Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2024

Strayhorn, vice provost and interim dean of the School of Arts & Sciences at Virginia Union University. "I prefer to lean into hope rather than despair," said Dr. Shawna Patterson-Stephens, v ice president for inclusive excellence and belonging at Central Michigan University. It might be your time, but not your door," she added.

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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. On this last day of 2023, I am reflecting on my 11 years at WCSU.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

Ohen “We are in a unique time in our country where values around diversity and democracy are being questioned,” Ohen said. “I She understands that inclusion and belonging are about more than numbers. They are about the lived experiences of our students, faculty and staff every day. Ohen holds a B.A.

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HEPI

JUNE 20, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Angeliki Lymberopoulou , Senior Lecturer in Art History and Employability lead for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University , and Richard Marsden, Senior Lecturer in History and formerly Director of Teaching for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Jean, Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences & Professor of Sociology at North Park University, and I are suggesting training in High Impact Cultural Competency (HICC) (Vaughn, 2007) as a potential solution. These include depression, burnout, poor work performance, and work-related stress. My cowriter, Peter St.

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University Business

JANUARY 16, 2024

On the chopping block were undergraduate majors in music, art and multiple foreign languages; master’s programs in acting, landscape architecture and creative writing; and doctoral programs in mathematics, management, higher education and occupational- and environmental health sciences.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Do we need to think differently about how we do, communicate, and incentivise research? Is there also a role for the arts, humanities, and social sciences (AHSS) to play in meeting future skills and workforce needs? There are many global challenges that we face.

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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

MARCH 14, 2023

In a recent episode of the Teaching for Student Success podcast, host Steven Robinow spoke with Louis Deslauriers about a study he and four colleagues at Harvard did to test the value of active learning. Students in the passive group reported enjoying the lecture more and felt that the instructor was more effective at teaching.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Institutions wary of the battle to unwind the work of equity, inclusion, justice, and belonging would do well to invest in leaders whose work epitomizes its core values. As we have become more diverse and reflective of our state, we have also become better as an institution.”

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ACRLog

JUNE 19, 2023

Long is the Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University. He’s an advocate of what he calls ethical candor (“the cultivated disposition to be honest with yourself”) and values-based practice ( “aligning our core values with the practices that shape academic life”).

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Two institutions — Lafayette College, a private liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), a public health sciences university — are setting examples for others as they spearhead projects from Banned Books Week events to more in-depth actions like developing a strategic DEI plan.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 28, 2022

” In other words, that which isn’t science is a trivial and inconsequential waste of time. ” Those words give vivid expression to a deep divide between those who value creative writing and the arts and those who attach the greatest importance to scientific inquiry, I sense that my students tend to fall into one of two camps.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

A Black and openly queer woman, Williams-Goliday serves as a guide of sorts, helping students navigate their identity and the world around them, and how they can continue to be authentic as they go about their studies and approach the workplace, she says. And from 2002 to 2006, she served as academic adviser for Temple University.

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Campus Sonar

APRIL 17, 2024

In Campus Sonar’s latest industry trends report on “ Rebuilding Trust in Higher Ed ,” we explored the gap between trust and value to understand what audiences discuss about a college degree using social intelligence. Make sure you read the other two recommendations we shared. Invest in the campus professionals doing this work.

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EAB

AUGUST 1, 2023

How University of Denver Strengthened its Strategy with an Improved Value Proposition University of Denver's partnership with EAB's Strategic Advisory Services About The University of Denver (DU) is a private research university in Denver, Colorado. The Impact DU launched a new strategy anchored on three core brand themes.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

While the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2017 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts claimed that 28 million Americans (two-thirds women) had read a poem in the last year and CNN proclaims that “Poetry is experiencing a new golden age,” one would have to have a heart of stone not to scoff.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

An alertness to relations and flux can sharpen our perception, but can an assemblage sensibility inform better architecture? Points plucked from the talks Carol Taylor’s keynote made a persuasive case for connecting Deleuzian thinking about assemblages with a broad set of posthuman perspectives. Landscapes are both depicted and made.

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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. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage. Many political science majors do become policymakers—and the degree is a well-trodden stepping stone to law school.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

For over half a century no one had mentioned Toomer’s name, and that she’d welcome the chance to speak about him. To that end, he displayed high school students’ art, held dance parties in the museum’s foyer, and allowed community groups to host receptions at the museum at no charge. I see they still do.”

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

APRIL 24, 2024

As you discover advertising best practices for targeting the parents of young students, remember to be guided by empathy as you center efforts on demonstrating your educational value. Source: HEM Example : When developing inbound strategies for schools, HEM includes unique selling points that remain central to our content creation.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Colleges are under growing pressure to prove their value to students, parents, legislators and others. The scrutiny can be uncomfortable, but more are responding with serious efforts to measure and explain their value. In 2020, we released a paper about a new way of evaluating institutions of higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

These values run contrary to systemic oppression. In order to enact human values, we have to start with ourselves. We first have to understand where we’ve been to think about what humanizing higher education can mean, a path forward in uncertain times,” said Gaston Gayles.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Perhaps the following conversation between Anita Casavantes Bradford and Steven Mintz about how R-1s can support their faculty to find fulfillment in meaningful research and as transformative teachers and mentors can suggest some answers. What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Image: College and universities will need to diversify their faculties at about 3.5 is a collective failure perpetuated by our focus on institution-level changes,” wrote authors J. Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication and information science at Cornell University; Neil A. population in terms of race by 2050.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

I was in total shock when I first learned about it,” said Dr. Linsey C. Marr, for one, is a civil and environmental engineer with a specific focus on air quality, airborne pathogens, atmospheric science, and public health. Such were the emotions of many of the MacArthur Fellows selected this year by the John D. and Catherine T.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? If, for most students, the primary measure of an undergraduate degree is return on investment, shouldn’t our institutions double down on those high demand, high return fields and let the liberal arts shrink to an appropriate size? ” Wait a second.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

What’s the sitch: Georgia Tech established its learning outcomes in 2011: communication; quantitative; computing; humanities, fine arts and ethics; natural sciences, math and technology; and social sciences. The first was an online forum discussion about gen ed outcomes created on Microsoft Teams.

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#Deaning

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

It’s that wonderful time of year when I start getting messages from people whose children are deciding where to go to university and I get to talk about what is so special about studying arts at U of G. We’re a small arts college on a comprehensive university campus. Arts or Science? How about both!

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberal arts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year. While the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s enrollment overall is down from Fall 2022, it has seen an 11.5%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Nobody is going to tell our story and keep it from erasure but us.” Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Our students need to understand fully the historical underpinnings and current ideologies that continue to sustain this imbalance. We are in the next phase of pushing forward.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation I’m totally psyched about the newly announced master of science in artificial intelligence (MSAI) degree from the University of Texas at Austin. When I heard about the MSAI degree, offered in partnership with edX (a 2U company), I knew I needed to learn more. Let me say that slowly.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Meredith College, a private women’s liberal arts institution in Raleigh, N.C., My paycheck, like many in the field of education, is not keeping up with rising costs, so I value any job perks that come my way. is doing something else: offering faculty and staff members a low-cost Italian getaway.

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HEPI

MAY 11, 2023

The UK’s economic growth and its global position as a leader of science and innovation cannot be secured without skills. There are significant gaps in higher skills areas, particularly in higher productivity sectors such as Life Sciences, Digital and Clean Energy. For more details, including how to book a free place, see here.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It started with about 60 and we’ve grown from there. This year we’ve added probably about 50 more players, just freshmen alone.”. I mean English majors, Biology majors, Math majors, Computer Science, we have people from everywhere,” he explains. I think about the first year we started this. And to us, that’s the beauty.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Brexit would undermine the UK’s position as a global leader in science, arts and innovation, the higher education leaders foresaw. The then-president of Universities UK and vice-chancellor of the University of Kent, Julia Goodfellow, noted that, “Inside the EU, our outstanding British universities are even stronger.”

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The types of research-related opportunities available to students will differ based on the type of institution (interested readers may refer to our previous article, “ Writing Your First Grant ,” (Cappon & Kennette, 2022) for tips to secure some funding). One such opportunity is for students to become involved in research.

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