The PIE News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A new partnership between international school Dakar Academy Central and Discovery Education will allow teachers to use technology to teach students and further advance their interests in STEM, it has been announced. Established in 1961 as the first international and Christian school in Dakar , the capital of Senegal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2024

Rice School of Law. David Beasley Beasley receives the full-time appointment, effective March 1, as Distinguished Professor of Practice and Public Service in the law school’s Department of Legal Studies. Rice School of Law. William Hubbard “Little did I know the challenges and adventures I was being prepared for in law school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2023

High school students are divided on whether they should use generative AI tools for school, and most of those who did found errors in what these tools produced, according to a new report from ACT. Writing in language arts was why most students used AI tools (66%), followed by social studies (49%), according to the survey.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

DECEMBER 20, 2023

There’s a magical buzz as schools around the globe gear up for the holiday festivities. Embracing the essence of this season, schools are rolling out a wide range of holiday-themed video highlights , adding their sense of humor, creativity, and sincerity to make each video memorable. But, what is a video highlight?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 23, 2023

String Theory Schools (STS), an education management nonprofit group, is looking to help Philadelphia’s educational system through a $1 billion offer to fix up the city’s schools and build new ones. It's really about the communities that want to build schools." Edmunds (K-8). as White, 11.2% as Asian, and 8.3%

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The PIE News

JUNE 16, 2023

Global premium schools group Inspired has acquired Alpha Plus Group Schools, which features prestigious UK brands Wetherby School and Pembridge Hall among its portfolio. At the start of the 2022/23 academic year, Alpha Plus enrolled 3,335 school and nursery students. million from £102m the year previous.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2024

Victoria McCall The webinar gave a platform to Victoria McCall, director of eLearning at The Center for Black Educator Development, to provide ample advice and instruction on how educators can better forge strong and positive relationships with the people they serve. And it should not be left to them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

Dr. Nemat “Minouche” Shafik Shafik who is currently the president of the London School of Economics, will become the first woman to lead the Ivy League institution. Dr. Nemat “Minouche” Shafik, an economist whose career has focused on public policy and academia, has been named as the next president of Columbia University in New York City.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Meanwhile, the humanities and social sciences are taking a back seat. But something exciting is happening in the world of higher education. Integrating the arts into STEM (“STEAM”) has been in discussion since at least 2010, when the Rhode Island School of Design helped pioneer it.

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The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

Liberal arts students are afforded the fewest official opportunities for post-study work. STEM and science students have OPT , scientists and accounting and finance majors have jobs at both fintech and technology companies – humanities students are feeling the lack of options.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Education leaders ready to leap into the next generation of education that fully embraces digital modalities aren’t waiting around for our current institutions to get it together. Instead, they’re building their own schools that they see better fall in line with 21st-century students and match their needs.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Two presidents have been hired at small private colleges in the past two weeks and one leader is choosing to retire after four decades in higher education. The private nursing school will officially welcome its fifth president on May 6, according to school communications. William Pieczynski – Nichols College (Mass.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Earning a college degree is still a sound investment, although the rate of economic return varies across college majors and student demographics, according to a new American Educational Research Association (AERA) analysis of 5.8 million individuals with high school diplomas only, between ages18 and 65. million Americans.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

New findings from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) are eerily similar to those of the Department of Education : only 16% of community college students earn a bachelor’s degree within six years. Washington and California showed up again for its low-income students, graduating them at rates at or above 57%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

in Nursing with a Certificate in Disability Ethics Education: B.S. A second undergraduate major in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies fortified her desire to be a voice for change both in healthcare and healthcare education.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The University of Wyoming (UW) and five community colleges in the state are building a faculty network to share best practices and make science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education more inclusive. Through that program, educators shared ideas and explored ways to ensure inclusiveness in pedagogy and research.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

The schools unveiled a trio of collaborations April 18 at Columbus State’s Delaware Campus, highlighted by the Tuition Match Program. The schools unveiled a trio of collaborations April 18 at Columbus State’s Delaware Campus, highlighted by the Tuition Match Program. and is in good academic standing with no disciplinary violations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

Gilead Sciences Inc. Gilead Sciences recently announced awards totaling $12.6 million in grants to the medical school’s Department of Pediatrics and Child Health and 18 other organizations as part of its new Setting the P.A.C.E. Gilead Sciences recently announced awards totaling $12.6 Setting the P.A.C.E.

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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

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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University Business

MARCH 14, 2024

“When you say you’re going to welcome people in, you can do it with a slogan or a campaign, but that’s only the visuals,” says Joseph Becherer, director of the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame. However, the newly opened Raclin Murphy Museum of Art signifies a return to relevance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Aherial Polite Aherial Polite has been appointed dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Augusta Technical College in Augusta, Georgia. She served as served as the department chair of chemistry, physics, and nuclear technology at Aiken Technical College.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2023

By Eva Surovell Racial equity and reproductive rights were the top policy issues cited by high-school seniors in weighing colleges, an Art & Science Group survey found.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Hilton, a young Black professional at Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO), wrote an op-ed in Diverse Issues in Higher Education , entitled “Are career paths of young Black professionals in higher education being impeded by implicit racism?” I, Adriel A. I concluded that the answer is yes. Dr. Adriel A. My cowriter, Peter St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

DePauw University DePauw’s Bold and Gold 2027 strategic plan seeks to bolster the university around four principles: the liberal arts and sciences; the student experience; institutional equity; and responsible financial and operational management. The school is set to launch this coming fall. “We higher ed institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

She will be the first woman to lead the school. In Safa Zaki, Bowdoin has found a distinguished scholar and leader with a global perspective who believes deeply in the transformative power of a liberal arts education,” said Scott Perper, chair of the Bowdoin board and a member of the Presidential Search Committee. “In

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University Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The University of Minnesota Morris is excited to share with potential students that they could potentially save $20,000 on tuition costs for a bachelor’s degree, which may appease a public and federal government pushing for a more affordable higher education. Everything from English to political science and biology qualifies.

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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. Read more from The Washington Times.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2023

This appointment makes her the second woman to lead the school. Petersen Petersen is a professor of political science and dean of the Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tulsa (TU). She was previously faculty and dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU).

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Examples of the center’s projects include the development of the “Children Eating Well” (CHEW) app, which promotes nutrition education and healthy habits for families. Another study will examine national firearm data to inform public policy and discussions on firearm-related racial disparities.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 5, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Sue Lorenson , vice dean for undergraduate education at Georgetown’s College of Arts and Sciences, is a close colleague and good friend of Eddie’s. A liberal arts education is the ultimate preprofessional education; it can prepare you for any career. Q: Your Ph.D.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This week, the British Council Scotland and Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities awarded 13 international EARTH scholarships to early-career researchers. One EARTH scholarship recipient is Camellia Biswas, who is a doctoral researcher in Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indiana Institute of Technology.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Image: As students at the University of Iowa’s Tippie School of Business prepare to embark on their careers, a new program is teaching them to tell their stories and personal experiences—a communication skill that will be important during their initial job searches and beyond.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

APRIL 24, 2024

Reading Time: 10 minutes As a K-12 school looking to resonate with parents through your marketing efforts, there are specific best practices that you should implement to optimize your results. How can you design your marketing strategy to appeal to those seeking educational excellence, especially the ones who matter most to them?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2024

in sociology in 2015 from Emory University’s Laney Graduate School and her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and political science from North Carolina Central University. She says the things that resonated with her in graduate school were theoretically sophisticated and mattered to people.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Art Pimentel will become president of Folsom Lake College, effective Jan. Dr. Art Pimentel Most recently, Pimentel was president of Woodland Community College. Pimentel holds a Bachelor of Arts in social sciences and a Master of Arts in educational leadership from California State University, Sacramento and a doctorate.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The Master of Arts in Restorative Justice Facilitation and Leadership – from USD's School of Leadership and Education Science – seeks to teach students how to guide restorative justice processes and foster healing in response to incidents of harm. The first cohort will start next fall.

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