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Certificate Program Empowers Professionals to Drive Change in Juvenile Justice System

Insight Into Diversity

Matt Allen Operated as a partnership between UNO’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and its College of Public Affairs and Community Service’s Juvenile Justice Institute, the curriculum was structured around monthly themes critical to juvenile justice work. This article was published in our July/August 2023 issue.

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Colleges hire directors to tackle student basic needs

Inside Higher Ed

She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education. “All of those intersectionalities opened my eyes to a lot of inequity in higher education,” Mora said.

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U of Houston removes social justice–focused dean of social work

Inside Higher Ed

So I wanted our faculty to be prepared to have those conversations in class and felt that through more education through conversations, some of the resistance to the topic would go away.” Magazine treatment: Trending: Trending text: Why Was a Dean Pushed Out? “Students told me that all the time.

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University TikTok bans cause concern and confusion

Inside Higher Ed

” Both Madnick and Skill believe the bans are primarily political in nature , focused more on influencing public opinion of the universities than on mitigating any real risk. The Montana University System is currently considering additions to its policy that would address this issue. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Fraternities cut ties with USC

Inside Higher Ed

John Hechinger, author of True Gentlemen: The Broken Pledge of America’s Fraternities ( Public Affairs, 2017 ), said that, crucially, disaffiliated fraternities also lose out on access to free educational training in Title IX regulations and sexual assault prevention. “It is very difficult to rein them in.”

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A free, online, global university seeks seal of approval

Inside Higher Ed

Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. The New England Commission of Higher Education] is getting more comfortable with pilots, for examples.”

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Enrollment trends new and old emerge from pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

Image: After a bruising year of pandemic-related enrollment declines, higher education leaders across the country are anxiously waiting for this fall’s national enrollment picture to emerge. As the fog of the pandemic’s impact clears, those numbers could reveal the contours of a new landscape for higher education.