Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sacramento State — home to the largest number of Black students within the California State University (CSU) system — is launching what will become the nation’s first-ever Black Honors College. Slated to begin operating in the fall, the honors college will enroll students who have a GPA of 3.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 8, 2023

Page will become president of Stillman College, effective July 1. Page has been lauded for her work, having been given the Council of Independent Colleges Chief Academic Officer Award in 2020 and recognized as one of Diverse’s 25 leading women in higher education in 2017. Dr. Yolanda W.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Williams College faculty voted 81-5 to approve the creation of an Asian American studies (AAS) concentration beginning Fall 2023, The Williams Record reported. The vote – done at a Dec. The fact that it won’t, because it just got passed today, is proving my doubts wrong… It’s very happy and very surreal.”

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University Business

MARCH 27, 2025

Sixteen colleges and universities have joined the consortium to keep up with the rapid pace of change AI has sewn across every facet of the state economy. Connecticut corporations, academic institutions and nonprofits are teaming up to tackle the implications of artificial intelligence through the Connecticut AI Alliance, or CAIA.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Image: Many college students see teaching style as a barrier to their success , but which class formats and active learning methods do they prefer? One in 20 students prefers the traditional, discussion-based seminar, though the share is 13 percent for arts and humanities students.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It starts with a first-year seminar program. A first-year seminar provides a perfect structure for this assignment, but it could be used in a variety of courses. 272) An analysis of the reflection papers students (in five seminar sections) wrote after the exam revealed five themes. The first and “perhaps most important” (p.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) recognizes the following 11 evidence-based practices as integral to student success. In fact, the National Association of Colleges and Employers lists communication, critical thinking, equity and inclusion, and teamwork as four of the eight career readiness competencies.

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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. Those students are often especially trepidatious about studying a subject they’re not certain will pay off financially.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Applicants should explain how they shared their pedagogical innovation with the public, which may include one or more of the following: Presentation at a seminar, workshop, or other form of public appearance, or Publication (or acceptance for publication) in a refereed journal, or Other form of communication.

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EAB

JUNE 20, 2023

What 75+ cabinet leaders learned about responding to grievances on campus at EAB's Compassionate Leadership Seminar Over the past few months, over 75 college and university cabinet leaders have gone through EAB’s Compassionate Leadership Seminar. Megan Adams: First of all, who has been attending this seminar? MA: Really?

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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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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

She also teaches writing and ESL courses at Pima Community College and has developed online course materials. Teaching Graduate Students to Write: A seminar for thesis and dissertation writers. Mindful strategies for helping college students manage stress: a guide for higher education professionals (1st ed.). link] Delyser, D.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The first — McKesson Leading Excellence, Advancing Diversity (LEAD) — will recruit students from diverse communities by establishing pathway and mentorship programs with historically Black colleges and universities in North Carolina. “[The The U-M College of Pharmacy also received about $1.5

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Brian Rosenberg, president emeritus of Macalester College and a visiting professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has written the best article that I’ve read on the recent decision by leading law schools to boycott the US News ratings. College ratings take various forms. Blog: Higher Ed Gamma.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

” Professor Lloyd asked the non-profit Telluride Association if he could lead one of its free summer seminars for highly motivated diverse high school students. ” What Professor Lloyd discovered was that his seminar and the anti-racism workshops were very different beasts.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 19, 2024

Purpose #2: Proactive root concept analysis High school students are often unprepared for the task of learning course content in their college-level courses, relying on rote memorization. As Bain (2012) noted, the best college students, “Elaborate, elaborate, elaborate. What the best college students do. Make connections.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Certainly, K-12 education has the potential to play a key part in this work, but as a longtime college professor, I want to see colleges and universities take a more proactive role. Walmart in 2019, killing 23, were both recently enrolled college students. The perpetrator of the May 14 mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y. ,

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2024

A special kind of energy comes with doing something no one else has, and it’s buzzing around California State University, Sacramento (Sacramento State), this spring as early applications are being reviewed for the inaugural cohort of 70 students who will enroll in the trailblazing Black Honors College (BHC).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The initiatives include a summer bridge program for students who have not passed the Texas Success Initiative and have not yet been deemed college-ready; a redesign of its First Year Seminar course to focus on career exploration and academic skills; an improvement to faculty professional development opportunities; and a loan program for laptops.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That's significantly less than some other area institutions pay: Barnard College recently increased its adjunct pay to $11,500 from $10,000 per seminar, and New York University bumped its per-course adjunct pay to $10,400. Part-time faculty pay at the New School varies, but some professors say they make around $4,000 per course.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Image: Students who enter college with undeclared majors are considered a high-risk group. An estimated 61 percent of college grads would change their undergraduate majors if they could go back, according to a 2022 survey from BestColleges. In addition, many decide on a major and then have doubts about their choice. Tell us about it.

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The PIE News

MARCH 21, 2024

. “In 2022/23 student contribution to net migration was still a very high 51.7% – that is a 267,000 student contribution of a record net migration of 518,000,” said Rizvi, speaking at a seminar held by the University of Melbourne’s Centre for the Study of Higher Education.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 19, 2024

Purpose #2: Proactive root concept analysis High school students are often unprepared for the task of learning course content in their college-level courses, relying on rote memorization. As Bain (2012) noted, the best college students, “Elaborate, elaborate, elaborate. What the best college students do. Make connections.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

College instructors, in increasing numbers, have begun to think seriously and systematically about how to enhance student learning and engagement, remediate content and skill deficiencies, close achievement gaps, and build upon students’ prior knowledge and skills. Supplement grading with formative feedback.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2023

Many colleges and universities around the country offer First-Year Seminars (FYS) or First-Year Experiences (FYE). These courses are geared towards supporting freshmen in their transition to college by introducing them to academic discourse and college-level writing and research, among other skills.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Image: Explicitly teaching character in college? The Program for Leadership and Character already offers scholarships, courses, seminars, speakers and retreats to Wake Forest students. Some 350 students have participated in extracurricular discussion groups that explore such topics as “What Is College For?”

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HEPI

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Plato around a seminar table this ain’t Wildavsky usefully nails the idea that higher education is contrary to skills-based learning, noting that even the ‘land-grant institutions’ founded in the US over a century ago provide practical experience. Moreover, 39 million Americans say they have ‘some college, no degree’.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There’s no question about it: agile colleges and universities wishing to clarify their value, produce marketable graduates and level the economic playing field for their students must immediately make internships much more widely available than they already are.

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Higher Education Inquirer

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The US Department of Education (ED) has placed a number of religious colleges and universities under Heightened Cash Monitoring (HCM). Paul's School of Nursing Torah Temimah Talmudical Seminary Union Theological Seminary Yeshiva of Nitra Rabbinical College Antioch College Paul's School of Nursing St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2024

The Academic Engagement Network is partnering with historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in a new project to reignite the historic alliance between the Black and Jewish communities in combating rising antisemitism and find ways to counter prejudice and hate facing Blacks and Jews.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Jessica Perez, director of the Center for Career & Professional Development at LaGuardia Community College in New York City, found the report’s projections informative. Career planning is introduced during the first year seminar at LaGuardia. Career planning is introduced during the first year seminar at LaGuardia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 27, 2023

The initiative offers scholarships up to $10,000 per academic year, books and support for testing, seminars, professional development, and community service hours.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

As a first-generation college graduate and the first-ever female, Hispanic president of St. Consistent and strong intentionality in academic, psychosocial, and financial support is key to first-generation students successfully completing college. We are fully committed to first-generation students, but commitment is just the start.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

As a college professor in literature and philosophy for ten years, he focused on the relationship between language and social change – even writing a book about that experience entitled Emancipating Pragmatism. Small seminars encourage that extra participation, unlike other online platforms, Magee observes. “If

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Eighteen students crammed themselves into a stuffy classroom assigned for my first-year seminar course on a sunny day in September. At one point, I asked these college newcomers to share academic and career aspirations.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Reading Time: 11 minutes A lot of thought goes into choosing a college or university, particularly as prospective students prepare to begin a new chapter in their lives. By understanding the top factors students consider when choosing a college, you can help your school develop a competitive advantage and attract new prospects. .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

RIVERSIDE, Calif-- As Americans express increasing skepticism about the value of higher education, how much colleges contribute to social mobility has come into the spotlight. He noted that the founding documents of most colleges and universities list economic mobility as an important goal. In recent years, the U.S.

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