Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Robinson, a foundational figure in University of Tennessee history, grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he and his mother, Alma, would listen to the radio, discussing historic elections and admiring the courage of civil rights leaders. Born in 1942, he was an aspirational child who had his life planned out long before high school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

DIVERSE : Can you talk about the history of the Institute for Capacity Building and how the UNITE convening came about? It brings together presidents, provosts, faculty, funders, policymakers, and industry leaders to address big questions facing HBCUs. But history tells us that HBCUs thrive when they work collectively.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

The announcement comes at a pivotal moment for the Durango, Colorado, college, which continues to grapple with its history as a former federal Indian boarding school while working to advance its commitment to student success, equity, and community engagement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Part-time faculty at The New School walked out Nov. With approximately 200 demonstrators present, the strike was the result of years of tension between adjunct faculty and the private New York City school’s administration. Teaching staff also complained that administrators’ salaries were high compared to faculty.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. ” That is, undergraduate programs with fewer than 12 students per full-time faculty member over a period of five years are no longer accepting new students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Robinson, a foundational figure in University of Tennessee history, grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he and his mother, Alma, would listen to the radio, discussing historic elections and admiring the courage of civil rights leaders. Born in 1942, he was an aspirational child who had his life planned out long before high school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

New faculty unions at Howard Community College and Frederick Community College have been certified and recognized, with full-time faculty recognized as AFT-Maryland members, Maryland Matters reported. More than 80% of Howard’s 170 faculty and 100 Frederick faculty submitted cards Aug.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2025

Bolton, who will officially begin her tenure on July 1, becomes the first woman to lead the creative arts-focused college in nearly 90 years and the first woman of color in the institution's history to serve as president. At Georgia Tech, she managed a $3.1

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Too often, faculty make content coverage the focus of lesson planning. Online faculty in particular often build a lesson by gathering resources and adding instructions on how to go through the content. Faculty should instead think about how they can get students to care about a topic. All rights reserved. The New York Times.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education tells the unique story about what Americans think of higher education. Dr. Sol Gittleman Gittleman, who is the Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor Emeritus, has emerged as one of the nation’s most important interpreters of the history of higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2023

Black history — and Black Americans — are under attack. Since 2021, legislatures and governors in 19 states have enacted educational gag orders that restrict teaching and learning about allegedly divisive concepts such as race, racism, and American history. The fate of affirmative action in higher education awaits a U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Under his leadership, Augusta Tech achieved record enrollment this past fall through strategic program revamps, the establishment of new academic schools, and successful fundraising initiatives that brought renewed vitality to the predominantly Black institution. "We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2025

Founded in 2018 with the recognition that Black womens perspectives have long been marginalized in academia, BWSA was birthed as a necessary space for scholars dedicated to studying Black womens histories, politics, literature, and lived experiences. asked Samuel.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 29, 2023

The History of Higher Education in the US over the last 4 centuries is worse than horrible--from a People's perspective. To make history, it's helpful to know history. Adjuncts have become the "new faculty majority"--a trend moving that way for several decades--with little resistance. In many cases it has been horrifying.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

He was so successful, in fact, that by the time he graduated from high school, Williams had achieved access to the same country club that barred him due to his race. He got to know Williams while he was an undergraduate at the school. He lined me up with great connectors that guided me to and through graduate school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Yolanda Pierce will become dean of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School, effective Jul. A public theologian and leader on the role of religion in public life, Pierce is currently dean and professor of religion at the Howard University School of Divinity. 1, pending board approval. She is the first woman in the role.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2023

and Jorge Estrada, writing in the Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (2019). As Gonzalez completes his graduate studies at Claremont Graduate University in California, he is preparing to defend his dissertation before departing for a faculty position this fall at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2023

Wen Mao will become the Helen and William O’Toole Dean of the Villanova School of Business (VSB), effective Aug. Mao is currently vice dean of the business school. Previously, she has been VSB’s associate dean of faculty and chair of the Department of Economics. Donohue, president of Villanova University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Among the latest efforts are HB 715 in North Carolina, which would remove tenure for future faculty in the University of North Carolina (UNC) system and at public community colleges, and SB 266 in Florida, which would give the state more control over the content of core classes and limit funding for DEI efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 24, 2023

And these negative sentiments are also affecting the state’s private schools. The report – produced from interviews with public Florida college faculty – also found that: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state legislature are using their ongoing takeover of New College of Florida as a test case for future encroachments on public U.S.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 28, 2023

Governor’s latest shot in his war on woke is the shock appointment of rightwing trustees to progressive New College New College of Florida started making history from the day it opened its doors to its first incoming class of 101 undergraduate students in 1964. Continue reading.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

AUGUST 21, 2024

Reading Time: 12 minutes Instagram is a highly visual and engaging platform that has become a vital tool for schools to reach prospective students, engage current ones, and showcase their vibrant campus life. This blog will explore the top Instagram trends schools should know to enhance their marketing efforts. Contact HEM today!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Walker has become dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, effective immediately. Walker Walker, a scholar of religion, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, and ordained American Baptist clergyperson, has been the school’s interim dean since January. Dr. Corey D. Michele Gillespie. “He

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2024

Harvard Kennedy School professor Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad has accepted a tenured position at Princeton University. Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad Muhammad is the Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. History from Rutgers University.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

Two prominent efforts to diversify music in academia are the new University of Arkansas’ (UA) Arkansas Center for Black Music and the creation of the George Walker Center for Equity and Inclusion in Music at the University of Rochester’s (UR) Eastman School of Music (Eastman). This article was published in our June 2023 issue.

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Helix Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

His tenure at Wilmington was particularly notable, enrolling two of the largest classes in the college’s history, an accomplishment which led to awards from the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, RNL, and others. Elmira also partnered with high schools and visited those schools to increase engagement with students.

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University Business

APRIL 2, 2025

We are committed to securing the best possible options for our students, faculty and staff and believe this merger with Villanova offers the best opportunity to ensure that the Rosemont College history and legacy endures.” Jim Cawley, president of Rosemont, celebrated the move to avoid closing the 104-year-old college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2025

As a soon-to-be septuagenarian, current university faculty member and educational researcher, the guiding principle learn throughout life resonates with me. Through the elders firsthand accounts of history, culture or societal events, students gain insights unavailable from textbooks and PowerPoints.

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University Business

JANUARY 14, 2025

Opening the black box: Helping faculty and staff understand an AI-driven world While many of these features are classic examples of modernist design, we now know that these academic spaces are not conducive to modern teaching and learning. addition that nearly doubled the size of the school.

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Edu Alliance Journal

APRIL 21, 2025

Students choose from 37 majors and 39 minors, ranging from traditional fields like English, History, and Biology to interdisciplinary studies like Data Science and Environmental Studies. Davidson has an 8:1 student-faculty ratio, which promotes mentorship and in-depth discussion. This has been consistent for a number of years.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

JANUARY 31, 2024

Though this feature is available to all social media users, over the past years, more and more companies, schools included, have started using it as a part of their marketing strategy. This significant trend underscores the importance of schools embracing live streaming as part of their marketing and communication strategies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

history makes white children feel “discomfort, guilt, anguish, and psychological distress ,” without any consideration of Black students’ feelings of isolation and unimportance. Clearly, legislators’ denouncement of African American studies is a denouncement of Black people, Black history, and Black culture.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

He believes that graduate students have increasingly assumed the brunt of teaching and research responsibilities compared to tenured faculty, and, according to one of his articles , the employment growth of graduate students was triple that of tenured faculty. It’s simply far cheaper for students to do it than tenured faculty.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 28, 2023

In today’s modern, technology-driven world, faculty are often seeking ways to deliver a more engaging and effective learning experience. From providing a lifelike virtual environment to helping students visualize complex scientific concepts, AR can revolutionize the way faculty teach (López-Belmonte et al.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 24, 2024

By the time he returned in 1993 to join the faculty, the college had consolidated with Atlanta University to become what it is today. “As As an alumnus and faculty member, I felt seen and really honored,” Black said of the speech that immediately went viral. “My Well done, OLD friend!!!"

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In education marketing, this shift presents a new challenge and a unique opportunity for schools to connect with their community more effectively. Through the strategic use of visual content, schools can enhance their communications and enrich the educational experience for students, engage parents, and build a stronger school identity.

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University Business

MARCH 7, 2025

An experienced leader in his own right, Benson is the current president of Coastal Carolina University, where he secured a $10 million gift, the largest in school history, according to a university statement. The moves have drawn strong reactions from the community, particularly from faculty.

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