Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

It now coordinates classes from over a dozen colleges and universities, including Yale, Stanford, and Wharton, at over 100 high schools. Morehouse is the most recent addition to the program, which has included Howard University since 2020 and Spelman College since 2022. The Lab is looking to change that.

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Today's Learner

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Reading Time: 2 minutes Shaloun Mims is a student at The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee   and a Cengage student ambassador Throughout my academic journey, the meaning of Black History Month has changed tremendously. Broadening my understanding of cultural identity has opened my eyes to a new meaning of Black History Month.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

Race and higher education scholars are voicing criticism, concern, and cynicism after the University of Florida ended many of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, a move that the school cited it took to comply with a state law that was passed last year. chair of Black studies at the University of Rochester. McCune, Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

Yale University has pledged $10 million toward an initiative to strengthen its relationship with historically Black colleges and universities in the realm of research, teaching, and student access. Esdaile complained about the book, Yale and Slavery: A History , published alongside Yale’s apology.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In a recent opinion essay in The New York Times , Molly Worthen, a University of North Carolina professor of religious and intellectual history, follows up an earlier defense of lectures (“Lecture Me, Really”) and the study of the Great Books (“Can I Go to Great Books Boot Camp? Here, I must firmly disagree.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 29, 2024

She previously completed a BA and an MPhil in English at the University of Cambridge and now works as a parliamentary researcher. As a recent graduate of Cambridge, where I spent four years, I understand the urge to herald its unique history and methods of teaching. Famke Veenstra-Ashmorewas an intern at HEPI in the summer of 2024.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Astrophoria programme aims to help students from disadvantaged backgrounds fulfil their potential When Jessica Neate told her friends in Leicester that she was going to study at Oxford University, they didn’t believe her. Continue reading.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 1, 2023

Recently, DeSantis signed a biill that will defund programs at all public universities in the state that promote diversity, equity and inclusion. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and NCAA President Charlie Baker At the North American Society fror Sports History conference last weekend, the topic was front and center.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Did you happen to see Malcolm Gladwell’s article “ Princeton University Is the World’s First Perpetual Motion Machine ”? In 1977, when the university’s endowment stood at $2 billion, its freshman class was 1,585. Not to pick on Princeton—let’s shift attention to Harvard.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: B.A., history, Tufts University; M.A., political science, Binghamton University Career mentors: Dr. David L. When he returned to the U.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: B.A., history, Tufts University; M.A., political science, Binghamton University Career mentors: Dr. David L. When he returned to the U.S.,

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HEPI

JUNE 7, 2023

The assessment of ability and potential to succeed in most English universities is based to an important extent on the grades achieved at A-level, complemented by other factors whose importance varies with context. Prized university places may hinge on one difference in one grade, but all grades are only ‘reliable to one grade either way’.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 17, 2023

Not that long ago, higher education advocates regularly complained about the lack of national attention on colleges and universities. Terri Taylor We did not get 237 pages of majority opinion, dissents, and concurrences solely to explain how highly selective universities should do admissions.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

As the lawyers note, many for-profit colleges have histories of using deceptive advertising and recruiting to draw people into high-priced, low-quality programs that leave many students worse off than when they enroll deep in debt and without the careers they sought.

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The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

We can ‘sell out’ — get a job in consulting or tech, our only chance at a work visa sponsorship,” an international humanities student wrote in the Daily Princetonian , Princeton University’s newspaper, quoting a fellow international student.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

10 online panel – hosted by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) – invited a number of scholars in higher ed to weigh in on the potential and challenges that AI tools may bring to the field. Roth, president of Wesleyan University. "We Barabino, president of the Olin College of Engineering.

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The PIE News

MARCH 3, 2025

If Congress were also to deliver on the popular proposal to provide green cards to international student graduates of our universities, our local economies would benefit exponentially. Our nation would do well to ensure those educated by our institutions can stay and contribute their knowledge and skills to our economy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

Now, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce has released a report on the potential impacts of the decision and how higher ed and governments can react. Dr. Anthony Carnevale, director of the CEW “We decided to disconnect affirmative action from America’s vulgar and violent racial history,” said Dr. Anthony P.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The aims of these reforms are both laudable and necessary; notably trying to ensure that all students have a fair opportunity to attend university. This week, a student who planned to apply for History came to me in some distress after a meeting with their History teacher to review their Personal Statement. has to be a positive.

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HEPI

JANUARY 9, 2023

In the blog below, Professor Nishan Canagarajah, President & Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester, describes the opportunities and challenges this presents. According to the 2021 Census data, it has emerged as the first plural city in the UK where no ethnic group has a majority.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Marquette University called off a student convocation Thursday because of a protest by the Black Student Council of Marquette. ” The university issued a statement that said in part, “We are deeply committed to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion on campus. These roles are expected to be filled this semester.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action in college admissions in June has left universities, nonprofit organizations, Richard Kahlenberg and other higher education stakeholders with a single question: What are the best paths forward? Harvard and UNC had about 15 times as many wealthy as poor students on campus.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Image: Stanford University leaders are seeking to make amends for past actions by former administrators who systematically and secretly discriminated against Jewish students seeking admission to the university. “Everybody is taking a good, hard look at their own history,” he said. Examining the Past.

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The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2023

Our consortium of 250+ colleges and universities and more than 200,000 alumni since our founding in 1950 are testimony that study abroad is a powerful, meaningful experience. We’re at a particularly pivotal moment in history where we need thoughtful, interculturally effective, empathetic global citizens more than ever.

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The PIE News

JULY 4, 2023

Higher education leaders are calling for a science and research “rebalance” to supercharge global scholarship and create a research ecosystem that doesn’t disadvantage Africa and the Global South. “In this way, Africa’s agency will be fully recognised, reinforced and protected for achieving the envisioned Afrofutures.”

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University Business

OCTOBER 15, 2024

These tribal colleges and universities were intended to serve students who’d been disadvantaged by the nation’s history of violence and racism toward Native Americans, including efforts to eradicate their languages and cultures. Hasn’t Fulfilled Its Promise to Fund the Schools appeared first on University Business.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

For most of its 50-year history, the Pell Grant has not covered summer classes, with two brief exceptions: 2009-2011 and 2017 to the present. Summer Pell seems to offer particular help to disadvantaged groups. Liu found clear advantages for the students who got summer money.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ask yourself: Would the $20 million gift that Bloomberg Philanthropies gave to Princeton in 2021 to support the university’s first-generation and low-income students have a greater impact at Tougaloo College, an HBCU with a $10 million endowment? The very question—posed by educational historian Bruce A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It bans affirmative action not only in race but other protected categories, and not just in admissions but in hiring practices and awarding money,” says Dr. Mark Henderson, associate dean of admissions and vice chair for education in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of California (UC) Davis. Its Paul L.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

But their plans have faced repeated roadblocks from the California State University system. Under the law, California community colleges can apply to offer up to 30 new baccalaureate programs annually if the programs don’t duplicate existing programs at universities in the state. ” Interpreting the Law.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

An excellent and diverse faculty is vital to individual colleges and universities and to our communities, states, nation and globe. colleges and universities, the faculty is less diverse than the students. To improve faculty diversity, college and university leaders need data. universities. Yet, at most U.S.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Binghamton University, New York The Glenn G. Bartle Library Tower at Binghamton University. American University, Washington D.C. An innovative and exemplary step toward advancing the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion, Purdue remains one of only three Big Ten universities currently elevating a similar position.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It marked the first time in the test’s 53-year history that fourth grade math scores have gone down. Others believe universities must play a role in the interventions currently ongoing at the K-12 level. Scores declined sharply in both subjects, and no state showed improvement.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B. Diversifying Our Curing Community (DOCC) Arkansas State University College of Science and Mathematics DOCC seeks to increase the number of under-represented students accepted into medical schools. Read about them here. Dreamline Pathways A.T.

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WCET Frontiers

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Concerns Have Been Raised that Online Recruitment Benefits Companies and Not Students There have been plenty of concerns raised about issues with OPMs and companies performing significant services (especially in recruiting) for colleges and universities. One can imagine the distasteful image of bounty hunting such actions raise.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Resolutions and Safe Spaces — Adelphi University. Adelphi University’s Office of Community Concerns and Resolution was established in fall 2021 to simplify and enhance the system for reporting discrimination, bias, and abuse. AmeriCorps Tutors for Youth — Arkansas State University.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Natalie Forster, Research Fellow in Applied Health and Social Care at Northumbria University. Future HEPI events: On Tuesday 13 December 2022, HEPI and the University of the Arts London are hosting an event to launch major new research on new HE funding options, produced by London Economics.

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