Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) announced two agreements with New York University (NYU) and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to improve access for individuals with disabilities. Per the agreement, NYU will ensure its housing facilities have numerous accessibility options, such as entrances, bathrooms, and signage.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

His research took him across the globe, from copper mines in Zambia to machine shops in Chicago and Hungary, and industrial facilities in post-Soviet Russia. In recognition of his contributions to the field, UC Berkeley's sociology department received a $100,000 gift in 2023 to establish an endowment in his honor following his retirement.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

He added, “Greenville Technical College is proud to take a leading role in incorporating AI-enhanced equipment into our new world-class welding facility and AI-powered robotics.” “It is going to take a knowledgeable and skilled workforce to realize AI’s promised productivity gains,” Miller wrote on GTC’s website.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2023

Department of Energy’s ( DOE ) Argonne National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory are partnering with University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras ( UPRRP ) to expand UPRRP’s environmental sciences program and attract minority students underrepresented into the atmospheric and Earth system sciences and new energy workforce.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

ET Join Laura Carpenter from the Department of Energy’s State and Community Energy Programs and Mike Hines, Director of Education Initiatives at Trane, for an insightful 30-minute Ed Talk on the transformative potential of Energy Savings Performance Contracting (ESPC) as a strategic tool for revitalizing aging campus infrastructure.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Colleges and universities use endowments to support several priorities, such as scholarships, upgraded facilities and faculty hiring. However, endowments at HBCUs currently trail those of other institutions by at least 70%. We also have a public policy agenda that includes investing in the institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: Higher education associations, study abroad organizations, colleges and universities, and others are calling on the Department of Education to rescind guidance issued earlier this year that would expand the definition of outside companies that are subject the department’s oversight.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 28, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been loaning tens of millions of dollars to rural colleges and universities in order to keep them afloat and running, The Washington Post reported. This support recognizes how important but vulnerable these local schools are to their rural communities.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Connecticut is making higher education more accessible to incarcerated individuals following the recent expansion of Pell Grant eligibility to those within correctional facilities. This includes planning for individuals who may transition between facilities mid-study or face distinct personal and legal challenges.

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University Business

JUNE 26, 2024

In few places does this remain more evident than in higher education facilities organizations, where the unique flexibility of people is needed to serve a complex combination of human, operational and building demands. The problem Unfortunately for university leaders, that facilities workforce is proving ever more challenging to find.

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EAB

APRIL 25, 2023

Podcast What Keeps Facilities Leaders Up at Night? EAB’s Michael Fischer and Maya Graham discuss findings from a new survey of higher education facilities leaders. EAB’s Michael Fischer and Maya Graham discuss findings from a new survey of higher education facilities leaders. EAB · What Keeps Facilities Leaders Up at Night?

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University Business

AUGUST 15, 2024

the school’s facilities team purchased and installed chalkboards that students use for graffiti art). Club advisors have been trained on how to use the equipment, responsibly access the facility and then return keys back by a certain time. Someone from our theater department even did the stage lights for us.

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University Business

MARCH 31, 2023

For ten years the State of Facilities in Higher Education has been recognizing trends and opportunities based on our database of information from schools around the U.S. Over time, the insights in the State of Facilities have evolved and our recommendations have followed suit. And they mustn’t.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Maya Moss The Target Scholars Sophomore Internship Program will give second-year students industry experience in a number of the retailer's departments, such as retail, supply chain facilities, technology, merchandising, and product development. “We Paul Business Journal reported.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The Fabrication Facility, located on the 10th floor of Columbia’s 623 S. The facility used to be open Monday to Thursday from 8 a.m. The Fabrication Facility is a hub for the Art & Design departments and provides on-campus space for woodworking, metalworking, 3D printing and laser cutting. to 10 p.m., to 5:30 p.m.

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Cisco blogs - Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

Meeting the collaboration needs of educators and staff While these decisions are usually made at the facilities, public safety, and IT levels in our organizations, what if we looked at this differently from a persona standpoint? With a cloud-based collaboration solution, your IT department can avoid long, drawn out—and painful—upgrades.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Image: Some students and faculty members at historically Black Atlanta colleges and universities are speaking out against plans to build an 85-acre, $90 million police training facility nearby in forested land owned by the city. The committee backed the creation of the training facility. and calling for peaceful protest.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 26, 2025

The plan, known as The BRIGHT Act, seeks to update aging infrastructure, including new labs, classrooms, and improved mental health facilities. Notably, discussions around eliminating the Department of Education could reshape how federal financial aid is distributed and shift oversight responsibilities to states.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Borough of Manhattan Community College and the Institute for Justice and Opportunity at John Jay College of Criminal Justice have teamed up to create a new degree-granting Prison-to-College Pathways (P2CP) program for incarcerated students at Otisville Correctional Facility in upstate New York.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 13, 2023

The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) has been given $33 million to build upon and renovate its academic facilities and resources. The money – it came in the form of a capital facilities grant by the Office of the Secretary of Higher Education of New Jersey – will go towards CNJ’s “Educating New Jersey’s Next Generation Health Workforce” plan.

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University Business

JANUARY 23, 2025

” It also reduced the size of its administration, dropping two vice presidents along with some academic deans, directors and department chairs. Proposed capital improvements under the bond bill include new labs, classrooms and health care facilities. Maura Healey has proposed spending $2.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Now, more than 550,000 incarcerated learners in over 1,000 sites have access to either the offline or the online versions, depending on the facility, said Burnett, herself a graduate of the Bard Prison Initiative. They just have a mechanism to go back and reject content that is potentially problematic to that facility.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

AUGUST 23, 2023

Educational institutions are using biometrics to protect facilities such as residence halls and research facilities that store highly sensitive information. In addition, universities are shifting physical security responsibility from public safety and law enforcement teams to IT departments.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Department of Education. The Education Department reached a key milestone late last month when it released final regulations that set standards postsecondary prison education programs will have to meet in order to access Pell Grant funds. ” New Rules.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2024

The Rams Club has traditionally raised money for student-athlete scholarships and athletics facilities; it will champion the Carolina NIL effort by making NCHOF donations eligible to receive Rams Club priority points.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Supreme Court unanimously ruled in May 1954 that separate educational facilities between Black students and white students was “inherently unequal," dismissing the concept of “separate but equal” in public education, the nation began the task of desegregating its schools. “It Seven decades ago, U.S. Board of Education decision. Dr. Ivory A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2024

The facility closed in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and associated budget reduction efforts. Department of Education to support re-opening its campus childcare center. The college was awarded a $1 million grant in 2023 from the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 22, 2023

New England College (NEC) is partnering with the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to address workforce shortages in mental health services, the Concord Monitor reported. The school created a community mental health B.A. Students will work 20 hours a week for approximately $20 an hour.

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HEPI

MARCH 23, 2025

We are seeking to better understand how challenges are impacting universities ability to deliver research and innovation and maintain research capabilities, capacity, and facilities and, in turn, further strengthen assurance with more robust data.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As the US Department of Education described , this change will open doors to postsecondary education and new career opportunities for thousands of prospective adult learners. The program serves 5,000 incarcerated students through 11 degree programs in more than 120 facilities. The History of Higher Ed for Incarcerated Students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 21, 2024

“I like being able to work with students, faculty, and colleagues in a different kind of way [that] made me more aware of the community of higher education and not just a department, class, or advising relationship with a student. To me, it felt bigger.” Under her watch, Meredith has blossomed. It’s this plan that Allen is most proud of. “A

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services’ Indian Health Service has awarded $1.6 The Indian Health Service (IHS) is a federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services responsible for delivering health care services to American Indians and Alaska Natives. Established in 1787 through Article I, Section 8 of the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 28, 2023

The new Colonial Avenue roadside marker – one of five recently approved by the state Department of Historic Resources – will commemorate efforts to address the Jim Crow era of racially segregated facilities and limited education access for Virginia’s Black citizens.

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SRHE

MARCH 19, 2025

This may open a visible career pathway for professional services staff and also form part of succession planning within a team, department or Directorate or School where team members showing potential can be nurtured and developed. That was noticed in the original drafting of the Further and Higher Education Act of 1992 s.65,

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

Ministers launch inquiry into use of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) Ministers have launched a UK government-wide inquiry into the use of crumbling concrete in public buildings following fears that nurseries, offices, shops and leisure facilities are in danger of collapse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2023

Tatro and Reed praised the bill’s unique features: the length of the reductions, the benefits for parolees, and the provision for funding: money saved from the shorter sentences will be split between the State Department of Education and the Department of Corrections for use in their college-in-prison efforts.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 17, 2025

Department of Education (Department of Education) can collect the outstanding balance through forced collections, including the offset of tax refunds and Social Security benefits and the garnishment of wages. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Education paused collections on defaulted federal student loans.

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