Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

in educational policy and planning, Reid hopes to make an impact on federal and state policies related to education. Going forward, he anticipates leveraging data and research to inform policy-making about schools and support families from marginalized backgrounds. After completing his Ph.D.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

For a higher education policy wonk, this summer was a momentous occasion. After all, one of the first things you learn while developing a career in UK higher education policy is that if you want to know what is likely to occur next for British universities then you only need look to what is happening over in Australia first!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Today, she is the president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. Carter Professor of Child Development and Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 7, 2024

The result is a number of knee-jerk policy responses that are not only damaging Australia’s reputation as a welcoming destination for overseas students but causing anxiety for the 30,000 people employed with independent providers in the independent tertiary education sector that support international students,” said Williams.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Repeatedly, we call for “someone” to show us, through better education policy, that we are not forgotten. If the real fight is for education equity, wealth generation for those pushed to the margins, community restoration, and a strong US economy , then skills-based employment pathways alone will not get us the victory we desire.

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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. Race-conscious admissions were now only allowed for the achievement of the educational benefits of diversity. Carnevale, director of the CEW. “It

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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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HEPI

MARCH 7, 2023

I left my job teaching History in schools because I was attracted by the taught Master’s course in Contemporary British History that was on offer here back then. Some of you may know his books about the history of the Conservative Party and Churchill , or his books about films like the Dam Busters and Anglo-German relations.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 29, 2024

. “It will foster academic collaboration and bring an international dimension to the Indian higher education system, opening up opportunities to study for a top 100 degree in-country.” “Our strategy is to be a global university, a gateway to the world and an inclusive institution, with people at the heart of our mission.

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The PIE News

MARCH 22, 2024

The numbers showing the 548,800 net increase in arrivals in the country in the year to September 30 was the highest 12-month net migration period in Australia’s history. However, other ABS data has shown student visa applications and approvals have fallen by more than a third over the 12 months to February this year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Affirmative action, a set of policies designed to level the playing field for marginalized communities, has faced challenges and scrutiny in recent times. The Black Church has a rich history of community mobilization. Through coalition building, it leverages collective power to protect and expand affirmative action policies.

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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. A lot of policies, you expect to have an effect within that semester and then maybe in one year, but very rarely do you find consistent positive impact down the road,” she said.

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HEPI

MAY 30, 2023

There is a long history of people getting their predictions about the future of technology, including the future of technology in education, wrong. Just ten years ago, in the words of Wired magazine, Sebastian Thrun declared that ‘ In 50 years … there will be only ten institutions in the world delivering higher education ’.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Global Affairs Canada (GAC) is currently leading the development of Canada’s third International Education Strategy (IES) to follow the current strategy that expires on March 31 next year. GAC’s task is further complicated as the responsibility of education policy lies exclusively with the provinces.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The legislative ramblings in Florida and other states seeking to remove Black history from the curriculum and revise Black history should give us pause about what historical information students will enter university with. university policies and procedures) as presented is also decolonized.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2023

For Dartmouth and Columbia, these are the first women presidents in their history, while Harvard welcomes its first African American president. Robert McCaughey, retired professor of history and Janet H. Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and Columbia University named new presidents, each to take office in July.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy. It collects, analyzes, and reports comprehensive performance data.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Along that same line, experts spent the webinar discussing strategies and recent briefs on equitable admissions in higher ed, specifically on topics such as recruitment, legacy admissions, early action practices, test-optional and test-free policies, and holistic review of student applications.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

It is also unprecedented to have an educational policy expert leading as a provost at a major research institution that boasts a student population of about 24,000. “We in educational administration and policy analysis and a master’s degree in sociology from Stanford University.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2023

This books is worth a mention here too because of the range of contributing authors, many of whom have been deeply involved in higher education policy debates, such as Sam Freedman, Claire Fox, Ralph Lucas, Ann Mroz and Jonathan Simons as well as the Vice-Chancellor James Tooley and the Social Mobility Commission Chair Katherine Birbalsingh.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 26, 2023

I am delighted that the organisation I work for, the Higher Education Policy Institute, is publishing today’s report with Unipol. It is in a long line of HEPI papers on the issue of where students live. The Robbins Report is as interesting on student accommodation as it is on almost everything else.

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HEPI

JULY 9, 2024

With it, something else begins — the long hard work of government shaped by morning-after fiscal realities, an inheritance of policy decisions that went before and brooding geopolitical weather systems which pay little heed to the triumphs and disasters of national political campaigns. It’s been a long wait. That’s revealing.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Their contracts have raised a number of ethical and policy flags. A college or university has a right and responsibility to determine its own campus policies on all kinds of activities. His email address is jthelin@uky.edu.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

HEPI has marked the event with a Policy Note on the influence of the Robbins Report and a blog series – you can access all the material here. The review made a series of recommendations which have provided a reference point for comment on UK Government higher education policy ever since. Institute for Public Policy Research.

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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. Most importantly, they say, it’s a big part of what keeps Oberlin … Oberlin.

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

Paul’s piece is a takedown of a controversial new book about the demise of grammar schools and we have separately run a flattering review of the same book by a grammar school teacher – showing yet again that HEPI’s purpose is to stimulate debate as a way of improving policy rather than lobbying for any one position or another.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The book brings together 55 different authors – including academics, a vice-chancellor and numerous education policy experts (such as Sam Freedman, Lord Lucas, Jonathan Simons , Ann Mroz and Tom Richmond). 235-55 ‘The Public Schools Commission: “Impractical, Expensive and Harmful to Children”?’ , History of Education , 2012, pp.235-55

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HEPI

AUGUST 31, 2023

Creating a parity of esteem between Further Education and Higher Education, or between ‘vocational’ and ‘academic’, is often suggested as a good idea to improve skills shortages, achieve levelling up and promote economic growth. Widening participation: We can develop full pathway education, with progression mapped from Levels 1 to 7.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

Move coincides with financial difficulties for universities arising from high inflation and freezing of domestic tuition fees Warning of over-reliance on Chinese students Rishi Sunak may not go down in history as “the man who destroyed UK higher education,” as one former university leader put it, but the prime minister’s sabre rattling on international (..)

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SRHE

OCTOBER 17, 2024

It was academically-focused, naturally, on education, so there was a common intellectual thread, but, given the nature of education as an area of study, this meant that a range of disciplines – philosophy, economics, sociology, psychology, history, and more – were in the mix, producing a stimulating creative setting.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

“Departments as such should avoid statements on what we call here ‘external’ matters (state, national, or international policy matters),” the guidelines say. The guidelines are friendlier to departmental utterances about internal matters, namely the unit’s core academic research, teaching and university policy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The focus, he says, must be on the creation and the implementation of policies that ultimately help to improve communities over the long haul. No matter what area of education you’re in, you should at least be asking some questions that have to do with race. You cannot talk about education in this country without talking about race.

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University Business

JUNE 21, 2024

Community colleges must recommit to reforming developmental education courses, or dev-ed, to ensure K12 students hampered by the pandemic won’t crash out of the postsecondary track, declares a new report from FutureEd, a public policy think tank at Georgetown University.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Philip Augar is a former banker and the author of several financial history books. He chaired the May government’s review of post-18 education and funding Continue reading.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 18, 2023

His advisor in the program, Kayla Johnson, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation, says Cummings is the “epitome of a champion.” Improving education, specifically for marginalized students, is his passion. We are poised to make our impact in DEI,” Cummings says.

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SRHE

AUGUST 22, 2024

But those of us fortunate enough to live in liberal societies – being, as the poet Douglas Dunn puts it, “on the pleasant side of history” – cannot be complacent: the institutional structures that we all-too-readily take for granted and which underpin pluralism and support our freedoms are, we have seen recently, desperately fragile.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The HEFCE-commissioned evaluation tells us only that it was not very ‘useful’ in the terms defined by the current policy framework. It tells us next to nothing about its value in other frames of reference, or even in a policy frame over a longer timescale. It may not be Virgin territory, but is higher education on the right track?” (No

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