Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2025

Ten colleges will launch integrated majors, which combine two existing degrees into one, to see if they lead to increased diversity and skill sets suited to the 21st century. As the director of first-year writing at a midsize public university, Melanie Gagich doesnt know a ton about computer science.

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Higher Ed Dive

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The recommendations come less than a week after the flagship university's board cut 28 degree programs and about 140 faculty positions.

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Higher Ed Dive

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

West Virginia University will cut 28 degrees and lay off 140 faculty over the objections of students, faculty and alumni.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

“While we know a great deal about the kinds of faculty-student interactions students experience, the benefits of faculty-student interaction, and predictors of student-faculty interactions, we know little about what students themselves value in their interactions with faculty.” (p. They used an interesting data pool.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

ID Benefits While traditionally associated with K-12, higher ed, and the corporate world, IDs can bring transformative benefits to professional schools (programs offering terminal degrees for a specific profession) and support faculty in their endeavors to innovate and engage students. The word selective is important.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2025

Roshaunda Breeden Dr. Roshaunda Breeden never expected to become a faculty member at North Carolina State University (NC State), the very same institution where her journey in higher education began. Breedens research is personal.

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Higher Ed Dive

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Legislation would block state colleges from funding diversity programs, abolish gender studies degrees and restrict faculty hiring.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2025

Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Dont let the anxiety of tenure and promotion determine your faculty life. You are more than how you are being assessed, so find and do what brings you joy as a faculty member. Royel Johnson and Dr. Estela Bensimon, University of Southern California. funded by the Alfred P.

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MindMax

MARCH 31, 2025

With 25 institutions under the CUNY umbrella, Siegenthaler emphasizes the importance of collaboration in building seamless transitions between credentials, degrees, and careers. – AI as an emerging tool in course design, with potential benefits and concerns from faculty perspectives. Watch the full conversation. .

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In this comprehensive analysis, we examine how three-year college degrees and academic realignment can help institutions address enrollment challenges in higher education. Article Overview: ✓ Analysis of why students and parents choose accelerated degree programs, and what this means for your institution's future.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

By taking a careful look at course offerings and degree pathways, the administration has streamlined the road to graduation. This involved analyzing class schedules, prerequisites, and program requirements to ensure students can progress efficiently toward their degrees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2025

I look forward to collaborating with faculty, staff, students, alumni, and stakeholders to build on Oakwood's rich history and advance its mission and vision." Oakwood University, founded in 1896 as Oakwood Industrial School, has grown to offer more than 50-degree programs to approximately 1,700 students.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

University of California Lifts Ban on Online Degree Programs Lauren.Coffey@… Tue, 02/27/2024 - 03:00 AM Even as the debate on online courses continues, the UC move is creating concern about shared governance between faculty and university leaders. Byline(s) Lauren Coffey

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A Tenure Critic May Cut Faculty—by Ending Their Programs Ryan Quinn Fri, 09/22/2023 - 03:00 AM Dickinson State University in North Dakota could lose its undergraduate degree offerings in English, math, music and other areas. Byline(s) Ryan Quinn

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2025

While community colleges play a crucial role in providing accessible and affordable education to diverse student populations, many still struggle to fully accommodate students with disabilities, according to insights from community college students, faculty, and higher education experts.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 20, 2025

The new campus will be located at Ain Shams University (ASU) in Cairo, offering accredited undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of Exeter. ASU, which currently has seven campus across Egypt’s capital and the city of Shubra El Kheima, is home to nearly 160,000 students , including 12,000 international students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

During her time there, she led full-time and adjunct faculty recruitment, development, retention and evaluation, curriculum and instruction. Ezeonu previously served as where Vice President of Instruction at Green River College from July 2018 through February 2025.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

“For employers that are looking to distinguish those that are really serving the population they need for the workforce and for students that are looking to institutions that are going to meet them where they’re at and help them earn a degree that they want to support their families and communities, the Seal certified institutions stand out.”

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University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

Despite questions around the value of an English degree, graduates who earned one were found to possess similar rates of life satisfaction, peak salary earnings and unemployment rates to non-English degree graduates, according to a recent report by the Association of Departments of English (ADE), a subsidiary of the Modern Language Association.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Today, it offers US-accredited online degrees to over 5,000 students in more than 100 countries. I think were going to see a lot more innovation coming in those markets, said Al Tarzi, highlighting that 70% of undergraduate students in Brazil are taking online degrees. asked Al Tarzi.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

When most scholars hear the word postdoc, they may picture a researcher working with a faculty mentor in a lab. Administrative postdocs have received their doctoral degrees and work in a variety of university offices, including student support, career development and academic program management.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Expected to be formalized in the spring, this distinction would make Howard the only historically Black college or university (HBCU) with R1 status, signaling a significant milestone for the institution and potentially opening doors for increased funding, expanded research capabilities, and the attraction of esteemed faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

Shaun Harper, University of Southern California; Dr. Dawn Johnson, Syracuse University; Dr. Candace Maddox Moore, University of Maryland, College Park Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Be unapologetic about your work. She received her undergraduate and MBA degrees from Albany State University (ASU).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

Thirty-two tenured faculty members are slated for layoffs at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). Faculty also have statutory layoff rights, which UWM will of course honor,” Mone said. Dr. Mark A. The Waukesha campus will close entirely next spring.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

As students enter the online classroom, they bring with them diverse educational experiences, backgrounds, and expectations of faculty interactions. Such strategies equip faculty with the tools to effectively respond to students’ needs (Rahimi et al., Mentors can be faculty members, alumni, or industry professionals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

He's earned degrees from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and the University of Oregon, where he obtained his Ph.D. As a Dean, I try to continually reinforce those values as the backdrop of what we all do as faculty, staff and students at a public university. That elevates our role that much further.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The brief notes the real dangers of aggregating over 26 distinct Asian American and NHPI ethnic groups together and allowing a model minority myth to perpetuate disparities, discouraging investment, policies and differentiated approaches that can help students earn their college degrees.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

MARCH 26, 2025

By promoting tutoring centers, academic coaching, and faculty office hours, your institution can reinforce its commitment to student success. Additionally, faculty can offer structured study groups or mentoring programs to ensure students receive guidance outside of class hours. Source: Nichols College | Instagram 3.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

That initiative provided 23 HBCUs and a PBI [Predominantly Black Institution] with data-driven strategies to align academic programs with workforce needs to ensure students didn't just graduate with degrees, but with the skills, experiences, and networks to launch meaningful careers. Those students come in actively prepared to participate.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 28, 2025

Faculty Excellence: Master innovative recruitment approaches that ensure collaborative mindsets and industry experience. Student Success Strategies: Understand how to reduce time-to-degree while increasing graduate employability. Change Management: Gain insights into building faculty cultures that embrace continuous improvement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Those opportunities led Howard-Baptiste to Miami University in Ohio where she earned degrees in exercise science, health promotion, and a Ph.D. Continually going back to that same campus was ideal because I still was able to connect with mentors and faculty and staff and it really just nurtured my journey in higher education, she says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Williams became the director of the Career Advancement Center, where he would spend the next five years inviting first generation, low-income students, women, LGBTQ+, and other under-represented undergraduates into pursuing their graduate degrees. Dr. Dereck J. Rovaris, Sr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Gavin, who is in his fourth year as president at Delta, received his doctorate in American studies from the University of Maryland, College Park, his master’s degree in literature from American University, and a bachelor’s degree in literature from Dickinson College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

At Chadron State College, which serves approximately 2,300 students with 600 full-time faculty and staff, Patterson has been credited with launching a new five-year strategic plan, establishing enrollment partnerships, and developing new academic programs. "I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

“The primary goal is helping increase the number of Native students enrolling in MSU and successfully completing a degree at MSU,” says Leonard. The second goal of the program is to help build a community and culture at the institution that is attractive to prospective Native staff, faculty, and students. “As What does that look like?”

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University Business

JANUARY 28, 2025

organizations have dropped degree requirements for some jobs and 48% believe alternative credentials can be a worthy substitute for a college degree for some jobs. A continued rise in unionization Unionization is reshaping higher education, expanding from faculty and graduate student employees (GSEs) to student athletes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The report provides an outline for how faculty, staff and administrators can infuse the curriculum with informative material, forge partnerships with community-based organizations and create opportunities for students to learn and practice the relevant skills. “The Higher education is an engine for social and economic mobility.

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