Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

A college education gave Aracely Bahenat access to a career in health care that enabled her to provide a better life for her three sons and escape violent domestic abuse. Four in every 10 college undergraduates leave school before completing a degree. Julie Peller Aracely is hardly alone.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Lynn Akey will become chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, effective Jan. Dr. Lynn Akey Akey is currently vice president for student success, analytics, and integrated planning at Minnesota State University, Mankato. I am grateful for the impact she has had on the University. Akey holds a B.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Anjalé Welton has been appointed the Rupple-Bascom Professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison (UWM). Welton is chair of the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. Her work focuses on racial equity, racial justice, activism, and education reform. Welton holds a Ph.D.

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WCET Frontiers

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Many institutions have struggled to develop institutional-level policies. In a spring survey administered by WCET, only eight percent of respondents reported that their institution had developed and/or implemented at least one AI-related policy. The initial focus of campus policy discussions has centered on academic integrity.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2024

This followed decisions by several colleges to fire tenured teachers. Manhattan College recently fired 19 tenured teachers in a cost-cutting mode. A drastic shift in the educational policies and philosophy of New College in Florida resulted in the firing of 5 tenured professors.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

During the pandemic, many colleges set aside their test requirements for admissions as students had nowhere to take their exams due to school closures. Like many education policies enacted over the last two years, it seems the practice is here to stay. Among these colleges, nearly 1,500 have adopted the policy permanently.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 2, 2023

Letitia Williams Letitia Williams has been named associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Morgan State University in Baltimore. Williams earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of the West Indies, a master’s in education policy and leadership and a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2023

Socio-economic status has a strong correlation with whether or not a high school graduate enrolls in college within 18 months of graduating. Dr. Sade Bonilla, an assistant professor of policy, organizations, leadership and systems division at the University of Pennsylvania. The findings are even more striking when disaggregated.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Educators who train and prepare students to become teachers, gathered this weekend at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) to call attention to the ongoing challenges that face K-12 learning. Now, we’re not just polarized about policy but about each other,” she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

“By codifying the program, it gives institutions something to look forward to annually as a source that they may be able to tap, assuming they qualify, for much needed resources,” said Kelly Leon, vice president of communications and government relations for the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2024

Amelia Parnell, vice president for research and policy at NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education was named the organization’s president. From 2005 through 2012, she served as education policy analyst for the Florida Legislature. “Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

While hip-hop may not often be referenced as tantamount with higher education, many artists have referenced the academe within their works. McCool Whether you are analyzing Ye’s multiplatinum and highly regarded debut album “College Dropout” or J. Cole’s common references to his days as a college student at St. Dr. Jeremy C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Perdomo-Ahmed holds a bachelor’s degree in Latin American studies and cultural anthropology from Mount Holyoke College, as well as master’s and doctorate degrees in educational policy, research, and administration from the University of Massachusetts.

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IHEP

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Like many students across the country, Coleen began her journey to a four-year degree at a community college. When I was 18, I realized that I was going to be paying for college on my own and it hadn’t really hit me before, like exactly how much it costs,” Coleen explained. FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTIONS.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

The American Association of Colleges and Universities ( AAC&U ) has announced the 2024 recipients of the annual K. A past annual conference hosted by the American Association of Colleges and Universities. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award. The 2024 K.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

based Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), one of the nation’s premiere education research and policy centers, Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper has a vision. Since taking the helm of IHEP in 2008, Cooper’s been out front influencing national education policy. As president of the Washington, D.C.-based

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

by Katy Jordan, Janja Komljenovic and Jeremy Knox The SRHE Digital University Network was launched in 2012, with a view to present “ critical, theorised and research-based perspectives on technologies in higher education ”. Looking back From 2013 onwards, the Digital University had been included in the annual SRHE conference themes.

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University Business

APRIL 28, 2023

Millions of people pursue higher education in the U.S. each year, and one U of I professor said direct college admissions may be changing the future of the college admissions process. The post Are direct college admissions the future? One U of I professor discusses her research appeared first on University Business.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

At the time, Darling-Hammond was an endowed professor at Columbia University, Teachers College. Today, she is the president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 2, 2024

In our latest podcast episode, policy expert Tom Netting joins us for an in-depth discussion on the current state of higher education policy. The conversation centers around the recent Negotiated Rulemaking sessions and other important issues facing colleges and universities.

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The PIE News

APRIL 10, 2024

The latest release of immigration risk ratings for international education providers in Australia has raised questions about the best approach to ensure the sustainability of the sector. Reports have estimated universities are already out of pocket by more than AUS$300 million.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

Now, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce has released a report on the potential impacts of the decision and how higher ed and governments can react. In order to compensate for an adverse ruling, colleges will need to make drastic reforms of admissions policies, the report notes.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With a third fewer students enrolling, university leaders accuse ministers of wanting to ‘diminish our success’ Immigration restrictions imposed on international students threaten to damage the UK economy, according to university leaders, with the number enrolling from overseas falling by a third.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Kim has been appointed president of Santiago Canyon College in California. Kim holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a master's from California State University, Fullerton, both in cultural anthropology.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

“Employers say, ‘It’s great that this individual has these skills, but we’ll ask our own questions to verify the learner’s knowledge,’” Kyle Albert, assistant research professor at the George Washington University Institute of Public Policy, said. “It’s a trust-but-verify situation.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Department of Education (ED) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) held the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit: Holistic Advising and Wraparound Services in Washington, D.C. Despite doing well academically, as a first-generation college student, he felt lost. On Wednesday, the U.S.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2023

West Virginia regulators are allowing the troubled Alderson Broaddus University to continue operating — but only provisionally — and they’re demanding that it keep the state apprised monthly of its financial health.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Image: Campus and faculty leaders in the California Community College system are eagerly anticipating the selection of a new chancellor this week. Meanwhile, the system, like community colleges across the country, experienced significant enrollment declines during the pandemic. “We had a very strong pool,” she said.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Image: China’s Ministry of Education will no longer recognize online degrees from overseas colleges, per a Jan. The announcement, which arrived without notice and was effective immediately, impacts Chinese students enrolled at foreign colleges who had been studying online in their home country.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 26, 2023

The West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission this month granted reauthorization for every private college in the state to continue to operate and award degrees, except for one: Alderson Broaddus University, MetroNews reported.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 19, 2023

Image: India’s publication of draft guidelines for foreign universities establishing branch campuses in the country has sparked concern among academics about potential infringements on institutional autonomy. They come amid soaring demand for higher education in the world’s fastest growing major economy.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Does the possible sale of the University of Phoenix to a public university system signal the demise of the for-profit higher education sector that Phoenix once epitomized?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2023

Supreme Court eliminated race-conscious admissions policies at the end of June, colleges and universities began preparing for the inevitable blow to their on-campus diversity. So, a press release last week from the University of California (UC) system may have felt like a ray of hope. After the U.S. of admits).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2024

Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom McMillan Cottom is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill and a senior principal researcher at UNC’s Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life. She is also a columnist for the New York Times, an award-winning author, and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow.

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Coursera blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

By Scott Shireman, Global Head of Coursera for Campus Last week, we were honored to host Coursera’s Future of Higher Education Summit 2023, with delegates from more than 20 countries at our Silicon Valley headquarters. AI is also impacting the job market for graduates, as many will be expected to use AI-powered tools in the workplace.

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Coursera blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

By Scott Shireman, Global Head of Coursera for Campus Last week, we were honored to host Coursera’s Future of Higher Education Summit 2023, with delegates from more than 20 countries at our Silicon Valley headquarters. AI is also impacting the job market for graduates, as many will be expected to use AI-powered tools in the workplace.

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