Helix Education

APRIL 21, 2024

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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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

JANUARY 31, 2024

In other words, Affirmative Action should have been a beginning policy step, along with lots of educational practice, for organizations to move towards treating everyone equitably across racial categories. There are too many clear indications that in America, individuals, organizations, institutions, etc.,

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Center for Nonviolent Social Change, a nonprofit organization founded by King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, as a living memorial to King’s philosophies and dedication to progress. King’s alma mater, Morehouse College, an all-male Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in Atlanta, GA, is hosting several events between Jan.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Adaptation demands that organizations and institutions overcome knee-jerk fears and instead welcome evolution as their durable path to success. However, if organizations do make the courageous move and adapt, they must be prepared for a change-making strategy. If they don’t, the future falters. The truth is more nuanced.

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University Business

JANUARY 26, 2024

Hired Lynne Coy-Ogan – Husson University (Maine) The board of trustees at Husson University has selected Lynne Coy-Ogan as its next president, marking the first female to lead the institution in its 125-year history. The university’s college of law officially gained accreditation under Mong’s tenure as well.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

While some independent athletic organizations and institutions may have created their own internal DEI plans, Centennial is the first conference to publicly prioritize DEI and promise to track their institutional and conference-wide progress on those initiatives. We want to be leaders in that,” says Hoeg. The strategy is groundbreaking.

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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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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.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

She couldn’t imagine herself, a Mexican Filipina American, as a college president, much less a university chancellor, because she’d never seen someone like herself in those positions. “Serving as chancellor was a natural progression, given my professional history,” she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. there were protests on campus.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Freedom (FIRE) distinguished the colleges who most egregiously botched a faculty or student organization’s right to tenants that align with free speech in 2022. This list differs from FIRE’s 2023 free speech rankings , which rated over 200 colleges.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 5, 2022

“You know, we’ve had decades of very solid support from the university leadership and there was a reason for that, because—I’m not sure if this is a little bit of vanity or just accuracy—I’ve done everything imaginable for years here to build trust between a university-based organization and the general public.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

According to a 2020 report from Asian and Pacific Islander Americans (APIA) Scholars, an organization working to support Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) student success, 50% of Native Hawaiian students leave college without receiving a degree or certificate. ole Osorio, dean of Hawai?inui?kea Just under 8% of UH M?noa

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

When Dr. Elmer Guy first came to Crownpoint Institute of Technology in 1999 as dean of instruction, he could not have known that, 24 years later, he would oversee the institution’s renaming to Navajo Technical University (NTU). It became the first tribal college and university, or TCU, to offer a Ph.D. Tuttle “We are a tribal college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Vasquez Helig—who is currently the dean of the School of Education at the University of Kentucky—is slated to step into his new role in January. "We Vincent, president of Talladega College, a historically Black institution in Alabama. Vincent worked with Vasquez at UT-Austin and later at UK. Hillman Social and Racial Justice award.

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FIRE

OCTOBER 18, 2022

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.

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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. On the one hand, I might argue no.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Supreme Court’s decision to strike affirmative action, there are still ways to get diverse student populations into higher ed, experts and scholars said at a webinar hosted this week by California student success organization The Campaign for College Opportunity. And I don't think that that is the implication of this decision."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

history, gender and race with the law. Jackson, formerly a professor and department chair at UW – Madison who is now the dean of the College of Education at Michigan State University, and James L. At the beginning, their academic journeys followed different trajectories. Sherri Charleston studied the intersection of U.S.

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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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PeopleAdmin

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

For professors at colleges and universities, faculty administrative work falls into a few main categories (though this likely doesn’t cover everything!). Service work also extends to the academic community, including voluntary things like organizing conferences or serving on award committees. Breaking down faculty administrative work.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

ATSU signed a memorandum of understanding with Saint Augustine’s University and North Carolina Central University to increase access for students of these historically Black colleges and universities. Elevating DEI Leadership — Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine . Advancing DEI Principals — Medical College of Wisconsin.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Supreme Court decision banning race-conscious admissions, will undoubtedly result in decreased racial and ethnic diversity on college campuses. The role of the ADO varies and is often impacted by the size, individual culture, and histories of their institutional division. The assault on diversity, coupled with the recent U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 30, 2023

Image: Stanford University officials’ response to a shared image of a student reading Adolf Hitler’s autobiography has drawn a sharp critique from a national free speech advocacy organization. ” That’s not quite how the free speech organization the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or FIRE, sees it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The vast majority (63.9%) are white, followed by Asian Americans at 20.6%, according to 2022 data from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Where you go to college is strongly related to intergenerational wealth and privilege. Pacific Islanders and Native Americans combined make up just 0.4% of physicians.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Image: For decades, Jewel Bell was a staple of King University, a small Christian college in Bristol, Tenn. “We’re talking about a person who, more than anyone else, is the thread that runs through the history of King since the middle of the last century,” President Alexander Whitaker said.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Image: Much about Oberlin College is unique, including long-standing policies guaranteeing the faculty a say in matters that extend well beyond academics. So these faculty members are perplexed—and angry—that the college is trying to change its bylaws to restrict faculty control to academics only.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

for maintaining high standards in his organic chemistry class, every professor in America should be outraged. Many were first-generation college students. He placed students who came to college with low SAT scores into a smaller section of his course, where they also received extra support from tutors and advisers.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Alphabet Soup - Higher-Education Organizations There are dozens of national, international, and regional organizations supporting higher education. It later became a free-standing organization that has become focused on supporting and accrediting faith-based institutions. including college and university counselors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 17, 2023

Kwoh said that it was necessary to do a better job of organizing communities to prevent a feeling of competition between racial groups and discussed the long history of alliance between African and Asian Americans, pointing out that Frederick Douglass was one of the first to speak out for the rights of Chinese immigrants.

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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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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! Nadler, Mei-Yan Lu and Michael T.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 31, 2023

She said Maura Hametz, a James Madison history professor and a Holocaust expert, wasn’t invited back. Josh Shulruff, staff adviser for the university’s Hillel student organization, said he was one. ” She said by Oct. Later, one or more other Jewish members apparently joined. He provided the Jan.

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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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