Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

A Response to Growing Challenges The current political environment has created an atmosphere in which DEI spending on personnel, programs, and initiatives are increasingly targeted by state governments and governing boards. The post A Long History of Recognizing Inclusive Excellence appeared first on Insight Into Diversity.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2024

Across the country, arts and humanities programs are being axed in a misguided attempt to balance public university budgets. From New York and North Carolina to North Dakota, West Virginia and Wisconsin, we are seeing academic departments, degrees and faculty reduced or eliminated.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

history, Tufts University; M.A., His work has long focused on the intersections among human rights, political economy, collective dissent, and empirical methodology. Amid the global economic crisis in 2008, Mark says he worried what he would do with his undergraduate degree in history from Tufts University.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. The good news is that research points us to several aspects of inclusive and supportive classroom environments that positively impact belongingness.

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Liaison International

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Combining AI-driven insights with human empathy ensures ethical, accurate, and meaningful interactions that foster trust and improve the community college student experience. Balancing AI With Human Interaction As powerful as these AI tools for student engagement and personalization are, the human element remains vital.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 28, 2023

From providing a lifelike virtual environment to helping students visualize complex scientific concepts, AR can revolutionize the way faculty teach (López-Belmonte et al., This system allowed users to interact with a virtual environment projected on a display. AR can help faculty breathe new life into the study of the past.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

She is currently executive vice president and provost at The Ohio State University, the first Black to hold that role in the school’s history. There is so much talent and human potential, I figure in 2023 it should be commonplace. Melissa Gilliam Boston University Photography Gilliam, 58, is no stranger to firsts. And it just isn’t.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Some parts of history have been suppressed in many states, books banned, curriculum and conversations disappeared, and even research agendas are on hold or downright outlawed and controlled. So how does such a living environment support young people and ultimately impact the future of America? But we are still not all convinced.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

” and “How do I secure myself in a Google environment?” “Most humans encountered the clowns, and it was like the magnetic opposition,” Grundy said. “The human ear can hear sounds coming from all directions and parse those streams extremely well.”

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University Business

JUNE 3, 2024

“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” ” Antioch College (Ohio) What the experts say: The motto embodies the school’s spirit; Antioch has been associated with many social causes throughout its history. “Splendor without end.” “Be opened.” “Be opened.”

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HEPI

JANUARY 9, 2023

For a city that was once the richest in the UK and the second richest in Europe, and which had seen settlement by different people since pre-Roman times, Leicester has a history that is as economically rich as it is ethnically diverse. It continues to flourish, promoting social justice and transforming lives.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Liberal arts colleges provide an intimate learning environment, where class sizes are small and students benefit from meaningful engagement with their professors and a social environment that encourages both close social bonds and peer-to-peer learning opportunities. Since then, we have become regular supporters of the college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

For Black people to flourish and thrive, they need an environment that supports their holistic growth. And targeting of faculty by groups such as Idaho Freedom Foundations does not provide a campus environment where Black people feel safe. However, to be holistically successful by flourishing, a person needs the right environment (i.e.,

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

The goal is to create “communities of teachers who are doing this work together and are helping each other,” said Karen Petrone, a history professor at the university and co-director of the Holocaust Education Initiative. " She also couldn’t decide on what aspects of the Holocaust to focus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

history, Tufts University; M.A., His work has long focused on the intersections among human rights, political economy, collective dissent, and empirical methodology. Amid the global economic crisis in 2008, Mark says he worried what he would do with his undergraduate degree in history from Tufts University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

These future collegiate athletes, and their families, will be informed in no uncertain terms that the institutions represented by the coaches offer welcoming and supportive environments to facilitate their development and meet their needs.

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totallyrewired

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Catherine Mason, an expert in this field, has delved into the history of this evolution, focusing on a central question: Will machines amplify or supersede the artist? Pioneers of the Computer-Art Movement Among the pioneers was Gordon Pask, known for his interactive artworks that explored the human-machine relationship.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

[block:block=176] This apocalyptic narrative has a long history in the environmental movement and within academia. ” In today’s media environment, the rhetoric of doom is only a click away. Telling them that the future human condition will be fundamentally worse than the present is hyperbole.​ Teach social change.

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HEPI

APRIL 10, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Philippa Page and Jennifer Richards of Newcastle University’s Humanities Research Institute. HEPI’s recent paper on the state of the humanities in the UK today can be read here. But how do we make this happen in local as well as more structural ways?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Imagine a history course where students interact with AI-based chatbots posing as historical figures or a literature course where AI-generated scenarios allow students to delve deeper into a novel’s context. Questions of data privacy, technical requirements, and the potential loss of the human touch in education often surface.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

For history, that subject matter is, of course, the past; the discipline’s terminology includes words like “chronology,” “historiography” and “periodization.” ” The discipline’s distinctive ways of thinking include these: Everything has a history. Nothing is static. Path dependence.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The college was renamed and reorganized from the former College of Health and Human Services. Mason’s longstanding commitment to inclusive excellence fosters an environment where diverse perspectives are welcome and nurtured to thrive. It is the first college in Virginia to focus primarily on public health.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Summarily, such DEI inquiry should help detect demonstrated achievement at transferring knowledge, engaging in advocacy, and impacting relevant change in human behavior across diverse groups. The article states that “faculty and students have to judge us by our actions” regarding support to their person and environment.

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The PIE News

JULY 13, 2023

Western Sydney University has a long and proud history of opening up access to higher education for students who have the drive, ambition and dedication to succeed. Establishing a significant long-term presence in Indonesia is an exciting new chapter in that history,” said Jennifer Westacott, chancellor, Western Sydney University.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 7, 2023

Somewhat similarly, a recent PBS documentary, Ruthless: The Secret History of Monopoly , shows how a game that originally “ meant to critique capitalism came to embody it.” McCall asks history instructors to embrace video games because they provide an opportunity to discuss and debate the game version of history.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 10, 2023

My History with Online Courses Welcome to the third and final post in our series on higher education enrollment shifts. Photo by Avery Evans on Unsplash Digital learning, which I define as any learning environment that uses digital technologies, is everywhere.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Student life offices would do more to create environments in which students can grow across all vectors. Based on his Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, this essay, entitled “Reparations for Black Americans can work. The events of 1989, far from representing the end of history, did undercut many utopian dreams.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s projects like ours that highlight the strengths of tribal knowledge and the history and all of the capacities and the wonderful things that we have to share,” Bercier says. A long-term goal is to serve as a model for organizations developing similar programs in their own state.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? That gentlemanly definition drew a stark contrast between a liberal education, grounded in the arts and humanities and especially the classics, and a more practical, applied, vocational, or pre-professional education. Which degrees earn the most?

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HEPI

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Take, for example, this definition by Cunningham and Lischeron from 1991: Entrepreneurial leadership involves setting clear goals, creating opportunities, empowering people, preserving organisational intimacy, and developing a human resource system. Fast-forward to 2019, and the focus for Lee et al.

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University Business

AUGUST 26, 2024

Law students can practice courtroom litigation and history students can virtually visit important historical sites. For example, medical students can simulate surgeries, engineering students can evaluate their structures in virtual simulations, and art students can sculpt within three-dimensional realms.

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Liaison International

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

NAGAP is thrilled to partner with Liaison on promoting GradCAS as a turnkey solution for graduate degrees in the arts and humanities, as well as the social and natural sciences,” said Keith Ramsdell , chair of external relations and partnerships and past president of NAGAP.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. The good news is that research points us to several aspects of inclusive and supportive classroom environments that positively impact belongingness.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

He would spend years “trying to search out the hidden meanings of the deep things that make the puzzle and pathos of human existence” – to no avail, baffled and mocked by life’s cruelty. Human life is suffused with pointless, undeserved suffering. I fear the answer is the latter, especially in the humanities.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 23, 2023

Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University , is titled, “Kendi’s Fallacy and Its Consequences” and subtitled, “Are humans really all the same?” “For example, in addition to IQ differences, differences in childhood environment, education, culture and biology, etc.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As anyone who teaches or administers at a college and university knows firsthand, campuses are far more contentious environments than either the public or politicians imagine. After all, isn’t much of human history about struggles over power, resources and dominance? I take these concerns seriously. It’s pablum.

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