher education, such as predatory marketing tactics that target U.S. service members and veterans,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement. Image Source: MivPiv/iStock/Getty Images Plus Image Caption: U.S.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Image: The complaint processes at seven of the agencies charged with monitoring the quality of higher education institutions and holding them accountable are burdensome and seem designed to protect colleges, a new brief from the think tank New America argues. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?:

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

Department of Education hoped the “listening sessions” they arranged this week would provide consensus on whether to stop letting colleges pay outside companies a share of tuition revenue when they help recruit students, they were surely disappointed. ” Colleges have given OPMs too much authority over their programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Neither the state Department of Education nor the chancellor’s office responded to multiple requests for comment or for a meeting agenda, attendee list and other details. Inside Higher Ed contacted more than 20 colleges and universities seeking details about last week’s meeting.

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MARCH 19, 2025

by GR Evans This blog was first published in the Oxford Magazine No 475 (Eighth Week, Hilary term, 2025) and is reproduced here with permission of the author and the editor. The Colleges of Oxford and Cambridge similarly distinguish their academic from their other staff.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Eva Surovell, editor-in-chief of The Cavalier Daily , said what’s happening at UVA is an example of the battles being waged over public education policies and campus culture wars across the country. During his campaign for governor, Youngkin didn’t offer many specifics on his plans for higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Image: Amid faltering enrollment rates and increased national scrutiny of the price and worth of a college education, Colorado is weighing a new formula to measure the “economic value” of degree programs offered by the state’s public institutions of higher education.

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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.

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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. Robb Chair in the Social Sciences at Barnard College (women’s undergraduate college of Columbia University).

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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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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Supreme Court ban on affirmative action, college and university leaders, politicians, education experts, and the general public are calling for an end to legacy admissions — the practice of giving preference to students who have familial connections to alumni. Nearly 800 institutions reported providing a legacy preference in 2020.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Half are nonwhite, and most (60 percent) are the first in their families to attend college. That may change—or not—depending on the outcome of UoPeople’s bid for accreditation from the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC), whose decision is expected this month. It’s a delicate balance.”

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 5, 2023

In response to relentless anti-DEI measures, over 200 former college, university, and system heads have joined forces as the Champions of Higher Education coalition, an initiative created by PEN America , an organization that unites writers and their allies to celebrate free expression and defend the liberties that make it possible.

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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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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Among those surveyed in the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE) 2023 State of the CDO report, 68 percent worked at an institution that has had a senior diversity officer position for five years or less, with 41 percent of those roles being created in the past two years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 12, 2023

“I can easily see Dom Turner being a college president one day,” said Dr. Frimpomaa Ampaw, chair of the Department of Advanced Studies, Leadership and Policy in the School of Education and Urban Studies at Morgan State University. “I I don’t even know if he sees it for himself, but I see it for him.”

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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.” Is this diversity newsletter?:

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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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 31, 2023

Image: As Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, seeks to enact sweeping reforms to dramatically reshape higher education in the Sunshine State, students and faculty alike have protested legislation that would ban teaching certain topics, limit institutional authority and undermine tenure protections.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: The Education Department is planning to use undercover agents—known as “secret shoppers”—to monitor colleges and universities that receive federal financial aid for potentially deceptive practices. The department’s decision to use secret shoppers is “four decades overdue,” he said.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Collins would likely work well with colleges. Fansmith said education policy has typically been an area for collaborative, bipartisan cooperation. Senator Susan Collins of Maine is expected to take over for Shelby. Murray’s switch to the Appropriations Committee would make Sanders next in line to chair the HELP committee.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Supreme Court decision rejecting race conscious admissions at colleges and universities, institutions will try to find ways to provide access for underserved populations while accommodating the current parameters. Also, many private colleges will continue to try to financially rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic. With the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

brought innovation, excellence, and inclusion to community colleges. De los Santos, a posthumous recipient of a 2023 Diverse Champions Award, is remembered by colleagues as a great friend, an outstanding mind, and a determined educator who placed access and equity at the center of his work. Alfredo de los Santos Jr. Richardson Jr.,

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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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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Critics blame the failures on the politics of Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, who has focused on reining in colleges that he believes are bastions of liberalism. The logic, she said, is that politicians can wield their connections to direct more dollars from state coffers to the college they lead.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Another is that administrators at some colleges are going to make decisions that are foolish or short-sighted, professors are going to get mad -- and Inside Higher Ed' s readers won't be able to get enough of it. " That question loomed over federal higher education policy for much of 2022.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Delisle, a senior policy fellow at the Urban Institute’s Center on Education Data and Policy. ” But once borrowers get wise, Delisle thinks more college students will take out student loans because the terms are more advantageous. “I think it will take a while for people to realize this change.”

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Higher education lobbyists are watching the appropriations process closely and would like to see the Senate sign off on an expansion of Pell Grants for short-term programs and the College Transparency Act—both of which passed the House of Representatives in February. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

Image: Nearly a decade after the Obama administration broached the idea of rating colleges and universities, the Biden administration is ready to take another crack at the historically fraught concept. The Obama administration didn’t end up rating institutions after opposition from higher education groups and others.)

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Department of Education, higher education lobbyists and policy experts say. “Their priorities are going to be much more about building a record with an eye toward 2024,” said Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies for the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

A recent episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed ’s news and analysis podcast, used the possible Arkansas-Phoenix marriage as a moment to take stock of the state of for-profit higher education. I love community colleges. Where is higher education’s responsibility there? Your completion rates are going to be bad.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For this reason, colleges often identify program experiences that align with their values and target specific student populations. Schumann wrote in her capacity as chair of the system’s University Committee on Research Policy to Cochran during the deliberation.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Image: Representative Virginia Foxx is planning to leverage the decline in public perception of higher education to usher in a new era of stronger accountability for the nation’s colleges and universities in her role as chairwoman of the House education committee.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Barmak Nassirian Barmak Nassirian is vice president for higher education policy with Veterans Education Success, a research and advocacy organization with the goal of improving educational outcomes for veterans. He notes that veterans are largely non-traditional students: older, working and having family obligations.

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