The value of history
Wonkhe
OCTOBER 28, 2024
History remains prominent in public life and an attractive study option – yet university departments are cutting jobs and courses. Emma Griffin outlines new Royal Historical Society research
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University of Arkansas at Fayetteville faculty object to potential acquisition of the University of Phoenix
Higher Ed Dive
MARCH 31, 2023
The for-profit’s history of poor student outcomes is one reason the system should not go through with a purchase, the faculty senate said.
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Panel: Erasing Black History Threatens to Harm Black Community, Students, and Nation's Future
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
The exclusion and omission of Black history threatens to harm not just the Black community at large but also students and the very future of the nation, experts said during a Nov. The discussion was moderated by Dr. Marcia Vandiver, associate professor of elementary education at Towson University. the NREI website stated.
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For disabled students, understanding the past helps us fix the future
Wonkhe
AUGUST 2, 2023
Ellie Thompson and Piers Wilkinson draw on the history of disability justice to interrogate universities' approach to disability inclusion The post For disabled students, understanding the past helps us fix the future appeared first on Wonkhe.
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Don’t Just Witness History; Seize the Opportunity to Shape It
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
And the stakes couldn’t be higher for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), which for generations have punched above their weight. They serve more economically disenfranchised students than most U.S. institutions, and they do so successfully, facilitating the upward mobility of the majority of their students.
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Preserving HBCU History and Heritage
Insight Into Diversity
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
They will work together to digitize and archive historical records and materials at five historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The initiative recognizes the deep historical and educational significance of HBCUs, which have been pivotal in educating students of color since the mid-1800s. At Oakwood University, the Eva B.
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How This Professor Made History Class Cool Again
The Chronicle of Higher Education
JULY 16, 2024
By Amelia Benavides-Colón Steven Bridges, University of Tennessee Tore Olsson uses the video game Red Dead Redemption to teach his class. Tore Olsson used a wildly popular video game to get students talking about industrialization, racial integration, and other key themes of late-19th- and early-20th-century America.
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Chicago graduate makes history by earning doctorate at 17
The Guardian - Higher Education
MAY 15, 2024
Dorothy Jean Tillman II, whose grandmother was a civil rights activist, is now the youngest Arizona State University student to get a doctorate in her field A Chicago teenager walked in her university’s commencement program after making history for earning a doctorate degree at the age of 17.
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Unveiling An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education
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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A Letter to Wiley University Students
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 20, 2024
King around this time of the year, but I depart from that practice to speak directly to you, the Scholars, Leaders, Activists, Debaters, Vocalists, and Athletes of Wiley University. Their point is that the students and graduates of HBCUs are inferior. Dr. Herman J.
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International students at fake Michigan university can sue US govt
The PIE News
JULY 12, 2024
The ruling, declared on June 25, reverses a lower court decision that had thrown out a lawsuit filed by a student against the fake university. The ICE-operated fictional University of Farmington, opened in 2016 as part of an operation to target pay-to-stay student visa fraud.
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Report Details University of Minnesota’s Historical Mistreatment of Native Americans
Insight Into Diversity
APRIL 12, 2023
A new report released Tuesday reveals the University of Minnesota’s (UMN) founders committed “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” of Native Americans during the 19th century to gain financial benefits for the institution. university has conducted a critical examination of its history with Native people.
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University of Maryland Reckons with the Past
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
University of Maryland campus, Memorial Chapel. The University of Maryland (UMD) has released its first report covering the history of their institution and its intersection with slavery, The 1856 Project – Reconstructing the Truth. The Xfinity Center on UMD campus, formerly the site of Eversfield plantation.
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Kean University Launches Visionary New Center for Africana Studies
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Repollet Kean University opened Black History Month announcing the creation of a new Center for Africana Studies. This new center epitomizes the University’s commitment to equity and to serving our state, particularly our urban communities,” said Kean President Dr. Lamont O. All young people deserve to know their past.
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Record Gift to Fund Scholarships at Bowling Green State University
Inside Higher Ed
MAY 6, 2024
Bowling Green State University expects to receive the largest contribution in its history, and the largest single gift toward student scholarships in the state of Ohio, from the Thompson Foundation, according to a Thursday news release from the university.
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Providing Tuition Assistance to Native American Students
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Michigan State University (MSU) will offer in-state tuition to out-of-state Native American students through their Native American Tuition Advantage Program (NATAP), beginning in Fall 2025. After looking into and providing a solution to assist the student, Weatherspoon wanted to know what more the institution could do.
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Villarreal to Oversee AAC&U Office of Diversity, Equity, and Student Success
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 10, 2024
Mary Ann Villarreal has been appointed vice president in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Student Success at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). She will focus on advancing equity and student success efforts in service to undergraduate populations and academic excellence.
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University of Southampton awarded licence to establish India campus
The PIE News
AUGUST 29, 2024
The awarding of a licence from the University Grants Commission now paves the way for planning to progress for the University of Southampton Delhi NCR campus. “In In the 21st century, no university can be truly global without engaging with India,” said Mark E.
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Australia ‘risks losing students’ amid rent crisis
The PIE News
JUNE 16, 2023
The number of international students studying in Australia in 2023 is predicted to top the pre-Covid record set in 2019. Some reports blatantly accuse international students of ‘ fuelling Australia’s rental crisis ’, while others attempt to debunk such rhetoric as dangerous myths. So far, Anika has failed to find new accommodation.
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University of California Academic Workers (UAW 2865) Strike For Economic Justice
Higher Education Inquirer
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
This space has been created to lend a voice to the 48,000 academic workers from the University of California system, which includes more than 19,000 members of UAW 2865 currently on strike. At the first draft of this article (11-20-22), the union and their bosses, the University of California, are far from a settlement.
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Prathamesh Paingankar, Ohio University
The PIE News
AUGUST 21, 2024
Talking to students, and guiding them with their journey. Fun answer – ‘Gen Alpha’ lingo so that I can keep up with the students I meet. Serious answer – Urdu because it’s got such a history and sounds royal. The post Prathamesh Paingankar, Ohio University appeared first on The PIE News. Best work trip?
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Algorithmic Bias Continues to Negatively Impact Minoritized Students
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 15, 2024
Denisa Gándara, assistant professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas at Austin and co-author of the study. Dr. Hadis Anahideh, an assistant professor of industrial engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago and another co-author of the study, said she and her team expected to encounter bias in algorithms.
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Teacher-Run Organization Seeks to Educate Students on Historical Resistance Efforts
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 4, 2024
Two major New York state universities are collaborating with a teacher-run organization seeking to teach communities and students about civil resistance in local history, creating an online platform to display the organization’s curricula and local resistance efforts. The Rochester region is consistently one of the U.S.’s
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Universities should stick to their guns in the face of culture war attacks – By Bahram Bekhradnia
HEPI
MAY 24, 2023
Nick Hillman recently posted a blog which quoted a book written by Matthew Goodwin in which he (Goodwin) criticises universities for what he perceives are their excessively liberal values, claiming that they have been out of step with the population at large. What is it that Goodwin and others are objecting to?
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Universities Expand Veteran and Military Studies Offerings
Insight Into Diversity
JULY 2, 2024
Recognizing the profound impact of military history on global events, as well as the importance of understanding the experiences and contributions of those who have served, higher education institutions are increasingly creating and expanding military and veteran studies programs. Louis (UMSL), and Eastern Kentucky University (EKU).
West Virginia State University Launches First Doctorate Degree Program
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 23, 2024
West Virginia State University has announced it is launching its first doctorate degree program this May. Cage The Doctorate of Education in Leadership Studies would be the first doctoral degree conferred at the historically Black university. Today, we can proudly say that we are now a doctoral degree granting, land-grant university.
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Grand Canyon University Pledges Not to Pay $37.7 Million Fine
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Grand Canyon University (GCU) P resident Brian Mueller has said that GCU will not pay the $37.7 As such, ED imposed its largest fine in history on the school on Oct. ED is also requiring GCU to notify potential students of average degree costs and instruct students on the complaint process. million fine from the U.S.
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Deakin welcomes first students to historic India campus
The PIE News
JULY 11, 2024
Australia’s Deakin University is the first international university to establish a teaching campus in India and has now officially welcomed the first students to masters courses in cyber security and business analytics. “Deakin’s commitment has always been ‘in India, with India, for India.’
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Report: English Majors Employed at Comparable Rates, Educators Can Do More to Prepare Students for Careers
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2024
College students who graduate as English majors actually find jobs at about the same rate as those who major in other subjects, according to a recent report commissioned by the Modern Language Association (MLA). The salaries that English majors make isn’t far off from that of other pursuits either, according to the report. in philosophy.
An Invisible Population: Black Undocumented Students
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Kayon Hall wants to change the way academia thinks about undocumented students. Black and undocumented students are socially and politically left out of the conversation,” said Hall, an assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio. Black undocumented students] are invisibilized.
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First international university opens in Iraqi Kurdistan
The PIE News
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
The university, located in the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan under the licence of prime minister Masrour Barzani, has the capacity for 8,000 students in the first six years and is the premier university in the Middle East to offer direct British degrees.
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US ambassador urges more study opportunities for US students in India
The PIE News
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
The US is aiming to send more of its students to India, said US ambassador to India Eric Garcetti during his address at the annual IC3 conference in Delhi. But the other way isn’t high enough… It’s one of my goals to bring more American students to India.” India initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology.
Kresge Foundation Commits $2 Million to Support Detroit Students who Plan to Attend an HBCU
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 17, 2024
The Kresge Foundation has created two permanent $1 million endowment funds to support Detroit Public School graduates pursuing education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). We hope other foundations, corporations and individuals will join us in making these donations.”
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UK university courses on race and colonialism facing axe due to cuts
The Guardian - Higher Education
MAY 5, 2024
Academics warn loss of higher education arts and humanities courses will harm understanding of racism and imperial history Cuts to arts and humanities subjects within higher education will have damaging implications for our understanding of race and colonialism, academics have warned.
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The Art of the Repair: Imagining a Reparative Possibility for the University of the Arts, Lincoln University, and the Barnes Foundation
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 16, 2024
On May 31, news broke that the University of the Arts in Philadelphia would close its doors permanently June 7. This abrupt closure of a Philadelphia Arts educational institution summons a complex history that haunts the art world at the center of fine arts, foundations, and historically Black colleges and universities.
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Creating Safe Spaces for Black Students
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 17, 2024
English and psychology, University of Virginia; M.A., child development, Tufts University; and Ph.D., Lauren Christine Mims, few challenges are more important in public education than creating spaces for Black students to flourish and thrive. History at UCLA. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B.
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More Indian universities accept SAT as College Board expands
The PIE News
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
While Indian universities use a wide range of exams such as JEE, CUET, NEET, and more, in accordance with the courses they have to offer, many private institutions are increasingly favouring the SAT. Rushi Sheth, Vice President (International), College Board, highlighted the importance of expanding opportunities for Indian students.
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Howard University to Receive Replacement of Hattie McDaniel's Academy Award
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will give Howard University a replacement of actor Hattie McDaniel’s Best Supporting Actress Academy Award. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard University. Hattie McDaniel, which she had gifted to the College of Fine Arts,” Rashad said.
Summer Sessions Are Integral to Student Success in Higher Education
MindMax
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Summer isn’t what it used to be for higher education institutions and their students. Today, colleges and universities everywhere increasingly embrace the concept of a holistic year , and summer sessions have become an essential component of both standard and alternative educational pathways. Study abroad programs.
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University of Florida Hillel Combats Antisemitism with ‘Spread Cream Cheese, Not Hate’ Event
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 29, 2024
Student leaders at the University of Florida (UF) are preparing for the Fifth Annual Spread Cream Cheese, Not Hate ® Bagel Day Program in an effort to combat record levels of antisemitism on college campuses. Our initiative gives students a platform and shared language to have difficult conversations about antisemitism.
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Dr. Melissa Gilliam to Lead Boston University as Historic First
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Gilliam, a physician and higher education leader, will take on the mantle of president of Boston University, effective Jul. Dr. Melissa Gilliam Boston University Photography Gilliam, 58, is no stranger to firsts. Then students [start] informing others, and they’re going to want to apply and come here.” And it just isn’t.”
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Tribal Colleges and Universities as Conduits for Intellectual and Political Sovereignties
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
education or universities, specifically. However, there is a network of tribally run colleges and universities that are the ongoing extension of those sovereignties as well as key vehicles for continuing to liberate the sovereign potential. These priorities often are not the focus in U.S.
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Antisemitism Awareness Program Launched at HBCUs
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 22, 2024
Antisemitism Awareness Program Launched at HBCUs Sara Weissman Fri, 03/22/2024 - 03:00 AM Students at South Carolina State University and Voorhees University are learning about antisemitism and the history of Black-Jewish relations as part of a new program. Byline(s) Sara Weissman
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Columbia University Reaches Out to HBCUs for Fellowship Program
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
About seven years ago, Columbia University welcomed its first HBCU Fellowship cohort, allowing students who had graduated from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to pursue select master’s degrees in the university’s School of Professional Studies (SPS), all the while getting financial, career, and academic support.
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