Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Safa Zaki will become president of Bowdoin College, effective Jul. McCoy Professor of Psychology at Williams College. We are living in an era of remarkable change in which the relevance of higher education in general, and the promise of the liberal arts in particular, could not be clearer. McCoy and John T.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

She possesses an associate degree earned in her early 20’s from her local community college. Despite this recognition, the place-bound student is often absent from meaningful equity efforts in higher education that seek to confront and overcome structural inequalities affecting opportunities for low-income students and students of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2023

George Timmons will become president of Holyoke Community College, pending approval of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, MassLive reported. Dr. George Timmons Timmons is currently provost and senior vice president of academic and student affairs at Columbia-Greene Community College (CGCC).

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Deans for Impact

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Sitting in on EDUC 1301: Introduction to the Teaching Profession at Odessa College last semester, Pervis Evans is conscious that he doesn’t quite fit in with the other students, a majority of whom are recent high school graduates. But that doesn’t deter him at all.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. Why is that?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The enormous potential of transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions presents a ray of hope among the pandemic-related enrollment declines, which have particularly affected students from marginalized backgrounds. Supporting transfer access to independent colleges has broad implications for strengthening equity in our society.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 19, 2023

Rhodes College has received an $800,000 grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation to create a new program that will focus on researching and developing curricula related to racial equity, discrimination, and justice in Memphis and the Mid-South region.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

DePauw University DePauw’s Bold and Gold 2027 strategic plan seeks to bolster the university around four principles: the liberal arts and sciences; the student experience; institutional equity; and responsible financial and operational management. higher ed institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Michael West, head of Penn State’s Department of African American Studies, has resigned from the role, alleging that leadership broke promises and questioning the school's commitment to diversity and equity, Centre Daily Times reported. Dr. Michael West West will continue to serve as a tenured professor in the department. West resigned Apr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Students and faculty at the New College of Florida held a a protest during a board of trustees meeting a Tuesday after a conservative takeover of the college, CNN reported. Ron DeSantis replaced six of 13 members on the small public liberal arts school’s board with conservative allies.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

These colleges may all be well over a hundred years old, but there is still a first time for everything: Mount Holyoke (Mass.), Norbert College (Wis.) Norbert College all fall somewhere around 2,000. President-designate Danielle Ren Holley (Photo: Mount Holyoke College website) She was the perfect person to do it, too.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This fall semester, Massasoit Community College achieved a new first. Massasoit Community College is officially offering a Black Studies curriculum. Ten years in the making The story of Black Studies at the Massachusetts public community college goes back a decade. As such, the school began offering the degree program this fall.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has announced partnerships with four new Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers. TRHT Campus Centers comprise community colleges, liberal arts colleges, HBCUs, minority-serving institutions, faith-based institutions, and large research universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

Ron DeSantis has appointed six new board members to the New College of Florida, a step towards turning the school into a more conservative institution, the Herald-Tribune reported. "It said in a statement, referring to conservative Hillsdale College. "It said in a statement, referring to conservative Hillsdale College.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 31, 2023

Ron DeSantis announced plans on Tuesday to defund diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs at Florida’s colleges and universities. He also recently appointed several conservative educational activists to the board of trustees at the New College of Florida, a small liberal arts institution known for its progressive ideals.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Exploring Transfer program at Vassar College is a summer intensive that immerses currently enrolled community college students in an academically rigorous environment, providing vital support and encouragement so they can ultimately continue their education at a competitive four-year institution. This is about equity.

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UW Presidential Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

The UW has similarly supported lawsuits to halt attempts to freeze federal grants and funding that contain elements related to diversity, equity and inclusion; to halt delays in reviewing and renewing NIH grant funding; and to halt the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, among others.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: The Whittier College Board of Trustees was scheduled for a rare in-person meeting this Friday, after conducting most business virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with her address looming, Oubré and her critics have radically different views of what the state of the college is.

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University Business

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In the rhythm and cycle of academic life, Hamilton College President David Wippman doesn’t sense much of a difference in his last year before retirement. Wippman has enjoyed a lengthy eight-year stay at the helm of Hamilton College in New York. “It feels like a pretty normal year,” he says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 10, 2024

He has over 40 years of experience in faith-based, nonprofit leadership, stating that his work as a college administrator is guided by his Lutheran faith. This work has included small, community-based urban development, international relief and development as well as a college presidency.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 15, 2023

News & World Report released its first list of annual college rankings in 1983. News college rankings often point out that much of the data used to compile the rankings is provided by “experts” who range from high school guidance counselors to admissions counselors and faculty members at various higher education institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

One faculty diversity committee told administrators the school’s actions were undermining its work. And in a Nov.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

A second tradition, originally associated with Oxford and Cambridge, emphasized the transmission of culture and character development in a residential college setting. These four traditions co-exist uneasily within the contemporary college and university. Priorities conflict.

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University Business

JUNE 12, 2023

High school students molded by the pandemic are rejuvenated to experience an in-person college experience again. These are some key takeaways EAB gathered in their latest meta-report that creates a comprehensive picture of higher education’s future college cohort: “Gen P.” That’s an 8% rise compared to 2021.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Colleges pay tribute to diversity yet largely offer a cookie-cutter approach to education. Work colleges like Berea and Paul Quinn require all students to perform campus jobs to defray part of their education’s cost. John’s College, decided to wage war against a cookie-cutter education.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

News ’ college rankings contain an unlikely category that you might not expect: “A-Plus Schools for B Students.” ” These are the less selective colleges and universities that serve those students with less than stellar College Board scores and nonstratospheric transcripts. Blog: Higher Ed Gamma U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Born in Grinnell, Iowa, Edith Renfrow Smith graduated from Grinnell College in 1937 and was the only Black student on campus during the 4.5 years that she attended the small, private liberal arts college. At 110 years old, she is the college’s first Black alumna and the oldest living graduate of the institution.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Seven years of college down the drain”? You’ve heard the arguments before, I suspect: “ College Doesn’t Need to Take Four Years. You’ve heard the arguments before, I suspect: “ College Doesn’t Need to Take Four Years.” ” College, say Wall Street Journal contributors Scott L.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

A Historically Black College and University has been included in a list of institutions receiving prestigious internationalisation awards for the first time. Also receiving the Spotlight Award was liberal arts institution Cedar Crest College , Pennsylvania, for its Carmen Twillie Ambar Sophomore Expedition.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Ted Mason, PhD In the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to ban race-conscious admissions in higher education, experts in the field of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) are at a crossroads. Mason serves as associate provost for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Kenyon College in Ohio.

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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. I had to get used to that.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

A lot of higher ed trends have been upended over the last few years, but gradually changing college student demographics is not one of them. ” Equity is essential as college student demographics change. First-year college success seminars. “Other parts of the country will be hit.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Image: Scholars in Florida are angry, disappointed and divided over a recent joint statement , signed by Florida College System presidents, promising to “not fund or support any institutional practice, policy, or academic requirement that compels belief in critical race theory or related concepts.”

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Image: College and universities will need to diversify their faculties at about 3.5 The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33 ” Using another analogy, he compared colleges and universities to aircraft carriers that can’t quickly change direction.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Natalie Galucia The study, Age as a Factor in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives in Higher Education , was conducted between February 2022 and January 2023 and published in the Journal of Gerontological Social Wor k. Even within an individual college, separate departments and programs can view age differently, respondents indicated.

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University Business

APRIL 30, 2024

Colby College in Maine has promised the Class of 2029 that middle-class students who enroll will find their private liberal arts degree more affordable than many in-state public institutions. The Pew Research Center classifies middle-class as income between two-thirds and twice the national median income: $67,819 to $203,458.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

“When I was in Japan, I had to accept the fact that I was going to be one of a few in this profession, but also in Japan, percentage wise,” says Dabney, an associate professor of politics and Japanese studies at Earlham College, a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. Dr. Dyron K.

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