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Sacramento State Creates Nation's First Black Honors College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sacramento State — home to the largest number of Black students within the California State University (CSU) system — is launching what will become the nation’s first-ever Black Honors College. Slated to begin operating in the fall, the honors college will enroll students who have a GPA of 3.5

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Dr. Xavier A. Cole Appointed First Person of Color President of Loyola University New Orleans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Cole Cole is currently vice president for student affairs at Marquette University. Before Marquette, Cole was vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Washington College and assistant vice president at Loyola University Maryland. “Dr.

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Colleges hire directors to tackle student basic needs

Inside Higher Ed

Image: When Andrea Mora enrolled at University of California, Irvine, in 2012, she was a low-income, first-generation student. She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education.

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Small Liberal Arts Colleges: Punching Above Their Weight

Helix Education

Everyone loves a David and Goliath story, and at this moment in the history of higher education, small colleges could use one. I think it is easy for lawmakers, the media, and even large sectors of higher education to dismiss small colleges. What is the real impact if a few small colleges close?

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Presidential exits: Some leave on a high note, others entrenched in scandal

University Business

More from UB: Higher fees for higher ed: How schools are combatting newly proposed tuition hikes Retiring presidents Kent J. retires after an 11-year tenure at the school. He also led the school through seven of its largest freshman enrollment classes in Langston’s 126-year history. Despite this, Smith Jr.

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3 Questions for Sue Lorenson, Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education at Georgetown

Inside Higher Ed

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. This is what happens, I suppose, when you never leave college. I babysat for the dean of students. Q: Your Ph.D. I was an RA.

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Yale Law dean’s message to alumni promises free speech changes. We’re (very) cautiously optimistic.

FIRE

These transgressions, and more, earned Yale FIRE’s 2022 Lifetime Censorship Award and surely contributed to its almost-dead-last showing in our College Free Speech Rankings. FIRE remains hopeful the broader university’s dark, censorious days may soon be history. The post Yale Law dean’s message to alumni promises free speech changes.