Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2023

KerryAnn O’Meara will become vice president for academic affairs, provost, and dean of the college at Teachers College, Columbia University, effective Jul. O’Meara was also a 2021-2022 American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow and president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education in 2020. O’Meara holds a B.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 22, 2024

He did doctoral work in educational policy studies. He previously served as a professor, dean of the School of Education, and associate vice president for Teacher Education at Buffalo State College in Buffalo, New York. On July 22, he will take the reins from Interim President Dr. Sylvia A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig, an educational researcher whose work on racial equity and teacher preparation has received national recognition, will be the next provost and vice president for academic affairs at Western Michigan University. Over these 16 years, he has excelled as a scholar, academic leader and civil rights activist.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Jhaneil Thompson After graduating from high school, Thompson enrolled in a community college and when it was time for her to continue her education at a four-year-institution, it was Florida A&M University (FAMU) that welcomed her right from the start, even before she officially enrolled in fall of 2019.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Griffin, the dean of the College of Education at the University of Maryland. Griffin, associate professor of higher education and student affairs at the University of Maryland “Our country is diversifying quickly,” she said. However, only 29% of Hispanic students and 14% of Black students had the same. Dr. Kimberly A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The report, titled “Unblocking the Pipeline: Supporting the Retention, Progression and Promotion of Black Early-Career Academics,” was the culmination of a monthslong survey of Black ECAs by the Higher Education Policy Institute, a U.K. think tank. A global problem Dr. Jerlando F.L. This parallels findings in the U.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

UNT and LaGuardia’s student centered, data-driven approaches are helping their students succeed in the classroom and beyond, offering considerable returns on their educational investment. ESOL is housed in the school’s Adult Continuing Education (ACE) division. Students at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 19, 2023

The criteria, which were expected to be finalized later this month following consultation, clarify the rules for international universities setting up Indian campuses, a shift first announced in the 2020 National Education Policy (NEP). “I could see a symbiotic relationship between foreign capital and Hindutva ideology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Title: Professor Emeritus, Educational Policy and Leadership The Ohio State University Anne S. Pruitt-Logan is professor emeritus of educational policy and leadership at the Ohio State University. From the start of her career, she has focused on improving access to education for underserved populations.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Jeff Witmer, professor of math, said that what the board appears to want “will change the ethos of Oberlin—a place where historically the faculty have made progressive decisions and where the dean has been viewed as first among equals. Yet the faculty didn’t lead Oberlin’s response to the incident.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Several faculty critics of Brown’s plan directed requests for comment to Ken Wong, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Chair for Education Policy and chair of Brown’s Faculty Executive Committee. The university referred questions about the new policy to Wong.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Now, new research—one of the largest educational studies ever performed—has revealed both the power and the limits of these programs: direct admissions led to more students applying to college, but it did not mean that more of them would actually enroll. Non-first-generation students were 2.5 points likelier to apply, compared to 3.2

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

We should be thinking about cradle-to-career opportunity, how education from the cradle to career is the great equalizer, and making sure it remains so," Holder said. Park, an associate professor of student affairs at the University of Maryland College of Education and author of the third brief.

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Coursera blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

By Scott Shireman, Global Head of Coursera for Campus Last week, we were honored to host Coursera’s Future of Higher Education Summit 2023, with delegates from more than 20 countries at our Silicon Valley headquarters. Learning experiences can be more personalized, interactive, and accessible.

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Coursera blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

By Scott Shireman, Global Head of Coursera for Campus Last week, we were honored to host Coursera’s Future of Higher Education Summit 2023, with delegates from more than 20 countries at our Silicon Valley headquarters. Learning experiences can be more personalized, interactive, and accessible.

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SRHE

MAY 11, 2023

By Rachel Brooks How healthy is the area of higher education studies? Scholars have noted: the frequent absence of theory and short-term focus of such research ; the proximity of researchers to policy-makers which, it is argued, can make critical distance hard to achieve ; and the fragmentation of the field.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Dramatic changes are coming to the education program at Michigan State University (MSU), a response both to student needs and a nationwide teacher shortage. According to Dr. Kyle Greenwalt, associate director of teacher preparation at MSU’s College of Education, the fifth year had become a roadblock.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The Empowering Futures Gift was earmarked to fund scholarships, advance medical education and research, support faculty expertise, increase athletic competitiveness and make possible numerous student-centered initiatives. Sylvia Hurtado, who was then an assistant professor at Michigan but is now a Distinguished Professor of Education at UCLA.

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ACPA

JANUARY 17, 2024

Dr. Pruitt -Logan’s career of contribution to higher education began at Howard University in 1950 as Resident Intern and Women’s Counselor. She later held the positions of Dean of Women and Dean of Students at Albany State College in Georgia and in a similar position at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 30, 2023

The development and use of standardized tests in higher education came out of the eugenics movement. Economics of Higher Education Colleges and universities tend to seek applicants with good grades and other achievements. But there are deeper issues, too, involving race and equity. Others may join them.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Making Higher Education Work for All Students A Conversation With Becky Takeda-Tinker, President, Colorado State University Global bridget Thu, 09/14/2023 - 06:00 Higher Ed Leadership Remote Learning Weekly Wisdom Online learning became a critical component for many institutions during COVID.

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University Business

JUNE 21, 2024

Community colleges must recommit to reforming developmental education courses, or dev-ed, to ensure K12 students hampered by the pandemic won’t crash out of the postsecondary track, declares a new report from FutureEd, a public policy think tank at Georgetown University.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. The New England Commission of Higher Education] is getting more comfortable with pilots, for examples.”

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

” A “group of faculty,” added Burbules, Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, “is not the same thing as a department. And that was the distinction that really kind of started us off down this road.” But having the conversation is a first step.”

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WCET Frontiers

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The Framework In 2023, Cecilia Ka Yuk Chan conducted research on perceptions and implications of text generative AI technologies in order to develop an AI policy for higher education. The WCET framework adapts Chan’s framework and categorizes institutional AI policy needs in three areas: Governance, Operations, and, Pedagogy.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Policy It’s hard to believe that we are already halfway through January! I’ve been working on finalizing my spring course—Current Issues in Higher Education: Policy and Practice—and I’m really excited about focusing on the following big issues: Concurrent enrollment/dual enrollment/early college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2024

Similarly, many university administrators, including education deans, disseminated statements illustrating their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The Chronicle of Higher Education has even instituted a DEI Legislation Tracker to track anti-DEI higher education policies.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

Department of Education hoped the “listening sessions” they arranged this week would provide consensus on whether to stop letting colleges pay outside companies a share of tuition revenue when they help recruit students, they were surely disappointed. OPMs inject for-profit practices and incentives into nonprofit higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 28, 2022

trillion omnibus federal spending bill that was signed right before Christmas by President Joe Biden, are funding provisions and policy changes that impact the world of higher education. The new legislation was welcomed by policy experts, although it did not contain everything that they had hoped for.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 20, 2023

Before 2011, Brown was a senior research associate at the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University. There, she led studies and evaluations focused on education and post-high school programs within the United States and across Europe. Courtney, welcome back to the show.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Some of those best practices were on full display at the 5 th Biennial International Conference on Urban Education. Sponsored by The Urban Education Collaboration, led by Dr. Chance W. Board of Education ruling. The convening took on a greater sense of urgency, following Tuesday’s election of Donald J. Dr. Leslie T.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. She focused largely on access to higher education, noting the well-known findings within political science that tie increased political engagement – voting, volunteering, even running for office – with increased formal education.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Policy Last week, I wrote about the 2022 year-end omnibus bill and connected with Rebecca Natow on Twitter. Rebecca is assistant professor of educational leadership and policy at Hofstra University. There are a lot of interesting policy contexts as we head further into 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

This other set of regulations – proposed in April 2023 – bars schools from implementing blanket bans on transgender athletes but allows schools to put up limitations on eligibility that are in service of “important educational objectives, such as ensuring fairness in competition or preventing sports-related injury.” million people in the U.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

But, when higher education experts were asked to reflect on 2024, each described a year loaded with exceptional pressure and stress. Marybeth Gasman, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education and associate dean for research in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University.

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