Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Ellis The National Council of Churches vehemently opposed the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action in college admissions. In the report, Bishop Vashti Murphy-McKenzie, NCC President and General Secretary notes: “Race has been a factor in making employment, housing, banking, health care and education decisions for centuries in America.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“If we want to disrupt systemic oppression, we need a model that prioritizes care, empathy, love, authenticity, healing, hope, collectivity, solidarity, and community,” said Gaston Gayles, president of ASHE and distinguished graduate professor and senior advisor for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion at North Carolina State University.

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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.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The review made a series of recommendations which have provided a reference point for comment on UK Government higher education policy ever since. This article looks back at the report and considers what the lessons might be for politicians, officials and higher education leaders contemplating a future review.

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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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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. We are poised to make our impact in DEI,” Cummings says.

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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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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. He remembers the time when a bullet penetrated a living room wall.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. These data-driven decisions allow us to refine efforts to better serve our student population.”

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As a policy area, it has evolved to incorporate a wide range of both policy sectors and policy actors on the federal level: GAC; Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC); Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC); and Research and Innovation. Creating consensus among all those diverse actors is difficult.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The book brings together 55 different authors – including academics, a vice-chancellor and numerous education policy experts (such as Sam Freedman, Lord Lucas, Jonathan Simons , Ann Mroz and Tom Richmond). Another head, Jesse Elzinga, kicks out at universities’ entry procedures for encouraging depth over breadth.

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

Today’s HEPI blog is the text of a speech by Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, to a joint meeting of the Senate and Council at Lancaster University. It is a great pleasure to be back at Lancaster University. Back to the future I hope you will let me begin with some history.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Image: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Academic Senate approved guidelines for departmental statements on political subjects earlier this month. The guidelines are friendlier to departmental utterances about internal matters, namely the unit’s core academic research, teaching and university policy.

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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. The results come from a study by the Lumina Foundation called “ The State of Higher Education: Breaking down the barriers to student enrollment and retention ” in partnership with Gallup. I came to Lumina from a university.

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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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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.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Inside Higher Ed : How appropriate is it for federal and state governments to judge colleges based on the value they provide? For most Americans who are considering college or who enroll in college, they say they’re doing it to find a job, to enter a career, to make a decent living.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2023

Nigel Thrift, The Pursuit of Possibility: Redesigning Research Universities – The former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick takes aim at research universities for being too big, too focused on students and too uninterested in grand ideas. And if the government won’t do it, universities should.’

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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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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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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

The brief description of the moderation process in Education suggests that this may have been repeated. There were four members from modern universities on the Education panel, out of 20; and one out of 13 assessors. Yet, in Education, only 42 UoAs, out of 83, met that criterion; eight being modern universities.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 25, 2023

Image: Arizona State University, YouTube and the video channel Crash Course announced a partnership this week that offers online, transferable, credit-bearing courses that begin on YouTube. The trio is championing the initiative as one that provides open, low-cost, flexible access to higher education. history and human communication.

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SRHE

MARCH 14, 2023

Kathleen Stock, a Professor at the University of Sussex, faced demands from campaigners that the University should dismiss her for her alleged transphobia. The question must be whether the University could have done more to protect her against the ‘adverse consequences’ she undoubtedly faced. The University did something.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

I have worked in and around politics for more than 30 years, and I have found that in politics, most initiatives from both the left and the right are motivated not just by politics, but by a genuine concern over significant matters of public policy. When conservatives look at our colleges and universities, what do they see?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

That’s how the University of Virginia’s student government, student newspaper and a student group, the University Democrats , have described a new member of the university’s Board of Visitors, Bert Ellis, in separate but critical statements over the last several months. Image: Reckless. Reprehensible.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Rebecca is assistant professor of educational leadership and policy at Hofstra University. I asked Rebecca to join me in conversation so we could hear more from her about her work in the area of higher ed policy. 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

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. competitiveness.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

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. Expect the number of college closures to keep slowly ticking up,” says Kelchen.

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