Education Department calls on colleges to stop asking about applicants’ criminal histories
Higher Ed Dive
MAY 1, 2023
The recommendation came in a wide-ranging report about how colleges can better support students who were formerly incarcerated.
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Higher Ed Dive
MAY 1, 2023
The recommendation came in a wide-ranging report about how colleges can better support students who were formerly incarcerated.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
University History Departments Cutting Jobs and Courses sara.custer@in… Fri, 11/01/2024 - 03:00 AM Survey by the Royal Historical Society finds ax is falling most heavily on newer institutions. Byline(s) Patrick Jack for Times Higher Education
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Insight Into Diversity
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Throughout its history, higher education in the U.S. Although Black History Month was federally designated in 1986, similar weekly and monthly celebrations had already existed for more than 50 years. Throughout history, some activists who were for Black liberation found their homes in the academy.”.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
It has already made history, with an HBCU graduate as the first presidential nominee of either of the two major parties. Together, we must hold our country’s leaders accountable and demand equity in education. As I think about the coming months, I’m reminded that history is not a series of isolated events.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
The exclusion and omission of Black history threatens to harm not just the Black community at large but also students and the very future of the nation, experts said during a Nov. The discussion was moderated by Dr. Marcia Vandiver, associate professor of elementary education at Towson University. the NREI website stated.
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. West coast in the late 1800s.
WCET Frontiers
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
For those in higher education, the U.S. Department of Education created its own rumblings by releasing new guidance with rules about any contracted services and a series of questions about companies helping institutions with online learning. Did you hear that loud noise last Wednesday?
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Kenyon College President Dr. Sean Decatur will be stepping down from his current role at the end of 2022 to become president of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in April 2023. Dr. Sean M. Decatur Decatur has been the school’s president for almost a decade, his tenure having begun in 2013.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Alex Red Corn Recently at our Indigenous Peoples Day gathering at Kansas State University, Chief Ben Barnes of the Shawnee spoke from the heart about matters related to Shawnee histories and their ongoing presence as a Native nation. and worldwide, have a complicated relationship with institutions of education.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 8, 2024
Randi Weingarten AFT represents teachers, school staff, higher education workers, nurses and healthcare professionals, and public employees. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is gearing up to chart a path forward for public schools amid increasing challenges, and opposition, to the institution.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 9, 2023
Grinnell College is launching a Department of African Diaspora Studies. The department will be led by a senior-level endowed chair who will design the curriculum and major. Black studies is not just about the past or history — it also provides us with so many paths forward toward more equitable community building.”
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 9, 2023
dissertation, titled “A Jotería Identity and Belonging: Pláticas of Co-Creation with Queer and Trans Latinx Graduate Students in Higher Education,” not only describes his research as a prolific scholar and noted activist, but it also represents some of his own intriguing journey. “I Sergio Gonzalez’s Ph.D.
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. West coast in the late 1800s.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 18, 2024
Educators who train and prepare students to become teachers, gathered this weekend at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) to call attention to the ongoing challenges that face K-12 learning. AURORA, Colo.—
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2024
Paula Krebs Report on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes draws on findings from a number of different sources, including the Hamilton Project, the National Humanities Alliance, the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, and Humanities Indicators. in history. “I in English. “[It
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
LAS VEGAS-- Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 15, 2024
civil rights history was made with the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Toldson, a professor of counseling psychology at Howard University and national director of Education Innovation and Research for the NAACP. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education in 1971. Seven decades ago, U.S. Dr. Ivory A.
HEPI
MAY 30, 2023
There is a long history of people getting their predictions about the future of technology, including the future of technology in education, wrong. Just ten years ago, in the words of Wired magazine, Sebastian Thrun declared that ‘ In 50 years … there will be only ten institutions in the world delivering higher education ’.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 15, 2022
“Departments as such should avoid statements on what we call here ‘external’ matters (state, national, or international policy matters),” the guidelines say. Those in the department with dissenting views should be able to express them in the same forum, the guidance also says. Departments vs. Individuals.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 28, 2024
The issues closest to my heart—those that affect our students and education equity—are being largely ignored by the presidential candidates. Repeatedly, we call for “someone” to show us, through better education policy, that we are not forgotten.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
Shola Lynch Spelman College has scored a major coup with the hiring of award-winning filmmaker Shola Lynch as its Diana King Endowed Professor in Film, Filmmaking, Television, and Related Media in the Department of Art and Visual Culture. It is amazing that Spelman has a documentary film program — it is the only HBCU with one.
WCET Frontiers
OCTOBER 17, 2023
The State Authorization Network (SAN) is pleased to release a very thorough examination of state authorization of distance education through the lens of a colleague who witnessed many steps in the development of consumer protections for students participating in interstate distance education.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
North Star Promise provides free college tuition to help make education after high school possible for more Minnesota students and families,” is written on the Minnesota Office of Higher Education website. Francis-Begay, governing council chair for the National Institute for Native Leadership in Higher Education. Dr. Gresham D.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 27, 2024
Brandi Waters, senior program manager of AP African American Studies at the College Board, and Dr. Ericka Armstrong Dunbar, professor of history at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. She is always looking to center the story of Black women in history, particularly to find ways to make those stories resonate with the students of today.
HEPI
JULY 9, 2024
For higher education, a political affairs reset began long before the polls concluded. Yet throughout the election, the Labour Party like the previous government held back from making higher education a priority issue — too difficult, too many other priorities. Who would bet against at least a few ‘unknown unknowns’. That’s revealing.
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.
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
The UK secretary of state for education, Gillian Keegan, has shown strong support for international students and the wider sector, with reports that she will oppose any potential cuts to international student numbers by the Home Office. “It’s world-leading, a great advert to our country.”
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Title: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Drexel University, Jointly Appointed, History and Africana Studies, Drexel University Tenured: No Age: 42 Education: B.A., political science, University of California at Irvine; B.A., Asian American studies, University of California at Irvine; M.A.,
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
The current state of health equity and medical education were key topics at a webinar on Tuesday sponsored by Rutgers University’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice. The Proctor Institute – housed in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Graduate School of Education – hosted the event in honor of Black History Month.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 4, 2024
The book “complicates our understanding of right-wing backlash as populist, since the narrators within were college students at a time when higher education was inaccessible to most,” writes Shepherd. Shepherd’s meticulous and timely book highlights the right in the history of student activism.”
HEPI
JANUARY 5, 2023
The rejection of all appeals submitted by 12 universities in respect of their applications to be accredited as teacher education providers from 2024 may come as a surprise to some. As Education Secretary, Michael Gove MP described teacher educators in universities as ‘the blob’. The result?
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
The University of Maryland (UMD) has released its first report covering the history of their institution and its intersection with slavery, The 1856 Project – Reconstructing the Truth. University of Maryland campus, Memorial Chapel. These [reports and investigations] aren’t designed to make universities look bad.
The PIE News
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Global Affairs Canada (GAC) is currently leading the development of Canada’s third International Education Strategy (IES) to follow the current strategy that expires on March 31 next year. GAC’s task is further complicated as the responsibility of education policy lies exclusively with the provinces.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 31, 2023
“As an anchor in DC’s African American community and site of one of the nation’s leading preservers of African American history, Howard University is well positioned to spearhead the process of preserving Mary Church Terrell’s legacy and the broader legacy of the vibrant African American community that is central to LeDroit Park’s history.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 10, 2023
I suspect this pattern of continuous review and adjustment will define all of higher education in this country going forward.” Previously frozen programs are those in African studies, Asian studies, film studies, French, museum studies, music, music education and world religions, professors said.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 15, 2024
Donovan Livingston, award-winning educator, spoken word poet, and public speaker, has spent his career in education bridging the gap between his artistic sensibility and commitment to college access, and social justice. “A in educational leadership and cultural foundations from UNC Greensboro.
HEPI
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
The book brings together 55 different authors – including academics, a vice-chancellor and numerous education policy experts (such as Sam Freedman, Lord Lucas, Jonathan Simons , Ann Mroz and Tom Richmond). She situates the Department for Education’s (controversial) desire for model curricula as part of a return to knowledge-rich schooling.
University Business
JUNE 11, 2024
While the Department of Education has announced that a review is being launched to seek recommendations about how to improve the Federal Student Aid office, America is at a crisis point and the situation demands immediate action. This is not about financial aid but equal access to education, a fundamental principle we must uphold.
Insight Into Diversity
JULY 5, 2023
Northern Arizona University’s (NAU) Department of Occupational Therapy is working to address these challenges by providing Arizona foster youth with skills, training, and support. They will also receive education in areas such as self-care, health and safety, money management, and employment.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Secretary of Education and former interim JSU president. “He He is one of the only people I can think of who has a full comprehension of the history, trajectory, strength, vulnerabilities, and basic needs of the university. in history and Spanish and a master’s degree in education from Mississippi College and a Ph.D.
University Business
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Beginning in July 2024, the Department of Education will hold colleges and universities on a tighter leash regarding their graduates’ employment outcomes. “Higher education is supposed to be an invaluable investment in your future. “Higher education is supposed to be an invaluable investment in your future.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 25, 2022
His mission is to transition the long-time program into a department. Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. “We
HEPI
JULY 28, 2024
But over 25 years ago, I had the privilege of being his GCSE History teacher. As a voracious reader and lover of history and with a close-knit group of bright friends (one of whom is acknowledged in the new book as the person who taught him to write), Sam always looked destined for success on his own terms.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 11, 2024
What does Diverse: Issues In Higher Education mean to you? When the first edition of what was then called Black Issues In Higher Education was published on March 15, 1984, it was two days before my 14th birthday, and I was still adjusting to ninth grade in a public high school after attending a private school from second grade to eight grade.
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