Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In the wake of the COVID pandemic, high school GPAs (HSGPA) are less likely to be clear indicators of first-year, postsecondary success. That’s according to the latest report from the ACT , which analyzed high school GPAs, ACT test scores, and first-year grades in students from 2017 to 2021. in college.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

“As a UNCF-HBCU president, I am confident that this program will have major impact on HBCUs and minority-serving institutions of higher education,” said Dr. George T. French, Jr., president of UNCF-member Clark Atlanta University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris has been named interim dean of the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles. She served as a distinguished professor of urban planning and associate dean of academic affairs.

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APRIL 4, 2023

Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, and a J.D. Ronald Walters, it expands on that legacy by bringing Howard students in dialogue with a contemporary candidate whose work has directly influenced today’s political landscape.” Abrams holds a B.A. from Yale University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

College students have been shown to be likelier to pass courses with race-matched instructors, likelier to receive higher grades in those courses, and likelier to persist in school. Griffin, associate professor of higher education and student affairs at the University of Maryland “Our country is diversifying quickly,” she said.

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MAY 30, 2023

Supreme Court should allow colleges to consider race as part of the admissions process, but few believe students’ race should be a major factor, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. public schools, and helps even the playing field amid institutional racism. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Hillary Clinton will become a professor of practice in Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), effective Feb. Hillary Rodham Clinton Clinton – a former senator, First Lady, presidential candidate, and U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

But such was the case at many two-year schools across the U.S. A good portion of those donations were given to various kinds of institutions of higher education, many serving students from underserved backgrounds. For more than one school, such as Pasadena City College (PCC), it was the largest gift their school has gotten yet.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 9, 2022

These are challenges all of us in higher education face today. We have to think differently about the future of higher education. And rather than limit our work to what one type of institution or program can achieve, we should look across the entire higher education sector. Affordability. Social mobility.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

Higher education has been a top beneficiary of earmarks, which returned in 2021 after Democrats reversed a decade-long ban and made several reforms to the process. Over all, 540 institutions, including community colleges, public and private colleges, and university hospitals and medical centers, received more than $1.73

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Image: Arizona voters will decide next month whether to allow undocumented students in the state to receive in-state tuition—one of three statewide measures on the ballot this November related to higher education. Harnisch said Arizona’s Proposition 308 is “the marquee higher education ballot measure this year.”

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

We’re still in the early days of “post-pandemic” higher education. Terry Hartle, senior vice president of government relations and public affairs at the American Council on Education tells us that selective schools have done well, as have schools in states with growing populations.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Image: After a bruising year of pandemic-related enrollment declines, higher education leaders across the country are anxiously waiting for this fall’s national enrollment picture to emerge. As the fog of the pandemic’s impact clears, those numbers could reveal the contours of a new landscape for higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. The New England Commission of Higher Education] is getting more comfortable with pilots, for examples.”

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Paul Angrave, Director of Public Affairs and Engagement and William Wells, Deputy Director of Research & Enterprise at the University of Leicester. This blog is part of series of HEPI publications marking twenty five years of devolution.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education. “All of those intersectionalities opened my eyes to a lot of inequity in higher education,” Mora said.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Efforts to widen higher education access have tended to focus on the provision of information and supportto those from under-represented backgrounds. In almost every case, the decision not to pursue full-time higher education did not mean abandoning the idea of further training. by Neil Raven.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

Columbia University announced Tuesday the hiring of Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as a professor focusing on international affairs. She will serve as a professor of practice at the School of International and Public Affairs and as a presidential fellow at Columbia World Projects, according to a statement from Columbia U.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 9, 2024

Repairing the College-to-Career Pipeline A Conversation With Aimée Eubanks Davis, Founder and CEO of Braven Elana Thu, 08/15/2024 - 18:01 Image College to Career First Generation Weekly Wisdom Braven is an inspiring organization: a nonprofit that partners with higher education institutions to guide their graduates into the workforce.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 19, 2023

With 2U, we’ve been able to give thousands of students around the world a Syracuse education in licensure-based disciplines that require clinical placements; graduate-level degrees in business, communications, and public affairs; and tech-skills based degrees in computer science, data science , and cybersecurity, and beyond.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

But just as teaching and administering a college provided Weiss with training that proved invaluable in running the Met, so, too, presiding over a major museum taught him lessons that higher education ought to embrace. Even the most elite and exclusive institutions fail to connect to the public at their peril.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A Republican Congress’s prime educational target might be President Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness program, which has attracted close to 26 million applicants so far. The results of state races also promise to play a role in the future of higher ed. This level of control can be very influential for higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Foxx is a former college administrator and had previously introduced several pieces of higher ed legislation, including a reauthorization of the Higher Education Act in 2017. Virginia Foxx is deeply, deeply interested in higher education,” said Lindwarm. How much legislation will they be able to move forward?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 19, 2023

These students are selected for verification, a process in which aid applicants have to provide additional documentation, which can include tax returns, wage statements, and high school diplomas, to each institution to which they’re applying, as a way of proving that their FAFSA information is accurate. It’s a surprise for many students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Brown, who was vice president of government relations and public affairs for New York University (NYU) on that day, climbed to the roof of Bobst Library when she heard that an airplane had hit the World Trade Center. Neither Alcantara nor Gordilla was sure if their schools had any plans to mark the anniversary of 9/11.

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University Business

JANUARY 4, 2023

Amid security and privacy concerns, Louisiana’s education chief on Tuesday urged public schools to remove the popular social media platform TikTok from public devices. Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley is the latest of several state officials calling for restrictions on the app. News reports.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

Stuart Madnick, a professor of information technology at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a longtime cybersecurity researcher, concurred. ” Both Madnick and Skill believe the bans are primarily political in nature , focused more on influencing public opinion of the universities than on mitigating any real risk.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 19, 2022

“Over the past several years, our partnership with USC has significantly deteriorated, and became largely unworkable after USC unilaterally suspended, without explanation or cause, all organizational activities for nearly half of the 2021-22 school year,” the statement said. “It is very difficult to rein them in.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Still, some women’s college students, faculty, staff and graduates say that expanding who can attend these institutions takes away from their mission to celebrate womanhood and give women an educational space that is wholly theirs.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

We have protected the rights of parents,” he said during his speech regarding the state’s education laws such as the recently proposed Stop WOKE Act (“WOKE” being an acronym for Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees), which is turning the heads of those in higher education. Florida is where woke goes to die!"

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Yolanda Watson Spivas 25+ year career in postsecondary education spans a range of executive leadership, general management, federal government, public affairs, operations and academic officer positions. Department of Education in Washington, DC, and Atlanta, GA.

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University Business

MAY 30, 2023

Supreme Court is set to rule on two cases involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina in June which will decide the fate of affirmative action in higher education. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research concluded from its May polling that 63% of U.S. adults believe the U.S.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 6, 2025

Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education. Johns Hopkins University Press. : A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education. The Great Training Robbery: Education and Jobs." Public Affairs. Johns Hopkins Press.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 30, 2024

30 January · Episode 192 Strategic Presidential Communication in Higher Education 42 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton This episode addresses the required strategic presidential communication training, planning, practice, and consequences for presidents and boards.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Trump's most recent executive order , aimed at exerting control over Americas public schools, directly conflicts with the U.S. Code , which Dr. Phelton Moss expressly prohibits federal involvement in local education systems. This framework has allowed for local control over what children are learning in schools.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 29, 2024

Politicians heavily funded by Israel’s premier lobbying firm – the American Israel Public Affairs Committee – are more than happy to conflate criticism of Israeli policy with anti-Semitism. It heated up with Roger Kimball’s 1990 screed, Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 29, 2025

[Editor's note: This article first appeared at Johns Newsletter: Thoughts about Contemporary Culture, Higher Education, Politics, and Religion. Johns Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. They get conservative Christians to dominate local school boards. Conservative activists have seen this coming for decades.

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