Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As researchers, practitioners, and healthcare workers reflect on the events of the last two and a half years, programs related to public health have become a priority at many colleges and universities. In response, colleges and universities are seeing increased interest in courses and programs that address issues of public health.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

Over the past several years, colleges and universities are establishing coalitions and democratic action plans (ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, 2022) to address not just voting, but a healthier learning environment for engagement. Some may assume that these topics belong in political science courses only, but that is not accurate.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Most college leaders retiring in style will be recognized for their expansion, renovation and construction of campus facilities. She also served on the Board of Trustees for BYU, BYU-Idaho, BYU-Hawaii and Ensign College in that role. Frank Sánchez – Manhattanville College (N.Y.)

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University Business

JULY 5, 2023

The six judges in favor of eliminating affirmative action argued that considering race in college admissions is unconstitutional because it violates the equal protection clause of the 14 th Amendment. Its decisions to rule against affirmative action have struck a nerve with higher education leaders.

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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. is clearly growing. percent between 2011 and 2021.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Image: Howard Community College in Maryland opened its first family-friendly study space on campus earlier this month. How it happened: Howard president Daria Willis got the idea for the space when she toured the library last year upon beginning her tenure at the college. Nationally, about one in five college students is a parent.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

For a deeper look into the reasons why college enrollments are declining, see our earlier post, College Enrollment: Cliffs, Shifts, and Lifts. A surprising selection of colleges and universities are thriving despite the culling of institutions and programs happening around them. According to the Tampa Bay Times , St.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

For a deeper look into the reasons why college enrollments are declining, see our earlier post, College Enrollment: Cliffs, Shifts, and Lifts. A surprising selection of colleges and universities are thriving despite the culling of institutions and programs happening around them.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What is an honors college? A small college within a much larger institution, with its own facilities, faculty, course offerings, scholarship and grant programs and perks for honors students. Today’s honors college is the product of a complex history.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Why would faculty who were disciplinary specialists trained at elite graduate schools and well published in their fields forsake scholarship? This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar. But those higher figures still won’t bowl you over. ” Ugh.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Historians sometimes describe the social sciences as theory rich but often data poor. The volume, like Professor Labaree’s entire body of scholarship is remarkably wide-ranging. ” The forces that the broadcast examined were psychological, and included people’s emotions, fantasies, fears, and wishes.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In March 2021, the chair of the Board of Trustees of Becker College announced that the institution would close its doors due to financial difficulties accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a blow to the students, faculty and staff of this private college in Worcester, Mass.,

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Publishing its Second Report in July 2012, the Lords’ Science and Technology Committee said it had ‘received substantial written evidence on the recent HE reforms’. This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

Over the past several years, colleges and universities are establishing coalitions and democratic action plans (ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, 2022) to address not just voting, but a healthier learning environment for engagement. Some may assume that these topics belong in political science courses only, but that is not accurate.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Our second cohort concluded in December 2021, our third cohort wrapped up in spring 2022, our fourth occurred in fall 2022, and our fifth occurred in spring 2023. All cohorts ended with presentations of the fellows’ capstone projects. The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Elevating Stories of the Unrecognized — Agnes Scott College. Elevating Stories of the Unrecognized — Agnes Scott College. In July, Agnes Scott College launched the Acknowledging our Past: Acting Now for a Transformed Future project, which aims to elevate the lives and stories of the people of color who built the college.

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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. Itzkowitz: Over the past year, we’ve seen an uptick in students and families wanting to know what type of return on investment they’re going to get from the college education. We have data from the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Unlike programs on Critical Race and Ethnic Studies programs, which had grown increasingly widespread, and which were founded at such institutions as Augsburg, Gonzaga, Manhattan College, Miami of Ohio, Pace, St. John’s University, UC-Merced, and the University of Denver, the Chicago and Yale initiatives are less U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” The Post then quotes a political science professor, who claims that the requirement portrays “the US as ‘inherently racist’ and tries to undermine the American identity that unifies all citizens by ‘creating groups and pitting them against each other. We all recall “Headless Body in Topless Bar.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

As a first-generation college student, she appreciated the process of education and embraced its transformative aspects. This includes a new state-of-the-art science center with a planetarium, which is now a signature piece of the campus. It has been part of my focus to really engage our students in civic and community work.”

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 13, 2023

Despite these harrowing times, I often looked to the arts—TV, movies, and videos—for collective understanding and joy in difficult times. In our accelerated executive doctoral program, the students work as administrators, leaders, and educators in schools, universities, and non-profit organizations.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma As psychological anthropologist Nat Kendall-Taylor recently noted , When the College Board revised the draft African American studies curriculum, it removed the word “systemic.” Systemic and structural bias are often manifest in disparities in education, healthcare, housing, employment, and criminal justice.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

The British Academy points to ‘the impact and value research’ in the humanities and related disciplines ‘can deliver to policy makers and the wider public’. As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. The Royal Society adopts the same wording.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

These criticisms are aggravated by businesses’ claim that too many college graduates can’t write well. Because it’s widely read as a eulogy for a discipline that has lost its audience and lost its way. As the field has fractured, its mission and purpose have grown increasingly unclear. The field is besieged.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Creative arts (CA-HE), often deemed less valuable than STEM subjects, are particularly threatened ( Puffett 2022 , Redmond 2020 ), evidenced in the closure of departments, and exacerbating the already tense relationship between the CA-HE and HE ( Elkins 2009 ). Octopuses and Tentacles. Three Hearts and Nine Minds.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

In this way, individual faculty, advisors, staff, as well as institutions and institutional policies, can help to support students when their plans don’t go as planned. However, sometimes things do not go according to plan, and they may face obstacles that derail their goals. 2020; Waltenbury et al., 2018; Walton & Brady, 2020).

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

In this way, individual faculty, advisors, staff, as well as institutions and institutional policies, can help to support students when their plans don’t go as planned. However, sometimes things do not go according to plan, and they may face obstacles that derail their goals. 2020; Waltenbury et al., 2018; Walton & Brady, 2020).

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

workers value diversity in the workplace and want their companies to implement inclusive policies. Studies indicate that a majority of U.S. For example, Kaiser Permanente is a key partner in the weekly training series and is becoming a worksite for students interested in pursuing a career in the health industry.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

Consider the following examples: Wealthy colleges have found a new way to separate potential students from their dollars. Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Not a day goes by that I don’t read something that shocks me, annoys me, frustrates me, rouses me, or inspires me. ” Or I don’t know whether to laugh for cry.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

But of all the shocking and bizarre marvels that I encountered, one curiosity stood out: The fate of Jeremy Bentham, the pioneering reformer and utilitarian philosopher who held that the most ethical policy choice was the one that produced the greatest good for the greatest number of people.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

College instructors, in increasing numbers, have begun to think seriously and systematically about how to enhance student learning and engagement, remediate content and skill deficiencies, close achievement gaps, and build upon students’ prior knowledge and skills.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

I also asked the program to predict what a college education would look like a decade from now. Here’s what the application wrote without delay: “It’s difficult to predict exactly what a college education will look like in 10 years, as it depends on many factors such as technological advances and changes in the job market.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

The goal is to safeguard students from the weight of unaffordable college debt, shifting the focus from targeting primarily for-profit higher education to a broader scope that includes all educational institutions. Thinking about a merger? Listen in.

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