Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Shaun Harper, “While the discontinuation of race-conscious admissions policies and practices will negatively affect students of color across a range of racial and ethnic groups at predominantly white institutions (PWIs), Black applicants will be most devastated.” The Black Church has a rich history of community mobilization.

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Equity Advocate Guidance Policy 115

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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Faculty Deans Administration Provost 98

Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The guidance doesn’t—and, as mere advice, can’t—ban statements about social or political issues. “Departments as such should avoid statements on what we call here ‘external’ matters (state, national, or international policy matters),” the guidelines say.

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Department Guidance Policy Faculty 98

SRHE

JULY 20, 2022

The mantra was repeated in different forms by the Education sub-panel: “Under the guidance and direction from the main panel and the REF team, the sub-panel adhered to the published REF 2021 ‘Panel criteria and working methods’ in all aspects of its processes throughout the planning and assessment phases.”

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Environment Policy History Achievement 40

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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University Advocate Higher Education Leadership 94

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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Administration Higher Education Community College Model 81