Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. The assistant principal for boys suggested she apply to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her father knew of MIT and encouraged her to apply.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Explaining or discussing faith can ignite heated, passionate and explosive debates in academia. institution, was founded in 1636 to train Congregational clergy. Over time, the degree to which institutions align themselves with a particular faith waxes and wanes. Blog: Just Explain It to Me! In the U.S.,

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Image: Fostering student success takes institutional leadership and collaboration. Price spoke with Inside Higher Ed about his philosophy for student success, current initiatives at his Illinois-based institution and the lasting efforts of development work. Q: What makes Dominican unique as an institution and as a student body?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

Image: Latinx students can have a tough time navigating the numerous structural and institutional challenges that work against them in academia, especially when it comes to attending and succeeding in graduate school. It is an institution that is shaped in every way by capitalism. Graduate school is expensive.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The main reasons Tavárez cites for discounting humanities tuition are lower market value of the humanities, fewer job prospects for humanists, and lower research expenditure for humanities scholarship. First, the job market outside of academia is not shrinking for humanists.

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SRHE

MAY 2, 2023

Open access John Sherer (North Carolina) blogged for The Scholarly Kitchen on 23 March 2023 about a recent initiative to publish open access monographs in history, reporting technical problems, author resistance but also much greater take-up/use, with about three times as many reported individual engagements as even a successful paywalled monograph.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Reading Time: 9 minutes Black History includes success stories of numerous Blacks who have contributed to the progress made in higher education. Several Black academicians can be noted as a respected authority in their discipline advancing the field through research and scholarship. at an American university.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 20, 2022

After the first issue of SRHE News in February 2010, No 2 (The World to Come), came out just before the May 2010 election with HE facing major financial cuts, but we were still upbeat: … in difficult times let us think not only of what the community can do for our institution, and what our institution can do for our students.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Reading Time: 9 minutes Black History includes success stories of numerous Blacks who have contributed to the progress made in higher education. Several Black academicians can be noted as a respected authority in their discipline advancing the field through research and scholarship. at an American university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

2006) referred to this as the ‘revolving door’ problem, finding that one in every two minority hires was a replacement for a previous minority who had left the institution. Narrow, self-serving yardsticks for assessing impact of scholarship, teaching, and service. Moreno at al. Traditional standards (e.g.,

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The college centers the histories, traditions, cultures, experiences, struggles, and accomplishments of diasporic communities of color, making connections between the local and transnational. Building Pathways to Academia — Columbia University in the City of New York. to offer scholarships to DACA students.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It’s a development historians say follows movement—particularly within the field of public history—toward broader recognition. “The weight and significance of each of these vary considerably by institution. Smoak said their work as public historians “simply did not count for promotion and tenure.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Kathleen Belew says she studies “the history of the present.” Put another way, she studies the history that shapes issues of the modern day. Belew is in her first year as an associate professor in the department of history at Northwestern University. But the other threat is a broader attack on our political institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

At a time in academia when STEM is increasingly evolving into STEAM, colleges and universities with intensely driven, career-focused students are endeavoring to create space for arts education. Akbar, professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Fort Valley State University, an HBCU institution in Georgia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The standards require history instructors to teach that enslaved people benefited from their condition because they learned valuable skills and that Black people also committed violence during race massacres. We’ve seen subject-matter revisionist history that’s untruthful,” says Alexander. Ron DeSantis.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

As we share a bit of our publication’s history in this special anniversary section, we also trace the trajectory of DEI in higher education over the past five decades — a period of profound transformation. As a result, women gained increased access to fields of study traditionally dominated by men.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Enrollment remained down at every level from community colleges to graduate schools, but much of academia showed its persistence and resilience. In January 2022, an additional $198 million in ARP funds went to support primarily community colleges and other high-need institutions so they could address students’ basic needs.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

” This report marks a critical juncture in the AAUP’s history, being one of only eight special reports issued, and underscores a growing concern over political interference in the realm of academic governance. These changes speak to the human cost of political interference, affecting the very heart of educational institutions.

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