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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EAB

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Here’s what that could mean for your institution. Online students and other non-traditional audiences are increasingly an area of focus for institutions nationwide. The History of Higher Ed for Incarcerated Students. 2 emerging law school recruitment challenges – and how to address them. November 14, 2022.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Howard University law professor and dean has been named Mount Holyoke College’s first permanent Black female president in the institution’s 186-year history. I’m just really excited to lead such a dynamic and important institution like Mount Holyoke,” said Holley in an interview with Diverse. “I

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

But FIRE, ever hopeful that change could yet be on the horizon, hopes a strong (albeit imperfect) statement last week from Yale Law School’s dean could usher in that long-awaited era. FIRE remains hopeful the broader university’s dark, censorious days may soon be history. Almost 1,500 people have signed it to date.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

and NYU have all recently elected a Black or female president—or both—for the first time in their schools’ histories. The president-elect currently serves as co-chair of the Board of Directors of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and sits on the board of the Law School Admissions Council.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2024

Throughout this process, I have learned so much about Texas Southern University, and I am honored to join this esteemed institution with such a rich history,” said Crawford. “I Crawford III was selected as the sole finalist for president of Texas Southern University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 29, 2024

In 2018, Chua and her husband, fellow Yale Law School professor Jed Rubenfeld, were investigated for allegedly telling students to dress like models for a better chance at winning a clerkship with Brett Kavanaugh, now a U.S. It wasn’t just because her interests focused on a lesser-studied subset of law focusing on developing countries.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

The Rutgers Law School Housing Justice & Tenant Solidarity Clinic is representing members of 75 Prospect Street Tenant Association in lawsuits against companies owned or managed by Ron Kutas, alleging that he is responsible for a building’s deteriorating condition.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Brian Rosenberg, president emeritus of Macalester College and a visiting professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has written the best article that I’ve read on the recent decision by leading law schools to boycott the US News ratings. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Jenkins is set to become Bates College’s first Black president in its 168-year history. His experience and notoriety made him a sought-after speaker to address anti-racism and racial justice in law school curricula and hate speech on college campuses. News Ranking’s public law school ranks 18 spots to #6.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Annabelle Hutchinson…is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. What job could a person possibly get with an Art History degree, for instance? Their prior schooling may have provided a solid foundation, but they are newly independent and often hungry for deeper learning.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

Image: Belmont University, a private Christian institution in Nashville, Tenn., Some scholars, in and outside the institution, believe the change moves the university too far from its Christian roots, while others say the policy isn’t inclusive enough, embracing one faith community to the exclusion of others.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Established in 2020, the College of Ethnic Studies is the newest college at California State University, Los Angeles, and one of only two schools of ethnic studies in California. Scaling Up Programs for Underrepresented Students — Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

So can Harvard a private institution violate the Equal Protection Clause? Legally, that’s just impossible,” said Katyal, a law school professor of more than 20 years. In other words, I was born into Filipino American history. And then, I was born. We never owned a car, were always renters, and moved every three years.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Many faculty members worry that if graduate school is viewed as essentially a workplace, then research institutions will become less and less educational, and professors will increasingly treat their graduate students truly like staff, with no obligations to mentor or advise. Indeed, the figure has declined by 15 percent since 2020.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

“In this process, we have to consider the health of the institution. “As a student, I’d be wondering what kind of institution I’m a part of.” But he said the fact that this is the union’s first contract with the institution raises the stakes—and the odds of following through on the threat.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 28, 2024

The graduate degree program will start as a five-year pilot, with law school tuition covered for three years and medical school tuition for four years. Institutions must challenge themselves to move away from encouraging acts that are performative, into commitments of transformative change.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Some law schools admit less qualified students on a part-time or probationary status to exclude them from the rankings that look exclusively at full-time students. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Steven Mintz Show on Jobs site: Disable left side advertisement?:

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Image: In his new podcast series, Gatecrashers: The Hidden History of Jews and the Ivy League ( Tablet ), Mark Oppenheimer, writer and co-host of the podcast Unorthodox , examines how elite institutions sought to limit the number of Jewish students a century ago—and how the advent of that quota system has shaped U.S.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. If no one studies history, we don’t get the next Doris Kearns Goodwin; if no one studies English literature, whence the next David McCullough?

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 11, 2023

So as we grew as an institution and my management responsibility started to grow, I realized the only shot that I had at being able to be the father, husband, and college president that I wanted to be was to reduce the number of people that I was managing. I understand the argument for why you use institutional resources to do it.

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University Business

MARCH 31, 2023

He discovered his passion for student affairs first serving as a resident advisor and as a graduate hall director at Miami University Ohio, and he went on to develop his craft in a pair of institutions in Maryland. Nicklow’s extensive STEM research background is a sensible fit for the school on the “Space Coast.”

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University Business

JULY 31, 2023

However, three institutional leaders managed to escape national headlines and step down prematurely under either peculiar or contentious circumstances. Nyre wanted to restrict the school’s autonomy from university leadership, which drew battle lines between him and board members. Stepping Down Jason Adsit – Mt.

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University Business

AUGUST 7, 2023

Thomas in January during a pivotal period in its 139-year history. Thomas’ law school from 2013 up until his selection as interim president last year, Vischer may not be able to take credit for the university’s full string of successes, but he is in the position to capitalize on them. As the dean of St.

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Higher Ed Marketing Lab

JULY 1, 2021

In this episode, we talk about financial aid leveraging —the common and sometimes controversial practice of using data-driven approaches to inform how schools use institutional funds to manage enrollment and tuition revenue. I saw the policy changes that financial aid leveraging can do to help students and institution.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Jacob Engelberg Torso: As the rising student body count and academic red herrings accrue, Torso plays among the tensions of its sordid goriness Gary Needham Jurassic Park: Its a film in which a protagonists academic knowledge is the key to survival and includes perhaps the best validation of academic research in movie history.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Reading Time: 9 minutes Black History includes success stories of numerous Blacks who have contributed to the progress made in higher education. Throughout history, Black Americans have endured a long, tedious journey in achieving educational opportunities. at an American university. Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2023

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, a master’s from the University of London, and a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School, where he was an NAACP Legal Defense Fund Scholar and an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

“I’m honored that the regents, faculty and staff will collaborate with me as we take on Northern New Mexico College into the future, building on student success and institutional development. from the University of New Mexico Law School. .

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Reading Time: 9 minutes Black History includes success stories of numerous Blacks who have contributed to the progress made in higher education. Throughout history, Black Americans have endured a long, tedious journey in achieving educational opportunities. at an American university. Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

Her life was palpably in danger every day that she integrated the University of Mississippi’s law school. One of my prize possessions is a picture frame Mama Olivia gave her while a law student. May we continue to lift you up, and all your sister institutions nationwide.

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Today's Learner

APRIL 12, 2023

As a person who was assisting with the training at the institution where I was working, I was totally confused. That said, institutions, corporations, and systems need to have something in place to support people from different backgrounds. For example, a school that would prohibit someone attending because of the color of their skin.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

“This incident is particularly harmful to our Black community members during this important celebration of Black History Month.” Rogers, a journalism major, sees this as university leaders being more concerned about protecting the institution’s image than addressing racial incidents head-on.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

Our current system of institutional accountability is wholly inadequate. Although it is possible, though difficult, to determine an institution’s graduation rate for first-time, full-time undergraduates, much essential information about institutional outcomes, quality and cost remains unavailable.

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HESA

MAY 4, 2023

One of the ways that you talk about the climate crisis is the way that crises may affect institutional operations directly. So I’m thinking of examples of catastrophic cases like Pakistani campuses being underwater for most of last fall, or to go back in history, like what happened to Tulane after Hurricane Katrina.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The descendants of the founder of the University of California Hastings College of the Law sued California on Tuesday to block the state from changing the name of the institution, the Los Angeles Times reported. “This is a critical step toward healing a traumatic history and rectifying wrongs.”

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