Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2024

A special kind of energy comes with doing something no one else has, and it’s buzzing around California State University, Sacramento (Sacramento State), this spring as early applications are being reviewed for the inaugural cohort of 70 students who will enroll in the trailblazing Black Honors College (BHC).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

At Georgian Court University (GCU), women leaders are the norm. The private Roman Catholic university boasts a leadership of majority women, with women leading all four of the school's academic schools as deans. Increasingly, other colleges and universities are also following in this tradition.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 3, 2023

Image: December was a whirlwind month for members of the North Idaho College Board of Trustees. They held four meetings, admitted three violations of open meetings laws, faced two lawsuits and named a new interim president after abruptly placing President Nick Swayne on administrative leave. What’s at Stake.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Image: Like many institutions aiming to better serve student mental health needs, Wright State University in Ohio is redesigning its counseling center. Rando had worked at Wright State for 24 years; in 2017 he received a lifetime achievement award from the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD).

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University Business

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In a swift decision, the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning ended its search for the 11th president of the University of Southern Mississippi by selecting Dr. Joe Paul, who is currently serving as interim president, to fill the role. Paul is well-known to the campus community and truly needs no introduction.

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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.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Blogs How Change Leadership Propelled University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Journey to Equity Change leadership acts as a vital bridge between intent and action. They integrated equity-minded practices into routine processes, policies, and decision-making, ensuring that the transformation was ingrained in the fabric of the university.

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ACPA

JANUARY 17, 2024

Pruitt -Logan’s career of contribution to higher education began at Howard University in 1950 as Resident Intern and Women’s Counselor. She later held the positions of Dean of Women and Dean of Students at Albany State College in Georgia and in a similar position at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In March 2021, the chair of the Board of Trustees of Becker College announced that the institution would close its doors due to financial difficulties accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a blow to the students, faculty and staff of this private college in Worcester, Mass.,

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 3, 2023

That report, Supporting Instruction and Learning Through Artificial Intelligence: A Survey of Institutional Practices and Policies , found that only four percent of respondents reported that their institution had an overall institutional strategy for approaching AI, and only seven percent had strategies at the department or college level.

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FIRE

OCTOBER 18, 2022

These transgressions, and more, earned Yale FIRE’s 2022 Lifetime Censorship Award and surely contributed to its almost-dead-last showing in our College Free Speech Rankings. FIRE remains hopeful the broader university’s dark, censorious days may soon be history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU) in Los Angeles, opened in early July with 60 students. CDU joins Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, the Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C., Supreme Court decided in July to strike down race-based college and university admissions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

For a college or university to be designated a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), at least 25% of full-time equivalent students enrolled must be Hispanic. These two-year and four-year institutions must also enroll a significant number of students who require needs-based financial aid.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 5, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Sue Lorenson , vice dean for undergraduate education at Georgetown’s College of Arts and Sciences, is a close colleague and good friend of Eddie’s. This is what happens, I suppose, when you never leave college. I babysat for the dean of students. Q: Your Ph.D. I was an RA.

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Helix Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

He received his bachelor’s in business from Illinois State University in 1956 and his master’s in educational administration in 1963, before receiving his PhD in educational psychology from Northwestern University. Lee was a consummate professional and always brought joy and positivity to any room he entered.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Image: After suspending its men’s basketball program last week and firing the team’s head coach amid allegations of repeated sexual hazing of a player by teammates, New Mexico State University’s top administrator said an internal investigation has started and an outside review will be launched.

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The Student Affairs Collective

MAY 28, 2020

On March 15 th , I came across a post on the Facebook from one of the Assistant Vice Chancellors of Student Affairs at my university, UC Santa Barbara. Her posts are usually so upbeat, but she had re-posted a quote that said “Want to know what it’s like being a student affairs professional during this coronavirus pandemic?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Pete Zuraw of Gordian, publisher of the annual State of Facilities in Higher Education Report , recalls one facilities leader at a Midwestern university announcing he was finally at the head of the table—but he quipped, “I’m the only one at the table because everyone else has gone home.” block:block=176].

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 2, 2024

In response to increased enrollment of first-generation students , colleges are actively creating programs and forging partnerships designed to build community while providing support through mentorship, resources, and special events. We are thrilled to be starting this initiative in support of our first-gen students,” says Reesor. “I

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Image: The University of California, Los Angeles, has launched a new center dedicated to studying and treating depression among students at California community colleges. The projects are being funded by a five-year, $12 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. Depression is “very impactful.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

27 September · Episode 174 SCOTUS, Affirmative Action, and the Future of University Diversity 45 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Explore the implications of SCOTUS decisions on Affirmative Action and their impact on the future of university diversity in this insightful podcast discussion. Recent studies show that only 22.6%

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: The reaction was swift when an anonymous student wrote “Black people suck” on a library whiteboard at American University in February. ” An official of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression wrote a letter to university president Sylvia M.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Image: College students who use injectable medications while on campus often face a difficult conundrum: Do they toss their used needles in campus trash cans, posing a health risk to custodial staff, or carry them around campus until they can safely dispose of them, running the risk of accidently poking themselves or others in the process?

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University Business

DECEMBER 12, 2023

His interest in divorcing higher education from what he perceives as a far-left agenda antithetical to American democracy has invited judges, faculty and administration, and similarly skeptical conservatives across state lines to deliberate on the current state of higher education. “He is taking names. “He is taking names.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Judge James Ho, a Trump administration appointee to the U.S. He argued that Yale Law students haven’t faced consequences for shutting down a speaker last year, meaning “Yale not only tolerates the cancellation of views—it practices it. Department of Health and Human Services planned to give out free crack pipes. (Ho

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FIRE

OCTOBER 19, 2022

history, having “been sued a whopping 134 times in federal court since his inauguration, which is nearly three times the number of lawsuits our three previous presidents have faced in the early months of their administration combined. Timothy Zick, “ The First Amendment in the Trump Era ” (Oxford University Press, 2019).

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Image: Jared Goldberg estimates he stood beside the Bell Tower—a central landmark of Temple University’s campus—for more than 50 hours this semester as part of his campaign to get Temple to make Election Day a campus holiday. Colleges such as American University and George Washington University, both in Washington, D.C.,

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