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, who was 82, died last week. She and seven of her peers including famed civil rights activist, the Reverend Jesse L.

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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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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. For example, the famous 1960 Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins were organized by four North Carolina A&T University students.

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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. it can provide numerous practical benefits to an institution.

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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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UW Presidential Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

At the University of Washington, women have been making history since the University was founded. In Seattle, new Provost Tricia Serio serves as the University’s chief academic officer. Together, this marks first time in UW history that all four of these leadership positions have been held by women.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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. University of Phoenix's owners could potentially liable for refunding the US government for the fraud. Related link: How University of Phoenix Failed. But it shouldn't--at least not yet.

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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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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.

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University Business

MARCH 7, 2023

Michigan’s only private university in the state’s upper peninsula, Finlandia University, announced last week it will not enroll students for fall 2023, officially marking its closure at the conclusion of the current academic year. In November, The Hechinger Report found 861 colleges had closed since 2004.

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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. I thought it could be just football and school, but there was a component missing.

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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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University Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As of Tuesday Multnomah University will now be referred to as Multnomah Campus of Jessup University, after a recent merger announcement by the two Christian universities. The California-based institution said it is prepared to take on the fledgling university’s assets and liabilities.

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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.

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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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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). As Gonzalez completes his graduate studies at Claremont Graduate University in California, he is preparing to defend his dissertation before departing for a faculty position this fall at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

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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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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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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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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. My own institution, Kansas State University, used land entirely from the Kaw (Kanza or Kaá?ze)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

education or universities, specifically. However, there is a network of tribally run colleges and universities that are the ongoing extension of those sovereignties as well as key vehicles for continuing to liberate the sovereign potential. These priorities often are not the focus in U.S.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

SAE’s Creative Media Institute in Australia has been granted the designation of University College, it has been announced. With six campuses across five Australian states and one transnational campus in Dubai, SAE was officially registered as a University College in late December 2023, according to the college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Danielle Ren Holley, president-elect of Mount Holyoke College. The Howard University law professor and dean has been named Mount Holyoke College’s first permanent Black female president in the institution’s 186-year history. Danielle Ren Holley, current dean and professor of law at Howard University.

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University Business

JULY 8, 2024

South suburban Oak Lawn’s more than century-old Northwestern College, formerly known as Northwestern Business College, permanently closed its doors on Saturday, according to a notice posted on its website. The post Northwestern College in Oak Lawn announces sudden closure after 122 years appeared first on University Business.

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University Business

JULY 26, 2024

The past week has seen three institutions — Pennsylvania State University, Paul Quinn College, and the University of Oklahoma — each receive a historic gift of $20 million. Pennsylvania State University On July 19, Pennsylvania State University announced it had received a $20 million commitment from J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

He describes, with precision and ample documentation, the various ways in which racialized thought and support for slavery were incorporated into the founding and development of the intellectual norms of America’s colleges and universities. Dr. William B.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MARCH 17, 2024

Names of 77 ex-students of women-only Newnham College who worked at Bletchley Park are revealed for first time They worked day and night during the second world war, deciphering Nazi messages, breaking Enigma codes and analysing top-secret military documents. Continue reading.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

AUGUST 31, 2023

Student says he has been pressured to remove a reference to Antoinette Sandbach, a descendant of a slave merchant The former Tory MP Antoinette Sandbach has threatened the University of Cambridge with legal action after a historian named her as a descendant of merchants who enslaved his ancestors.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Programs Ryan Quinn Tue, 11/19/2024 - 03:00 AM The university didn’t announce its decision in a news release and hasn’t fully explained it, but two deans blamed a new grad workers’ union contract for the cutbacks to a dozen programs including English, history and sociology. Byline(s) Ryan Quinn

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

University of Maryland campus, Memorial Chapel. The University of Maryland (UMD) has released its first report covering the history of their institution and its intersection with slavery, The 1856 Project – Reconstructing the Truth. These [reports and investigations] aren’t designed to make universities look bad.

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