Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

The budding Black studies department at the University of Rochester will fast-track their hiring of faculty with the help of a $3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation. chair of faculty programs and departmental initiatives in the university's Black studies department. Dr. Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. McCune, Jr.,

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

The humanities might not-too-facetiously be labeled the black sheep of academia. After all, the humanities are frequently characterized as being in crisis and, since 2008, have suffered massive hemorrhaging in the numbers of new majors. To put it simply, an applied humanities approach is needed in STEM education.

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University Business

MARCH 3, 2025

The Education Department is offering a buyout of up to $25,000 to most of its employees, according to a department-wide email obtained by POLITICO. to make a decision, Jacqueline Clay, a chief human capital officer, wrote in an email sent on Friday afternoon. Department of Education, Clay wrote. Read more at Politico.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

Incorporating four simple practices through collaborative learning communities could be a game changer for teachers willing to embrace a more humane approach to teaching and learning. Fostering student success may be highly individualized, but there are four universal practices that might yield successful student outcomes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2025

Jonathan Holloway has been named the new President and CEO of the Henry Luce Foundation, following his five-year presidency at Rutgers University. Holloway, who will succeed Dr. Mariko Silver (who departed in October 2024 to lead the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts), expressed his enthusiasm for the new role.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor of English, Department of English & Modern Languages, Anderson University (Indiana) Tenured: No Age: 32 Education: B.A., English Writing DePauw University; MA, Ministry Wesley Seminary, Indiana Wesleyan University; MFA, Creative Writing (Poetry) Butler University Career mentors: Prof.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

in Urban Planning and Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; PhD. University of California, Irvine (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Career mentors: Dr. Stephen Mattingly, UTA; Dr. Melanie Sattler, UTA Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Stay resilient and persistent.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor of English, Department of English & Modern Languages, Anderson University (Indiana) Tenured: No Age: 32 Education: B.A., English Writing DePauw University; MA, Ministry Wesley Seminary, Indiana Wesleyan University; MFA, Creative Writing (Poetry) Butler University Career mentors: Prof.

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ACRLog

APRIL 11, 2025

Being a liaison is so much about being relationally connected to your departments, and for me, this manifested as a sort of hyper-focus on immediacy. Early on, the director of my department introduced me to the very small, but very fierce, faculty of our Medical Humanities Department.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The council is composed of representatives from historically Black colleges and universities, tribal colleges and universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and Asian American, Native American, and Pacific Islander-serving institutions, all institutions of higher education serving groups who have been marginalized.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2025

Moreover, given the current socio-political era of anti-DEI, faculty and other university personnel have been losing funding, positions, and operational units that support research and programming that help the most vulnerable student populations to thrive and attain optimal outcomes in higher education and in their personal lives.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Therefore, we must take intentional steps to humanize our asynchronous online classrooms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2024

The City University of New York has agreed to conduct more training for diversity officers and individuals who investigate discrimination complaints, according to an agreement reached with the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) Office for Civil Rights. Thompson Jr. Thompson Jr.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Therefore, we must take intentional steps to humanize our asynchronous online classrooms.

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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. She worked her way through the ranks as a professor, eventually landing at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, and then an internship opportunity in the Office of the Provost came her way.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Enroly , a leading platform that streamlines the onboarding and arrival process for universities, students, and agents, has reported growing instances of ‘deepfaking’ being used in credibility interviews. The post Deepfaking emerges as “small but growing” trend in student interviews appeared first on The PIE News.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2025

For many university students, participating in an online math course brings about the distressing emotions of a monumental chore. Social learning / human interaction pieces such as discussion forums, social networks, or interviews with experts in the field. checklists, calendars, exit polls, or pulse check quizzes.) Let the fun begin!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

As the holidays approach, today’s colleges and universities are increasingly marked by overflowing donation bins containing canned goods collected by every student organization and faculty department to stock the campus food pantry.

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University Business

JULY 1, 2024

West Virginia University, the state’s flagship institution, performs the song at many of its events. Most drastically, it eliminated the entire World Languages department. That they think of their states and universities as only “ Almost Heaven” may indicate an awareness of the limits imposed on their career choices.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MAY 5, 2024

Academics warn loss of higher education arts and humanities courses will harm understanding of racism and imperial history Cuts to arts and humanities subjects within higher education will have damaging implications for our understanding of race and colonialism, academics have warned.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2025

By Dr Adrian Gonzalez ( @AGonzalez05 ) Senior Lecturer in Sustainability and Director of Learning and Teaching, Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York. However, HE, particularly in the Global North, faces increasing scrutiny and critique over its implementation of the sustainability agenda.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The Taliban government has suspended university education for all female students in Afghanistan , CNN reported. The Taliban are making it clear every day that they don’t respect the fundamental rights of Afghans, especially women,” the Human Rights Watch said in a statement.

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University Business

APRIL 21, 2025

Ive seen firsthand how university marketing teams are feeling the pressure. The creative bottleneck in higher education University campuses are full of moments worth capturing: sporting events, guest lectures, student performances, graduation ceremonies, alumni reunions. Forward-thinking universities are already seeing the shift.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 20, 2025

One way to incorporate human engagement is through a synchronous seminarnothing beats live interaction, where learners and educators can convene for a meaningful exchange. Walton, MS, Professor, Business and IT Department, Purdue University Global teaches undergraduate courses in Management and Marketing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

million students enrolled in colleges and universities. Collectively, as researchers, we have about 50 or more years of experience conducting empirical studies on Black men attending diverse institutional types, ranging from predominantly White institutions, community colleges, and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Fredrick Muyia Nafukho will become vice provost for the University of Washington Office of Academic Personnel. Dr. Fredrick Nafukho Nafukho will also become tenured faculty in the Department of Management and Organization in the Foster School of Business.

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The PIE News

APRIL 30, 2025

There are several, of course, but certainly one moment that stands out for me was my inauguration at the British University in Egypt in December 2021, and my return once again to my beloved country, where I aimed to contribute to the Egyptian higher education system. My passion is higher education and empowering youth.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) will be part of a federal initiative to recruit and retain underrepresented minority students in food and agriculture careers. Dr. Nina Lyon-Bennett As part of the U.S. The ability to afford tuition is a major factor impacting student enrollment, retention, and persistence to graduation.”

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

in human development from The Pennsylvania State University. Seed funds are expected to assist selected universities in removing entrenched barriers to student success, improving student outcomes, and creating educational environments that are more effective and equitable for all. Sloan Foundation. But systemic change is hard.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Gilliam, a physician and higher education leader, will take on the mantle of president of Boston University, effective Jul. Dr. Melissa Gilliam Boston University Photography Gilliam, 58, is no stranger to firsts. There is so much talent and human potential, I figure in 2023 it should be commonplace. And it just isn’t.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Old Dominion University’s (ODU) Darden College of Education and Professional Studies is launching a program to help address disparities in the number of minorritized higher ed faculty. The AACTE-affiliated program will start Spring 2024. It’s really helpful and impactful to be connected to people who are in similar situations.

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Helix Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In fact, according to RNL’s 2023 E-Expectations Trend Report , college and university websites are the single most utilized resource for students—and 58 percent of undergraduate students use search engines to find a college’s website. For all of these reasons, quality web content should be a priority for any higher ed marketing team.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Walker has become dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, effective immediately. Walker Walker, a scholar of religion, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, and ordained American Baptist clergyperson, has been the school’s interim dean since January. Dr. Corey D. He also co-directed documentary film, “Fifeville.”

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Gray Associates

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In December, Jamie Williamson learned that the coming spring semester, the 30th of his career on the English department faculty at the University of Vermont, would be his last.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 29, 2024

To comply with state mandates, Iowa State University (ISU) officially shuttered its DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) office last week. This decision came in response to recent directives from the Iowa Board of Regents and state lawmakers aimed at reducing spending on DEI initiatives across public universities in Iowa.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: For students in Sarah Blackwood’s How to Read Moby-Dick class at Pace University, learning about Herman Melville’s work isn’t confined to lectures, essays or classroom discussions. “We’re not just marching through the archives,” said Blackwood, who chairs the English department at Pace.

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