Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Currently a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin, Michael Reid, Jr., in educational policy and planning, Reid hopes to make an impact on federal and state policies related to education. As an undergraduate at the University of Connecticut, Reid was a McNair Scholar.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Nicole holds an MA (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh in History and Politics and an MA in International Journalism from City, University of London. This project came about after Nicole heard about HEPI’s 2022 report on the educational outcomes of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers (GRT).

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

Sunak’s willingness to clamp down on international student numbers coincides with what one expert called a funding crisis for universities that could undermine the entire sector. Continue reading.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In retrospect, the Institute of Education, when it was a more-or-less autonomous college of the University of London, was an almost-nearly-perfect university institution. As the student concerned went on, with a little help from us, to become a PVC in a major university, I think you might say that we called it right.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

At the time, Darling-Hammond was an endowed professor at Columbia University, Teachers College. 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Currently a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin, Michael Reid, Jr., in educational policy and planning, Reid hopes to make an impact on federal and state policies related to education. As an undergraduate at the University of Connecticut, Reid was a McNair Scholar.

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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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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. Steve Colón The judicial branch is sending loud implicit and explicit messages that diversity should not be a priority in higher education, particularly with the recent reversal of affirmative action. Students

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2023

The Ivy League, with some of the oldest institutions of higher education in the U.S., Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and Columbia University named new presidents, each to take office in July. Elizabeth Magill (University of Pennsylvania), Dr. Christina Paxson (Brown), and Dr. Martha E.

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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

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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HEPI

MARCH 7, 2023

I jumped at the chance to speak to London Higher in part because I am an alumnus of our host institution, having studied here at the end of the last century when Queen Mary University of London / QMUL was known as QMWC or Queen Mary and Westfield College. I am also lucky to be an Honorary Fellow of this institution.

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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. Liu found clear advantages for the students who got summer money. African American students also had increased earnings in their sixth and ninth years from college entry.

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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. Only one-quarter of private providers and, more surprisingly perhaps, under one-half of universities are currently ‘innovating in the area of affordability (for example, new design, stock types or tenure)’.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“If we want to disrupt systemic oppression, we need a model that prioritizes care, empathy, love, authenticity, healing, hope, collectivity, solidarity, and community,” said Gaston Gayles, president of ASHE and distinguished graduate professor and senior advisor for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion at North Carolina State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Research indicated that many schools prioritized predominantly white and affluent high schools and communities when recruiting, said Mamie Voight, president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), which authored the first of the three briefs.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The review made a series of recommendations which have provided a reference point for comment on UK Government higher education policy ever since. This article looks back at the report and considers what the lessons might be for politicians, officials and higher education leaders contemplating a future review.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Through sermons, community forums, and educational programs, it emphasizes the importance of leveling the playing field for all, ensuring that opportunities are not denied because of one's racial background. The Black Church has a rich history of community mobilization. Dr. Antonio L.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

23 article in The New York Times , “ How College and Sports-Betting Companies ‘Caesarized’ Campus Life ,” which chronicled how universities have signed lucrative contracts with sports betting companies to promote online gambling to their students and campus communities. Nowhere has this been more evident than in a Nov.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2023

Nigel Thrift, The Pursuit of Possibility: Redesigning Research Universities – The former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick takes aim at research universities for being too big, too focused on students and too uninterested in grand ideas. And if the government won’t do it, universities should.’

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 18, 2023

Chaka Cummings The University of Kentucky (UK) College of Education’s PhD in studies in higher education with a specialization in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has presented its inaugural INSIGHT Into Diversity Champion Award to Chaka Cummings. We are poised to make our impact in DEI,” Cummings says.

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HEPI

JULY 9, 2024

University policy briefings written, risks registered and manifestos and speeches scrutinised. Yet throughout the election, the Labour Party like the previous government held back from making higher education a priority issue — too difficult, too many other priorities. No contest. We may simply want to pull an emergency cord.

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HEPI

AUGUST 31, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Alice Wilby , Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Access, Participation and Student Experience) at University College Birmingham. Widening participation: We can develop full pathway education, with progression mapped from Levels 1 to 7. How to do it?

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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). Another head, Jesse Elzinga, kicks out at universities’ entry procedures for encouraging depth over breadth.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As a policy area, it has evolved to incorporate a wide range of both policy sectors and policy actors on the federal level: GAC; Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC); Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC); and Research and Innovation. Creating consensus among all those diverse actors is difficult.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

“He has been one of the significant voices in urban education over the past two decades,” says Dr. Chance W. Lewis, the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Urban Education and the executive director of The Urban Education Collaborative at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. “He Geneva Gay and James A.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

“The limitations that we’re going to have on us as faculty to make important decisions, and to really shape the institution as it develops into the future, will profoundly influence the student experience. " Kirk Ormand, Nathan A.

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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.

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

Today’s HEPI blog is the text of a speech by Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, to a joint meeting of the Senate and Council at Lancaster University. It is a great pleasure to be back at Lancaster University. Back to the future I hope you will let me begin with some history.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Image: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Academic Senate approved guidelines for departmental statements on political subjects earlier this month. 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

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. A data literacy workshop series offered each semester helps to foster a data-driven decision-making culture across the university.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 3, 2023

If it decides a provider ‘must do better’ in meeting its ‘outcomes’ requirements, the Office for Students can remove it from its Register, take away its degree-awarding powers and its university title or impose a monetary penalty, with the provider paying the costs of its investigation, with internal appeal only against the scale of the costs.

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The HEC's primary role is to evaluate and accredit higher education institutions and programs, providing students with a reliable benchmark for the quality of their education. The HEC is concerned with university affairs from a variety of perspectives, including administrative, scientific, research, and students.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 20, 2022

suggesting that universities should take their share of responsibility for the plight of HE: For many of our universities the “student experience” has become the organising concept, the fount of a thousand strategic priorities and key performance indicators. It may not be Virgin territory, but is higher education on the right track?”

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SRHE

JULY 20, 2022

The brief description of the moderation process in Education suggests that this may have been repeated. There were four members from modern universities on the Education panel, out of 20; and one out of 13 assessors. Yet, in Education, only 42 UoAs, out of 83, met that criterion; eight being modern universities.

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