HEPI

JANUARY 4, 2024

Professor Guo spent 34 years at Imperial College London studying AI, data mining, machine learning, and large-scale data management before becoming Provost of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2022. Too much of our current higher education system is still predicated on memorisation, a relic of a pre-digital era.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

At a time when the world’s challenges and opportunities are increasingly global and the resources supporting study abroad have never been greater, why are so few American students pursuing international education? million students enrolled in college, just under 170,000 studied abroad in the 2021/22 academic year. Through the U.S.

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University Business

APRIL 4, 2023

The post College students follow the money into STEM education, killing off struggling liberal arts programs appeared first on University Business. Lindsey Ash says she likely would have sought a liberal arts degree in speech therapy — until a high school class steered her toward science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The current state of health equity and medical education were key topics at a webinar on Tuesday sponsored by Rutgers University’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice. The Proctor Institute – housed in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Graduate School of Education – hosted the event in honor of Black History Month.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

But by 2016, Allen decided to return to school and complete her education. After earning her high school diploma, she received a Longleaf Commitment scholarship, a last dollar scholarship created by North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper through federal pandemic relief funding. Cooper gathered together to share the state’s progress.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Colleges and universities itching to strengthen their students’ workforce readiness may seek to partner with employers. However, Devon Player, a 2023 graduate of Whitman College (Wash.), owes her budding career for the Walla Walla Community Council to the work of the college’s career and community engagement center.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5% of LGBTQ people reported hearing slurs, and 10.3%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2023

Further, her commitment to a student-centric approach to legal education and focus on civically engaged and experiential learning aligns well with the values of Rutgers-Camden. She has also been awarded the Lewis Prize for Excellence in Legal Scholarship and the Ethan Allen Faculty Award for Scholarship. Bond holds a B.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Affirming Multivocal Humanities is an initiative that champions the insightful scholarship and teaching taking place in these disciplines — those that are too often undervalued and even undermined in American society today,” said Mellon Foundation President Dr. Elizabeth Alexander. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Erika Moore Title: Rhines Rising Star Larry Hench Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida Age: 31 Education: B.S., Since 2019, Moore Wealth has gifted over $30,000 in scholarships. biomedical engineering, The Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Simmons busily prepared to deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. It was the latest on a long list of accomplishments in Simmons’ career as one of the nation’s most prominent Black women in higher education. Dr. Ruth J.

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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.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Press Release PowerSchool and EAB Partner to Simplify College Admissions and Expand College Access for Millions of Students Users of the Naviance platform will now have easier access to offers of college admission and financial aid via EAB’s Concourse technology September 12, 2023 FOLSOM, CALIF.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

As a Black woman who studies the educational experiences of Black women and girls, Dr. Tiffany Steele says she always felt like her work was never quite valued. “If But all of that changed in 2022, when Steele saw a listing for a job at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. Dr. Robin L.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 31, 2023

Image: Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania hosted a full-day advising and career exploration event in lieu of classes on March 21, giving students an opportunity to access resources and develop their success plans. Education professor Kelsea Gonzalez also hosted mock interviews as part of a classroom assignment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Associate Professor of Counseling, Department of Disability & Psychoeducational Studies, University of Arizona, Affiliate Faculty, Education Policy Center, University of Arizona Tenured: Yes Age: 37 Education: B.S., middle school math & social studies education, University of Missouri, Columbia; M.Ed.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU) medical college was “intimately connected” to slavery in the mid-1800s, according to a report commissioned by VCU and published last month, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. The 2021 law also asked schools to establish a scholarship or economic program for students with a connection to slavery.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 27, 2023

While we know that they bring value to the classroom, they’re very much absent in the classroom as educators, as teachers,” said Strachan, acting chair of the Department of Teacher Education & Leadership at Alabama A&M University. Strachan said she wants to figure out why fewer than 2% of all teachers in the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Smith Title: Associate Professor of Higher Education; Provost Faculty Fellow, University of Cincinnati Age: 39 Education: B.S., Miller, professor of higher education and public policy at the University of Arkansas, about Dr. Everrett A. Everrett A. psychology, Middle Tennessee State University; M.S.,

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

And yet, faith has played and continues to play a large part in higher education. the historical origins of many colleges and universities have been closely tied to faith, in particular Christianity. Olaf College), to name a few. In the U.S., For example, Harvard University, the oldest U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Fisheries, Animal, and Veterinary Sciences, University of Rhode Island Tenured: No Age: 36 Education: B.A., Gabriela Torres, Wheaton College Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Community is everything! international affairs, University of Nevada, Reno; M.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I (Ford) was reading a commentary on the top number of “issues” facing education/ educators and became even more outraged and indignant on terminology used to describe children who live in poverty, Blacks, and other minoritized students. b. Special education over-referrals and overrepresentation.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma As psychological anthropologist Nat Kendall-Taylor recently noted , When the College Board revised the draft African American studies curriculum, it removed the word “systemic.” Systemic and structural bias are often manifest in disparities in education, healthcare, housing, employment, and criminal justice.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer Millions of community college students are pursuing their higher education journeys right now. Many aspire to transfer to a four-year college or university. Now that we can look at data from the fall 2017 cohort, we see just three percent of community college transfer students enrolled at selective schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The first time I stepped into the offices of Diverse Issues In Higher Education , I was with Dr. Orlando Taylor. Dr. Katrina Rogers In our long association, I traversed the field of higher education with Dr. Taylor. He honored human beings. It was like a receiving line at a wedding, and it took hours to get into that room!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Middleton Social media is neither honest about nor friendly toward Black males in P-12 and higher education. Moreover, Hines, Fletcher, and Moore (in press) have noted, “Since the early 2000s, Black men and boys have garnered increasing attention in the education theoretical and scientific literature” (p. Hines, Donna Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Dominique Turner Institution: Morgan State University Graduate Program: Higher Education Administration Education: B.S., He has the ability to lead groups and teams,” said Dr. Virginia Byrne, assistant professor of higher education and student affairs at Morgan State. Dr. Lewis M. Anthony, Metropolitan Wesley A.M.E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2023

National University (NU) announced the launch of the Cause Research Institute (CRI), a new applied Research and Development arm that will coordinate research, scholarship, and other innovation efforts focused on social sector challenges, including education, health, human services, and criminal justice.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8 is clearly growing. percent between 2011 and 2021. Finally, we only explored Ph.D.-granting

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Over the past two decades, promise programs, in which recent high school graduates are offered free tuition to attend local colleges and universities, have become popular tools to bridge equity gaps in higher ed, with over 300 programs active in over 40 states. The study found that KPromise has many benefits. Byrd and his co-authors, Drs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

As colleges and universities nationwide welcome a new cohort of students, the beginning of a new academic year generates a sense of anticipation. Similarly, the higher education reforms signed into law by Florida Gov. What does it mean for Black students to thrive and flourish in higher education?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As researchers, practitioners, and healthcare workers reflect on the events of the last two and a half years, programs related to public health have become a priority at many colleges and universities. In response, colleges and universities are seeing increased interest in courses and programs that address issues of public health.

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Liaison International

MARCH 22, 2023

Number of undergrads who earned a degree fell for the first time since 2012 The number of college students earning an undergraduate degree each year had been rising steadily for most of the past decade, but that trend has come to an end. Yet most U.S.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 19, 2022

An unprecedented act in UK higher education, Cardiff Metropolitan’s decision is also the first victory for the student-led Divest Borders campaign, which was launched 11 months ago and is gaining broad support and traction across UK universities. This is so much more than an innovative approach to ethical investment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Social media, namely Twitter, can provide scholars a platform on which they can engage with various individuals within and outside of academia, potentially those who otherwise would not have access to the scholars’ work, said panelist Dr. Laila McCloud, an assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling at Grand Valley State University.

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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. Temple plans to begin awarding the scholarships this coming fall.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are safe spaces for personal development. Williams They continue to be essential beacons of higher education for the talented students who attend them.

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