Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 5, 2023

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. The three of us have been talking about where our professional worlds intersect, a conversation we thought we’d bring to this space.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Dr. Aaron Goodson “It’s really important that we see Black women in this position of leadership as head coaches in our sport,” says Smith, who is co-chair of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee. “In of Division I institutions had signed the pledge, but only 68.6%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

Day, the Centennial Conference announced its creation of a three-year strategic diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) plan, uniting the conference’s 11 private, Division III institutions in a shared mission to make their athletics programs a place where all students, particularly those in marginalized populations, feel they belong.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

While there are many undergraduates and graduate students aiming for careers in banking or finance, there are also entrepreneurs, innovators, people interested in hospital administration, and others seeking positions at nonprofit organizations. We take a look at institutions that have excelled at graduating a diverse student base.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Dr. Celia Rabinowitz, Assistant Vice-President for Academic Engagement & Director of the Mason Library at Keene State College, reached out after reading my piece How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? I think about my response to this in two ways. This is a great question.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2024

A special kind of energy comes with doing something no one else has, and it’s buzzing around California State University, Sacramento (Sacramento State), this spring as early applications are being reviewed for the inaugural cohort of 70 students who will enroll in the trailblazing Black Honors College (BHC).

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MARCH 7, 2024

Charles Welch , President and CEO of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU). Throughout my career, I've tried to take some of those lessons about relationships. He added that, for better or worse, people are the same regardless of the issue or institution: “You're never going to find unanimity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

When Adrianne Washington, dean of special academic programs at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), found that the Honors Program was overlooking the school’s Black men, it didn’t sit right with her. Washington is dean of the nascent Honors College. We really have to be flexible.

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Helix Education

APRIL 21, 2024

He has written previously for RNL about best financial practices for universities and has also written for The Chronicle of Higher Education among other publications. Everyone loves a David and Goliath story, and at this moment in the history of higher education, small colleges could use one. The news has not been good.

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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 3, 2024

Similarly, many university administrators, including education deans, disseminated statements illustrating their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The Chronicle of Higher Education has even instituted a DEI Legislation Tracker to track anti-DEI higher education policies. Four years later, the pendulum has shifted.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 24, 2023

24 October · Episode 178 3 Enrollment Boosting Strategies for Accredited Institutions 31 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Leverage your institutions accreditation with these enrollment boosting strategies: explore 4 Ps of marketing, partnerships, controlling costs and more. Three Takeaways for Higher Education Leaders: 1.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If you focus on minoritized populations, there’s a lack of understanding about why this research is relevant,” she says. She was even told that she focused too much on race in a class about diversity. We would meet and share ideas about different approaches that we would want to try in our classroom spaces.

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Deans for Impact

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Over the last six years, Deans for Impact (DFI) facilitated this rigorous work through an unprecedented cross-institutional effort, the Common Indicators System (CIS) Network. Download our resources: Data Diagnostic Tool. I found value in that but was doubtful about how it would tell me anything about our program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

Martin Luther King Day approaches this year, colleges and universities across the nation are gearing up once again to celebrate and honor the life and legacy of the civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. Francis College, in 1964, said Shannon Zlotkowski, assistant provost for DEI at UNE. "We This led us to learning more about Ms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2023

Now that college acceptance letters have been sent, the pressure is on students to choose what schools to attend by May 1 st , National Decision Day. But institutions are under pressure, too. The effects of the pandemic on college enrollments are still lingering , with a total enrollment decline of 1.2

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

Image: Connecticut College president Katherine Bergeron is stepping down in the wake of student protests and widespread calls for her resignation over missteps on diversity, equity and inclusion. While Connecticut College ultimately canceled the event, the move came too late, prompting King to step down. That is my wish for Conn.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, community colleges across the country saw a decline in enrollment for myriad reasons — financial, family, illness, lack of internet or inability to adapt to online learning. The purpose of community colleges is to increase access to higher education for the most vulnerable populations.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The University of Maryland (UMD) has released its first report covering the history of their institution and its intersection with slavery, The 1856 Project – Reconstructing the Truth. Its goal, stated in the report, is to become a “blue print for a richer understanding of generations of racialized trauma rooted in the institution.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Emory University and the College of the Muscogee Nation (CMN) in Oklahoma have partnered and received $2.4 Monte Randall This partnership aims to create collaborative learning communities and research initiatives connecting the two campuses, with the money going towards supporting CMN’s transition from a two-year to a four-year institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2024

Strayhorn, vice provost and interim dean of the School of Arts & Sciences at Virginia Union University. "I prefer to lean into hope rather than despair," said Dr. Shawna Patterson-Stephens, v ice president for inclusive excellence and belonging at Central Michigan University. It might be your time, but not your door," she added.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Higher education leaders and states can take a number of additional steps to bolster academic success, reenrollment, and degree completion for students who started college but never finished. Dr. Laura Bernhard These students with some college, no credential (SCNC) make up more than six million Californians ages 25-64.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 2, 2024

But I would say those are the exceptions, not the rules,” says Nicholas Hartlep, PhD, the Robert Charles Billings Endowed Chair in Education at Berea College, whose research focuses on race and equity — particularly concerning the experiences of Asian Americans — in academia. This article was published in our January/February 2024 issue.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

The private Roman Catholic university boasts a leadership of majority women, with women leading all four of the school's academic schools as deans. Warner, a former GCU School of Business dean herself, said that during her time as dean, all three of GCU’s academic deans were women then as well.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 28, 2022

“His untimely death is a stark reminder about the importance of our work,” said Jean. “It We recognize our responsibility at MSU and in New Jersey to try to impact these urban centers.” It helps roughly 100 students complete college each year. Jean’s work at MSU helps him connect with some of these populations.

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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. “Trust and institutional culture are broken,” the first of the five points said.

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University Business

JUNE 27, 2023

At the campus level, colleges risk isolating students. “When you don’t have people who really understand what those communities are going through, it’s hard to address any issues,” says Dr. . But as these trends develop long-term, restricting a diverse, educated workforce can have deadly consequences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Students at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY. IHEP identified these two institutions by using the Equitable Value Explorer , a free, publicly accessible site that analyzes data from colleges and universities across the country. Kenneth Adams, president of LaGuardia Community College.

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MindMax

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

I recently had the opportunity to attend Convergence: Credential Innovation in Higher Education , a joint presentation by UPCEA and AACRAO that examined new and emerging trends and models, especially at the institutional level, in the emergent field of alternative credentials. There is value in that—no doubt about it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

At Agnes Scott College, first-year students are given the opportunity to take their first step into becoming global citizens through its Global Journeys program. Gundolf Graml, associate VP for academic affairs, dean for curriculum and strategic initiatives, and professor of German. Over 60% of our students are students of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida and other right-wing conservative legislators would like us to believe that the field of African American studies is “woke’ indoctrination and has no value in K-12 classrooms or college and university curricula. The governor has even promoted the idea that teaching about anti-Black racism in U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Image: Campus leaders at Vassar College are on a mission to bring community college students to liberal arts institutions. They announced plans this fall to help 30 liberal arts colleges explore how to start programs modeled after Exploring Transfer, a 35-year-old summer bridge program for community college students at Vassar.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Cleveland-Marshall College of Law will now be known as the CSU College of Law, according to a university news release. The decision comes after an ad hoc committee recommended the university rebrand the law school to cut association with Marshall due to his history of owning enslaved people.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2024

Dear Black women in higher education, 2023 should have been a wake-up call to our community, yet the red flags persist. Montague of Volunteer State Community College, was a signal to all other Black women in higher education. Now, the death of Dr. Antoinette “Bonnie” Candia-Bailey rings the alarm that our wellness must come first.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

Much of higher ed institutions’ abilities to provide opportunities to underserved populations are housed in their DEI offices, said Dr. Jeffrey Q. It undermines our ability to foster the innovation, creativity, and solutions needed to confront the challenges we face in our society and world today.” McCune, Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2024

When journalist Nathan McCall released his 1994 autobiography, Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America , my mother was among the first wave of people to purchase a copy. She didn’t buy the book for me as a young aspiring journalist who was still in college at the time, although I’m sure she would have.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

As you can imagine, people were and still are apprehensive. Brown, director of academic integrity at The Institute for Learning and Teaching at Colorado State University (CSU). Some institutions turned to other AI software to assess assignments’ originality in the same way institutions assess for plagiarism. Dr. Joseph F.

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