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Howard University Taps Antiracist Scholar Ibram X. Kendi to Head New Advanced Studies Institute

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The institute will focus on interdisciplinary research addressing global African diaspora issues, including studies on race, technology, climate change, and systemic disparities. I have had my eye on the Mecca my entire career, studying its history and witnessing what Howard means to the culture.

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The Rise of Christian Cybercharters: Profit, Indoctrination, and the Dangers of Faith-Based Online Education

Higher Education Inquirer

These schools, often designed to serve as alternatives to secular public education, integrate Christian teachings into core subjects such as history, science, and literature. Cybercharter schools are, by definition, public schools that operate entirely online and are funded with taxpayer dollars.

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New database on minority-serving institutions launched

Inside Higher Ed

The group of scholars recently published an article in the journal Educational Researcher outlining the complexities of MSI classifications and proposing clearer definitions, and they created a new database using those standards in hopes of providing a more accurate picture of the MSI landscape.

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Surviving and thriving in HE professional services

SRHE

CUA traced its history back to the Meeting of University Academic Administrative Staff, founded in 1961. These are overseen by the Chief Financial and Operating Officer and variously serving Technology; Estates and Facilities; Human Resources; Research and Enterprise; Planning and Risk; External Relations; student needs etc.

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AI: A Brilliant but Biased Tool for Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Now almost a year since its release, Brown says CSU faculty and administration are coming to terms with the fact that “policing students’ use [of ChatGPT] is probably impossible, usually ineffective, and definitely inefficient.” I teach business law, and I know about areas of law where there is structured bias built into that law.

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The arts and humanities: rejecting the zero-sum game

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Angeliki Lymberopoulou , Senior Lecturer in Art History and Employability lead for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University , and Richard Marsden, Senior Lecturer in History and formerly Director of Teaching for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University.

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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

TCUs have a unique mission, Youngbull said, to not only provide relevant degree programs to their learners but to revitalize and sustain their tribal cultures, history, and languages in a way that permeates into the community. The mission of TCUs is not to replicate settler colonialism, but to reflect and sustain a unique tribal identity.