Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 12, 2024

The Constructive Dialogue Institute (CDI), an organization that promotes dialogue and inclusive environments in higher education, has launched a Leadership Institute to help college presidents and senior administrators improve free expression, inclusion and belonging on their campuses.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 25, 2023

Stony Brook Leads Construction of Climate Campus in NYC Susan H. Greenberg Tue, 04/25/2023 - 03:00 AM

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 4, 2022

How might colleges and universities grapple with the climate crisis? To start, let’s break down the different ways by which the climate emergency can hit academic institutions. There’s the direct, environmental way, as storms strike, desertification and aridification expand, fire rage, heat rises, and waters surge through a campus.

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Wonkhe

OCTOBER 11, 2023

After 20 years of running campus climate surveys on gender-based violence among university students and staff in the United States, William Flack explains what the UK can learn from the US. The post Gender-based violence on campus: what we can learn from the United States appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Predominantly white universities aren’t doing enough to make students of color feel like they belong, the Education Trust said in a recent report.

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UW Presidential Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

On a near-daily basis, the relentless impacts of climate change are on display here and around the world, reshaping lives and ecosystems. That’s why climate change and broader issues of sustainability permeate our teaching, guide our research and fuel our service to the community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Jessie Hernández-Reyes The report, Creating Positive College Campus Racial Climates for Students of Color , highlights the perspectives of students of color with regard to their experiences on campus and campus racial climates, and also provide suggestions on measuring and improving these climates.

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University Business

APRIL 23, 2024

In a message to the community, Dartmouth College President, Sian Leah Beilock announced the launch of the Dartmouth Climate Collaborative, a $500 million commitment to address climate change and sustainability on campus. The plan calls for the largest sustainability investment in Dartmouth history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2023

In response, college and university leaders nationwide made significant commitments to improve campus racial climates. Such divestments in DEI are not without consequences, as they threaten to exacerbate the very issues of campus racial climate that these initiatives aim to address. What we learned may not surprise you.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The consequences of climate change worldwide are not borne equally across all communities as communities of color most often bear the brunt of these environmental challenges, according to a new report from the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). Kamau Bell, at the Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit in Long Beach, California.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In a rebuke to Governor Ron DeSantis’s denialism, the student body calls for campus-wide measures to tackle the climate crisis The University of Florida student senate voted in favour of a “green new deal” late on Tuesday, becoming the first public university to adopt such a resolution through student government.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

How vague laws and heightened fears are creating a repressive climate on campus. By Nell Gluckman Mark Harris for The Chronicle How vague laws and heightened fears are creating a repressive climate on campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Crystal Eufemia Garcia’s research examines the mechanisms by which racially minoritized college students experience campus environments. Garcia co-chairs the Association for the Study of Higher Education’s Council on Ethnic Participation’s Mentor-Protégé Program, a leadership role among others in her professional organization memberships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2023

The Aspen Institute’s This Is Planet Ed initiative has launched its Higher Ed Climate Action, which will aim to accelerate higher education’s progress on climate action, create an overarching framework, and identify policies to scale climate action across the sector. King, Jr.,

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The University of Arizona Indigenous Resilience Center (IRes) has received a $2 million grant from the nonprofit Waverley Street Foundation to initiate a program to support tribal communities in devising local solutions to climate problems.

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Higher Education Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

DiStefano The University of Colorado Boulder is proud to be cohosting the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit with the United Nations Human Rights Office on campus December 1–4. This landmark summit is an opportunity for worldwide participants to learn more about climate change through the lens of human rights from.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Through its Campus Sustainability Fund (CSF) and as part of its larger commitment to sustainability, equity, and climate action, the University of Arizona (UArizona) has supported dozens of projects over the past two years that promote environmentalism and help address disparities in sustainability efforts.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and College Pulse have released their annual ranking on campus free speech , and one of the most prestigious universities in the nation received the lowest score possible: a fat zero. Rank School Overall Speech climate 1 Michigan Technological University 78.01

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

A recent 2022 Campus Climate Survey showed that over half of faculty, staff, and postdoctoral students said they considered leaving UI from 2021-22, with reasons including better salaries or compensation at another institution (62%); primary workplace climate/culture (59%); and campus climate/culture (26%); and bias at the university (75%).

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

More than 450 students at health professions schools around the world are measuring how effectively their institutions address climate change using the Planetary Health Report Card (PHRC). The post Health Professions Students Grade Their Institutions on Climate Change Awareness appeared first on INSIGHT Into Diversity.

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The PIE News

JULY 27, 2023

The first and only climate benchmark tool explicitly tailored for international education has launched, in a bid to empower universities in their fight for climate action. “For the world to be a better place, we need students to travel to study.

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HEPI

JANUARY 12, 2023

This blog was kindly contributed by Sam Fankhauser, Professor of Climate Economics and Policy at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. At COP27 in Egypt this November – officially, the 27 th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change – a sobering statistic made the rounds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

While SB17 will take full effect in January 2024, DEI offices and faculty alike in Texas are scrambling to figure out the next steps in saving DEI initiatives campus wide. With the new semester on the horizon, anti-DEI legislation is bound to impact campus life and future enrollment in institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

Royel Johnson Royel Johnson has been appointed director of the National Assessment of Collegiate Campus Climates. Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s in educational policy studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

Additionally, the board of higher education must contract with a third party to conduct a campus climate survey, and it must monitor and report on compliance.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Higher education professionals have long been concerned with how to raise public awareness about climate change. Confronted with the apocalyptic climate narrative dominating popular media, ignorance has been replaced by a gripping fear of the future, particularly among young people. Yet today we face a different problem.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The funds will also go toward developing campus conversations on both historical and recent incidents of discrimination. The CUNY central offices will use $150,000 of the funds to support its campus climate work, including professional development, faculty engagement, and monthly conversations on issues related to discrimination.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Three key trends discussed during the conference included a call for urgency regarding the climate crisis, increasing access to international opportunities and shifting from a mindset of competition to collaboration. Equity and access in international opportunities for students was also highlighted across numerous sessions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 22, 2023

Chris Harris Chris Harris has been appointed director of the Office for Multicultural Learning, Campus Climate & Belonging at Santa Clara University. Harris served as assistant director of career development at the university. He holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Michigan.

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HEPI

MAY 17, 2023

Tackling the climate emergency has been recognised as one of the most important issues of the day and is the key concern of young people. There is, however, much more that can be done – both to tackle the climate crisis but also wider questions of creating a sustainable world in which we can live.

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EAB

JUNE 28, 2023

Blogs Creating and implementing sustainability and climate action plans Reflections from our focus group with chief sustainability officers Last month, we held our second session for chief sustainability officers from around the world to discuss their experiences with creating and implementing sustainability and climate action plans.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan weighed in Monday on a dispute roiling Michigan State University’s Board of Trustees, in which some members are calling for the resignation of board chair Rema Vassar for creating a “fractured and contentious” climate by allegedly meddling in a number of recent campus controversies,

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 18, 2023

The collective works will be titled “Stories of Fire: A PNW Climate Justice Atlas,” a project that draws connections between regional wildfires and social issues such as poverty and racism. The JFI has significantly changed the conversation around environmental issues on the UO campus, he says. It was really moving to see.”

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The former farm that is Black Mountains College campus is a core part of an insurgent institution that is the first entirely dedicated to adapting to the climate emergency. Continue reading.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

What earns a campus a spot on a list of the most LGBTQ-friendly colleges and universities? The Campus Pride Index, which is visited by more than 120,000 prospective students and family members annually, intentionally excluded two states—Florida and Texas—from this year’s list of the most LGBTQ-friendly colleges and universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 17, 2023

Lacretia Johnson Flash Lacretia Johnson Flash has been named senior vice president for DEI, community, campus culture, and climate at Berklee College of Music.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Imagining One Higher Ed Future for ‘Universities on Fire’ One possible scenario of campus conversations on the climate crisis catalyzed by Bryan Alexander’s essential new book. What are you reading?

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