Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

For example, in 2020, the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) found that Black/African American employees comprise less than 10% of higher education professionals. Whites make up more than 75% of all professionals in higher education. More than 80% were white.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2025

April 29, 2025 · Episode 257 Higher Education Strategic Planning That Drives Growth and Faculty Buy-In 34 Min · By The Change Leader, Inc. How this higher education strategic planning approach helped College of Charleston grow enrollment, launch new schools, and achieve national university status.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Morgan State University, Maryland's largest Historically Black University, is taking decisive action to address a concerning trend: the steady decline in Black male Dr. David K. University President Dr. David K. higher education institutions. Wilson enrollment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

Real average salaries for full-time faculty members remain below pre-pandemic levels, according to a report released by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Its findings come from AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey. Its findings come from AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2024

Some members of the faculty at Columbia University have lodged a vote of no-confidence for the university’s president, Dr. Minouche Shafik. These administrators are failing in their duty to their institutions, their faculty, their students, and their central obligation to our democratic society.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 2, 2025

Why 80% of Change Initiatives Fail (And How to Be in the Successful 20%) Roughly 80% of change efforts in higher education fail. Faculty, staff, and students dont want to be informed after decisions are madethey want a voice before decisions are finalized. For example, adopting a new LMS may seem like a tech decision.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 7, 2025

The discussion examines the growing challenges to academic freedom and free speech in higher education, including state legislative attempts to restrict institutional autonomy, the impact of DEI bans, and strategies for university leaders to protect academic independence.

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Academe Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

BY HANK REICHMAN Last week the AAUP released a special investigative report, “Political Interference and Academic Freedom in Florida’s Public Higher Education System.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2025

The Foundation's Board Co-Chairs, Debra Knopman and Terry Adamson, praised Holloway as "an eminent historian, a respected scholar of the humanities, a public intellectual, and an influential leader in higher education," highlighting his "thoughtful approach to collaboration" and "firm commitment to the Foundation's long-term view."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2024

Columbia University President Dr. Minouche Shafik resigned her post effective Aug. Dr. Minouche Shafik The university has been embroiled in controversy since antiwar demonstrations reached a fever pitch in the spring of 2024.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2024

United Faculty of Florida (UFF) and its Florida State University and University of Florida chapters have filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging a Florida statute it claims, “unlawfully bans arbitration of adverse personnel decisions for public university faculty.”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

We’ve also seen a succession of extremely short-lived presidencies, at universities including Auburn, Central Florida, Colorado, Louisville, Oklahoma, Oregon State, Tulsa and Wyoming, no doubt partly because fewer presidents are hired without sufficient vetting or due diligence or faculty and student input.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The UNCF (United Negro College Fund) and Robert Kraft’s Foundation brought a diverse group of Black and Jewish students, faculty and administrators together for a series of Unity Dinners across the nation. The dinners - which kicked off at the National Civil and Human Rights Museum in Atlanta before moving to George Washington University in D.C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2025

In a development that underscores ongoing leadership challenges at one of the nation's premier historically Black universities, Jackson State University President Dr. Marcus Thompson has abruptly resigned, effective May 7, 2025. His appointment followed the resignation of his predecessor, Thomas K.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2025

Belmont University President Greg Jones may have crafted the most authentic initiative for the Tennessee-based liberal arts college after striking a unique partnership with global superstar legend Dolly Parton. Higher education tends to push things into disciplines that separate people from one another, Jones says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2024

The Future of Black Leadership in Higher Education: Firsthand Experiences and Global Impact is an excellent book that answers the question, what does it take to succeed as a Black professional in higher education leadership?

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University Business

APRIL 8, 2024

Presidents and other high-ranking administrative staff have been on the defensive recently as the public has heightened its criticism over whether higher education leaders are guiding the sector properly. ” It isn’t just retired presidents who speak harshly about it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

Hamline University President Dr. Fayneese S. Miller, who has received backlash for the university's treatment of a faculty member who showed images of the Prophet Muhammad in an art history class, will be retiring next year in June, The New York Times reported. Hamline later backtracked.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

It took him awhile to connect the dots from his passion to higher education. His first ambition after college was to make money, and he entered the corporate world and earned his MBA from Fontbonne University. It’s not easy to do inclusive excellence work in higher education. Dr. Dereck J. Rovaris, Sr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2023

Crumpton-Young Texas Southern University President Dr. Lesia L. My goal is to assist in accelerating this urgent and compelling objective and shape the national success of HBCUs and Higher Education at large," she wrote to the Regents. “My Crumpton-Young is leaving the school, just two years into the job.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

[Editor's note: This essay, written for elite university presidents, is intended as a rhetorical device rather than a statement of facts. Elite universities, long considered the pinnacle of higher education, have become increasingly entwined in a broader conversation about privilege, access, and power.

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University Business

MARCH 28, 2024

Conservative groups, politicians and organizations launched a coordinated attack on DEI in higher education in 2023, in some cases disrupting these programs established to promote fairness and student success, and to address decades of exclusionary policies and practices in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Jarvis Christian University President and CEO Dr. Lester C. Newman Newman has served for 47 years in higher education and for the past11 years has helmed Jarvis. I called this meeting today because I wanted my students, faculty and staff to hear it from me first.” Newman will retire in June. Dr. Lester C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 27, 2023

Savannah State University President Dr. Kimberly Ballard-Washington will step down from her role at the end of the fiscal year, after four years at SSU’s helm, Savannah Morning News reported. Kimberly Ballard-Washington In an Apr.

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Higher Education Inquirer

APRIL 22, 2025

In a stirring call to action, more than 100 distinguished former college and university leaders from across the nation have joined PEN America to launch A Pledge to Our Democracy , a unified stand against the growing threats of authoritarianism. Higher education leadership has the responsibility to speak up and speak out for these values.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2024

The project is expected to draw on that history this year, launching at South Carolina State University and Vorhees University before expanding to additional HBCUs in South Carolina in the years that follow. It is imperative that they are equipped to combat all forms of hatred, including antisemitism.”

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University Business

JUNE 5, 2023

Pennsylvania is facing a double-edged sword in funding its higher education system next year, so much so that Gov. Josh Shapiro proclaimed his state’s public higher education system “isn’t working. And as faculty are currently negotiating new contracts, that percentage may need to rise.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Moderated by President Jim Ryan, the panelists discussed the prospective futures of each of their institutions, with an emphasis on increasing interdisciplinary teaching opportunities and integrating technology to better serve students and faculty. Read more at The Cavalier Daily.

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Inside Higher Ed

MAY 30, 2024

Tenure Under Fire—Again—in North Dakota Ryan Quinn Thu, 05/30/2024 - 03:00 AM Republican lawmakers and a university president pushed a bill last year that would diminish faculty job protections at two institutions. It failed by a hair, but the State Board of Higher Education has taken up the mantle.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2023

Bob Jones University President Dr. Steve Pettit will resign at the end of the current school year. Dr. Steve Pettit “It has been one of the greatest privileges of my life to serve as the president of Bob Jones University,” Pettit said. “My Pettit submitted his resignation to the college’s board of trustees Mar.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 4, 2024

In Part 2 of this series, we dive deeper into the strategies and approaches for driving transformative change in higher education, focusing on preparing teachers for the 21st century. Strategies for driving transformative change models in higher ed teacher prep programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2024

Lincoln University President Dr. John B. 8 suicide of Lincoln vice president Dr. Antionette "Bonnie" Candia-Bailey. Moseley has been placed on paid leave voluntarily while personnel and mental health concerns are externally reviewed following the Jan. Dr. John B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For his leadership, LeBlanc – a first-generation college graduate – was named one of Forbes Magazine’s 15 “Classroom Revolutionaries” and one of the “most influential people in higher education,” in addition to winning the TIAA Institute Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence in Higher Education in 2018.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2025

In what officials describe as a response to "the changing higher education landscape," Rosemont College and Villanova University have announced a merger agreement that will eventually see the smaller Catholic institution absorbed into its larger neighbor on Philadelphia's Main Line. Villanova University President Rev.

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University Business

JUNE 27, 2024

Real average salaries for full-time faculty members remain below pre-pandemic levels, according to a report released by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Its findings come from AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey. Its findings come from AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 14, 2025

Wilson For Morgan State University president Dr. David K. Wilson,the quest to attain R1 status the highest designation auniversity can get for its research enterprise is aboutmore than just attaining some sort of higher education sealof approval.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2023

Seton Hall University President Dr. Joseph has resigned from his post, cutting his initial five-year term as president short, Asbury Park Press reported. Dr. Joseph E.

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