A Timely History of College Sport
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Thelin’s College Sports: A History. Altschuler and David Wippman consider the challenges of controlling commercialization in their review of Eric A. Moyen and John R.
Preserving HBCU History and Heritage
Insight Into Diversity
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
They will work together to digitize and archive historical records and materials at five historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Once the process is complete, the library will unveil a new digital repository that celebrates the recordings and the history tied to them.
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Education Department calls on colleges to stop asking about applicants’ criminal histories
Higher Ed Dive
MAY 1, 2023
The recommendation came in a wide-ranging report about how colleges can better support students who were formerly incarcerated.
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Don’t Just Witness History; Seize the Opportunity to Shape It
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
And the stakes couldn’t be higher for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), which for generations have punched above their weight. It has already made history, with an HBCU graduate as the first presidential nominee of either of the two major parties. They serve more economically disenfranchised students than most U.S.
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The Commencement Story and the Rhymes of History
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 31, 2024
In a moment when there has been a chilling effect on (free) speech across college campuses; where protests have been met with militarized responses and no small amount of breathless – bordering on hysterical – media coverage, the commencement address – 2024 – has become fraught with anxiety. near national suicide.” The repeal of Roe v.
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Chicago Teen Dorothy Jean Tillman II, DBH, Makes History
Insight Into Diversity
MAY 17, 2024
On May 6, 2024, Dorothy Jean Tillman II walked across the stage at Arizona State University (ASU), making history as the youngest person in the country to earn a doctoral degree. A Chicago native, Tillman began taking college classes at age 10.
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‘Very sad to lose a part of history’ | Community saddened by the loss of historic building at Knoxville College
University Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
A historic campus was devastated by fire Monday night as Knoxville College lost a building that has stood for over a century. “It’s just very sad, very sad to lose a part of history that needs to be saved. It’s a 100-year-old building that we lost,” Debra Espy, a neighbor near the college said. Read more at WVLT8.
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St. Mary’s College of Maryland Receives $4 Million, Largest Gift Commitment in School History
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Mary’s College of Maryland (SMCM) has received $4 million, the largest gift commitment in the school’s history. His philanthropy is already impacting the College, having provided a six-figure leadership gift for the LEAD Fund during the quiet phase to help ignite the campaign. The commitment was made by SMCM alum R. Jordan said.
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Women make history on stages big and small by lifting each other up
UW Presidential Blog
MARCH 5, 2024
At the University of Washington, women have been making history since the University was founded. Together, this marks first time in UW history that all four of these leadership positions have been held by women. In Seattle, new Provost Tricia Serio serves as the University’s chief academic officer.
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Hood College receives $54 million, largest donation in school’s history
University Business
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Hood College will receive $54 million from Hodson Trust on Monday which is the largest gift in the school’s 130-year history. The post Hood College receives $54 million, largest donation in school’s history appeared first on University Business. Read more from FOX Baltimore.
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Black History Month: The Role of Higher Education in Black Activism
Insight Into Diversity
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Throughout its history, higher education in the U.S. Although Black History Month was federally designated in 1986, similar weekly and monthly celebrations had already existed for more than 50 years. Throughout history, some activists who were for Black liberation found their homes in the academy.”.
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Exploring the History of Latinos in Baseball
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 31, 2023
So, when it came time for him to pick an academic pursuit, the study of Latinos and sports history naturally came to mind. I just wanted to understand what [the history was] behind this,” says Burgos. “I Latino, African American, and sports history. He is a professor of history at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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History hiring in the pandemic
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 31, 2022
Image: In 2020–21, history faculty job postings hit their lowest point since the American Historical Association started tracking openings in 1975, at just 347 positions total. The number of nonfaculty jobs listed (mostly nonteaching jobs within college and universities) increased from 51 to 80 positions, however. Yes and no.
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A Long History of Recognizing Inclusive Excellence
Insight Into Diversity
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
The Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award, established by Insight Into Diversity magazine in 2012, was created to recognize and celebrate the exemplary work of colleges and universities committed to advancing DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) principles. a quality increasingly sought after by employers.
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Unveiling An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 9, 2023
An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education tells the unique story about what Americans think of higher education. Dr. Sol Gittleman Gittleman, who is the Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor Emeritus, has emerged as one of the nation’s most important interpreters of the history of higher education.
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An Election about the Right to Learn History
Academe Blog
DECEMBER 1, 2023
In the excitement (or disappointment) last Tuesday, however, the ongoing national struggle over history education received short shrift. Would it be the seventh state in a row to recognize a woman’s bodily integrity as a constitutional right? Buried in…
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Grambling State’s Digital Library Makes HBCU History
Insight Into Diversity
AUGUST 27, 2024
Grambling State University (GSU) has made history with the opening of their Digital Library and Learning Commons. Not only is this landmark facility the first digital library ever established at a Historically Black College or University (HBCU) in the US, but it is also the first digital library in the state of Louisiana.
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New College report shows lowest retention rate in school’s history
University Business
OCTOBER 16, 2023
New College of Florida’s retention rate fell to historic lows and it’s dropout rate doubled between last fall and the start of the 2023-2024 school year, a report released this week shows. The college’s Interim Provost Brad Thiessen provided faculty with the rates for first-year college students on Wednesday.
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Job Market for History Professors ‘Lethargic but Stable’
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Employment data for the 2022–23 academic year confirm that the hiring of college history professors since 2016 has been “lethargic but stable,” according to a recent report from the American Historical Association Career Center.
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Hodson Trust gives parting gift of over $100M to 2 Maryland colleges
Higher Ed Dive
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Hood College and Washington College each received over $50 million, the largest donations in their respective histories, from the now-dissolved trust.
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Standing Up to Attacks on Black History and DE&I
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 10, 2023
Black history — and Black Americans — are under attack. Since 2021, legislatures and governors in 19 states have enacted educational gag orders that restrict teaching and learning about allegedly divisive concepts such as race, racism, and American history. The fate of affirmative action in higher education awaits a U.S.
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Oxford University appoints UK’s first professor of LGBTQ+ history
The Guardian - Higher Education
JUNE 5, 2023
Matt Cook, who has written on queer urban life and the Aids crisis, takes up the new post at Mansfield College The renowned cultural historian Matt Cook is to become the UK’s first fully endowed professor of LGBTQ+ history in a newly created post at Mansfield College, Oxford.
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Kenyon College President Dr. Sean Decatur to Depart for American Museum of Natural History
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Kenyon College President Dr. Sean Decatur will be stepping down from his current role at the end of 2022 to become president of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in April 2023. Kenyon Provost Dr. Jeff Bowman will lead the college until the search for a new president is complete. Dr. Sean M.
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Faculty Lawsuit Over California Community Colleges’ DEI Rules Dismissed
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
A federal district judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by Daymon Johnson, a Bakersfield College history professor, against his college and community college district in which he alleged systemwide rules to ensure employees uphold diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility values chilled his free speech.
How the SAT Shaped College Admissions
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
How the SAT Shaped College Admissions Liam Knox Mon, 09/16/2024 - 03:00 AM Author Nicholas Lemann discusses his new book on standardized testing and common misconceptions about the history and future of admissions exams. Byline(s) Liam Knox
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$100 million: The largest single donation in HBCU history goes to Spelman College
University Business
JANUARY 19, 2024
This year marks 100 since Spelman Baptist Seminary became Spelman College, the all-women HBCU in the heart of Atlanta, Ga., Spelman College is just one of the several prestigious HBCUs in Atlanta. Who are Spelman College’s donors? which we know today. In 2018, the couple donated $30 million.
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What Makes Popular History Popular?
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Blog: Higher Ed Gamma No longer can academic historians dismiss popular biographies or nonspecialist accounts of the past as low-powered history. But, of course, the purpose of many popular histories differs profoundly from those written by academics. ” None of that is true about the best nonacademic histories today.
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Sharpton Organize March to Protest DeSantis' Crusade to "Whitewash Black History"
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Ron DeSantis’ attempts to "bring the state back to the pre-Civil Rights era by banning Black history from the classroom." Sharpton, president of the National Action Network and the host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation, took aim at DeSantis and the College Board that administer the exam. Intersectionality is a uniting framework.
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HBCU Football Player Makes History as First to Come Out as Gay
Insight Into Diversity
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Byron Perkins, a defensive back for the Hampton University Pirates, became the first openly gay football player at a historically Black college or university (HBCU) after publicly coming out this week via social media. The post HBCU Football Player Makes History as First to Come Out as Gay appeared first on INSIGHT Into Diversity.
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Chaka Cummings Appointed Inaugural Executive Director of Association for Teaching Black History in Kentucky
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Chaka Cummings has been appointed the inaugural executive director of The Association for Teaching Black History in Kentucky. Chaka Cummings The association – consisting of Berea College, Kentucky State University, the Muhammad Ali Center, and Kentucky History Resources, LLC – will be in the Carter G. Cummings holds a B.A.
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US history, gov’t class for NC college students passes House
University Business
MARCH 23, 2023
history or government class would become a graduation requirement for future North Carolina public university and community college students in legislation approved Wednesday by the state House. The post US history, gov’t class for NC college students passes House appeared first on University Business.
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Government ‘fanning culture war’ over free speech, says UK’s first LGBTQ+ history professor
The Guardian - Higher Education
JUNE 9, 2023
Issue blown out of proportion, says Matt Cook, after appointment of ‘free speech tsar’ for higher education Oxford University’s new professor of LGBTQ+ history has accused the government of “fanning a culture war” over freedom of speech, insisting it is alive and well in higher education.
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American Museum of Natural History names new president
University Business
DECEMBER 8, 2022
The American Museum of Natural History on Tuesday said it had chosen college president Sean Decatur to become its next president, making him the first Black leader of the institution. Decatur, currently the president of Kenyon College in Ohio, will succeed Ellen Futter in April of next year, the museum said.
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Scholar-Activist Elevates the Histories, Identities of Queer Latinx
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 9, 2023
and Jorge Estrada, writing in the Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (2019). After completing his undergraduate studies at Manhattanville College in New York state, Gonzalez worked for College Track, a nonprofit college completion program in California. “It
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UK receives largest gift ever in university’s nearly 160-year history
University Business
MAY 26, 2023
The University of Kentucky recently received the largest gift ever in the university’s nearly 160-year history. Late University of Kentucky alum and former trustee Carol Martin “Bill” Gatton bestowed a gift of $100 million to the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment through The Bill Gatton Foundation. Read more from WKYT.
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First African American Woman Tenured in the College of Education at Clemson University, Passes Away
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Margaree Seawright Crosby made history when she became the first African American woman professor to earn tenure at Clemson University’s College of Education. Crosby made history as a young girl and part of the “Greenville 8″ who challenged segregation, then lived a long life of community service,” said Greenville’s mayor, Knox White.
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Florida higher ed faces an ideologically driven assault unparalleled in US history
University Business
MAY 24, 2023
The post Florida higher ed faces an ideologically driven assault unparalleled in US history appeared first on University Business. If sustained, this onslaught threatens the very survival of meaningful higher education in the state, with dire implications for the entire country. Read more from AAUP.
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Indigenous Peoples in Higher Education: Inherited Histories and Pernicious Status Quos
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Alex Red Corn Recently at our Indigenous Peoples Day gathering at Kansas State University, Chief Ben Barnes of the Shawnee spoke from the heart about matters related to Shawnee histories and their ongoing presence as a Native nation. Even if they were to attend, we do not offer any courses on Kaw language, government, or history.
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University of Phoenix and the Ash Heap of Higher Ed History
Higher Education Inquirer
JULY 12, 2023
The University of Phoenix (or at least its name) may soon enter the ash heap of US history--and rise again as a state-run robocollege. Apollo Global Management and Vistria Group, two investment firms, currently own UoPX, but they have been trying to unload the subprime college for more than two years. Consumers Empowered.
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Leaning on Legacy: Blending History and Branding in Enrollment Marketing
The Higher Ed Marketer
JANUARY 23, 2023
How much should colleges and universities lean on legacy branding? Jason Trainer , Vice Provost for Enrollment Management at ISU, shares how their school balances academic and athletic branding while giving students just the right dose of historical perspective.
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Spelman College Announces President’s Official Resignation
Insight Into Diversity
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Spelman College announced the end of Helene Gayle’s two-year tenure as the college’s 11th president. The college has not disclosed the reasons behind her absence or departure. Brewer, a Spelman graduate with a degree in chemistry, expressed her commitment to the college during this pivotal period. “I
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University College London staff voice concern over ‘dismantling’ of Art Museum
The Guardian - Higher Education
OCTOBER 27, 2024
UCL’s Grade I-listed building being turned into a mixed-use space under redevelopment proposals Academics are outraged that University College London (UCL) has failed to put its Art Museum and significant art collection at the heart of its bicentennial redevelopment plans.
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An Elite College, a Subversive Artist, and the Long History of Blasphemy
The Chronicle of Higher Education
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Is Taravat Talepasand's art too radical for today's campus? By Len Gutkin Mark Mahaney for YBCA Taravat Talepasand Is Taravat Talepasand's art too radical for today's campus?
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Paul Quinn College to Create an Innovative Housing Model and a Mixed-Use Community
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Jakes Foundation (TDJF), in partnership with Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), Paul Quinn College (PQC) is looking to create an innovative housing model, accompanied by a mixed-use community on their Dallas campus. PQC is the only minority-serving, federally recognized Work College in the nation. Sorrell, President of Paul Quinn College. “We
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