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

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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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But at the beginning of this new fall semester, colleges across the country are reporting big turnarounds. Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberal arts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 16, 2024

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) recently received a $100 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc., marking the largest unrestricted private donation in the organization’s history. Lomax in a statement. These institutions will then match this amount through their individual fundraising campaigns.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2023

Racial hiring practices in college athletics saw minor improvement but gender hiring practices declined, according to the 2022 College Sport Racial and Gender Report Card (CSRGRC) from the University of Central Florida (UCF). in 2020-2021, and 33.2% in 2020-2021. points, a decrease from 2021’s 75.8 points in 2021.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Researchers from University College London and the University of Oxford have recently launched an ambitious new project aiming to provide an empirical portrait of current teaching and learning around the interconnected themes of the British Empire, migration and belonging in England’s secondary schools.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 7, 2024

In order to write an academic integrity policy for those cheating with AI, universities and colleges look for documentation and, thus, many of us use Turnitin.com or other plagiarism detectors. So, I continued my online search and found how to use Google Docs’ detailed version history by clicking on the arrow by the date next to version.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2023

Previously, he served as founding dean of the University College at Fort Valley State University and director of college success services for University of North Carolina. Lawrence has served as vice president for postsecondary education at the Southern Regional Education Board. Lawrence holds a Ph.D.

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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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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

And while it is just the latest in a seven decades-old history of AI and Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) that can generate content like text, images, music, etc., 2] will make history as the first AI mainstage presenter. As a busy MotherScholar (Burrow, et al., For instance, at the June 2023 ISTELive event, C.L.Ai.R.A. [2]

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 7, 2024

In order to write an academic integrity policy for those cheating with AI, universities and colleges look for documentation and, thus, many of us use Turnitin.com or other plagiarism detectors. So, I continued my online search and found how to use Google Docs’ detailed version history by clicking on the arrow by the date next to version.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Rightwing pundits target knowledge found in critical race theory because they know it leads to action On the first day of Black History Month this year, the College Board announced significant changes to its Advanced Placement African American studies course.

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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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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. “Serving as chancellor was a natural progression, given my professional history,” she said.

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JUNE 30, 2023

ACPA College Student Educators International vehemently opposes the U.S. President and Fellows of Harvard College , and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc., We remain concerned about college access as highlighted in our position statement on Affordability and Accessibility. University of North Carolina. As seen in U.S.

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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. Canton, who is also an associate professor of history, hired two faculty members in year one.

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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. Pledge signers receive additional resources and opportunities to enhance their learning throughout the year.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The institution has a storied history. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. In New York City?

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 12, 2023

The tribes, which include Red Lake Nation and the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, have not yet settled on a specific amount, The Washington Post reports, but they agree that the university should acknowledge and address its troubled history with Native Americans.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2023

We welcome the opportunity to examine the university’s history. Some schools – such as Cornell University, The University of Wisconsin at Madison, and University of California system – have made varying efforts in recent years to address their histories with tribal lands, including through research projects, free tuition pledges, and flags.

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The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

The PIE identified 19 colleges in the US to date from the beginning of 2023 that announced their closure which are either listed as liberal arts colleges or carry “strong liberal arts traditions”.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2024

The resulting report, More Rivers to Cross Part 1 , released in January 2020, contained 96 pages of quantitative analysis on the paucity of Black professors and their stagnating numbers. My colleagues and I picked up the mantel about five to six years ago.” Proportionately, the percentage of Black faculty fell from 4% to 3%.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The incident was one of an increasing number of cyberattacks against colleges since 2020. Though college information technology offices have long worked behind the scenes to bolster institutional defenses, their countermeasure efforts, such as installing network threat detection and risk-mitigation systems, are often invisible.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Lueck is an associate professor of rhetoric and composition at Santa Clara and author of A Shared History: Writing in the High School, College, and University, 1856–1886 (SIU Press, 2020). In today’s Academic Minute, Santa Clara University’s Amy Lueck explains. A transcript of this podcast can be found here.

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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

MARCH 27, 2023

And in 2020, student organizations submitted a name change petition. Denver Brunsman, associate professor of history, given that George Washington and his contemporaries would not have identified as colonials. “It In 2019, students voted to remove the nickname.

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HEPI

JUNE 20, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Angeliki Lymberopoulou , Senior Lecturer in Art History and Employability lead for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University , and Richard Marsden, Senior Lecturer in History and formerly Director of Teaching for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University.

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University Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

This also marked the first time in DePauw University’s history that a woman and a person of color was stepping in. But this was March of 2020. The pandemic, an event timestamped in the history of U.S. For the first time in her career, she was the president of a university.

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#Deaning

MARCH 27, 2023

[link] ◾ In hiring news, we are excited to welcome Ann Vandergust to the College of Arts! She completed a minor in German Studies during her undergrad and joined the Department of History in 2020 as their Academic Programs Assistant. Ann will be joining us as the Manager, Facilities and Operations. and new colleagues.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

Nguyen (2020) calls this cognitive state “a voluntary, sustained, goal-driven process” (par. The post Whole-brain Teaching Strategies for the Diverse College Classroom appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning. As Tyng et al. Meacham, M. 2014, October 16). All Learning is Emotional. Hendler, T.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

Most athletic DEI plans arose in the wake of the 2020 murder of George Floyd and killings of others like Breonna Taylor, which brought a wave of activism and unity to the sports world. The National Football League painted “Black Lives Matter” across endzones and appliqued the motto to jerseys. Dr. Kathleen E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

And in 2020, Baylor established the Robert L. Robert Gilbert, and the living legend Mrs. Barbara Walker, the University has said, by way of this act, that it chooses to be a university that remembers history rightly, to be forward-thinking and to be scrupulous in seeking out tangible ways to reimagine responsibility for the future.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

The rest is history. Gonzales’ passion for education has culminated in a swift rise to being named chancellor of the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) last September. The district comprises 10 independently accredited colleges in Arizona serving over 94,000 students. A passion for education Dr. Steven R.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Coupled with the $400 increase in the 2022 fiscal year, this is the largest two-year increase ever in the history of the grant. Dr. Linda Oubré, president of Whittier College in California. According to the Department of Education, about six million students received Pell Grant funding in the 2020 – 2021 academic year.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 17, 2023

College students are experiencing all-time high rates of depression, anxiety and suicidality, according to the latest Healthy Minds survey. Thirty-seven percent of respondents said they have received mental health counseling in the past year, a 7 percent increase from 2020.

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Liaison International

JANUARY 12, 2023

Between 2001 and 2020, the number of students earning the former increased by 1,100% thanks in part to the creation of new programs and growth in established programs. More than 40% of college students say the ability to get a job was a top motivation for enrolling, but many feel their institutions are failing to meet those expectations.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Image: Harvard University announced its 30th president Thursday, drawing from within to hire Claudine Gay, the first Black president in the institution’s nearly 400-year history. Though Gay has not previously held a presidency, she has a long history with Harvard. College was always the expectation for me.

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