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HBCU Leaders Unite to Address Threats to Black Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Smothers In a powerful response to growing challenges facing Black students and institutions, Virginia Union University (VUU) recently convened over 250 educational leaders for an urgent national summit addressing the state of Black education in America. The virtual B.L.A.C. Ingram described her institution's holistic support strategy.

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Report: Higher Education Administration Pay Soars as Faculty Pay Lags

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The report revealed that growth in salaries for college and university presidents continued to outpace the growth in full-time faculty salaries; president salaries in 2023–24 ranged from $259,000 at public associate institutions without ranking systems to over $912,000 at private-independent doctoral universities.

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Higher Education Inquirer: Increasingly Relevant

Higher Education Inquirer

We are willing to challenge the higher education establishment , including trustees , donors , and university presidents. Some of our work takes years to produce, through careful documentation of primary and secondary sources, database analysis, and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

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US Department of Education calls for an end to social justice and equity. What will universities do?

Higher Education Inquirer

The Higher Education Inquirer will document those with power in higher education who fall in line and are complicit in these anti-democratic efforts. We hope there will be dissenters with power, university presidents, trustees, and donors, who are willing to come forward and organize others to do the same thing.

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Interim FAMU President Calls for Bulk Resignation

Insight Into Diversity

“As you know, our University (FAMU) is at a critical juncture, where we must align our leadership, vision, and strategies to meet the evolving challenges and opportunities ahead,” Beard wrote in the email. The nearly 200-page document noted that the donation, if properly vetted, could have been a transformative asset for FAMU.

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UNC board takes bold step for viewpoint diversity (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The board’s resolution asking the Chapel Hill administration to “accelerate its development” of the proposed School of Civic Life and Leadership comes amid the thoroughly documented, decades-long deterioration of American civic education.

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Stanford Admits to Anti-Jewish Admissions Bias in ’50s

Inside Higher Ed

Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne admitted Wednesday that the university discriminated against Jewish applicants in the 1950s, and he apologized for those actions.