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

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

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. Under her leadership, the law school increased its national profile, created new programming and pulled in more funding and resources.

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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. The college says it froze undergraduate majors with “very low student enrollment.” Current students in affected programs will be allowed to finish their studies.

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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 number of full-time enrolled undergraduate students for Mount Holyoke, Mount Union and St. She is the first Black female president in the school’s 186-year history.

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FIRE

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Starting in 2015 with its viral Halloween costume imbroglio , Yale has since weathered poorly-handled speaker shout-downs , created a COVID-19 surveillance state, and was caught on tape trying to force a student to apologize for something he had every right to say. The post Yale Law dean’s message to alumni promises free speech changes.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 17, 2023

A full recording has emerged of students at Stanford University law school disrupting a talk by Judge Kyle Duncan of the U.S. On the recording, the students interrupt and clap (for fellow students) throughout the talk. Duncan was a target because he has a history of anti-LGBT activism.

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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. Some of her students are pursuing clerkships, while others are embarking on different paths.

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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

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

John Karl Scholz (Photo: UO Website) With experience as a professor, economist and provost (which he currently still serves at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), his focus at Oregon will be student career readiness and postgraduate success. She is also a first-generation student. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

700,000 incarcerated students will be Pell-eligible in 2023. Online students and other non-traditional audiences are increasingly an area of focus for institutions nationwide. But there is one large group of non-traditional students that’s been previously excluded: incarcerated students.

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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. Indirectly, the US News rankings measure students’ qualifications.

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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. Upon graduation, newly credentialed students can join the modern workforce. If nothing else, the common wisdom is clear about what a student should avoid: a course in the liberal arts.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

On Monday, the American Bar Association (ABA) rejected a proposal to eliminate standardized test requirements at law schools. Under the proposed change, law schools would have been permitted to implement test-optional policies in 2025. The ABA rejected a similar proposal on standardized testing in 2018.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

” The university plans to recruit Jewish faculty members to teach in the university’s law school, pharmacy school and new medical school, scheduled to open in 2024. ” While the majority of Belmont students are Christian, the number of non-Christian students has increased over the years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 17, 2023

and Grace Stokes professor at New York University Law School. Murray said that she didn’t feel that the absence of affirmative action removed any stigma from minority students, as some advocates of ending the practice have said would occur. She said that minority students were still looked at as though they didn’t belong.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 28, 2024

The initiative, known as the Wisconsin Tribal Educational Promise Program, is launching for undergraduate, medical degree, law degree, and currently enrolled Native American students. Undergraduate freshmen will be eligible for four years of financial support, while transfer students will qualify for two years.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It provides students, faculty, staff, and alumni with a single place to report nonemergency complaints or concerns, including those involving harassment and sexual misconduct. Adelphi also introduced Students Beyond the Binary, a new student organization focused on transgender and gender-nonconforming issues.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

To students, if you were bashful before, don’t be. My mere presence at “that school in Boston” did not persuade young Roberts of the merits of diversity. What about the mutual benefits of having an underprivileged Filipino kid as part of the student body at Harvard? In other words, I was born into Filipino American history.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutes Diantha Ellis is Associate Professor of Business in the Stafford School of Business of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. Why is it so easy to binge a show like The Witcher , but so hard to keep students focused throughout class? This can work in the classroom for a course such as History or Literature.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

Students and parents arriving at the Washington, D.C., They are mostly student-facing roles, including academic advisers, program coordinators, library staff and support staff in the admissions and financial aid offices. “That really begins to affect services for students and faculty.” The strike, announced Aug.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Campuses struggling with a student mental health crisis. Unionization With Princeton and Stanford next on the graduate student unionization front, it’s clear that universities have become the hotbed of labor organizing. Universities bracing for enrollment about to fall off a demographic cliff. Accreditors facing political heat.

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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. When more students earn bachelor’s degrees, the value of the degree as a signaling device declines. A connecting with students.

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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? Data can help do that.

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University Business

MARCH 31, 2023

Two nabbed the presidency for their first time, one of them being the first person of color at the school to do so. Cole Effective the first of June, the student affairs vice president at Marquette University, Dr. Xavier A. There’s no better place to greet the student body through jazz than New Orleans.

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University Business

JULY 31, 2023

Marc Tessier-Lavigne – Stanford University Thanks to the shrewd inquiry of a first-year journalism student, Marc Tessier-Lavigne resigned from Stanford University following heavy scrutiny over his academic work’s potentially manipulated scientific research data. “I don’t trust the administration in their ability to have the best.”

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EAB

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In my role as a Senior Data Scientist in EAB’s Adult Learner Recruitment division, I have seen first-hand that applying these marketing strategies to graduate and learner student recruitment translates to enrollment growth. Your high affinity students might surprise you. Translating insights into increased campaign performance.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 11, 2023

One piece of advice I would give to leaders is that your staff, your students, they actually want to know you. The students knew they could come to my office, sometimes 8:00, 9:00 at night. President Sorrell learns from students, too, and he shared this candid exchange with his intern: "She said, 'You are incredibly gifted.

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University Business

AUGUST 7, 2023

Thomas in January during a pivotal period in its 139-year history. In the past six years, it’s opened a bachelor’s program in nursing and a two-year college geared toward minority and first-generation student success. Instead, they must integrate their values as Catholic institutions into their student mission.

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Higher Ed Marketing Lab

JULY 1, 2021

As a higher ed veteran with over 20 years of experience, Jimmy has successfully led enrollment management at multiple institutions around the country and has consulted internationally in the areas of marketing, program evaluation, data analytics, and student success. My passion began there.

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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.

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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. We’re going to enhance the student experience, creating opportunities for them in transformational, educational and professional opportunities.”

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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. It was without question the best teaching I have ever done with the brightest and most eager students I have ever taught.

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