Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Gag orders on college campuses are all the rage right now, as Republican legislators seek to ban the discussion of critical race theory and other “divisive concepts” that offend conservative sensibilities. These kinds of gag orders may be common in corporate America, but they should raise red flags for anyone in academia.

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MindMax

MARCH 18, 2024

I remember in 2012, when Rick Santorum called President Obama a “snob” for wanting “everybody to go to college.” Rethinking the Value of a 4-Year Degree The value of a college education, and specifically a 4-year bachelor’s degree, is somewhat in the eye of the beholder. It wasn’t long ago that I felt differently. Absolutely not.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Bolstered by state and national workforce needs and their promising return on investment, the STEM track represents a gold mine for colleges and universities that want to ensure credentials from their institution are providing students with good job prospects and gainful employment. What can we do?

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Legislation proposed by Republicans on so-called “foreign interference” in US colleges, especially from China, could have a “chilling effect” on the two countries’ global engagement, stakeholders said. “ The national security implications should alarm all Americans.”

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Gray Associates

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Discover the latest college programs announced in January 2024, unveiling fresh opportunities across diverse fields. From in-demand nursing programs to emerging areas like Cannabis Science and Social Justice, uncover the trends and innovative additions shaping the future of academia and career prospects.

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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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University Business

MAY 14, 2024

Deliberately integrating the humanities into Georgia Tech University’s armada of world-class STEM-based programs is the future of pedagogy at the R1 Atlanta university—and perhaps for all of higher education, says Richard Utz, interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, in this installment of the “University Business Podcast.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2023

I am aging faster in academia. Over the past few weeks, we suddenly and unexpectedly lost two Black female college presidents. Montague, President of Volunteer State Community College in Tennessee, and JoAnne E. The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities reports that 72% of college presidents in the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The College of Saint Rose in New York will close permanently due to financial challenges, ending its 103-year span in higher ed. The College of Saint Rose The school’s Board of Trustees voted Thursday to close at the end of the academic year, after May 11 graduation.

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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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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 7, 2023

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas appointed the members, representing a diverse range of individuals and organizations in academia. The HSAPC focuses on various missions, with a primary emphasis on enhancing safety and security on high school and college campuses.

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University Business

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As might be expected, the Ivy League Pluses were responsible for producing the majority of leaders across sectors such as law, media and academia. However, colleges and universities offering premium programs in specific trades like engineering and agriculture helped diversify the list.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

Malaklou, also chair and associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Berea College in Kentucky, got to know hooks when she came to Berea in 2019. But institutions can’t love us back.” Shadee Malaklou, director and founder of the bell hooks center.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2024

Through the November 2023 HBCU/MSI Research Summit — a joint effort between Virginia Tech’s Graduate School and the Pamplin College of Business — the university welcomed 25 visiting faculty and staff from participating institutions. Photos by A’me Dalton, courtesy of the Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The differences begin with the types of institutions they attend for their undergraduate educations and continue with the institutions at which they do their doctoral studies. Black students were more likely to graduate from institutions at which the highest degree offered was a master’s degree.

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University Business

MAY 23, 2023

Women became the majority demographic to attend college decades ago , and today, they make up almost 60% of U.S. college undergraduates. But the rate at which women predominate higher ed may be partly due to the declining rate of men attending college and succeeding. Enrollment numbers don’t tell the whole picture.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) has announced Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole as president-in-residence, who will serve as co-chairperson of the organization’s capital campaign. I continue to say what I have said and believed for many years: If UNCF member institutions did not exist, we would have to invent them.

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Continuous Learning Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

LISTEN TO THE EPISODE Learn how to support neurodivergent college students. In addition to her work with faculty to boost awareness of disability, especially hidden disability, in academia, she is working with a group of disabled-in-higher-ed peers on an edited collection of narrative essays about the intersection of disability and education.

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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. Now we’re seeing institutions reel that in,” she says. “I

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University Business

APRIL 4, 2023

The fallout of the pandemic and recent economic shakeups has recently reminded graduating high schoolers that the pathway to a high-wage job doesn’t necessarily require a college degree. College enrollment rates have been on a precipitous decline, dropping more than 7% in the past five years.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Mason serves as associate provost for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Kenyon College in Ohio. Vick is chief diversity officer at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania. In your view, how will this decision affect academia in the long term? In your view, how will this decision affect academia in the long term?

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HEPI

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Investment in careers services to help school and college leavers, as well as first- and second-year undergraduates (the groups least likely to have approached their universities’ careers service according to the NUS poll used to inform How can you help me? Email Address.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

“He has established rich partnerships with area churches and nonprofits, and across campus with the College, the School of Business, the School of Law, the School of Professional Studies, and the School of Medicine. Institute of Peace U.S. in American studies from The College of William & Mary.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

Nemat “Minouche” Shafik, an economist whose career has focused on public policy and academia, has been named as the next president of Columbia University in New York City. Dr. Nemat “Minouche” Shafik Shafik who is currently the president of the London School of Economics, will become the first woman to lead the Ivy League institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Sol Gittleman has penned a must-read book for anyone with a vested interest in the past, present, and future of American academia. Along the way, he touches on the Black land grant institutions authorized in 1890 by the Second Morrill Act. I couldn’t wait to go to college.” To be clear, Gittleman does not paint a rosy picture.

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Liaison International

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Oftentimes, we consider alumni for one thing—helping our institutions with development. Alumni possess a dynamic blend of experiences, insights, and connections that can serve as a catalyst for transformative change within colleges and universities. Different institutions have found innovative ways to engage their alumni effectively.

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HEPI

JANUARY 4, 2024

Professor Guo spent 34 years at Imperial College London studying AI, data mining, machine learning, and large-scale data management before becoming Provost of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2022. In academia we still place a great deal of emphasis in scholarship on the capacity to recall and recite.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

President Laurie Patton likes this framework, but in her eighth year leading Middlebury College and observing the changing world around her, she believes a new pillar has sprouted. “It takes courage to be an institution of education, and it takes courage to develop it in other people,” she says. .

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University Business

MAY 14, 2024

Although academia has plenty of valid causes for concern, I also believe the next generation of university leaders has many reasons for optimism. Among postsecondary institutions nationwide, the retention rate was 76.5% Even if you don’t plan to spend 50 years at your current institution, operate as though you do.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Image: When Julianna Barnes set her sights on a career in academia, she envisioned eventually becoming a vice president of an institution and assumed it would be her pinnacle role in the profession. years on average, according to the Community College League of California’s CEO tenure and retention dashboard.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 6, 2024

The College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) released a new report showing that despite recent increases in the number of tenure-track women and faculty of color, barriers to advancement in academia persist for those with one or more marginalized identity.

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Liaison International

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Oftentimes, we consider alumni for one thing—helping our institutions with development. Alumni possess a dynamic blend of experiences, insights, and connections that can serve as a catalyst for transformative change within colleges and universities. Different institutions have found innovative ways to engage their alumni effectively.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 28, 2024

As music education continues to embrace DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) principles, those at every level in the field are pushing for greater representation and exposure of music beyond the boundaries of the classical, Caucasian-centered curricula typical of academia. Washington University (WashU) in St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 25, 2023

As an ethnographer and scholar on the African American religious experience; Frederick’s work in academia focuses on the study of religion and media, religion, and social activism in the U.S. South, and the sustainability of Black institutions in a “post-racial” world. Garber, provost at Harvard.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

However, as Black women in academia, many of us, otherwise strangers to her, felt it too. Epps herself remarked that it was an honor and privilege to serve as acting president of the institution that “I love so much, that has been such an important part of my life, and always will be.” Dr. Crystal A. We should ask, “to what end?”

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University Business

APRIL 27, 2023

While the impetus of these bans stems from a desire to protect the data and digital infrastructure of the institution (as well as broader national security concerns), compromised data could certainly have an individual-level impact. The post TikTok Bans: What does it really mean for your institution?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Image: A new automotive technology program at Coconino Community College, launched last fall, is on pause as campus leaders struggle to hire a full-time faculty member to keep it afloat. Nate Southerland, provost of Coconino Community College, said the college started the automotive technology program in response to local workforce needs.

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