University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

for physical science and history majors. For example, several survey respondents observed that academics were not required to connect academia to prospective employment opportunities. The post English majors earn similar salary earnings, life quality than other degree holders, report appeared first on University Business.

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OCTOBER 30, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. This post was kindly contributed by Dr Blessing Marandure, Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Fair Outcomes Champion on the Decolonising DMU Project at De Montfort University. Consequently, staff have low expectations of them.

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University Business

APRIL 19, 2024

Hired Devin Stephenson – Florida Polytechnic University Devin Stephenson has been selected to become Florida Polytechnic University’s next president, the second in the institution’s 12-year history. Lisa Coleman – Adler University (Ill.) Coleman begins on Sept.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

In fact, this rate for English majors puts it below the unemployment rate for computer and information services majors, 2.8%, though still higher compared to a number of other majors – business, engineering, philosophy, physical science, and history. in history. “I in philosophy.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

To ensure music students gain a more inclusive education, universities are beginning to expand their areas of study. As part of its mission, the center will explore the history of Black and African diaspora music, particularly gospel, and its widespread influence on modern music genres.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Canton accepted the position of director of the African American studies program at the University of Florida. Canton accepted the position of director of the African American studies program at the University of Florida (UF). There will be a university meeting in January to review the proposal. “We

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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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Barrington Price, Dominican University’s vice president of student success and engagement, knows this well—because he was a struggling first-generation college student himself. This past fall, we welcomed the largest first-year class in our history—at a time when college enrollment is dropping nationwide. Share here.

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SRHE

MARCH 6, 2023

It is now accepted that the ‘leaky pipeline’ of academia, whereby ‘non-traditional’ ( eg working-class, BAME) participants remain absent from professorial and higher managerial positions within UKHE is adversely affecting the diversity of scholarship and leadership. arguing that the legacy of elitism persists in relation to higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

. — remembers the joyful opening of the LGBTQ+ Resource Office on the main campus of Prairie View A&M University. It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. In 2022, the university finally launched an official LGBTQ alumni affinity group, ARC.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Hill – currently a full professor of creative writing, English, and African American studies at the University of Kentucky (UK) – wrote her first story while pursuing her master’s degree in English in the early 2000s. And then I'm interested in complicating them with the other truths of American history.”

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

in New York University’s joint Ph.D. 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. The institution has a storied history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Significant progress has also been made in academia. Dr. Donald Collins, an assistant professor for the Department of History at Loyola University Maryland, said people have to consider the history of what this report has highlighted. Black high school attainment in the last 60 years has increased from 24.8%

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2023

On the flip side, another president didn’t make it into his first year before resigning, and one president of a major university left following two “embarrassing” mishaps. Langston University The only HBCU in Oklahoma will be looking for a new leader as Kent J. Despite this, Smith Jr. Despite this, Smith Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Among the latest efforts are HB 715 in North Carolina, which would remove tenure for future faculty in the University of North Carolina (UNC) system and at public community colleges, and SB 266 in Florida, which would give the state more control over the content of core classes and limit funding for DEI efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Elmer Guy first came to Crownpoint Institute of Technology in 1999 as dean of instruction, he could not have known that, 24 years later, he would oversee the institution’s renaming to Navajo Technical University (NTU). It became the first tribal college and university, or TCU, to offer a Ph.D. Dr. Elmer Guy “The Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2022

She tells viewers not to be afraid to ask questions about a career that interests them and says she will gladly answer questions about being a university professor. She feels it’s important to share her stories with women — in and out of academia — and build community with other scholars. Smith University.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 19, 2023

Rutgers University. University of Michigan. The University of California. Temple University. University of Illinois at Chicago. Carey is president of ACT-UAW Local 7902, a union representing more than 4,000 part-time and adjuncts, student educators, and healthcare workers at New York University and The New School.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Despite being immensely privileged with respect to other K-12 teachers, whose ranks I left to join academia, and to the growing number of non-tenure-track colleagues at UPR, my teaching and activist commitments leave me very little time for scholarly production.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Kayon Hall wants to change the way academia thinks about undocumented students. Black and undocumented students are socially and politically left out of the conversation,” said Hall, an assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2023

Now, the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health is recognizing and honoring her with the 2023 ASPPH Early Career Teaching Excellence Award for her most recent work as a clinical associate professor at the Georgia State University School of Public Health, a role she has held since August 2017. “I Armstrong-Mensah holds a Ph.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

” After the Ivory Tower Falls is a book we in academia should be engaging with. I hope that readers come away convinced that: A) We must support policies and politicians committed to investing in public colleges and universities, especially community colleges. The answers to all these questions are “yes.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

Her pursuit for knowledge led her to a career in academia where she has devoted her life to centering the experiences of Black women. “All those kinds of things shaped me in becoming a sociologist,” Pittman said in an interview with Diverse.

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PeopleAdmin

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A tenured professor is a faculty member at a college or university who has a full-time teaching position and strong job security that protects academic freedom. An adjunct or contingent professor is a part-time or contingent college or university professor who works on a short-term contract. What is a tenured professor?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“If we want to disrupt systemic oppression, we need a model that prioritizes care, empathy, love, authenticity, healing, hope, collectivity, solidarity, and community,” said Gaston Gayles, president of ASHE and distinguished graduate professor and senior advisor for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion at North Carolina State University.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

John Karl Scholz (Photo: UO Website) With experience as a professor, economist and provost (which he currently still serves at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), his focus at Oregon will be student career readiness and postgraduate success. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. from Arizona State University in Psychology.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Navigating the Crossroads of Tradition and Modern Market Dynamics Colleges and universities have a long history of helping students transform their lives. Thinking of students as “buyers” or “consumers” is a concept that might make academia squirm.

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#Deaning

MARCH 27, 2023

She completed a minor in German Studies during her undergrad and joined the Department of History in 2020 as their Academic Programs Assistant. ◾ Stephen Henighan (SOLAL/ Spanish and Hispanic Studies) recently contributed a chapter to Cambridge University Press’s new five-volume history of Latin American literature.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Image: Patty Limerick, co-founder and longtime faculty director of the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Center of the American West, says her firing last week continues to shock her, especially as she had been planning to step down soon anyway. He referred questions Tuesday to a university spokesperson.

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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. A tragic moment in history propelled the theoretical physicist’s decision to attend MIT for graduate school and to bring about meaningful change as a leader. “I

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. If no one studies history, we don’t get the next Doris Kearns Goodwin; if no one studies English literature, whence the next David McCullough? New tools.

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University Business

AUGUST 11, 2023

However, the motivation behind these presidents’ break from university leadership is markedly cooler than last month’s more dramatic falls from grace. Burwell – American University (D.C.) American University’s Sylvia M. Burnett – University of Mobile (Ala.) Retiring Dr. Lonnie A.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It is the stuff of academia. The growth from elite to mass and to a universal HE system meant the universities were no longer monocultural. As someone once said: we make our own history but not as we wish; or, it is that we don’t make history, we are made by history. Was that Marx or Martin Luther King Jr?

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 25, 2022

If an OER appears on a university or organization website, then it is possible it passed some sort of approval process. Additionally, if an OER appears on an organization’s website, it is important to research the procedures for getting material published on that website along with understanding the history and purpose of the host site.

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ACRLog

MARCH 31, 2024

As a MLIS student at San Jose State University (SJSU), I often read about the importance of promoting library services through outreach efforts. I am particularly proud of my involvement in creating virtual and in-person book displays for Latinx Heritage Month and Black History Month.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

block:block=176] This apocalyptic narrative has a long history in the environmental movement and within academia. Universities can support these initiatives with dedicated staff who can identify community partners, arrange field visits, and sustain the long-term partnerships required for effective community collaborations.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

When asked what surprised her most about publishing after a summer spent working as an intern at one of our presses, a history graduate student replied, “In graduate school, we focus on tearing books apart. University presses have played an historical role in shaping existing disciplines and nurturing new ones.

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