The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

Humanities departments in the US may need to shift their focus so international students can find better post-study work and garner a “wider variety” of international enrolments, stakeholders have suggested. Liberal arts students are afforded the fewest official opportunities for post-study work.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will give Howard University a replacement of actor Hattie McDaniel’s Best Supporting Actress Academy Award. Boseman College of Fine Arts – Howard will host a ceremony titled “Hattie’s Come Home” at its Ira Aldridge Theater Oct.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

Catherine University. Evans currently serves as chancellor of Bloomfield College of Montclair State University in New Jersey but will take the helm July 15. Catherine University. Evans graduated from the University of Alabama with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in counselor education and supervision. Catherine University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Howard University, an anchor institution in our nation’s capital, also took strides to address this matter. For example, Howard launched NourishHU over five years ago to provide access to perishable items free of charge to hundreds of students. Blackburn University Center. Unfortunately, that is not the case for everyone.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Duke University will be offering full tuition grants to students from the Carolinas with family incomes below $150,000, effective Fall 2023. All qualifying current undergrad will be eligible, and qualifying first-year students, sophomores, juniors, and seniors will receive financial aid statements by Jul.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2023

Leonard Taylor will become director of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) at Indiana University Bloomington, effective July. IU, specifically the HESA program and National Survey of Student Engagement, have made an indelible impact on higher education scholarship and practice. Taylor holds a Ph.D.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2024

As colleges and universities try more than ever to engage with those outside of their walls, leaders are looking for ways to do so genuinely and with care. Here is how Notre Dame and one prestigious California university reflect that in their building construction. “This is a way for you and me to become a ‘we.’

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

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. Sniegowski holds a bachelor’s degree in music from the Indiana University School of Music; an M.A.

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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. Think about how best to support all marginalized students. Remember the why.

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. However, there is one subset of this group that stands out in popularity and workforce prowess: computer and data science.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

DECEMBER 17, 2023

At 41, I’ve returned to university, an experience which, first time round, totally changed my life. It is 20 years later, and I am having my first week at university again. The idea is to look at what might work alongside cold, hard science, in order to communicate new ways of thinking about the planet. This time, I am 41.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2023

The department – housed in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences – is making the change to better reflect the range of its scholarship and teaching, according to the formal name change proposal. The change will become official in the next few months, pending final trustee approval. specific. “We

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Since its launch in late 2022, the Department of Black Studies at the University of Rochester (UR) has worked to advance conversations surrounding Black and African culture and identity through an interdisciplinary, global lens. Sproull Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, said in a press release. and Mary L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 31, 2023

Brown University has launched a Center for Career Exploration to better prepare students for the modern-day workforce. They play a vital role in contributing both their job opportunities and their experiences as mentors, opening new paths for successful lives and careers for our students.” students, and recent graduates.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. Students are always on their phones. When I sit in advisory board meetings, what I hear from employers is they want students who can lead and serve. Many struggle to actively pay attention. The reality is very different.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Cabrini University has laid off six full-time faculty – three of them were tenured – this month as part of budget cuts to help remedy its financial deficit, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The six – 8.7% Drinan also said enrollment had declined from 2,360 in 2016 to approximately 1,500 and that Cabrini was exploring a merger. “No

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2024

Building culturally validating and affirming relationships between teachers and students requires plenty of understanding, engagement, changes in behavior, and introspection, according to a webinar held Tuesday by the Equity Assistance Center-South. And it should not be left to them.

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University Business

MARCH 27, 2023

Now, it looks like students are, too. A new report uncovered that one out of four college-eligible students are crossing off schools they were previously considering based on its state’s political climate. It found that among the 24% of students who ruled out schools, they varied almost evenly across the political spectrum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Age is not a factor that is often prioritized when it comes to DEI efforts, according to a new study from Washington University in St. Today, student bodies are more age-diverse, employees are working longer, and classrooms and offices are becoming more age-integrated.” Rather, it is often times accepted, according to the study.

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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. The IE3 initiative will function similarly to a pilot program instituted by UW and NWC in July 2022.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 31, 2023

The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has been awarded a $4.6 Yuliang Zhang, chair of UAB’s computer science department. 32 students will be selected over five years. 32 students will be selected over five years.

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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 Americans. It relied on 2009–2021 data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey for 2.9

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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

MARCH 10, 2024

SEATTLE-- Prominent student affairs practitioners of color shared powerful stories of leading in higher education amid major challenges, including the recent COVID pandemic and ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. As such, Shivers said, it's important that student affairs professionals practice self-care. "Our

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Binghamton University (BU) has received a $6.5 19 proposals were accepted for the Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science; 13 for the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences; two for the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; one for the School of Management; and one for the Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences.

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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. These points are used to attract and persuade potential students, parents, or other stakeholders to choose that institution or program over others.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The happiest respondents earned their degrees in computer and information sciences, and criminology. Holders of computer science degrees are finding their skills in high demand all across the workforce—from tech to consulting to management, where they are being offered average salaries of $100,000 or more, ZipRecruiter says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Vischer will become president of The University of St. During his time as a student, he was also an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Thomas trajectory to become the undisputed premier private university in the Midwest.” Thomas, effective Jan. 1, 2023, making him the second layperson in the role at the Catholic school.

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MindMax

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Faced with higher education’s impending demographic cliff , leaders from the College of Extended & International Education at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) needed to begin thinking creatively about how to maintain steady enrollment. Hearing Stories from Non-Degreed Students. “We Once a Toro, Always a Toro. “We

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. Students are always on their phones. When I sit in advisory board meetings, what I hear from employers is they want students who can lead and serve. Many struggle to actively pay attention. The reality is very different.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Amid the rapid digitalization of the workplace, climate change, an incendiary political landscape and the growing call for student diversity, President Patton believes that to answer the call, higher education’s new function must be to instill courage in all stakeholders involved. Tucked away in the small rural town of Middlebury, Vt.,

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Hired Morakinyo Kuti – Central State University (Ohio) Central State University has found its 10th president in Morakinyo Kuti, the HBCU’s current vice president for Research and Economic Development and director of Land-Grant Programs. ” Steven Tepper – Hamilton College (N.Y.)

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University Business

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It’s now a little over a year that ChatGPT, the popular generative AI tool, has swept K12 and higher education into deep reflection on the nature of classroom teaching and student code of conduct. Studying over 4,000 students in grades 10 to 12 this past summer, ACT discovered that 46% have used different AI tools.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The University of Toledo is cutting “low-demand degree programs” beginning in the fall 2025 school year, a spokesperson told WTOL 11 on Monday. The post University of Toledo cutting some ‘low-demand degree programs,’ merging others appeared first on University Business. Read more from WTOL.

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The PIE News

JULY 6, 2023

Universities are “uniquely placed” to address workforce gaps and should effectively become “skills brokers”, a new report says. By developing knowledge workers that industry needs, universities can maintain their mission of enabling strong graduate outcomes, the paper from Nous Group indicates.

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