Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The exclusion and omission of Black history threatens to harm not just the Black community at large but also students and the very future of the nation, experts said during a Nov. In the face of curriculum and book bans and the devaluing of Black history, it is imperative to amplify and uphold African American history.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

African American History Month marks a period in which Americans can celebrate together, because it spotlights the possibilities and the promise that the country remains poised to offer, even as we acknowledge the mistakes and shortcomings of the past. The nation owes a debt of gratitude to celebrated historian Dr. Carter G.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

For just about forever prior to that seventh decade of the twentieth century, LGBTQ+ persons (with some notable exceptions) were forced to be ashamed of themselves. That these same labeled people grabbed hold of the word “pride” to name their movement was an act of civil disobedience against both history and language. And defiant. (We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2023

So, when it came time for him to pick an academic pursuit, the study of Latinos and sports history naturally came to mind. I just wanted to understand what [the history was] behind this,” says Burgos. “I Latino, African American, and sports history. He is a professor of history at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

How we view the past is always colored by our present-day vantage point, but long before the recent surge in Black migration from sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, African American history and culture had an international dimension. Comparative, transnational, and diasporic history can take many different forms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

I’m doing a one-man show in New York City, where I talk about the Philippine American War. It’s the war no one likes to talk about. But I want to talk about the war in the context of the final days of Black History Month, and the one historical story I love because it shows Black history is American history is Asian American history.

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Liaison International

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

February 1st marks the beginning of African-American History Month , a chance for us to memorialize the many achievements and contributions that African Americans have had, and continue to have, on our history and culture. Celebrations and Education African-American history is American history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education tells the unique story about what Americans think of higher education. Gittleman cleverly weaves in stories about how, as a child of East European immigrants who did not read or write English, he would come to learn about this phenomenal enterprise.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

On the history of a contested concept. Gordon Illustration by The Chronicle; Newscom image On the history of a contested concept. By Peter E.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Image: In 2020–21, history faculty job postings hit their lowest point since the American Historical Association started tracking openings in 1975, at just 347 positions total. Posted tenure and tenure-track positions declined by about half, to 167, a “historic low.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2023

Black history — and Black Americans — are under attack. Since 2021, legislatures and governors in 19 states have enacted educational gag orders that restrict teaching and learning about allegedly divisive concepts such as race, racism, and American history. The fate of affirmative action in higher education awaits a U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma No longer can academic historians dismiss popular biographies or nonspecialist accounts of the past as low-powered history. But, of course, the purpose of many popular histories differs profoundly from those written by academics. ” None of that is true about the best nonacademic histories today.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Column: Intellectual Affairs Three years ago Peter Burke published The Polymath ( Yale University Press ), an illustrated history of what are usually called Renaissance men or women. But the fascination of reading about polymaths also derives, in large part, from the sheer mental exuberance they display. That seems likely.

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The PIE News

MARCH 16, 2023

Colombian student numbers for Australia are now the highest in history, according to new figures in an update from Austrade. Austrade was also optimistic about Chile’s growth, after the country’s foreign student scholarship scheme, Becas Chile, reopened in 2022.

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Today's Learner

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Reading Time: 2 minutes Shaloun Mims is a student at The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee   and a Cengage student ambassador Throughout my academic journey, the meaning of Black History Month has changed tremendously. Black History Month was the celebration of their stories and how they paved the way for the lives of Black people today.

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UW Presidential Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

From the very first graduate of the University of Washington to policymakers , scientists , entrepreneurs , educators and pathbreakers of all kinds, the UW has been home to countless women who have made – and are making – history.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

On the 13 th June 2020, a letter was published in The Times newspaper signed by more than 50 UK-based academics, educators, campaigners, novelists and historians underscoring the timely ‘ need to teach colonial history’ in Britain’s schools. The letter’s signatories were far from alone in making such an appeal. Under what guidance?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2023

and Jorge Estrada, writing in the Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (2019). Despite the accolades, Gonzalez is realistic about the academic landscape, given the current push for anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in a growing number of states.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Although we’re living in a more progressive society, racial discrimination and inequality can be felt by people of colour in the UK to this very day, emphasising the importance of honouring Black History Month. . So, what is Black History Month and why should you care about it? . The importance of Black History Month.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 21, 2022

It’s about that kid who’s going to see this and think he can be himself too.”. The post HBCU Football Player Makes History as First to Come Out as Gay appeared first on INSIGHT Into Diversity. “They need a support system. There hasn’t been an out gay football athlete at an HBCU. I want to end the stigma of what people think.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

In art history classes, more than one exasperated student has screamed at me, “It’s just a chair. ” All these responses and more have made me consider the question, “Can art be experienced or art history taught without someone becoming angry?” Are we talking about European, African or Chinese aesthetics?

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ACRLog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

I think about community colleges a lot. But I think about how we, as a society, talk about and respond to community colleges— or don’t. We can go ahead and say it: The stigma surrounding community college is rooted in classism and elitism, and we cannot talk about either of those subjects without talking about racism.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The year, we celebrated our 20th birthday and it has arguably been HEPI’s biggest yet, with more website views than any other year in our history. The post What were people reading about higher education in 2023? Below we list our Top 20 blogs published in 2023. appeared first on HEPI.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It conveys many unsettling truths about the academy that you might find hard to stomach. 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. It Isn’t Loving Me Back.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Alex Red Corn Recently at our Indigenous Peoples Day gathering at Kansas State University, Chief Ben Barnes of the Shawnee spoke from the heart about matters related to Shawnee histories and their ongoing presence as a Native nation. Even if they were to attend, we do not offer any courses on Kaw language, government, or history.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JULY 12, 2023

The University of Phoenix (or at least its name) may soon enter the ash heap of US history--and rise again as a state-run robocollege. The Growth of "RoboColleges" and "Robostudents" More Transparency About the Student Debt Portfolio Is Needed: Student Debt By Institution Borrower Defense Claims Surpass 750,000. It's a Long Story.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

By examining history with a criminal law book at hand, Webb found evidence to charge the U.S. The 3E Program aims to teach unfiltered American history by combining ethics, empathy, and empowerment, the three Es. Our history with America is an ugly one, but we can all change it,” said Webb. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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WCET Frontiers

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

WCET Frontiers would like to honor our veterans by sharing about the history of Veterans Day and also share some updates on federal policy issues for institutions to watch that affect the process and delivery of Veterans benefits. Thank you to those who currently serve and have served in the U.S. Armed Services.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The news brought to mind the university's history of scandals. By David Jesse Mike Mulholland, Getty Images Mel Tucker was sidelined after a months-old accusation was reported in the news. Mel Tucker was accused of sexual misconduct by a prominent sexual-assault survivor.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Thomas is an individual with the highest character and has the moral fortitude to always do what’s right.” “He was brought in to do a job, he made some changes—you can’t have progress without some changes,” said Hrabowski, who was one of the longest serving college presidents in recent history. “Is

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

I write as a professor emeritus of English and history, who was trained in the humanities and the social sciences in the 1970s. Graff Professor Emeritus of English and History, Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies Academy Professor, Ohio State University Editorial Tags: English Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Image: An English professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University said his teaching contract has been put on hold after complaints about his instruction on race and racism. ” According to his university biography, Joeckel’s scholarship is about issues of importance to Christian higher education (and others).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2024

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History has announced its Woodson Ambassador Program launch for the 109th Annual Conference, Sept. at Harvard University, founded ASALH in 1915, then known as the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. 25-29, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Carter G.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

Witherspoon is a critical figure in Princeton’s history, often credited with saving the then-College of New Jersey from financial ruin. He is also important in American history, as the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence, which he did at great personal risk. However, Witherspoon owned two slaves.

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Concerns about "abuse" of the Graduate route seem to have lost sight of the original policy intention behind creating it. Harry Anderson sets out the history lesson The post The Graduate route review must pay due regard to why it was introduced in the first place appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2024

Antisemitism Awareness Program Launched at HBCUs Sara Weissman Fri, 03/22/2024 - 03:00 AM Students at South Carolina State University and Voorhees University are learning about antisemitism and the history of Black-Jewish relations as part of a new program. Byline(s) Sara Weissman

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Over the summer, the university offered them contracts that raised minimum stipends from about $18,000 to $22,000. ” Asked about job-placement data, Winecoff said the department matriculates about six Ph.D. The absolute majority of our Ph.D. students choose this path in the hope of becoming faculty members.

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