Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

I’m inspired by the rich history and look forward to leading us to even greater achievements.” Williams has demonstrated proven success in strategic planning, community engagement, legislative advocacy, and fundraising, according to Board Chair Lynn Parman. Williams served as president of Utah Tech University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Blair LM Kelley is a noted scholar of Black history and the African American experience. Kelley — the author of Black Folk: The Promise of the Black Working Class and the award-winning Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship — is a John Hope Franklin National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Bolstered by state and national workforce needs and their promising return on investment, the STEM track represents a gold mine for colleges and universities that want to ensure credentials from their institution are providing students with good job prospects and gainful employment. What can we do?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Rhodes College will receive an $800,000 grant to expand their research on racial equity, discrimination, and justice in the Memphis and Mid-South region. We are grateful for support from the Mellon Foundation,” said Dr. Jennifer Collins, president of Rhodes Colleges. According to the US Census, the city's population is 64% Black.

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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. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently writing a book, Persistence of Error: A Natural History of Mutation, explaining genetic mutation for non-scientists.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This fall semester, Massasoit Community College achieved a new first. Massasoit Community College is officially offering a Black Studies curriculum. Ten years in the making The story of Black Studies at the Massachusetts public community college goes back a decade. As such, the school began offering the degree program this fall.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Action taken While there has been steady advancement over the past 40 years, the murder of George Floyd in 2020 has proven to be a seminal moment that has propelled student-athletes, coaches, and administrators to face issues of race and racism in college sports. Invitational to promote social justice and equity. Four years later, 82.8%

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite recent pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion among several states , a number of colleges have recently hired presidents based on their commitment to that principle. Safa Zaki, Bowdoin College (Williamstown, Mass.) Jenkins, Bates College (Lewiston, Maine) Garry W. She is also a first-generation student.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: Twenty-three Lafayette College department heads and program chairs say there are serious issues with governance at the college, according to “points of concern” four of them shared with the president and provost. ” “I am one of many pretenure faculty who are leaving the college,” Bell said.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

They were both American-focused courses, one on the history of American education and the other on the history of American public policy. Like my courses in the United States, I engaged my Qatari students in a critical history of the United States, one that centered the history of race.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The Proctor Institute – housed in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Graduate School of Education – hosted the event in honor of Black History Month. Sullivan discussed his latest book, We’ll Fight It Out Here: A History of the Ongoing Struggle for Health Equity, which chronicles the history and impacts of AMHPS.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

Over the last decade, Thompson’s resonant affirmation has invigorated ways of embracing the full humanity of these girls and women, including their joys and aspirations. To thine own powers appeal,” the NTS operated from 1909-1961 and complemented its vocational curriculum with mandatory courses in Black history and the liberal arts.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

” A few short months after OpenAI released ChatGPT—a large language model with an unusual ability to mimic human language and thought—the company released an upgrade known as GPT-4. But by OpenAI’s own admission, humans are susceptible to overrelying on the tools, which could have unintended outcomes.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., The college says it froze undergraduate majors with “very low student enrollment.” Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members. In addition to these cuts, one lecturer was not reappointed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Those assignments acknowledge the usefulness and the limitation of the technology, which cannot detect or differentiate human bias and negative stereotypes in the almost limitless field of data and information from which it pulls its answers. Many faculty have found ways to mix AI with human-driven writing solutions, marrying the two skills.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

In the spring of 2022, at least 15 colleges and universities , including my own, Alfred University, jointly awarded honorary degrees during our commencement exercises. One of the students, for example, decided to contribute all that she has saved for college to help arm a local regiment to defend her homeland.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

George Mason University, College of Public Health. The College of Public Health at George Mason University (Mason) launched in November. It is the first college in Virginia to focus primarily on public health. The college was renamed and reorganized from the former College of Health and Human Services.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Some parts of history have been suppressed in many states, books banned, curriculum and conversations disappeared, and even research agendas are on hold or downright outlawed and controlled. Research is clear regarding how race and racism impact us all in the United States and beyond. We are not there yet.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

With their mammoth lectures, terrible student-to-adviser ratios, heavy reliance on teaching assistants and postdocs, and priority placed on research and grant-getting, many would say that the answer is an unequivocal no, except for the small minority of students who are in honors colleges. This turned into an ongoing debate.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 25, 2022

History chronicles moments where people pushed, pulled, shoved, harassed, bullied or beaten chose fighting over fleeing. The continuum ranges from stories of quiet personal rebellion to ones of explosive cultural and political movements changing the course of history. Blog: Just Explain It to Me!

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. The Whiggish interpretation of American history was easy enough: over time, the range of people included in public life grew. The fad for declaring the “end of history” in 1989 came from that story. (I’ve They’ll likely end long before history does.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean “Journalism is paywalled, but disinformation is free.” Yes, it can replace human effort with machine effort, thereby defeating the purpose of student writing. That means some history and civics, so they know some basics of what and why.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Although the exact number of schools with both a president and provost of color is unknown, fewer than 9% of presidents and provosts are Black, according to data from the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR). Johnson points out other limiting factors.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

For some assessments, professors may need to revert to traditional forms of teaching, learning and evaluation, which can be viewed as more human-centric. Ted Underwood, p rofessor of information sciences and English and associate dean of academic affairs in the School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The late donor, a 1953 graduate, was a disabled student at a time when such services were not the norm on college campuses, but she thrived academically and built a successful career after graduating—outcomes her family members say she credited to her time at Temple. Newcombe Foundation and received more than $1.1

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

We’ve invested in Public Health, Addiction Studies, and expanded our portfolio of nursing programs to create pathways from community college to the doctorate in nursing practice. All of these are growth areas and all of them are directly responsive to future workforce needs. Competency in writing, speaking, and quantitative reasoning.

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University Business

AUGUST 11, 2023

She served as White House deputy chief of staff under President Bill Clinton and the secretary of health and human services under Barack Obama’s administration. Burnett may loom as one of the most prominent figures in the University of Mobile’s 62-year history. The 2023-24 academic year will be his last.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 30, 2023

It isn’t clear from college officials who filed the complaint, though a Stanford spokeswoman, in response to questions from Inside Higher Ed , said a “concern” was raised by an unnamed student organization. A 2021 survey of Jewish college students in the U.S. A 2021 survey of Jewish college students in the U.S.

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The Student Affairs Collective

MAY 28, 2020

As a PhD student in History at my university, I feel like student affairs staff are often the ones who are running towards the crisis with life ring in hand, eager to help those in need. These moments of extreme loss and strife lay bare our shared humanity, and the precariousness of life. That means so much right now to students.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean In what seems like another lifetime, I took a graduate course in literary theory. A little recognition of everyone’s humanity can go a long way. A third reader developed an interest in the history of sportswriting, particularly about baseball. ” It caught on.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

AACC – American Association of Community Colleges – One of “The Six” Higher-Education Organizations in Washington, DC; they represent almost 1,200 institutions · AACSB – Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business – This is the leading accrediting body for business schools in the U.S. including college and university counselors.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Image: College and university campuses are highly permeable environments. The dean of students determined in February that Dervish had violated the student code of conduct and sanctioned him with expulsion for stalking, failure to comply with the directives of university officials and discriminatory conduct.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Supreme Court ruling that affirmative action in college admission decisions was unconstitutional sent shock waves throughout the higher education community. Diversity among those entering college includes, but is not limited to, veterans and active-duty service women and men, first-generation students, and adult learners.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Conclusion: Tenure processes have remained essentially unchanged for decades in many universities/colleges/departments. Ford is the EHE Distinguished Professor in the College of Education & Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. External letters are free-form — varying in length, criteria, and stringency.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

The question made Galan reflect on his own college journey, which started just three years after he arrived in America from El Salvador, knowing little English. I cannot recall any faculty member who had a clear path and said, from the moment I was in high school or the moment I was in college, I wanted to be a faculty member,” said Galan. “It

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