Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

When Adrianne Washington, dean of special academic programs at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), found that the Honors Program was overlooking the school’s Black men, it didn’t sit right with her. Washington is dean of the nascent Honors College. About 40% of African American males on campus have above a 3.0

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

What would the equivalent indicator look like in higher education, where several commentators are concerned about the potential impact of recent changes to immigration policy in the UK? Healthcare, social care, housing, schooling and many more face their own financial crises and there is little public commentary on higher education.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

For too long, US higher education has lagged in promoting democracy-focused education as core to the purpose and goals of a postsecondary education. As faculty, we constantly see opportunities for democratic education in multiple courses, departments, and disciplines. The tide seems to be turning.

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University Business

MARCH 22, 2023

Professional continuing education looked particularly enticing to colleges and universities in the wake of the pandemic and the staggering enrollment numbers that followed. When asked about general challenges, the administrative burden was cited most at 68%. The problems may also seem to be worsening.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

Race and higher education scholars are voicing criticism, concern, and cynicism after the University of Florida ended many of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, a move that the school cited it took to comply with a state law that was passed last year. I have mixed feelings about it. Dr. Charles H.F.

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ACRLog

MAY 29, 2024

As an example – social media posts that have nothing to do with said situation get comments about it because folks are so upset. Our Dean of Libraries is clear, transparent, and refers to a “life-work” balance instead of the other way around. But they didn’t choose to speak about it on their own.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This blog was written by Professor Sara Spear, Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law at St Mary’s University. It is the tenth in our series on leadership in partnership with the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE). Connection.

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Liaison International

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A recent study found that over 50% of alumni are willing to share how their educational journeys impacted their professional, social, and economic lives. When alumni share their stories, they become powerful advocates for your programs. Alumni Advocacy Your institution’s graduates possess a wealth of experiences and insights.

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Liaison International

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A recent study found that over 50% of alumni are willing to share how their educational journeys impacted their professional, social, and economic lives. When alumni share their stories, they become powerful advocates for your programs. Alumni Advocacy Your institution’s graduates possess a wealth of experiences and insights.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

The governor has even promoted the idea that teaching about anti-Black racism in U.S. Dr. Cheryl Holcomb_McCoy Over the last month, we, like so many justice advocates, have been troubled by attempts to erase Black history from schools and classrooms.

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HEPI

APRIL 23, 2024

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Roger Watson, Academic Dean, School of Nursing, Southwest Medical University, China and outgoing President of the National Conference of University Professors. However, the book is not about ‘how I got there’ or ‘reflections on getting there’.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education. “All of those intersectionalities opened my eyes to a lot of inequity in higher education,” Mora said.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 11, 2024

Republicans on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce seized the opportunity to scrutinize colleges’ DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) practices during a recent two-hour hearing titled “Divisive, Excessive, Ineffective: The Real Impact of DEI on College Campuses,” led by Rep. Burgess Owens (R.,

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

While nurses routinely advocate for their patients, political and legislative advocacy is just as important, according to the American Nurses Association (ANA). To further advance advocacy and equity in health care, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Nursing will launch a new program in 2023 to teach nursing students about policymaking.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

CCA, the nonprofit advocate for equitable student college success, convened higher education leaders this past summer to engage in experimentation, embrace innovation and test the guardrails of AI. One popular way of gauging community members is through surveys.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Over the past decade, some historically Black institutions have developed women’s and gender studies programs and embedded courses within general education curriculum. Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Clark Atlanta University and Spelman College are the only HBCUs that offer a major or degree program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

Joshua Reda There are also students who don’t have stable or consistent homes who want a place to reside while pursuing their education. Presently, about 10% of CMCC’s student population reside in residential housing. About 380 students are in residence. That led to the 2007 opening of Rancourt Hall, which added 152 beds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

The sense of belonging, the sense of understanding self, and the questions about the implications of what that means for their life experience all come into play,” says Goodson, who works with students individually and in team settings. Part of the demands that intensified in 2020 was the call to make athletic departments more diverse.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Making Higher Education Work for All Students A Conversation With Becky Takeda-Tinker, President, Colorado State University Global bridget Thu, 09/14/2023 - 06:00 Higher Ed Leadership Remote Learning Weekly Wisdom Online learning became a critical component for many institutions during COVID.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

We should be thinking about cradle-to-career opportunity, how education from the cradle to career is the great equalizer, and making sure it remains so," Holder said. The practice is about putting things in context and understanding what exactly is possible for that applicant to achieve, said Bastedo, who authored the second brief.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

An Alabama jury awarded Michael Stern $645,837 in damages, finding after a two-week trial that Stern’s former dean illegally punished him for speaking out. The First Amendment and academic freedom are the cornerstones of higher education.” A new dean, Joseph Aistrup, was appointed. I’m going to hear about this.”

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

APRIL 1, 2024

Department of Education. President Sacks talked to us about the view on the ground versus the big picture, her personal leadership journey, some of her proudest accomplishments, strategies for decision making, and the power of both information and knowledge. And what I got told was, ‘How about I give you three?’

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Edu Alliance Journal

JULY 21, 2022

On this podcast episode of Higher Ed Without Borders co-hosted by Edu Alliance Founders Dr. Senthil Nathan and Dean Hoke speak with Dr. Jim Henderson, President of the University of Louisiana System. In an October 2021 newspaper article in the Acadiana Advocate, Dr. Henderson’s wife Tonia discussed her husband and love of learning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 17, 2023

Stewart Kwoh, co-founder and co-executive director of the Asian American Education Project It’s an outcome, the panelists agreed, that calls into question the very nature of America. What we need to be prepared for is another 20 years of litigation about these other topics,” she said. “You can bet money on it.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 23, 2023

This was especially true when I was hired as acting dean of student affairs at Compton nearly 18 years ago. Early on, I remember thinking about how important it was to make connections. I believe students see me wearing Chucks and think, “This guy has got to be from my neighborhood; he’s got to know about me and my life.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Shamard Charles “With the pandemic, we have a heightened sense of the importance of public health not just in our everyday lives but how public health is weaved into everything we do and how we think about the world,” says Dr. Shamard Charles, MD-MPH, assistant professor of public health at St. Dr. Elimelda Ongeri, dean of the John R.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

“I’ve observed the level of bipartisan support for these issues increasing over the last couple of years, which is really promising,” said Rodd Monts, director of state policy for SchoolHouse Connection, a national nonprofit organization that works to help young people overcome homelessness through education.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

I will be a better dean for having attended and participated in the conference, hosted by the Classical Liberalism Initiative of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. What is a dean to do? As a dean I may not be in the loop when a complaint is lodged in another office. I share the frustration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2023 has been a year notable for its ups and downs on the higher education landscape with the elimination of affirmative action and the implosion of President Joe Biden’s student relief program. According to Roberts, mass debt cancellation was under the purview of Congress, not the Secretary of Education.

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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. Image: If officials at the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

“Sometimes it still surprises me when I think about the fact that we’re actually together,” said LaVar Charleston. LaVar Charleston studied public relations, marketing, educational leadership and policy analysis. We’re both nuts about organizational efficiency, excellence, and change. history, gender and race with the law.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Griffin, the dean of the College of Education at the University of Maryland. Griffin, associate professor of higher education and student affairs at the University of Maryland “Our country is diversifying quickly,” she said. Gershenson advocated for additional guest speakers of color. Dr. Kimberly A.

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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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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). This kind of approach to education is challenging for autistic students. This kind of approach to education is challenging for autistic students. Positionality statement.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 2, 2024

Lisa McBride, PhD The event raised awareness of the academic pressure and stress college students face, says Lisa McBride, PhD, associate dean for DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), professor of medical education in the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, and Insight Into Diversity editorial board member. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

The push for more representation and education about Asian identities at Amherst College has been a multi-decade affair. Having said that, we feel really great about the kind of, and diversity of, content we can deliver, not necessarily considering that we’re a small college with fewer faculty — but even almost regardless of that. “We

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University Business

APRIL 5, 2023

While civil discourse and free speech are pillars of the campus experience across colleges and universities, several state higher education systems and organizations want to ensure their students understand what that truly means. We want to talk about where we are as a people. We want to open a dialogue,” said State Rep.

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