Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Image: Campus and faculty leaders in the California Community College system are eagerly anticipating the selection of a new chancellor this week. Meanwhile, the system, like community colleges across the country, experienced significant enrollment declines during the pandemic. “We had a very strong pool,” she said.

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AACC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

September 23, 2022 | Issue # 220 This week, 73 community college representatives were in Washington, DC, for AACC’s Advocates in Action meeting. They also gained insight into how Washington formulates higher education policy. These meeting participants heard from lobbyists, Capitol Hill staff, AACC staff, and more.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

Supreme Court is expected to deliver a devastating verdict to advocates of affirmative action. Now, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce has released a report on the potential impacts of the decision and how higher ed and governments can react. In as little as two days, the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

brought innovation, excellence, and inclusion to community colleges. De los Santos, a posthumous recipient of a 2023 Diverse Champions Award, is remembered by colleagues as a great friend, an outstanding mind, and a determined educator who placed access and equity at the center of his work. Alfredo de los Santos Jr. Richardson Jr.,

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This week’s episode of The Key analyzes the implications of recent news that a nonprofit affiliated with the University of Arkansas system might buy the former giant among for-profit colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

College students have been shown to be likelier to pass courses with race-matched instructors, likelier to receive higher grades in those courses, and likelier to persist in school. Griffin, the dean of the College of Education at the University of Maryland. Gershenson advocated for additional guest speakers of color.

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University Business

OCTOBER 27, 2022

However, there are additional external factors that directly impact both K-12 schools and higher education. “Advocate for educators’ effective teaching practices and expertise in schools to maintain and enhance a positive school climate,” she writes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Supreme Court’s decision to strike affirmative action, there are still ways to get diverse student populations into higher ed, experts and scholars said at a webinar hosted this week by California student success organization The Campaign for College Opportunity. And I don't think that that is the implication of this decision."

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IHEP

APRIL 5, 2023

It’s also when college access and success advocates step up efforts to ensure the programs that improve college affordability and student outcomes get the support they need. President Biden’s FY24 budget proposal included several much-needed increases in higher education funding.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Image: After years of lobbying, the so-called 90-10 loophole that advocates argued encouraged some for-profit institutions to aggressively recruit military service members and veterans is closing under final regulations effective July 1 that were announced Thursday. The for-profit industry doesn’t plan to oppose the new regulations.

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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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HEPI

MARCH 14, 2024

Stand Alone has announced its closure and its higher education work is coming to an end. Will the sector continue to advocate for estranged students and drive policy change? Schools and colleges lack understanding of estrangement and the support available for higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 19, 2023

The criteria, which were expected to be finalized later this month following consultation, clarify the rules for international universities setting up Indian campuses, a shift first announced in the 2020 National Education Policy (NEP). “Academic autonomy has been and is a major concern at the moment,” he said.

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HEPI

AUGUST 1, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for the HEPI 20th Anniversary Collection by Roger Brown, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Policy and former Vice-Chancellor of Southampton Solent University. The 1987 White Paper Higher education: meeting the challenge had suggested two trajectories, one more conservative, one more ambitious.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 30, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Policy More than 80 percent of U.S. colleges and universities do not require applicants to take standardized tests like the SAT or the ACT. That proportion of institutions with test-optional policies has more than doubled since the spring of 2020. That includes the entire University of California system.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As the work of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) in higher education has expanded, several institutions have recognized the need to create a clearer and more comprehensive pathway for individuals interested in serving as DEI advocates and leaders.

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The Student Affairs Collective

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

With challenges to undocumented and trans individuals rights, increasing college costs , and tensions around sexual assault response on campus , figuring out why public policy is important doesn’t take long. Student affairs professionals are among higher education’s best advocates for change.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. We offer faculty workshops on culturally sensitive teaching.”

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

She recalled: “Coming out of World War II and the internment camp, my father’s family had no money, so he put himself through college, working three jobs. He would drop off his homework, stay for tests, and then drive off to his next job so that he could pay for college and graduate as an electrical engineer. She holds a B.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2024

Department of Education works to fix the broken system, it’s time for community college leaders to remind Americans that these important institutions exist. All is not lost if only we embrace the expansive and flexible opportunities offered by our community colleges. That idea hurts everyone, especially in times like these.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: The Education Department is planning to use undercover agents—known as “secret shoppers”—to monitor colleges and universities that receive federal financial aid for potentially deceptive practices. The department’s decision to use secret shoppers is “four decades overdue,” he said.

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University Business

JULY 6, 2023

Across the country, new education policies took effect on July 1st, the beginning of the new fiscal year in most states. A handful of them tackle some of the most pressing issues K12 and higher education leaders face today, including school safety and inclusion. The post New education laws took effect this month.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Biden administration officials, institutional leaders, researchers, advocates, and students gathered in Washington D.C. Wednesday for the National Summit on Equal Opportunity in Higher Education to plot next steps after the Supreme Court’s decision against race-conscious admissions. the secretary asked. “It

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HEPI

MARCH 7, 2023

I jumped at the chance to speak to London Higher in part because I am an alumnus of our host institution, having studied here at the end of the last century when Queen Mary University of London / QMUL was known as QMWC or Queen Mary and Westfield College. I am also lucky to be an Honorary Fellow of this institution.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

Department of Education hoped the “listening sessions” they arranged this week would provide consensus on whether to stop letting colleges pay outside companies a share of tuition revenue when they help recruit students, they were surely disappointed. ” Colleges have given OPMs too much authority over their programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Neither the state Department of Education nor the chancellor’s office responded to multiple requests for comment or for a meeting agenda, attendee list and other details. Inside Higher Ed contacted more than 20 colleges and universities seeking details about last week’s meeting.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

Image: Nearly a decade after the Obama administration broached the idea of rating colleges and universities, the Biden administration is ready to take another crack at the historically fraught concept. The Obama administration didn’t end up rating institutions after opposition from higher education groups and others.)

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Liberty Jacket is one of at least a dozen conservative or right-leaning student newspapers that have launched on college campuses since the beginning of 2020. colleges that trains young people to become conservative leaders. ” Alex DiBranco, a Yale Ph.D.

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The PIE News

JULY 26, 2023

All US visa policies, processing, and communications should signal to international students and scholars that they are welcome here. Congress should modernise immigration law by expanding dual intent to include international students applying for F-1 visas attending US colleges and universities.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 5, 2023

In response to relentless anti-DEI measures, over 200 former college, university, and system heads have joined forces as the Champions of Higher Education coalition, an initiative created by PEN America , an organization that unites writers and their allies to celebrate free expression and defend the liberties that make it possible.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Delisle, a senior policy fellow at the Urban Institute’s Center on Education Data and Policy. ” But once borrowers get wise, Delisle thinks more college students will take out student loans because the terms are more advantageous. “I think it will take a while for people to realize this change.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

A recent episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed ’s news and analysis podcast, used the possible Arkansas-Phoenix marriage as a moment to take stock of the state of for-profit higher education. At the same time, there’s a continued hyperfocus by some policy makers and advocates on the profit question.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Rebecca is assistant professor of educational leadership and policy at Hofstra University. I asked Rebecca to join me in conversation so we could hear more from her about her work in the area of higher ed policy. Q: Rebecca, thanks so much for joining me at the “Higher Ed Policy” blog at Inside Higher Ed.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

This has significant consequences for higher education policy. Understanding these consequences can help college leaders prepare for the next two years. The administration was unable to make community college tuition-free nationwide, a key policy of Biden’s presidential campaign.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Collins would likely work well with colleges. Fansmith said education policy has typically been an area for collaborative, bipartisan cooperation. They’re pretty passionate advocates. Senator Susan Collins of Maine is expected to take over for Shelby. “They are both strong senators,” Fansmith said.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Image: Representative Virginia Foxx is planning to leverage the decline in public perception of higher education to usher in a new era of stronger accountability for the nation’s colleges and universities in her role as chairwoman of the House education committee. Foxx wants for-profits included.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 7, 2023

Drumm McNaughton A lot has been happening up on The Hill that affects higher education. A lot has been happening up on The Hill that affects higher education. A lot has been happening up on The Hill that affects higher education. Right there, that takes care of the enrollment issues in higher ed.

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