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Black and Hispanic Students Far Less Likely to Receive Race-Matched Instruction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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A free, online, global university seeks seal of approval

Inside Higher Ed

Saleema is one of more than 126,000 students, including nearly 17,000 refugees, studying at this tuition-free, nonprofit online university with an all-volunteer faculty. Nearly a third (30 percent) of the faculty is Black, according to the institution. To this end, all UoPeople faculty members are unpaid volunteers.

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Election Results Could Bring About Higher Ed Reforms

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A shift in control of either or both houses of Congress would mean changes for national education policy. Kenneth Wong, a professor of Education Policy and Political Science at Brown University’s Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs. Congress controls the purse, right?

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Why it’s always time to speak up for international students

The PIE News

Students and faculty. International students were and are deeply involved in their communities for good, and home students felt their education and lives enriched by connections with peers from around the world. Previously she worked as Director of Public Affairs at the University of Sheffield.

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HEI Resources 2025

Higher Education Inquirer

Public Affairs. Native American Higher Education in the United States. The Adjunct Underclass: How America's Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission University of Chicago Press. Higher Education Accreditation. Contending with Modernity: Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century.

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U.S. Department of Education's Incoming Trump-Vance Senior Appointees

Higher Education Inquirer

Prior to that, he was Vice President of Academic Affairs at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, where his work focused on academic freedom and general education. She most recently worked as the Chief Operating Officer at P2 Public Affairs. He received his Ph.D