Texas lieutenant governor calls for increased oversight of tenure policies, faculty senates
Higher Ed Dive
APRIL 12, 2024
Dan Patrick, a powerful Republican who oversees that state’s Senate, unveiled his priorities for higher education policy.
Studying Racial Equity in Higher Education - Dr. Román Liera
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 13, 2025
Title: Assistant Professor of Higher Education, Department of Educational Leadership, College for Education and Engaged Learning, Montclair State University Tenured: No Age: 37 Education: B.A., Higher and Postsecondary Education, Teachers College, Columbia University; Ph.D., funded by the Alfred P.
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Report Shows the Shift Away from Tenured Faculty in the U.S. Academic Workforce
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 29, 2023
academic employment has dramatically shifted from mostly full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty to mostly contingent positions. That's according to a new report from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)which provides data depicting the shift away from tenure to contingent faculty at most U.S.
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Johns Hopkins University in talks to establish India campus
The PIE News
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
With the National Education Policy , introduced in 2020, promoting transnational education to establish India as a global hub of education, efforts are being made to attract international universities to the South Asian country. .”
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What next for int’l education after South Korea’s political crisis?
The PIE News
APRIL 4, 2025
This article examines how the political crisis has disrupted international higher education in South Korea, focusing on five key areas: reputational damage, impact on students from Asia and the Global South, rising xenophobia, heightened student anxiety, and the sidelining of education policy.
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Real Faculty Wages Decline for Third Straight Year
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 15, 2023
Any recent gains in salary for full-time faculty members have been swallowed up by soaring inflation. Full-time faculty saw a 4% bump for the year ending fall 2022, the largest single-year gain since 1991. It’s really hard to track data on adjunct faculty. But skyrocketing inflation caused a 2.4%
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Western Michigan University Provost Heilig Steps Down After Two Years of Record-Breaking Progress
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 30, 2025
For now, Heilig said that he will return to education policy scholarship and research, which he described as a transformative moment in politics, higher education, and society. His announcement emphasized his ongoing commitment to ethical leadership and community engagement.
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Brown faculty votes to restrict P&T committee to full profs
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Image: Brown University’s faculty voted this month to limit Tenure, Promotions and Appointments Committee (TPAC) membership to full, tenured professors only, starting next fall. The faculty vote was 43 in favor of the change and 34 against with 28 abstentions.
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Oberlin's board seeks to limit faculty power
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Image: Much about Oberlin College is unique, including long-standing policies guaranteeing the faculty a say in matters that extend well beyond academics. Many faculty members say it’s this level of input that keeps them at Oberlin. ” Faculty members, Neilson continued, “are on the ground.
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AAUP Releases New DEI Statement
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 9, 2024
The statement, " Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Criteria for Faculty Evaluation ", issued by the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure , observes that colleges and universities may legitimately—and, according to AAUP recommendations, should—aim to recruit and retain diverse student and faculty bodies and to promote “teaching, research, (..)
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Seal of Excelencia 2024
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff.
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Bluefield State Faculty Vote No Confidence in Leadership
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
The Faculty Senate of Bluefield State University, a historically Black public university in West Virginia, voted no confidence in most of the institution’s administration, including President Robin Capehart, Executive Vice President and General Counsel Brent Benjamin, and the entire Board of Governors. Hide by line?:
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Does This University Senate Have Too Much Power?
The Chronicle of Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2024
Faculty members see an effort to strip them of their authority over educational policy. By Megan Zahneis Illustration by The Chronicle; Alamy photo Trustees and administrators have initiated a study of shared governance at the University of Kentucky.
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Why doesn’t higher education make a difference?
SRHE
MARCH 26, 2025
Promotion of Emigration: University environments inadvertently encourage student and faculty migration, reducing local impact. This includes incentivising faculty to develop unconventional teaching methods and interdisciplinary research projects. This trend diminishes the human capital available to drive national innovation.
Echoing Oz, Moody’s Downgrade Highlights a Tempest in Higher Education
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 9, 2025
Project aims to diversify the business world by increasing the number of Black, African American, Latinx, Hispanic American, and Native American faculty members in business schools. He advocates for fair higher education policies, particularly for HBCUs and PBIs. Founded in 1994, the Ph.D. Dr. Ronald A.
Honoring Excellence in Urban Teaching
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Leslie Fenwick, dean emeriti of education at Howard University and other researchers—many of whom she’s read and studied during her years as a student. Alongside teaching, Thompson is also working on her master’s degree in education policy at Florida State University and is scheduled to graduate next month.
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Using data to catalyze and sustain cycles of continuous improvement in teacher preparation
Deans for Impact
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Data, when interpreted in context and used appropriately, is a powerful tool for surfacing important trends and issues in education. Want to facilitate data-driven continuous improvement in your educator-preparation program? Faculty at the University of Missouri-St. Download our resources: Data Diagnostic Tool.
‘This is our future’: UCF students join statewide student protest of DeSantis’ ‘dystopian’ education policies
University Business
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Students at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, the state’s largest public university by enrollment, joined a statewide walkout on Thursday in protest of education policies and directives prioritized by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that critics say are having chilling effects. Read more on Orlando Weekly.
Sri Lankan students set their sights on Indian universities
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Additionally, a G-20 talent visa has been announced for scientists, researchers, faculty members, and scholar academicians from G20 countries. Pankaj Mittal, AIU After the National Education Policy came into the picture, Indian universities are looking forward to more collaborations with international universities, said Mittal.
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Challenges Persist for Early-Career Black Academics
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 14, 2024
The report, titled “Unblocking the Pipeline: Supporting the Retention, Progression and Promotion of Black Early-Career Academics,” was the culmination of a monthslong survey of Black ECAs by the Higher Education Policy Institute, a U.K. where harassment reporting mechanisms often fail to protect Black faculty. think tank.
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Black and Hispanic Students Far Less Likely to Receive Race-Matched Instruction
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 22, 2022
However, Odle’s team found that the faculty in these matches were more likely to be temporary staff or adjuncts, rather than tenured or tenure-track. Although contingent faculty may be equally good teachers as tenured faculty, their positions might limit them as mentors for students of color.
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Dr. Anjalé Welton Appointed Rupple-Bascom Professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Welton is chair of the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. And prior to that, she was a faculty member in the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Welton holds a Ph.D.
Dr. KerryAnn O’Meara Named VP for Academic Affairs at Teachers College, Columbia University
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 8, 2023
KerryAnn O’Meara O’Meara is currently professor of higher education, a distinguished scholar teacher, and special assistant to the provost for strategic initiative at University of Maryland (UMD). O’Meara was also a 2021-2022 American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow and president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education in 2020.
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Advocating Policy, Better Than Before
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Manny Rodriguez laments childhood memories of the discourse surrounding education policies in California, particularly those that negatively affected migrant families like his. Manny is a leader in higher education policy advocacy,” says Brian Rivas, senior director of policy and government relations at The Education Trust — West. “He
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Rochon Appointed President of California State University, Fullerton
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 22, 2024
Rochon “I am honored to join the Titan community and excited to work alongside the university’s talented faculty and staff to further support the success of its dynamic and diverse student body,” said Rochon of the California State University Board of Trustees appointment. He did doctoral work in educational policy studies.
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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
The conference underscored the mission of postsecondary institutions and academics to work against dehumanizing atmospheres and support the best policies and practices that improve student belonging, community connection, and create thriving faculty. “We They’re there to provide access to higher education to their communities.”
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Beyond Statements Toward Action: Maintaining the Antiracist Promise During the Anti-DEI Movement
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 3, 2024
The Chronicle of Higher Education has even instituted a DEI Legislation Tracker to track anti-DEI higher education policies. Dr. Annice Fisher Given the “DEI backlash,” how have schools and colleges of education maintained their long-standing DEI commitments? hate groups). As such, we ensured that all pathways (e.g.,
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UK looks to change role of faculty senate. Employees worry it will take away authority
University Business
MARCH 28, 2024
But some faculty members say it could ultimately take power away from them. The university senate has the authority to create broad educational policy and academic standards for UK. Originally published in the Lexington Herald-Leader) The post UK looks to change role of faculty senate. Read more from Yahoo!
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Fostering Upward Mobility through Low-Cost Certification: A Practical Guide for Higher Education
Faculty Focus
JULY 14, 2024
Universities may greatly help different student groups move higher by emphasizing useful, easily available, and reasonably priced educational routes, which will eventually promote a more inclusive and equitable educational environment. “Educational Accessibility and Upward Mobility.” 5 (2021): 658-674. .
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The Other Mothers in Higher Education
ACPA
MARCH 20, 2025
This Black feminist framework seeped into the higher education space with the creation of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and expansion of Black student enrollment (Sturdivant, 2024). Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 37(3), 3209. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. Lunsford, L.G.,
Bill to Codify Postsecondary Student Success Grants Met with Support and Criticism from Scholars and Advocates
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 26, 2024
“By codifying the program, it gives institutions something to look forward to annually as a source that they may be able to tap, assuming they qualify, for much needed resources,” said Kelly Leon, vice president of communications and government relations for the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP).
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El Camino faculty sabbaticals being cut due to budget issues - Emily Gomez, the Union
Economics and Change in Higher Education
DECEMBER 4, 2023
The El Camino College Academic Senate presented a resolution in response to budget cuts affecting and cutting down on contractual sabbatical leaves for faculty. A sabbatical is an approved leave of absence a faculty member takes from regular, contracted instruction time for personal development projects.
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The holy grail of credit transfer?
HEPI
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Academic faculty and administrators at those four-year institutions sought instead to preserve their institutions’ prestige and reputation for selectivity. In doing so, they fostered unwelcoming and unreceptive transfer processes and cultures, inevitably contributing to poorer outcomes for the students involved.
9 Grad Students Honored with K. Patricia Cross Award
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 18, 2024
Patricia Cross Award is open to all doctoral-level graduate students who are planning a career in higher education, regardless of academic department, and have been nominated by a faculty member or administrator. Graduate students in fields where the master’s degree is the terminal degree are also eligible.
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Dr. Anne S. Pruitt-Logan
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 22, 2022
Title: Professor Emeritus, Educational Policy and Leadership The Ohio State University Anne S. Pruitt-Logan is professor emeritus of educational policy and leadership at the Ohio State University. From the start of her career, she has focused on improving access to education for underserved populations.
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Uni of Southampton and OIEG team up to launch India campus
The PIE News
OCTOBER 23, 2024
The first intake is expected for 2025, with four undergraduate and two graduate degrees to choose from.
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Report: Censorship legislation and its grip on education
University Business
OCTOBER 27, 2022
However, there are additional external factors that directly impact both K-12 schools and higher education. Ashley White, a professor in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of the report, points to four themes representative of current censorship legislation. Call to action.
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Fostering Upward Mobility through Low-Cost Certification: A Practical Guide for Higher Education
Faculty Focus
JULY 14, 2024
Universities may greatly help different student groups move higher by emphasizing useful, easily available, and reasonably priced educational routes, which will eventually promote a more inclusive and equitable educational environment. “Educational Accessibility and Upward Mobility.” 5 (2021): 658-674. .
How Data Drives Student Success
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 4, 2024
Our program directors and faculty chairs work closely to match them to existing courses.” Smatresk, and his leadership realized that students, faculty, and staff would benefit from a more robust and insightful data set that anyone could use or access at any time. Students at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY.
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Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Named Provost at Western Michigan University
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
He brings outstanding results in growing enrollment, increasing student and faculty diversity, developing innovative programs, and forging beneficial partnerships inside and outside the academy," added Montgomery.
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Dr. Janelle Scott Voted President-Elect of AERA
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 1, 2023
and Mary Catherine Birgeneau Distinguished Chair in Educational Disparities at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Education, conducts research on the politics of educational policy in a multiracial, segregated, and unequal society and has been published in several peer-reviewed journals.
How Project 2025’s War on Higher Education Diversity Threatens Our Global Competitiveness
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 25, 2024
This document, a roadmap for the next conservative presidential administration, frames diversity and inclusion efforts as a coordinated attack on American values, advocating for a radical restructuring of federal education policy that would have devastating consequences for historically underrepresented students.
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Zamani-Gallaher Appointed Dean of School of Education
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 8, 2024
Zamani-Gallaher previously worked as a professor from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Education, where she spent seven years as director of the Office for Community College Research and Leadership. She also has served as the School of Education’s Associate Dean for Equity, Justice, and Strategic Partnerships.
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Academic freedom policies should mean something (opinion)
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 20, 2023
No matter one’s views on CRT or related lines of critical inquiry, current efforts in Florida are an attempt to subvert academic freedom and assert complete governmental control over faculty speech in public college and university classrooms. Florida looked to a 2006 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Garcetti v.
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