Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Central State University—a historically Black institution in Wilberforce, Ohio—will announce its next permanent president Friday. High-level administrators like Dr. Paul Schlag, who was the executive director of the school’s Honors College and a member of the president’s cabinet, said that he wasn’t even interviewed about the complaints.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Temple University graduate students began striking Tuesday for the first time in that union’s history, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. ” She said teaching and research assistants are “a core function of the university, teaching essential courses and conducting world class research. Hide by line?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2023

Harry Edwards, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the keynote speakers who addressed the more than 600 participants who attended the eleventh-annual NCAA Inclusion Forum. So yes, that level of concern, I think, is warranted.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

“It’s spring break,” Mity Myhr, professor of history and associate dean of the School of Behavioral and Social Sciences at St. Edward’s University, said last week when asked whether faculty members at the private nonprofit Texas institution were discussing the even more sophisticated AI tool.

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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. If no one studies history, we don’t get the next Doris Kearns Goodwin; if no one studies English literature, whence the next David McCullough? New tools.

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FIRE

OCTOBER 28, 2022

FIRE explained in its brief that, throughout our history, we’ve seen rogue public officials — from police to college administrators — violate well-established First Amendment rights far too often. If you are a student or a faculty member facing investigation or punishment for your speech, submit your case to FIRE today.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 30, 2023

When the pandemic closed down my university in spring 2020, most folks assumed that we would be back up and running a normal slate of face-to-face courses in fall 2020. Thus, the university remained “remote-only” in fall 2020. Networking activities among university teachers. Who do you talk to about your teaching?’:

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The ACE report is based on a survey conducted every five years, in which college and university leaders answer questions about how their institution is engaging on a global scale. But despite the bleak outlook, the report found that colleges and universities remain largely committed to internationalization.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2023

According to Collier (2022), one of the significant advantages of mentor-mentee relationships is that mentors provide personal connections to the university. For mentees, peer mentoring provides a sense of belonging and connection to the university community. He is currently employed as an online university professor.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2023

According to Collier (2022), one of the significant advantages of mentor-mentee relationships is that mentors provide personal connections to the university. For mentees, peer mentoring provides a sense of belonging and connection to the university community. He is currently employed as an online university professor.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 30, 2023

When the pandemic closed down my university in spring 2020, most folks assumed that we would be back up and running a normal slate of face-to-face courses in fall 2020. Thus, the university remained “remote-only” in fall 2020. Networking activities among university teachers. Who do you talk to about your teaching?’:

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

A new book, The Latinx Guide to Graduate School ( Duke University Press ), by Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales and Magdalena L. The message to readers is that our collective histories, values and ways of engaging in community can be our sources of strength as scholars. What should college administrators do to dismantle them?

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eLiterate

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

I also made a point of calling out the role of faculty in traditional universities as critical actors in the ecosystem. One of us was already provost of CUNY’s Hunter College for several months before realizing that fully two-thirds of the graduates she would celebrate at Hunter’s commencement were transfer students.

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FIRE

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

3, 2022 — Two down, one to go in a trio of lawsuits against the Texas college that just can’t resist firing professors for exercising their First Amendment rights. As part of the settlement, the college agreed to a two-year, $230,000 teaching contract with Jones and to pay $145,000 in attorneys’ fees. . “I McKINNEY, Texas, Nov.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

Image: Some members of the Renegade Institute for Liberty, a controversial group of professors at Bakersfield College, are enmeshed in an increasingly vitriolic dispute playing out on the California campus that has pitted students and faculty members against each other and prompted their supporters and critics to take sides.

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University Business

JANUARY 22, 2024

“The ruling, which the public views favorably and aligns with prior views on using race as a factor in college admissions, is now settled law. Administrators stated their top concerns were how the decision would make it more challenging to recruit and retain a diverse student body, resolve legal issues and attract the best candidates.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 31, 2023

college presidents to have served in recent years. Both left their institutions—Michigan State University and Pennsylvania State University, respectively—under a cloud cast by predatory sex-abuse scandals that took place on their watch. Image: Lou Anna K.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Image: Ellen Vitetta, Distinguished Teaching Professor and Scheryle Simmons Patigian Distinguished Chair in Cancer Immunobiology at the University of Texas’s Southwestern Medical Center, worked for decades to make her institution more welcoming to women. But her relationship with Russell became untenable after that, she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

College administrators and faculty have to be much more aggressive in reclaiming the importance of a liberal education, particularly in the wake of sweeping legislative efforts in some states to restrict academic freedom and to outlaw the teaching of some subjects. We need to start controlling the narrative.” That’s a hard question.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Image: Over the last five years, most of the Confucius Institutes hosted at American colleges and universities have closed down—but now a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine outlines a process for their potential return. Whether U.S. Whether U.S. higher education and the U.S.

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University Business

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Daniel Carter, a campus safety consultant who reviewed a copy of the Education Department’s preliminary report on Liberty University’s (Va.) I cannot think of a single other comparable case in the entire 32-year history of the Clery Act.” campus safety compliance, obtained by The Washington Post. “I More from UB: U.S.

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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. Supplement grading with formative feedback.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Image: As an undergraduate at Christopher Newport University in Virginia almost two decades ago, Kristina Canfield felt helpless. Worst of all, Canfield said, was that the university wasn’t equipped to help her navigate those obstacles. But Canfield said she knew students in recovery needed—and deserved—more.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

So to limit access to the information that strengthens us is troubling for a government to do,” says Richard Baker , JD, P hD , executive director of institutional equity and equal employment opportunity and Title IX coordinator at Rice University. As of press time, more than a dozen other states had moved into the political fray.

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