Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

He explained his departure in an open letter, claiming that Dr. Clarence Lang, dean of the College of the Liberal Arts, had refused to follow through on a commitment to hire two new tenure-line faculty. Michael West West will continue to serve as a tenured professor in the department. West resigned Apr.

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University Business

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Whether it was news of a recent college closure or a forecast of the severity of the demographic cliff, the most popular stories of 2024 centered on the changing makeup of higher education institutions. Special categories highlight the best value, innovation, social mobility and historically Black colleges. Read the story.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2023

It’s college acceptance season, with all the accompanying emotional highs and lows swirling in households across the country. community colleges combined. community colleges combined. Community colleges serve 6.2 Several other institutions, including my alma mater Williams College , have made similar commitments.

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University Business

OCTOBER 17, 2024

College closures are showing no sign of slowing down in 2024 following a report from Implan, an economic software and analysis company, that revealed at least 20 colleges have shuttered so far this year. One reporter in the audience drew parallels between Talladega’s situation and Birmingham-Southern College.

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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. We’re very proud of that.

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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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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As institutions across the country continue to contend with fluctuating post-pandemic enrollment and retention numbers, colleges like West Texas A&M University (WTAMU) are getting creative. The post Embedded Associate Degrees Increase Retention appeared first on Insight Into Diversity. Wendler in a statement. “But

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 7, 2024

Guillory not only brings a wealth of experience as a teacher and scholar grounded in liberal arts, but she also has served at research universities with graduate programs,” said Ford. Guillory will serve as a senior cabinet member and in the administrative office, next in line to Ford. Dr. Monique Guillory “Dr.

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University Business

AUGUST 9, 2024

McNulty – Grove City College (Penn.) Grove City College President Paul McNulty This upcoming academic year will serve as Paul McNulty’s last as president of Grove City College, his alma mater. John Sygielski – Harrisburg Area Community College (Penn.) Young – Wallace Community College-Dothan (Ala.)

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University Business

APRIL 24, 2023

Most college or university presidents to have recently taken the helm might have had a grasp of their job expectations before the turn of the decade—or even when the pandemic went into full swing. No cohort of presidents might be more familiar with this than those leading small private colleges or universities in the Northeast.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2023

It’s taken months of collaboration across institutions, but east Tennessee’s only Historically Black College and University (HBCU) is on track to regain accreditation. The college is anticipating submitting its application for approval in April. Knoxville College (KC), a private institution, lost its accreditation in 1997.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 7, 2024

Guillory not only brings a wealth of experience as a teacher and scholar grounded in liberal arts, but she also has served at research universities with graduate programs,” said Ford. Guillory will serve as a senior cabinet member and in the administrative office, next in line to Ford. Dr. Monique Guillory “Dr.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

If Blackwood’s course sounds like a divergence from the humdrum small-group discussions that college English courses bring to mind, well, you probably haven’t taken a college English class recently. million Andrew W. Instead, students seem more willing to study what they’re passionate about.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

There, she worked with students academically underprepared for college, she says. in African American studies and sociology from EIU; and an Associate of Arts in African American studies from Olive-Harvey Community College. And from 2002 to 2006, she served as academic adviser for Temple University.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Student support programs are increasingly filling up college and university “To-Do” lists to ensure undergraduates are in the best position to thrive during their studies. However, colleges aren’t doing enough to ensure students are able to transition out of a life solely focused on class and getting good grades.

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University Business

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Although most colleges and universities are scrambling to moderate precisely how students should be allowed to use it, faculty and administrators are inviting its use systemwide. “If used appropriately, AI can do some of the things we pay college consultants to do.”

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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. “People had needs at home and they had health concerns,” says Thomas L.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Over the next five years, New College of Florida plans to become the best liberal arts college in America. Heavier than the crown is the price tag: The newly revamped conservative college , home to fewer than 1,000 students, is seeking $400 million, according to a business plan released last week. Jason Shoaf.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: Twenty-three Lafayette College department heads and program chairs say there are serious issues with governance at the college, according to “points of concern” four of them shared with the president and provost. ” “I am one of many pretenure faculty who are leaving the college,” Bell said.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Others denounced the use of gateway courses to “weed out” less prepared students from difficult majors and demanded that colleges and universities do more to help them manage workload-related stress. ” Moreover, more time spent on academic work translates into higher retention and graduation rates.

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Helix Education

MARCH 16, 2023

Gathering student satisfaction data by administering a survey, such as the RNL Student Satisfaction Inventory (SSI) , is a regular assessment activity for hundreds of colleges each year. She shared the most recent SSI results with the Student Senate at the four-year private liberal arts college.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What we need, I think, is what Feldstein calls a “radically conservative” vision that conserves “the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it.” This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

No one in his family had gone to college, much less earned an advanced degree. ” That lesson remained with him throughout his college years and as he went about building his professional career. Image: D’Angelo Taylor had a hard time imagining a career in higher education. he assumed his career options were limited.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

In August 2023, Kinloch became the 15th president of JCSU — the only historically Black college and university (HBCU) in the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, founded in 1867 by formerly enslaved Black people. She is only the second woman to hold the position in the school’s 157-year history. She does both well.”

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

In the college environment an intent to persist is needed, and by promoting resiliency in such a way students are encouraged to understand that their own free will and mindset largely influence their success. Dissemination of Growth Mindset Principles and Attitudes in the Division of Science and Mathematics at a Liberal Arts College.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Mental Health TEAS will bring aboard an additional full-time clinical therapist as well to help boost Asian American student retention and completion. The professor will be based on the Hartford campus in UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The search for the new hire is currently underway, according to Rola.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Some Musings on College Rankings College rankings continue to proliferate, and in many cases muddy the waters for prospective students and their families. News sends a questionnaire to the President, Provost, and Chief Enrollment Officer of each college with a list of all the institutions in their cohort. Each year, U.S.

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University Business

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Liberal arts colleges can market their smaller scale to attract students looking for more hands-on support. Community colleges and HBCUs across North Carolina are boosting retention and persistence rates with mentorship programs, administrators say. “It’s all about systems. .”

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

In the college environment an intent to persist is needed, and by promoting resiliency in such a way students are encouraged to understand that their own free will and mindset largely influence their success. Dissemination of Growth Mindset Principles and Attitudes in the Division of Science and Mathematics at a Liberal Arts College.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As the wave of closures of small liberal arts colleges across the United States continues, merging with a larger institution is increasingly seen as an attractive alternative. I am particularly concerned about my own institution, Bloomfield College, in New Jersey. More than 81 percent of our students are people of color.

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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.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

“During Summer 2022, we launched a pre-college program for incoming freshmen to earn academic credit overseas while gaining independence, global awareness, positive study skills, and the opportunity to bond with peers in an international setting,” he told The PIE. International recruitment.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In March 2021, the chair of the Board of Trustees of Becker College announced that the institution would close its doors due to financial difficulties accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a blow to the students, faculty and staff of this private college in Worcester, Mass.,

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University Business

AUGUST 23, 2024

Dan Kelting – Paul Smith’s College (N.Y.) Dan Kelting, interim president of Paul Smith’s College November 2022, has been granted full control of the institution after the board of directors named him permanent leader. Retiring Barbara Altmann – Franklin and Marshall College (Pa.)

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Campus Sonar

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It’s not surprising that 72% of college presidents agree or somewhat agree that their institution needs to make fundamental changes in its business models, programming, or other operations ( Inside Higher Ed’s 2023 survey of presidents ). adults, down from 70% in 2013, consider a college education to be very important.

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