Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2024

Similarly, many university administrators, including education deans, disseminated statements illustrating their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Annice Fisher Given the “DEI backlash,” how have schools and colleges of education maintained their long-standing DEI commitments?

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: Twenty-three Lafayette College department heads and program chairs say there are serious issues with governance at the college, according to “points of concern” four of them shared with the president and provost. Administrative discourse often appears devoid of substance, lacks respect for previous efforts, (e.g.,

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Image: The administrative building at Connecticut College is finally quiet, emptied of the students who gathered to protest President Katherine Bergeron. Neither Bergeron nor any college trustee was willing to provide comment to Inside Higher Ed. But that’s only because they’ve gone on spring break.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 28, 2022

“His untimely death is a stark reminder about the importance of our work,” said Jean. “It We recognize our responsibility at MSU and in New Jersey to try to impact these urban centers.” It helps roughly 100 students complete college each year. Jean’s work at MSU helps him connect with some of these populations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Tiffany Steele says she always felt like her work was never quite valued. “If If you focus on minoritized populations, there’s a lack of understanding about why this research is relevant,” she says. She was even told that she focused too much on race in a class about diversity. The experience was isolating.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Image: Gustavus Adolphus College went 161 years without any graduate programs. Like other small private institutions, Gustavus Adolphus, a Lutheran college in southern Minnesota, faces a shrinking pool of traditional-age students, even ahead of the projected decline in college-age students due to kick in later this decade.

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University Business

MAY 10, 2024

. “The presidents adding to their curriculum and innovating are mission-centric and value-based,” he says. ” Feasel’s experience as a higher education administrator is deeply rooted in SUA’s mission to develop global citizens. More from UB: What can private institutions do about the middle-class squeeze?

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University Business

JUNE 27, 2023

At the campus level, colleges risk isolating students. “When you don’t have people who really understand what those communities are going through, it’s hard to address any issues,” says Dr. David Acosta, chief diversity and inclusion officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A video highlight for an event presents information about an event in a short overview that makes it easy for audiences to glean critical takeaways. Continuing our tradition, we’re expanding on last year’s compilation of holiday videos and have curated a fresh list that will put you in the holiday mood.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Image: In his first term as Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis sought to reshape higher education at the state level, pushing changes to accreditation requirements and tenure while requiring widely criticized intellectual diversity surveys and limiting diversity, equity and inclusion instruction in public colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

Dr. David Canton Specifically, UF closed its Office of the Chief Diversity Officer (CDO), removed DEI and administrative roles, and stopped DEI-focused contracts with outside vendors, according to an administrative memo UF leadership published Mar. I have mixed feelings about it. When I hear that, I'm thinking the 1950s.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Image: Faculty members at the College of William & Mary are concerned that the institution is purposely excluding them from conversations about the future. Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

Image: Republicans on the House higher education subcommittee painted a bleak picture of the state of free speech on college campuses during a hearing Wednesday. ” Democrats, meanwhile, focused on the recent rise in state laws and proposed bills that would limit what topics can be taught on college campuses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

My children would ask every 30 minutes of our 12-hour holiday trek from Fishers, Indiana, to my hometown, Fort Worth, Texas. While we no longer make that trek and my youngest finally got it after a while, I still experience similar questions and assumptions about those gas station stops and getting there. Are we there yet?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida and other right-wing conservative legislators would like us to believe that the field of African American studies is “woke’ indoctrination and has no value in K-12 classrooms or college and university curricula. The governor has even promoted the idea that teaching about anti-Black racism in U.S.

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Helix Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Faculty and deans may also be more interested in looking at results for just their students rather than viewing the data for the institution as a whole. We have additional considerations and guidelines for reviewing data slices on our SPS Client Resources site in the newly published SPS Use and Share Guide.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Image: Martine Howard, chair of languages and communications at Camden County College, was frustrated to see students return to campus year after year without graduating—or not return at all. She watched the pattern repeat itself over her nearly three decades teaching at the two-year college in New Jersey. ” she said.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

Our research portfolio has more than tripled in the last decade. So, let me be crystal clear with what I am about to state next. In the goodness of transparency, please know that I hope that every university and college president and administrator, across the country, sees this op-ed as my version of a burning platform memo.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

” As two leaders of honors colleges, we agree. And, indeed, we and many others are doing just that on our college campuses. The issue is not that public honors colleges are failing to reach more students. At both of our institutions, honors students now make up nearly 20 percent of entering first-year classes.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Many colleges and universities have struggled to prepare for generative AI on campus, for instance, by providing guiding policies or pedagogical support. To tame their anxieties about AI, faculty and administrators might embrace Howard Kabat-Zinn’s maxim, “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2022

According to experts in higher ed administrative diversity, the top two posts of minority serving institutions are routinely filled by people from minoritized backgrounds, but it remains vanishingly rare among PWIs. Experts and administrators agreed that a major problem is the lack of diverse candidates in the pipeline.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Many colleges and universities have struggled to prepare for generative AI on campus, for instance, by providing guiding policies or pedagogical support. To tame their anxieties about AI, faculty and administrators might embrace Howard Kabat-Zinn’s maxim, “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 18, 2022

As colleges and universities welcome students back to campus this fall, the news about the future of higher education could not be more dismal. Compared to before the pandemic started, there are now about 1.4 The pandemic accelerated and intensified our questioning of a system that appears to be in disarray.

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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. “This is a group that’s underresourced, facing enormous life challenges and yet highly resilient.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 14, 2023

She spoke about how she went from avoiding to embracing administrative leadership, the pandemic's lessons about collaboration and community, and her view of what it will take to reenergize higher ed. Through our research, we're leaders. Through our research, we're leaders. Faculty is a leadership role.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Image: Sacred Heart University administrators have long encouraged students to understand the institution’s mission and values by attending seminars and events designed to reflect and promote the “Pioneer Journey,” the academic, spiritual and social-emotional learning path that encompasses the student experience at the university.

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UW Presidential Blog

MAY 17, 2023

As a first-generation college graduate, Tricia knows first-hand how transformative higher education can be, and she is passionate about promoting equity and access to higher education, particularly in science, technology, engineering and math-related fields.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

…you get to choose which of these pathways are more important to you and you spend less time worried about, the politics, the meetings before the meetings, and the meetings after the meetings, because there is role, there is scope, and there is authority, and you know what yours is.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

For COVID-19, my colleagues and I worked hard to address the needs of our students. We continuously evolved as we learned about online instruction, gaps in technology access, and the financial and emotional strain on everyone. It has been, well, an interesting time to be in higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For years we have been discussing well-documented concerns about the mental health of college students. In 2019, nearly 90 percent of college counseling center directors reported increases in students seeking services. Administrators have clearly taken note. Personal and community growth is seldom smooth and easy.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2023

Hamline administrators said the decision not to renew her teaching contract this semester was warranted because of the tradition of Muslims avoiding viewing images of Muhammad and the belief held by some adherents that doing so is sacrilegious. Recent events have required us to look deeply into our values.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Enhance the value of the curriculum. But you wouldn’t know about the importance of faculty from the EAB student success playbook. Faculty control the curriculum and are responsible for pedagogy, and administrators have only indirect levers to bring about changes in those areas.

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University Business

JANUARY 1, 2024

News & World Report’s longstanding college rankings was called into question as institutions vie to personalize their brand to match students’ needs. College president tenures continued to shrink , aided by a spate of high-profile resignations in July. Which colleges are the country’s most politically divergent?

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EAB

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Moreover, younger generations are increasingly questioning the value of a traditional college degree. Rather than moving from high school to college, students are finding different avenues to create a career without acquiring large student debt. Visit our Strategic Advisory Services page to learn more.

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University Business

AUGUST 7, 2023

Once a s mall Catholic liberal arts college, St. As undergraduate enrollment at Minnesota colleges and universities has dropped by almost a third over the past decade, Vischer reported St. As the dean of St. What does that mean for our society? What does it mean for the responsibilities that colleges need to take on?”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Daniel Jean often recounts with sadness the story of Robert Daniel Cuadra, an 18-year-old honor student from Paterson, New Jersey, who was planning to embark on a promising college career at Montclair State University in the summer of 2022. Programming to include a nationwide collective of educators, administrators, and thought leaders. “We

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 31, 2023

She also had some interesting things to say about the changing structure of academic library careers. I asked Sarah if she’d be willing to share some of her insights with our Inside Higher Ed community, and she graciously agreed. Q: How might one go about figuring out the story of academic library budgets?

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