Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2023

The Ivy League, with some of the oldest institutions of higher education in the U.S., Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and Columbia University named new presidents, each to take office in July. Robb Chair in the Social Sciences at Barnard College (women’s undergraduate college of Columbia University).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The June 29, 2023, Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action abruptly ended race-conscious admissions practices in higher education, eroding nearly 50 years of precedent. Ellis The National Council of Churches vehemently opposed the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action in college admissions.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig, an educational researcher whose work on racial equity and teacher preparation has received national recognition, will be the next provost and vice president for academic affairs at Western Michigan University. Vincent, president of Talladega College, a historically Black institution in Alabama.

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OCTOBER 22, 2023

This new piece was kindly authored for HEPI by Huw Morris, who is an Honorary Professor of Tertiary Education at the Institute of Education, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, and who is currently on secondment from the Welsh Government. The Robbins Review report was published 60 years ago this October.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

23 article in The New York Times , “ How College and Sports-Betting Companies ‘Caesarized’ Campus Life ,” which chronicled how universities have signed lucrative contracts with sports betting companies to promote online gambling to their students and campus communities. Nowhere has this been more evident than in a Nov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But despite all that, Willowbrook Middle School — it has since been renamed Compton Early College High School — stood tall as a beacon of hope, a powerful symbol of what was possible if educators and policymakers made a serious investment in urban education. Whenever you heard shooting, you just knew the routine. You got down.”

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HEPI

AUGUST 31, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Alice Wilby , Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Access, Participation and Student Experience) at University College Birmingham. There are many FE colleges on the OfS register, with many more delivering HE through franchise arrangements and Institutes of Technology.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2023

college or university say their barriers have been to finishing their education over three years. college or university say their barriers have been to finishing their education over three years. People still valued post-secondary education and wanted to come back.

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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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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 18, 2023

Chaka Cummings The University of Kentucky (UK) College of Education’s PhD in studies in higher education with a specialization in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has presented its inaugural INSIGHT Into Diversity Champion Award to Chaka Cummings. Improving education, specifically for marginalized students, is his passion.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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HEPI

MARCH 7, 2023

I jumped at the chance to speak to London Higher in part because I am an alumnus of our host institution, having studied here at the end of the last century when Queen Mary University of London / QMUL was known as QMWC or Queen Mary and Westfield College. I am also lucky to be an Honorary Fellow of this institution.

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

It was a fascinating session because it was the first time that a number of your senior managers had been in a room together, and yet Lancaster University – like higher education institutions more generally – had continued to thrive during the worst of the pandemic. Back to the future I hope you will let me begin with some history.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2023

As HEPI has itself found out in the past , it is generally a thankless task to write about the educational underachievement of boys but it is an important issue nonetheless. Maybe not a new Robbins report but something close. And if the government won’t do it, universities should.’ As an examiner might say, it “must do better”.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

” A “group of faculty,” added Burbules, Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, “is not the same thing as a department. And that was the distinction that really kind of started us off down this road.” But having the conversation is a first step.”

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University Business

JULY 6, 2023

Across the country, new education policies took effect on July 1st, the beginning of the new fiscal year in most states. A handful of them tackle some of the most pressing issues K12 and higher education leaders face today, including school safety and inclusion. The post New education laws took effect this month.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

For most of its 50-year history, the Pell Grant has not covered summer classes, with two brief exceptions: 2009-2011 and 2017 to the present. Students with summer Pell consistently made 6% more per year than students without, equivalent to over $1300 extra, nine years after entering college. They may also avoid summer learning loss.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Image: As recently as a decade ago, the concept of “value” rarely found its way into discussions about federal policy making about higher education. Inside Higher Ed : How appropriate is it for federal and state governments to judge colleges based on the value they provide? What if any risks might occur in doing so?

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 29, 2023

The History of Higher Education in the US over the last 4 centuries is worse than horrible--from a People's perspective. To make history, it's helpful to know history. At the front end of the higher ed pipeline, the US is not producing enough domestic students with the resources or skills to succeed in college and beyond.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2023

I’ve been working on finalizing my spring course—Current Issues in Higher Education: Policy and Practice—and I’m really excited about focusing on the following big issues: Concurrent enrollment/dual enrollment/early college. Free community college movement. Basic needs (in)security.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

But the world of higher education will be listening carefully for what Biden may say about the many issues America’s colleges and universities are facing, several of which have assumed national prominence in recent months. Bumphus, president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges, by email.

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SRHE

JULY 20, 2022

A coincidence of timing led to a disturbing voice in my head as I read the reports from Main Panel C, covering Social Sciences, and the Education panel. The brief description of the moderation process in Education suggests that this may have been repeated. Education. Procedural propriety. UHI submitted 110%, but that was only 7.3

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 25, 2023

The trio is championing the initiative as one that provides open, low-cost, flexible access to higher education. A higher education cocktail that mixes a university known for innovation , an experienced provider of compelling educational multimedia content and a behemoth online video-sharing website holds promise.

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SRHE

MARCH 14, 2023

by GR Evans Under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act higher education providers and students’ unions will be required to publish Codes of Practice on freedom of speech. The Bill sets out the requirements separately for higher education providers (at A2 (2)(c)) and for students’ unions (at A6(2)(c)).

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The PIE News

APRIL 30, 2023

Photo: IDP It’s time for Congress to modernise this policy to permit dual intent for international students applying for F-1 visas to attend US colleges and universities, a concept that is already available in other nonimmigrant categories, and to provide more green cards for graduates of our higher education institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Liberty Jacket is one of at least a dozen conservative or right-leaning student newspapers that have launched on college campuses since the beginning of 2020. colleges that trains young people to become conservative leaders. ” Alex DiBranco, a Yale Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 31, 2023

These “educational intimidation bills” (EIBs) function not through blatant censorship but through fear, supervision, pressure, and the supporting of opposition, all of which lead to self-censorship, the authors of the report wrote. 392 were introduced between January 2021 and June 2023, and 39 have been passed into law since. At least 19 U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Blog: Leadership in Higher Education In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis and his allies in the Florida legislature have launched a major effort to create a more conservative state higher education system. When conservatives look at our colleges and universities, what do they see?

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 5, 2023

In response to relentless anti-DEI measures, over 200 former college, university, and system heads have joined forces as the Champions of Higher Education coalition, an initiative created by PEN America , an organization that unites writers and their allies to celebrate free expression and defend the liberties that make it possible.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Eva Surovell, editor-in-chief of The Cavalier Daily , said what’s happening at UVA is an example of the battles being waged over public education policies and campus culture wars across the country. During his campaign for governor, Youngkin didn’t offer many specifics on his plans for higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Policy Last week, I wrote about the 2022 year-end omnibus bill and connected with Rebecca Natow on Twitter. Rebecca is assistant professor of educational leadership and policy at Hofstra University. Q: Rebecca, thanks so much for joining me at the “Higher Ed Policy” blog at Inside Higher Ed.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. She offered an argument about the efficacy of political action in generating conditions of equality for women, drawing largely on the political history of the US in the second half of the twentieth century. The morning plenary was by Deondra Rose, of Duke.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Higher education lobbyists are watching the appropriations process closely and would like to see the Senate sign off on an expansion of Pell Grants for short-term programs and the College Transparency Act—both of which passed the House of Representatives in February. “There’s always a chance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Access, affordability, and free speech will continue to make headlines in higher education. Dr. Robert Kelchen, professor and head of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, says the administration will likely reintroduce the rule in 2024 using a negotiated rulemaking process.

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