Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In order to enact human values, we have to start with ourselves. The conference theme this year is humanizing higher education, and hundreds of scholars from across the country gathered here to share their research, resources, and make connections. These values run contrary to systemic oppression.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Morgan State University has received $596,383 for a human behavior study regarding responses to environmental indications of fire, with the findings expected to help in improving fire safety systems and building design. College of Liberal Arts at Morgan State is the principal investigator, and Dr. James A. Gilliam, Jr.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That the humanities are in crisis will surprise exactly no one. Since the Great Recession of 2008, but especially after 2012, the share of majors in the humanities has continued to decrease precipitously among American college-goers. What’s behind this decline? No complex problem has a monocausal explanation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Safa Zaki will become president of Bowdoin College, effective Jul. McCoy Professor of Psychology at Williams College. A psychologist and cognitive scientist, her research centers on the human mind and how people divide the world into categories. “In She will be the first woman to lead the school. McCoy and John T.

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University Business

APRIL 29, 2024

Despite declining higher education enrollment rates beginning in 2010, undergraduate degrees in engineering and computer science are continuing to see substantial growth most likely due to the high lifetime wage earnings they promise, according to a new study published by Sage Journals. ” Researchers analyzed survey data from 5.8

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University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

government resources and contributions from independent research centers, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Humanities Alliance and the Hamilton Project. Students with a special interest in humanities were found to experience a seven-grand bump, totaling $83,000.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Paul Sniegowski has been named the 21st president of Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion. Earlham has an important and longstanding place within the distinctive liberal arts tradition in the United States. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Anne McCall will become the 13th president of the College of Wooster, effective July 2023, which will make her the second woman in the role. Dr. Anne McCall "I'm honored and thrilled to be chosen as the next president of the College of Wooster," McCall said. in French literature from the University of Strasbourg in France. .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. Dr. DB Poli This will make Roanoke College the first college in Virginia to offer a four-year degree in the field of cannabis studies, according to the school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

College students who graduate as English majors actually find jobs at about the same rate as those who major in other subjects, according to a recent report commissioned by the Modern Language Association (MLA). According to the report, the unemployment rate for English majors, 2.3%, was not far off from that of all college graduates, 2.17%.

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University Business

MARCH 28, 2024

There’s new momentum building on college and university campuses to rescue and reinvigorate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, vital initiatives that have been the target of a coordinated national assault for over a year. The best way is to keep it simple and keep it focused. Remember the why. Consider and focus on who DEI helps.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Alejandro “Alex” Hernandez has officially been inaugurated as the 10th president of Champlain College. Alejandro Hernandez “Education creates opportunity, and I’ve dedicated my life to the idea that we can build institutions that get students READY, not by luck or privilege, but by design,” Hernandez said.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The incident was one of an increasing number of cyberattacks against colleges since 2020. Though college information technology offices have long worked behind the scenes to bolster institutional defenses, their countermeasure efforts, such as installing network threat detection and risk-mitigation systems, are often invisible.

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University Business

JUNE 1, 2023

Nazareth is the latest in a string of former colleges in New York to transition to university status since the state Board of Regents changed its definition of the types of higher education institutions that can claim the designation. The post Nazareth College becomes Nazareth University appeared first on University Business.

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University Business

JUNE 1, 2023

Nazareth is the latest in a string of former colleges in New York to transition to university status since the state Board of Regents changed its definition of the types of higher education institutions that can claim the designation. The post Nazareth College becomes Nazareth University appeared first on University Business.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

If Blackwood’s course sounds like a divergence from the humdrum small-group discussions that college English courses bring to mind, well, you probably haven’t taken a college English class recently. ” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

In a new Student Voice pulse survey out today from Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse, nearly three in four students say that deadlines should be flexible when there are extenuating circumstances. By field, arts and humanities students are likeliest to say they rely on deadlines (57 percent).

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University Business

APRIL 4, 2023

Lindsey Ash says she likely would have sought a liberal arts degree in speech therapy — until a high school class steered her toward science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The post College students follow the money into STEM education, killing off struggling liberal arts programs appeared first on University Business.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The opening of the Center of Excellence for Social Justice marks a pivotal step in our ongoing commitment to cultivating a fair and inclusive society,” said Dr. Frances Ward-Johnson, dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (N.C.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As institutions across the country continue to contend with fluctuating post-pandemic enrollment and retention numbers, colleges like West Texas A&M University (WTAMU) are getting creative. GPA; and no previous award of an associate degree at another institution. We want our students to complete a bachelor’s degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Sabrina Ali Jamal-Eddine Institution: University of Illinois Chicago, College of Nursing Graduate Program: Ph.D. These are experiences that are unfortunately shared by disabled clinical healthcare students across the nation, including disabled nursing students, medical students and applied health sciences students.”

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

It is this technology-enabled ease and efficiency that I thought could benefit my teacher candidates (TCs) in my fine arts for elementary education course during their busy end-of-semester season. in response to user prompts, there is no ignoring the flurry of both concerns and hopes for its use in a variety of professional fields.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

In STEM areas, health sciences professions and business disciplines, demand for new Ph.D.s But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2024

He will teach and give guest lectures at the law school, the Honors College, and the College of Arts and Sciences. The rule of law is the cornerstone of human freedom and progress,” Beasley said. Rice School of Law. Between 2017 and 2023, he served as executive director of the U.N.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2023

Sabrina Jamal-Eddine During her Bachelor of Science in Nursing studies, Sabrina Jamal-Eddine informed a clinical instructor about her back disability and lifting limitation as well as explaining that she could do everything but except lift a patient.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., The college says it froze undergraduate majors with “very low student enrollment.” laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands.

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Liaison International

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

NAGAP is thrilled to partner with Liaison on promoting GradCAS as a turnkey solution for graduate degrees in the arts and humanities, as well as the social and natural sciences,” said Keith Ramsdell , chair of external relations and partnerships and past president of NAGAP. WATERTOWN, Mass.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The National Black Food & Justice Alliance (NBFJA) and Florida A&M University (FAMU) are launching a center to address the lack of and support Black farmers. The dwindling number of Black farmers has long been a major cause of concern. Celebrations of the center’s launch will begin this weekend. .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Barabino, president of the Olin College of Engineering. 10 online panel – hosted by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) – invited a number of scholars in higher ed to weigh in on the potential and challenges that AI tools may bring to the field. ChatGPT launched in November of 2022,” Watson said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While overall enrollments are still down (with about 100,000 students missing from community college since the start of the pandemic), the data show that student mobility has increased, particularly transfers into very competitive or highly selective institutions. These increases are a good sign.”

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University Business

MARCH 22, 2023

Academic disciplines were grouped into five categories: Arts and Humanities, Engineering and Technology, Life Sciences and Medicine, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences and Management. female college presidents shine in international report The post MIT and Harvard lift U.S. University of Oxford (U.K.)

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Spend a Grinch-Free Holiday with Greensboro’s School of Health and Human Sciences UNC Greensboro is a regular on our HEM holiday video highlights list, and this video puts the spotlight on its School of Health and Human Sciences. But, what is a video highlight? And, what is a highlight video for an event?

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Terry O’Banion Community college students who are from lower socio-economic backgrounds, are first generation, and who have not been successful in high school are starving to death trying to find educational sustenance at the cafeteria curriculum.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In partnerships announced this week, Imperial College London has linked up with online coding bootcamp provider HyperionDev. Across town King’s College London has revealed a new UX Design Career Accelerator program with FourthRev, building on a previous partnership.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The online Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies program pairs core courses in culture, humanities, natural sciences, philosophy, social sciences, and writing with five concentration options: Business and Entrepreneurship, Humanities, Professional Media and Communication, International Relations, and Individualized Study.

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