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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.

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How Two Colleges Are Responding to the Race-Conscious Admissions Ban

Insight Into Diversity

Brooke Vick, PhD The organization is a consortium of senior diversity officers from 36 private liberal arts institutions across the U.S. In your view, how will this decision affect academia in the long term? who exchange ideas and best practices to implement equitable and inclusive strategies on their campuses.

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Rural-Serving Institutions: Innovative Lessons for Higher Ed Success: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 147 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Andrew Koricich

The Change Leader, Inc.

Also, don’t fully disregard liberal arts education since students still need a well-rounded education. The federal government alone uses dozens of definitions. Every state uses different definitions. So, it’s been a real challenge depending on what definition to use when discussing different institutions.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

This mind-set is driven by the increasing importance of “corporate” leadership models as well as the growing predominance of STEM research culture in academia. Is it accessible to readers outside academia? And I don’t just mean that we need to better support those units on our campuses—although we do.

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A Global Shift in Higher Education Requires a New Business Model: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 180 with Drumm McNaughton and Catherine Friday

The Change Leader, Inc.

And we agreed that there definitely were. we’re getting hit very hard with many of those things, but it, you know, kind of reminds me as well, Einstein’s definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. So there were, common issues around, rising. interest rates are going up.

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The Impact of Crushing Student Debt on American Society: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions: Changing Higher Education Podcast 164 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest David Linton

The Change Leader, Inc.

One solution to rising tuition costs would be that a large consortium of schools, e.g., PAC-12 schools or all Midwest liberal arts schools that happen to compete with one another, should announce they are not going to raise tuition by more than inflation each year for the next ten years. So whenever budgets are cut, tuition does go up.

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The War on DEI

Insight Into Diversity

Nearly two-thirds of students at UNF say that DEI programs have had a positive impact on their college experience and that the initiatives are “definitely not” discriminatory toward students, according to a recent survey by the student government. Students have also shown significant support for diversity initiatives in the state.