Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Here at the Associate of Community College Trustees (ACCT) 2022 Leadership Congress currently being held in Manhattan, these key take-aways are being reinforced with increased nuance and clarity. Increasingly, these students, rather than eighteen-year-old high school graduates, form the core of the college-going public.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

Matthews in starting what was initially a monthly newsletter on Black Issues In Higher Education , we now know the power of pathways in helping Black boys like me go from being a nerdy high school student in Richmond, Virginia, to a tenured professor at a flagship state university where the governor once stood in the Schoolhouse Door.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Higher education is a ladder to social and economic mobility and stability, and learning certain skills like leadership, critical thinking, problem-solving and communication, can make the difference in a graduate feeling their time in postsecondary education was both worth the expense and helped them achieve life goals.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

That “ elite colleges simultaneously reproduce class inequality and belief in the justness of that inequality.” ” That “ Nothing divides America—economically, socially and politically—like a college degree.” Why do departments impose such restrictions?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Sloan Foundation and RTI International have engaged in a study of Black and Hispanic individuals who have achieved PhD degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. Half of the top 20 bachelor’s degrees of Black STEM PhD recipients from 2010–20 were earned at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In April 2023, Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York, passed a significant threshold. The school is now eligible for Title V HSI funds that can support student recruitment, education, sense of belonging, and completion. Manhattan College has been classified as an emerging HSI for years, says Roy.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Colleges are under growing pressure to prove their value to students, parents, legislators and others. Itzkowitz: Over the past year, we’ve seen an uptick in students and families wanting to know what type of return on investment they’re going to get from the college education. We have data from the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Anyone who cares deeply about American higher education needs to come to grips with a series of hard and unpleasant truths: That this country’s system of postsecondary education relegates the students with the greatest needs to the most underresourced institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

“Honestly, this happens so frequently now that my first reaction was, ‘You don’t need to disclose anything to me that will make you feel uncomfortable,’” said Mozafari, who teaches engineering communication at Cornell’s College of Engineering.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. This edited volume comprises 19 book chapters divided into two sections: (a) primary and secondary settings; and (b) postsecondary settings.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer One year ago, the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program (Aspen) partnered with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) to launch the first cohort of the Transfer Student Success and Equity Intensive , a national effort to accelerate transfer reform at scale.

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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

colleges and universities. Andrew Koricich is the Executive Director of the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges (ARRC) and an Associate Professor of Higher Education at Appalachian State University. in Higher Education and a B.S. Dr. Koricich earned a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Good to be here.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Recommendations for Nurturing the Brilliance of Black Males Ensure that Black male voices are centered in conversations on academic and college support (Harper, 2012). Involve families in the college-going process. Get them involved during meetings and offer professional development that educates and empowers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It became the first tribal college and university, or TCU, to offer a Ph.D. Tuttle “We are a tribal college. Guy says NTU’s engineering department is working hand in hand with UNM to potentially develop a material science doctoral program. program — Diné (Navajo) Culture and Language Sustainability. Dr. Elmer Guy “The Ph.D.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Higher education plays a critical role in civic engagement and safeguarding democracy, a new white paper from Complete College America suggests. The report also contends that higher education is an “engine” for economic mobility as one’s median annual earnings increase with levels of education.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: A new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report notes some improvement in minority representation in higher education related to science, technology, engineering, math and medicine (STEMM)—but not enough to match those groups’ share in the overall population.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

While there is a broad understanding that participating in higher education leads to increased levels of civic participation, conflicting narratives exist about this link. The researchers found a dearth of longitudinal studies on the intersection of postsecondary education and civic engagement.

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University Business

APRIL 30, 2023

People are continuously questioning the purpose of obtaining a college degree, as well as its benefits. For example, a student who enrolls in a university to study engineering discovers that they dislike the subject and transfers to another school. We must align our definitions of success, in its varied manifestations. Lauría, E.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 14, 2023

Enjoy the read and enjoy your day, Lindsey Downs, WCET Hundreds of colleges have closed since 2004, according to tracking by Best Colleges Most closures occurred in 2018, and the overwhelming majority of them (80%) were for-profit schools. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Best Colleges has tracked 39 school closures or mergers.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

For too long, US higher education has lagged in promoting democracy-focused education as core to the purpose and goals of a postsecondary education. Bridget Trogden is professor of engineering & science education and association dean in the division of undergraduate studies at Clemson University.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

For too long, US higher education has lagged in promoting democracy-focused education as core to the purpose and goals of a postsecondary education. Bridget Trogden is professor of engineering & science education and association dean in the division of undergraduate studies at Clemson University.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But at the college level, we need to move up a notch. I wholeheartedly agree with the Civic Learning and Democracy Engagement Coalition, which declared last year in a widely endorsed statement of Shared Commitments, we need to make civic learning for an engaged democracy an expected part of a college education.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

Implementation and Impact of July 1st Regulations The primary intent behind these regulations is to enhance accountability within higher education institutions, especially in managing federal student loan and grant programs. 00:34:36] Drumm: I don’t know if that’s good or bad. And they felt this particularly in computer sciences.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

While most target K-12 education, an increasing number concern colleges and universities. To play on Socrates’ assertion that an “unexamined life is not worth living”—isn’t this another way of articulating the very point of especially secondary and postsecondary education? I think it is.

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Higher Education Inquirer

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The implications for the broader society within which colleges and universities exist – that’s a subject for another post. For example, the work the Office for Postsecondary Education ( OPE ) does would move to the Department of Labor, while “programs deemed important to our national security interests [shift] to the Department of State.” (327).

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