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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program.

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Move beyond student-deficiency mentality in math (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Interventions to improve student success rates such as corequisite designs, curriculum alignment with high school math and increased support services provide certain levels of improvement but do not address the underlying issue: the student-deficiency mentality common among higher education practitioners. Students do well in these courses.

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Roanoke College to Launch Cannabis Studies Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. Dr. DB Poli This will make Roanoke College the first college in Virginia to offer a four-year degree in the field of cannabis studies, according to the school.

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Presidential moves: Strong appointments and 2 headscratchers

University Business

School leaders are appointed to lead an institution for their quantifiably successful work, like Ron Patterson at Chadron State College. increase and a 47% increase in new transfer students, according to the school website. Previous to that she served as the associate dean for The Honors College at Arizona State University.

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These leaders’ commitment to DEI got them the nod for president

University Business

Several of them are also coming in as either the first woman or the first of their race or ethnicity to lead their school. Cheryl McConnell, Saint Joseph’s University, the school’s first female president. she helped broaden the school’s admission of diverse students, specifically those of first-generation standing.

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How Does U.S. News Rank Colleges?

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

Since then, prospective students (and their parents) have used the rankings as a guide for where to consider going to school. While the rankings can be a valuable tool, they’re also quite controversial in that they tend to favor prestigious schools where the student populations largely come from white, affluent families. The problem?

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. The college’s dean, Dr. David E.