Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

As Dr. Martin Luther King Day approaches this year, colleges and universities across the nation are gearing up once again to celebrate and honor the life and legacy of the civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. Francis College, in 1964, said Shannon Zlotkowski, assistant provost for DEI at UNE. Memorial Banquet on Jan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Marjorie Hass steers the helm as president of the Council of Independent Colleges. She served as president of Rhodes College and Austin College and was provost at Muhlenberg College. Hass, author of A Leadership Guide for Women in Higher Education , is described as a philosopher, teacher, and mentor.

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University Business

OCTOBER 16, 2023

New College of Florida’s retention rate fell to historic lows and it’s dropout rate doubled between last fall and the start of the 2023-2024 school year, a report released this week shows. The college’s Interim Provost Brad Thiessen provided faculty with the rates for first-year college students on Wednesday.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2023

Occidental College President Dr. Harry J. Before taking the helm, he was vice provost of undergraduate education at Stanford University. will end his tenure early due to a recent diagnosis of neuro-degenerative illness Parkinson’s disease, the Los Angeles Times reported. Dr. Harry J. Elam stepped into the role in 2020.

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University Business

MARCH 6, 2024

Female college students have outpaced their male counterparts for up to four decades, while the proportion of women at the helm of U.S. While there has been little movement to address this gap, a new report from Times Higher Education (THE) suggests that colleges and universities are moving steadily—if slowly—in the right direction.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 8, 2024

Since the eighties, women comprised a majority on college campuses while institutional leadership remained predominantly male. The 2024 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings have been released, and analysis reveals that, for the first time, 50 of the top 200 institutions are led by women.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2023

30, 2024, bringing an end to more than two decades at the helm. She is currently the school’s provost. LeBlanc has announced that he will step down from the role on Jun. Dr. Paul LeBlanc During his tenure as SNHU’s fifth president, the school grew from 2,500 students to the largest nonprofit higher ed provider in the U.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Elizabeth Dooley is a professor of exceptional student education in the School of Teacher Education at the University of Central Florida College of Community Innovation and Education. She is the academic program director for the Ph.D. Teaching Learning and Development Track.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Gilliam, an accomplished scholar, research scientist, and physician, currently serves as the executive vice president and provost of The Ohio State University. She is recognized as a fellow of both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The post Melissa L.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2024

That quote, inspired by famed civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, comes from an open letter sent on April 16, 2024 to Dr. Neeli Bendapudi, president of The Pennsylvania State University. “We Whitehurst, vice provost for Educational Equity at Penn State. “We protest. We are sick. We are tired. Still, we protest.” Dr. Marcus A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

She is currently executive vice president and provost at The Ohio State University, the first Black to hold that role in the school’s history. Block Distinguished Service Professor of Health Justice and vice provost. In doing so, she will become BU’s first woman and first Black president.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The requirement, dropped during the pandemic, will take effect in the fall of 2024. More than 1,800 four-year colleges are test optional or test-free for this year.

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UW Presidential Blog

AUGUST 4, 2023

As we announced this afternoon , the University of Washington will be joining the Big Ten Conference starting with the 2024-25 season. In this coming year, we will continue to honor that past, as we embrace a future that better positions us to truly lead in shaping the future of college athletics, both on and off the field.

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University Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Among the college presidents to come and go in the past two weeks, two positions were indirectly decided by Gov. Hired Richard Corcoran – New College of Florida Richard Corcoran has officially become the permanent president of New College of Florida after serving as interim president since January.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Dr. Brooke Vick, chief diversity officer, associate provost for equity and inclusion, and coordinator of the new DEI certificate program at Muhlenberg College. Dr. Brooke Vick, chief diversity officer and associate provost for equity and inclusion at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa.,

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The PIE News

MARCH 5, 2024

The significant impact Malaysian UK alumni have made on their professions, societies, as well as home and host countries, was celebrated by the British Council during the Study UK Alumni Awards Malaysia 2024. Wendy Teo Boon Ting, alumnus of University College London and University of Cambridge, was awarded the Culture and Creativity Award.

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The PIE News

JUNE 8, 2023

Last month, Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a mandate into law prohibiting public colleges from spending money on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives for students, faculty or staff. The law, starting July 1, also limits what public colleges in Florida can teach.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

As legislative attacks continue to threaten the rights and protections of LGBTQ+ students, an innovative new program at Bard College at Simon’s Rock aims to empower them with the professional and social capital to lead the charge for a more inclusive future. The private liberal arts institution in Great Barrington, Mass.,

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University Business

APRIL 5, 2024

Hired Andrea Chapdelaine – Connecticut College Andrea Chapdelaine, president of Hood College in Maryland, has been tapped as the incoming leader at Connecticut College. Patricia Draves – Monmouth College (Ill.) Patricia Draves will be embarking on a new chapter as the president of Monmouth College.

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ACPA

JANUARY 17, 2024

She later held the positions of Dean of Women and Dean of Students at Albany State College in Georgia and in a similar position at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. She was appointed Associate Provost, Office of Academic Affairs at OSU in 1984, and then she was named Director, Center for Teaching Excellence in 1986.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

My mother, despite her college degree, could not get the job she was qualified for in the hospital that she worked in for more than 15 years.” The historian grew up in multi-racial, working- and middle-class neighborhoods and communities thronged with military families like Ramos’. “My

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 2, 2024

On December 15, the University of Houston’s Andy & Barbara Gessner College of Nursing held its fall 2023 commencement, featuring Lenore Pearlstein, co-publisher of Insight Into Diversity, as the keynote speaker. This article was published in our January/February 2024 issue.

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University Business

AUGUST 25, 2023

Of the four college and university presidents whose run will end this academic year, only one is retiring on satisfying terms. His term will begin in January 2024 and will run through 2028. Naval War College (R.I.). Glover will step down at the end of Spring 2024. – Occidental College (Calif.)

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WCET Frontiers

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This year’s recipient was Shannon Riggs, Associate Vice Provost of Educational Programs and Learning Innovation, Oregon State University. This year’s recipient, Dr. Felicity Cruz Grandjean, Associate Dean of E-learning Quality, Office of E-learning, Dallas College, more than fulfilled the award criteria.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

As an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies (ELPS) and coordinator of the college student personnel program at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, she is working to achieve that goal with her scholarship and her administrative responsibilities.

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University Business

APRIL 9, 2023

The Notre Dame college football team is independent. The landscape of college football is rapidly changing. Then in June 2022, USC and UCLA announced their departures from the Pac-12 conference to the Big Ten conference starting in 2024 ( see our previous blog, “USC, UCLA Big Ten Playbook” here ).

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EAB

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The cost of running a college spiked 5.2% At the same time, 28 states continued to fund higher education at lower levels than before the pandemic, and the average tuition discount rate at private colleges reached an all-time high of 56.2% in spring 2024. from FY21 to FY22, a 10.1% increase since FY19.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Especially post-pandemic, students are arriving at school needing more intense support than ever before, and it is important to us to give them every opportunity to succeed,” said Jay Jacobs, Vice Provost for Enrollment Management at The University of Vermont. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

At the time, Darling-Hammond was an endowed professor at Columbia University, Teachers College. She will lead the organization in 2024-2025. Founded in 1916, it took 79 years before the association elected its first Black president, Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, to the post in 1995-1996. Scott also holds the Robert J.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

APRIL 1, 2024

However, in this episode of the Weekly Wisdom Series , we spoke with President Casey Sacks , who began working at West Virginia’s BridgeValley Community and Technical College after serving two years as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Colleges at the U.S. We got $3 million that none of the other colleges got.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 18, 2022

Our centralized online learning division (Ecampus) spearheaded this initiative with our Associate Provost at the helm. Current students may opt in at any time to complete these modules during their college career. See this page for a current listing of available microcredentials, all offered online. stakeholders. .

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WCET Frontiers

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The recipients for 2023 are: The Chicago School (Licensure Programs and Location), Post University (Licensure Programs), Sinclair Community College (Location), and, The University of Louisville (Compliance Innovations). Founded in 1887, Sinclair is the nation’s oldest continually operating community college.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

million people that have some college and no degree. Note: This interview in the Weekly Wisdom Series originally aired on January 16, 2024 as part of the University Innovation Alliance’s Innovating Together Podcast , appearing live on Facebook , Twitter , and LinkedIn. But the bottom line is this. In Texas, we have 4.2

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

million people that have some college and no degree. Note: This interview in the Weekly Wisdom Series originally aired on January 16, 2024 as part of the University Innovation Alliance’s Innovating Together Podcast , appearing live on Facebook , Twitter , and LinkedIn. But the bottom line is this. In Texas, we have 4.2

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The other universities that failed to achieve 50 percent—Bond, Federation and Notre Dame Australia—are due for re-registration in 2024 or 2025. “Right now … an existing university probably wouldn’t voluntarily become a university college, because it might be seen to lose prestige or standing.

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