Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Davidson has been appointed president and dean of Southern Illinois University’s Mitchell Hamline School of Law, effective July 1. Davidson serves as professor of law at the law school and has served as dean at SIU Law since July 2020. Camille Davidson “I am thrilled to be leading Mitchell Hamline,” said Davidson.

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AUGUST 9, 2022

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIU Carbondale) and historically Black college Tougaloo College have partnered for a 3+3 dual degree program, wherein Tougaloo students who qualify will be able to complete both their bachelor’s and SIU School of Law law degrees in six years instead of seven. of the population. .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2023

Lawrence II “I especially look forward to working with the academic deans, department chairs, and the faculty – including them in the decision-making process to move Lincoln University to its next level of preeminence,” Lawrence said. Dr. Stevie L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Since the racial reckoning of 2020, sparked by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minnesota police officer, many institutions have announced cluster hires of either minoritized faculty or professors who study issues like race and justice. And an increasingly popular one. Dr. Robin L. But she was concerned that it might not last. “I

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education. UC Irvine was one of the earliest colleges to have such a center.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This fall semester, Massasoit Community College achieved a new first. Massasoit Community College is officially offering a Black Studies curriculum. Ten years in the making The story of Black Studies at the Massachusetts public community college goes back a decade. As such, the school began offering the degree program this fall.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Department of Education (ED) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) held the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit: Holistic Advising and Wraparound Services in Washington, D.C. Despite doing well academically, as a first-generation college student, he felt lost. On Wednesday, the U.S.

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APRIL 5, 2023

In the rolling hills of Amherst, Massachusetts, Hampshire College offers students a unique and unconventional liberal arts education. About four years ago, Hampshire College was facing an uncertain future. Evaluating a strategy to move forward, Hampshire College turned to data and advanced analytics as a way to rebuild admissions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Title: Dean & Professor, School of Nursing, University of Michigan-Flint Dr. Cynthia McCurren, a nationally recognized leader in the discipline of nursing, was selected to be dean nursing at the University of Michigan-Flint in 2020. AACN represents 825 public and private member schools of nursing nationwide.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

When Imperial Valley College (IVC) conducted a student survey seven years ago, they discovered over 200 students experiencing food and housing insecurity. While visiting the kitchen, then Dean of Student Services Dr. Lennor Johnson, president and superintendent of Imperial Valley College in El Centro, California.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 15, 2023

News & World Report released its first list of annual college rankings in 1983. News college rankings often point out that much of the data used to compile the rankings is provided by “experts” who range from high school guidance counselors to admissions counselors and faculty members at various higher education institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2024

The mission of the law school is to educate lawyer leaders for their communities, our state and nation,” said William Hubbard, dean of the Joseph F. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020 on behalf of the organization for its efforts to combat hunger and conflict around the world and make peace. Rice School of Law.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 28, 2022

His Future College Graduate Academy targets potential scholars from low-income homes that earn less than $55,000 a year and sees them through graduation. It helps roughly 100 students complete college each year. We recognize our responsibility at MSU and in New Jersey to try to impact these urban centers.”

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Campus administrators hope the initiative builds stronger ties between higher ed institutions and rural communities in Wyoming at a time when some rural residents across the country feel ideologically distant from academic institutions and are increasingly questioning the value of a college degree. million grant from the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Kim Schatzel Schatzel – currently president of Towson University (TU) – previously served as provost of Eastern Michigan University and dean of the College of Business at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, A first-generation college student herself, she has been praised for making diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) a priority.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Two presidents have been hired at small private colleges in the past two weeks and one leader is choosing to retire after four decades in higher education. Hired Trevor Bates – Mercy College of Ohio Trevor Bates Mercy College of Ohio has announced Trevor Bates as its next president.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In 2020, along with nearly 1,900 colleges and universities including other Ivy League institutions, Yale made standardized testing optional in its admissions process.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Thirty percent more African American, Latinx, and Hispanic faculty are working this year within the College of Public Health and Health Professions (PHHP) at the University of Florida (UF), thanks to a $1 million initiative to recruit faculty who address diverse research and instruction. Michael Perri. Together, they raised $300,000. .

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University Business

JANUARY 30, 2024

Colleges and universities have now been told they will no longer receive students’ FAFSA forms at the end of January. These delays further complicate a time-sensitive process for college applicants nationwide. Yet another announcement from the Department of Education guarantees students almost all the time in the world.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite recent pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion among several states , a number of colleges have recently hired presidents based on their commitment to that principle. Safa Zaki, Bowdoin College (Williamstown, Mass.) Jenkins, Bates College (Lewiston, Maine) Garry W. She is also a first-generation student.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Image: A new report finds that the closure of a college or university has a devastating effect on the educational attainment of the students enrolled at the time. percent—re-enrolled at another college or university. percent—and more Pell Grant recipients as well. Of those who re-enrolled, only 36.8

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The data available spans from 2012 to 2020. Here is what it looks like: Full+Part-Time 2020 38,510 2019 40,884 2018 41,479 2017 41,490 2016 41,993 2015 42,782 2014 43,610 2013 44,677 2012 67,074 Not sure why there was such a significant drop between 2013 and 2012. Probably some change in how library staff are counted.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

She couldn’t imagine herself, a Mexican Filipina American, as a college president, much less a university chancellor, because she’d never seen someone like herself in those positions. years on average, according to the Community College League of California’s CEO tenure and retention dashboard.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Image: Gustavus Adolphus College went 161 years without any graduate programs. Like other small private institutions, Gustavus Adolphus, a Lutheran college in southern Minnesota, faces a shrinking pool of traditional-age students, even ahead of the projected decline in college-age students due to kick in later this decade.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

NEW YORK — Dr. Brandi Waters, senior program manager of AP African American Studies at the College Board, and Dr. Ericka Armstrong Dunbar, professor of history at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. Department of Education, 16 states have underfunded their HBCUs by more than $12 billion between 1987 and 2020. According to the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Griffin, professor and dean of the College of Education at the University of Maryland. The report, based on 2020 data from 543 public four-year institutions, graded schools by comparing the percentage of minoritized students to the percentage of minoritized faculty. The results, for many colleges, were not pretty.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Image: The latest college drinking trend is as simple as it is potent: equal parts water and liquor, combined with some sort of sugary flavoring. But borgs have garnered increased attention in recent months as more and more TikTokers, often college students, post videos of themselves making or drinking them.

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University Business

JANUARY 22, 2024

With a renowned focus on reengaging stopped-out adult students , two- and four-year colleges nationwide have turned their efforts to raking in nontraditional learners as younger cohorts appear to dwindle. Take, for example, MassReconnet, a Massachusetts initiative geared for adult learners that covers their community college tuition.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

” As two leaders of honors colleges, we agree. And, indeed, we and many others are doing just that on our college campuses. The issue is not that public honors colleges are failing to reach more students. ” (We both served as co-chairs of this task force.)

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Milo Riverso, for example, has leveraged his esteemed background in construction and engineering to win over Manhattan College’s Board of Trustees. Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College. in 2016.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2024

Strayhorn, vice provost and interim dean of the School of Arts & Sciences at Virginia Union University. "I prefer to lean into hope rather than despair," said Dr. Shawna Patterson-Stephens, v ice president for inclusive excellence and belonging at Central Michigan University. It might be your time, but not your door," she added.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

At the height of pandemic closures in 2020, I began weekly strategy meetings on Zoom with the small recruitment team at my college. For years, I have been hearing the same story from students at my college. It is difficult for teens to silence these words ringing in their ears when they click the boxes on college applications.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 2, 2023

Since 2020, it seems as though anyone with any sort of leadership role in higher education has pledged their anti-racism bona fides. Jennifer Laflam, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at American River College. But actual anti-racist leadership is a different and trickier matter.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

noa’s Native Hawaiian population has grown tremendously since the 1990s, and doubled between 2007 and 2020, thanks to deliberate efforts to recruit and retain these students, said Dr. Willy Kauai, director of Native Hawaiian student services at UH M?noa. ole Osorio, dean of Hawai?inui?kea ole Osorio, dean of Hawai?inui?kea

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Gay, currently the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was hired after a search that began in July to replace Lawrence S. with very little and put themselves through college while raising our family,” Gay said. And it was the City College of New York that made those careers possible.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

At the height of the pandemic in 2020, without ever visiting the campus, Dr. David A. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. In 2020, that plan became concrete, and the search was on to find a director who could do that. Photo courtesy of David Canton. His mission is to transition the long-time program into a department.

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