Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

That quote from Jack Welch, American business executive and writer, has stuck with Dr. Juan Alexander, associate vice president for enrollment management at Norfolk State University (NSU), a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in Virginia. Discriminatory funding has deprived HBCUs of roughly $12.8

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Higher education is a ladder to social and economic mobility and stability, and learning certain skills like leadership, critical thinking, problem-solving and communication, can make the difference in a graduate feeling their time in postsecondary education was both worth the expense and helped them achieve life goals.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

Molly Corbett Broad, who became the first woman to lead the American Council on Education after breaking a similar glass ceiling as president of the University of North Carolina system, died Monday, her family announced. She was 81. In nine years at the organization’s helm, she overhauled ACE’s approach to the G.E.D.,

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University Business

AUGUST 1, 2024

million, and 85% of them will require some postsecondary education. A college degree may not be the only postsecondary option for high school graduates, but it may be preferred among those who value earnings potential. Typically, yes appeared first on University Business. The post Do college degrees lead to better jobs?

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University Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The University of Kentucky is sitting on a cash cow. In October, the flagship land-grant university reached its colossal $2.1 This past November, contractors began constructing a $380 million health education building approved by the Kentucky General Assembly. Why is your university here?” ” says Capilouto.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The goal of the report is to help professionals working in colleges, universities and postsecondary education in prison programs better understand the needs of students reentering and reintegrating after incarceration.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Department of Education (ED), those enrolled in approved PEPs are eligible for Federal Pell Grants, significantly expanding access to the funding. This policy took effect in July 2023, but it is now beginning to bear fruit with the creation of dozens of new corrections education programs led by colleges and universities.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

If the company did not urgently adapt and reclaim its role as a leader in telecommunications and information technology innovation, it risked losing everything. Let’s examine the higher education industry in 2022. I am the president of Pennsylvania’s second-largest institution of higher education. Sound familiar?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Today’s customer-centered colleges and universities are not the learner and learning-centered universities we need. A customer-centric college or university prioritizes its brand. Rethink general education.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

What kinds of technology solutions are necessary to seamlessly connect secondary and postsecondary education databases? Mary Churchill is professor of the practice and director of the higher education administration program at Boston University, where she also serves as associate dean. What are the privacy issues?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Transfer has always been a major element of the work of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE). It’s one of the objectives in the statewide postsecondary education strategic agenda, as well as a primary statutory duty. There is a lot of work around transfer in Kentucky.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Even though there are wonderful colleges and universities across the states and country, they can’t find enough students to enroll, and every year there are headlines about colleges folding or being acquired.” Public universities and private universities all have very different kinds of funding allocations,” said Dirks.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Image: Students are obtaining postsecondary education from more places than ever—on-the-job training, military service and high school dual enrollment, to name a few, in addition to two-year and four-year colleges.

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University Business

JANUARY 29, 2024

Building strong pipelines between K12 school districts and postsecondary education has long been an elusive puzzle piece. But those who succeed have the opportunity to grow K12 graduation rates and postsecondary enrollment numbers for nontraditional students. and had the following conversation. You hit home.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Sloan Foundation and RTI International have engaged in a study of Black and Hispanic individuals who have achieved PhD degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. Half of the top 20 bachelor’s degrees of Black STEM PhD recipients from 2010–20 were earned at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

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University Business

JULY 18, 2024

In response to declining interest, universities implemented new technology and flashy marketing tactics. Unlike their predecessors, these students are acutely aware of the potential burdens of postsecondary education. But this self-serving approach results in average conversion rates of 1% to 3%.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

→ View the podcast transcript Now more than ever, accreditation is essential in higher education. An increasingly high number of professional accrediting bodies touch and impact colleges and universities to the point where accreditors have the potential to lead or even stifle change in higher ed. Our Podcast Guest – Ralph A.

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University Business

AUGUST 30, 2023

Washington Monthly’s 2023 National University Rankings analyzed over 1,500 higher education institutions registered with the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). 281 $1,758 15 3 19 2 Stanford University (Calif.) 84 $4,618 5 5 138 6 Duke University (N.C.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The interviewees were successful comebackers from California State University, Sacramento State and the Shasta-Tehama-Trinity Joint Community College District. But a steep climb back into postsecondary education may await comebackers upon their return, according to the report.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 4, 2024

For example, adult learners often cite difficulties in digital literacy and report not feeling confident in using online technologies and learning platforms (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2021). Almost all college courses today include some type of technology component to access course information and/or coursework.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2023

“Back then, universities looked completely different than they do now,” Anderson says. “Bringing Carnegie over to ACE allowed us to modernize it in a way that was more reflective of the true diversity and evolution of American higher education.”

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 2, 2023

Thank you to Kristen Betts, Clinical Professor at Drexel University, and Karyn Holt, Vice President of Institutional Partnerships & Research at INTERACT123, for the resources and innovative way to consider the learning process, especially regulations regarding that process, and how we can ensure the best learning opportunities for our students.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Midlands Innovation is a strategic research partnership of eight research intensive universities in the Midlands. HEPI is running a series of blogs with Midlands Innovation championing the role of technicians in higher education and research. per cent); to have graduated from a post-1992 university (55.3 Women represent 52.3

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 4, 2024

For example, adult learners often cite difficulties in digital literacy and report not feeling confident in using online technologies and learning platforms (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2021). Almost all college courses today include some type of technology component to access course information and/or coursework.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Smith Title: Associate Professor of Higher Education; Provost Faculty Fellow, University of Cincinnati Age: 39 Education: B.S., psychology, Middle Tennessee State University; M.S., leadership and policy studies, University of Memphis; and Ph.D., Everrett A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

De los Santos, a posthumous recipient of a 2023 Diverse Champions Award, is remembered by colleagues as a great friend, an outstanding mind, and a determined educator who placed access and equity at the center of his work. His own journey in higher education began at Laredo Junior College. from the Community College Leadership Program.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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University Business

APRIL 4, 2024

That does not mean we all should become technology institutes. Fairleigh Dickinson University, for example, is known for its excellence in the health sciences. In the face of daunting challenges, we must reimagine higher education to fulfill our promise of equity, access and economic mobility.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Therefore, in the postsecondary education arena, institutional decision-makers respond to short-term budgeting rewards. Figure 1 Postsecondary institutional budgets depend largely on tuition. The math department may benefit by denying the credits and making the student retake calculus.

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Higher Education Inquirer

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The Pennsylvania Board of Higher Education is composed of 21 members , representing postsecondary education, government, business, labor and students. The University of Pennsylvania ($20.9 billion endowment and 1,085 acres of urban property), Carnegie-Mellon University ($2.7 The University of Pennsylvania ($20.9

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Image: Cameron Mozafari wasn’t surprised when a student walked into his office at Cornell University and started crying. ” The University of North Carolina system recently received a $5 million state grant to extend and update its Mental Health First Aid program , first launched in 2015.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 16, 2024

Department of Education announced this week that it will grant more than $40 million to seven higher education institutions and organizations as part of its Postsecondary Student Success Grant (PSSG) program. Under Secretary of Education James Kvaal said in a press release.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Further, school counselors must be trained in using an equity-based lens to help students of color explore various career options and postsecondary opportunities in preparation to enter a global, diverse, and technological workforce. math, science, English), employability skills (e.g., Dr. Donna Y. Fletcher Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Data gathered by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization working to improve and accelerate Latinx student success in postsecondary education, showed that in 2021, there were 401 emerging HSI institutions across 43 states. Emerging HSIs have a Latinx undergraduate enrollment rate between 15% and 24.9%. totaled 62.5

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Research shows that students who receive postsecondary advising are more likely to enroll in and to complete a postsecondary education. This includes providing professional development for educators, investing in technology and tools for advising and supporting initiatives that promote college and career readiness.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

There is a dual admission program with the Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), which provides scholarships. Through partnerships with organizations such as the aerospace and defense technology company Northrop Grumman, EPW is able to offer internships and research opportunities.

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University Business

JUNE 17, 2024

Now, not even three years later, the Department is on course to roll back online learning opportunities, launching efforts to curtail the growth of distance education and reduce the current availability of these offerings. appeared first on University Business. Letters to the Department from a bipartisan group of U.S.

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