Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

What Murray Sperber described in his bestseller Beer and Circus in 2001 is every bit as true today: the academic enterprise is decentered, and the quality of housing amenities, the robustness of student life programming, and the quality of an institution’s athletic teams are primary drivers of undergraduate enrollment. Dr. Adriel A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Dr. Claudine Gay is making history. Gay will be the second Black woman to lead an Ivy League university, following Dr. Ruth Simmons, who served as president of Brown University from 2001 to 2012. Claudine Gay, president-elect of Harvard University. Bacow on July 1, 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. Dacey, who recently narrated a video about LGBTQ history at UND, has remained engaged with advocacy at the university. In 2022, the university finally launched an official LGBTQ alumni affinity group, ARC.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2023

on June 9 near the Delaware Water Gap was caught on video and raises new questions about the history of policing along the busy thoroughfare 25 years after four young men—three Black and one Hispanic—were pulled over and shot by New Jersey state troopers while driving to North Carolina Central University for a basketball competition.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia by Simon Garfield Published in February 2023 The only time that I ever worked outside higher education was when I worked for Encyclopædia Britannica. If you are interested, that story is detailed in a blog post I wrote in 2010.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Even US news outlet NPR reported : It is notable that for the first time in British history, none of the four most senior ministerial positions — prime minister, finance minister, foreign secretary and home secretary — have been taken up by a white male.

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HESA

APRIL 12, 2023

A little bit of history first. These can all now be tracked back to when Statscan started collecting this data annually 65 years ago (though there is a three-year period from 1999 to 2001 where the data is a bit wonky because the pre- and post-2000 data sources don’t line up exactly). Here’s what I found out.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

“Growing up here, we knew about UCLA, but it seemed so far away,” he says of the institution, roughly 15 miles away from his old neighborhood, that has served as his academic home since 2001. “It And then, a position opened at UCLA in 2001. It was like a lifetime away.” The two go hand in hand.” After he earned his Ph.D.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 27, 2023

Light (2001) states, “It is hard to imagine any academic support function that is more important to student success and institutional productivity than advising” (p. Advising services in higher education assist first-year students to choose courses and appropriately schedule them, help select a major, and plan a future career. Robbins, S.,

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Earlier this year, Richard donated his prized 1972 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona, marking the first Ferrari in the automotive restoration program’s 45-year history. Since then, we have become regular supporters of the college. Our $25 million gift to McPherson is our first major gift in higher education.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 27, 2023

Light (2001) states, “It is hard to imagine any academic support function that is more important to student success and institutional productivity than advising” (p. Advising services in higher education assist first-year students to choose courses and appropriately schedule them, help select a major, and plan a future career. Robbins, S.,

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

“Their arguments rest on manufactured limits nowhere to be found in the Act; revisionist accounts of the Act’s purpose and history flatly contradicted by the Act itself; strained readings of other provisions in other statutes; and mischaracterizations of the plan and the analysis on which it is based.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

According to the study, the number of graduates with an undergraduate degree in public health jumped by more than 1,100 percent between 2001 and 2020, outpacing master’s degrees as the most popular public health degree by 2020. The increase comes from a combination of new undergraduate public health programs in the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

The normal thing in recent decades is to interpret the symptoms of acedia as a matter of depression—a tendency reinforced by Andrew Solomon’s widely hailed book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (2001), with its nod to Evagrius in the title. The author is a professor of history at the University of Georgia.)

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

Tolkien’s The Hobbit: Realizing History Through Fantasy: A Critical Companion ( Palgrave Macmillan ), Robert T. In his early drafts of the Silmarillion story, he played with different ways of getting at the history, including a bizarre sci-fi version where some Oxford professors travel in time to the era of Gnomes in the First Age.

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HEPI

JANUARY 15, 2023

Progress from 2001 and 2018 – the period between Taliban rule when female access to higher education increased 20 times – has been obliterated. But these are not only matters of history. Gradually a few institutions opened up again, including some primary schools and universities, but secondary schools for girls remained barred.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 22, 2022

11th, 2001, terrorist attacks—deeply consequential for those who lost loved ones and family breadwinners as a result of the extremists’ strikes and the military aftermath, but a horror that has faded for most others? Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. It is the job.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The ‘research selectivity’ exercises which began in the late 1980s evolved into the Research Assessment Exercises (1986, 1989, 1992, 1996, 2001, 2008), now the Research Excellence Framework. SRHE member GR Evans is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History in the University of Cambridge. [1]

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

Glover has told lawmakers that the university “is in a better position now than it’s ever been in our 111-year history,” including financially. Artenzia Young-Seigler, chair of the university’s Faculty Senate, said in a phone interview she supports the president’s plan and the current Board of Trustees.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

” This report marks a critical juncture in the AAUP’s history, being one of only eight special reports issued, and underscores a growing concern over political interference in the realm of academic governance. Professor of History, CSU East Bay1989-2010, Prof. Emeritus, 2015-present.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

History will say we pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps,” says Dr. Kevin James, Morris Brown’s president. History-maker Dr. Ruth J. Simmons, the first Black president of an Ivy League institution, Brown University, which she led from 2001-12, retired as president of Prairie View A&M University after five years.

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The Student Affairs Collective

MAY 28, 2020

As a PhD student in History at my university, I feel like student affairs staff are often the ones who are running towards the crisis with life ring in hand, eager to help those in need. I posted it in the comments and said, “no you are the ones commanding the life boats.”

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Mistaken Goal

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Claude Fischer ‘s 1992 book America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940 is another fantastic and enjoyable book in this vein although it is more narrow in scope with its focus on some of the origins and early uses of telephones in the U.S. Youths’ use of CMC : Although the majority of students enrolled in U.S.

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Mistaken Goal

JULY 21, 2014

” That quote comes from a 2001 Chronicle of Higher Education article but the thought has been expressed by many people. It is something we create. We must not confuse a tool with a goal. We must, therefore, be sure that technology serves the fundamental purposes of higher education.”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Perko graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1987 with a degree in history. In 2001, she was the first Team President named by the National Basketball Association (NBA) for one of its men’s basketball development teams, the Fayetteville Patriots. She was honored as an ACC Legend in 2005.

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Higher Ed Marketing Lab

OCTOBER 1, 2021

?. For the first time in history, four generations are working side by side in the workplace. Kevin Kropf: Yeah, I think I really started in 2001 at NASDAQ. Millennials ’81 to 2000, millennials and then gen Z 2001 to the current date. I gave the boomer range, I guess I should have that for the other ranges as well.

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