Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2023

So, when it came time for him to pick an academic pursuit, the study of Latinos and sports history naturally came to mind. I just wanted to understand what [the history was] behind this,” says Burgos. “I Latino, African American, and sports history. He is a professor of history at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

universities based on their research activity, doctoral degree production, and investment in research infrastructure. Recently, Carnegie has revised its criteria to ease requirements, now mandating an institution produce at least 70 doctoral degrees and spend $50 million on research annually.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Dorothy Jean Tillman II, whose grandmother was a civil rights activist, is now the youngest Arizona State University student to get a doctorate in her field A Chicago teenager walked in her university’s commencement program after making history for earning a doctorate degree at the age of 17.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

DIVERSE : Can you talk about the history of the Institute for Capacity Building and how the UNITE convening came about? HBCUs have a long history of transforming lives, but student success must be intentional. Together, HBCUs lead in the production of graduates in STEM programs and those who go on to get terminal degrees.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 17, 2024

On May 6, 2024, Dorothy Jean Tillman II walked across the stage at Arizona State University (ASU), making history as the youngest person in the country to earn a doctoral degree. The post Chicago Teen Dorothy Jean Tillman II, DBH, Makes History appeared first on Insight Into Diversity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 28, 2024

For the last two years, my staff and I have been in the trenches, battling a fusillade of challenges brought on by our federal government, challenges that exacerbate the longstanding inequities students face as they navigate their path to a college degree.

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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 Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Last week it was ancient history, modern languages, music, religion and theology at Cardiff University. Last week it was ancient history, modern languages, music, religion and theology at Cardiff University. And with each passing week more arts and humanities courses and departments are cut. Continue reading.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2023

Black history — and Black Americans — are under attack. Since 2021, legislatures and governors in 19 states have enacted educational gag orders that restrict teaching and learning about allegedly divisive concepts such as race, racism, and American history. The fate of affirmative action in higher education awaits a U.S.

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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. What do you see as the role of a journalism school in shaping the next generation of diverse media professionals, particularly at a university with UNCs history and reputation?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Grammy-winning artist Usher Raymond IV will deliver the keynote address at Emory University's 180th Commencement ceremony on Monday, May 12, where he will Usher also receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree. With eight Grammy Awards and nine No.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education tells the unique story about what Americans think of higher education. Dr. Sol Gittleman Gittleman, who is the Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor Emeritus, has emerged as one of the nation’s most important interpreters of the history of higher education.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

“We look at our history. ’ History can be a model, and it can repeat itself.” ” As someone who’s studied history, Link has likened the sage professor of the Middle Ages to today’s faculty members commanding a lecture hall. We look to our values. We look to our roots,” the president says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2024

West Virginia State University has announced it is launching its first doctorate degree program this May. Cage The Doctorate of Education in Leadership Studies would be the first doctoral degree conferred at the historically Black university. Today, we can proudly say that we are now a doctoral degree granting, land-grant university.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Course exploring impact of magic and witchcraft on society comes amid growing interest in folklore If you’ve been getting into crystals, manifesting your dream board or exploring feminist readings of witchcraft, you can now take your hobby to the next level – with the UK’s first postgraduate degree in magic and the occult.

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Gray Associates

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Discover the real story behind History majors’ career success. Despite common misconceptions, humanities graduates—especially History majors—are thriving in diverse, high-paying careers. Data from the American Community Survey reveals how they excel in fields like law, management, and education, often out-earning Business majors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Because the nation’s colleges and universities aren’t producing graduates nearly fast enough to meet demand, companies and state governments are reassessing the role of college degrees in hiring decisions and are increasingly turning to skills-based hiring to meet their talent needs. LinkedIn reported recently that 19% of the U.S.

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Coursera blog

MAY 2, 2024

However, you may still be able to approach your employer and see if they’re open to paying for a portion of your degree as part of your professional development. Start by approaching your manager to ask whether the company might consider paying for covering some of the costs associated with your degree, like tuition.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2025

When you think about our history, were the first community college in the state of California whose accreditation was revoked, and to go from that in 2006 to be where were at now and to be on the cutting edge, that tells you that transformation can happen, but transformation can happen in communities where we look like the students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Students from the Northwestern Prison Education Program (NPEP) have attained bachelor’s degrees, the first time in U.S. history that incarcerated students have received bachelor’s degrees from a top 10 university. There are still approximately 60 students at the correctional center pursuing bachelor’s degrees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

She received her undergraduate and MBA degrees from Albany State University (ASU). You have erased history, people, resources, and services. Briscoe was called in as an expert on the safety of Black students on college campuses and the increasing number of hate crimes committed on campuses. Youll see it in a couple of states.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

This shift represents one of the most substantial changes in educational attainment patterns in recent history, with implications that reach far beyond the classroom walls and into the fabric of American society. During this period, 25% of each gender between the ages of 25 and 34 held a bachelors degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Challenges to Qualify Francis-Begay references a program at the University of Arizona—the Arizona Native Scholars Grant—a grant program that promises tuition, and college fees for Native American Arizona residents pursuing their first bachelor’s degree. This is for individuals who have not already earned a bachelor’s degree.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

However, it’s crucial to understand that this figure includes all Indians studying abroad, such as those in boarding schools, short courses, and executive programs—not just those pursuing undergraduate or postgraduate degrees. Now, let’s explore why Indian students are so motivated to study abroad.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2024

Typically led by Republican-controlled legislatures seeking to reshape American education, such measures are ostensibly taken to ensure that American history is “taught accurately,” as Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, stated when he signed a bill known as HB 1084 into law.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2025

For instance, students might apply principles of narrative analysis to make sense of a patients medical history in a clinical setting, or students might conduct a historical analysis on a textual document in an attempt to date it for a manuscript library. The ROI of a History Degree. What is Experiential Education?

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The PIE News

MARCH 21, 2025

Although the history of the institution dates back over 100 years, it only achieved degree-awarding powers last year. Specialising in agriculture and life sciences, SRUC hopes to become an increasingly attractive choice for international students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

CUNY student at BMI conference Black and Brown students, particularly men, have historically struggled to enroll in higher education, and many that do fail to complete their degrees. Its a historic program, the first in the country like it, the largest like it, and therefore, the history precedes us, says Quash. They know the program.

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The PIE News

JULY 18, 2024

This meant that I was excited when I got to the city, and knew that it was the place for me to study for my degree. I’m grateful to have been building this skill set since I started my undergraduate Humanities degree. As part of my undergraduate degree, I was able to spend a year studying overseas, in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Durocher holds a dual Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in art history and painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a Master of Arts degree in art history from UMass Amherst. She served as director of the Museum of Art at the University of New Hampshire.

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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. One of the challenges for some of our students once they get to MSU is maintaining the ability to pay for tuition costs.”

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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. We did some great work.”

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Higher Education Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Henderson and Katie Grissom Source: The Urban Institute Paying for a college degree is already a difficult, complex process for many students involving a variety of sources of financial aid and payment. For students with a history of foster care.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

He served as professor and chair of the department of history and political science at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. Smallwood holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s in history from NCCU, and a doctorate in early U.S.

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Edu Alliance Journal

JANUARY 27, 2025

The Plight of Small Colleges If youve followed my journey, you know that I earned my undergraduate degree from Urbana University, a small private college in Urbana, Ohioa city with a current population of 11,161. During my senior year, I also completed a year-long internship in admissions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2024

California’s public schools didn’t teach Asian American history to a young Dr. Beth Lew-Williams. history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. “The history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. Holding several degrees in history, including a Ph.D. Neither did college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

In fact, this rate for English majors puts it below the unemployment rate for computer and information services majors, 2.8%, though still higher compared to a number of other majors – business, engineering, philosophy, physical science, and history. in English. “[It

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