Insight Into Diversity

JULY 19, 2023

Rhodes College has received an $800,000 grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation to create a new program that will focus on researching and developing curricula related to racial equity, discrimination, and justice in Memphis and the Mid-South region.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This fall semester, Massasoit Community College achieved a new first. Massasoit Community College is officially offering a Black Studies curriculum. Ten years in the making The story of Black Studies at the Massachusetts public community college goes back a decade. As such, the school began offering the degree program this fall.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. Why is that?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

Supreme Court to hear from a slate of speakers — students, educators, parents, artists, and leaders civil and human rights organizations like National Urban League President Marc Morial and Kimberlé Crenshaw, cofounder and executive director of African American Policy Forum and a law professor at UCLA and Columbia University.

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University Business

APRIL 19, 2024

Three college administrators—including one president—will be coordinating goodbye parties at their current institutions as they prepare to move on to bigger opportunities elsewhere. Stephenson is currently the president of Northwest Florida State College, a community college. But Creed’s career was no minor note.

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Today's Learner

JANUARY 31, 2024

Our commitment is strongly manifested in our learning materials across the subjects of Psychology , Sociology , History , Political Science and Anatomy and Physiology. It is proven to change the human response to stress, and lower blood pressure. The practice of meditation in Tibet, for example, is not just a cultural practice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This negation of their humanity and their consequent relegation to sub-human status based on their racial identification provided justification for the pattern of horrific treatment inflicted upon them – a pattern that laid the foundation for the system of chattel slavery later imposed upon millions of hostages stolen from Africa.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Certainly, K-12 education has the potential to play a key part in this work, but as a longtime college professor, I want to see colleges and universities take a more proactive role. Walmart in 2019, killing 23, were both recently enrolled college students. The perpetrator of the May 14 mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y. ,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Now that college football season is in full swing again, millions of fans will be planted in front of their televisions cheering on their favorite teams.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are safe spaces for personal development. Like many students, they need support, and that’s where the tireless work of Thurgood Marshall College Fund comes into play, which is more critical than ever following the disappointing Supreme Court decision regarding affirmative action recently.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2023

“This is nothing new,” Edwards said of the recent attacks on voting, LGBTQ, women’s rights and the ongoing attempt by state legislators to eliminate college diversity offices and programming aimed to support students of color. “I Networking and being around like-minded individuals who are committed to the fight for equity is very empowering.”

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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. Ron DeSantis have imposed significant limitations on spending funds for diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at colleges and universities in his state. Dr. Sydney Freeman Jr. •

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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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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. It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. of LGBTQ people experienced bullying, harassment, or assault at college, compared to 18.9%

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite recent pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion among several states , a number of colleges have recently hired presidents based on their commitment to that principle. Safa Zaki, Bowdoin College (Williamstown, Mass.) Jenkins, Bates College (Lewiston, Maine) Garry W. She is also a first-generation student.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

There are 116 community colleges in California. In mid-August, QCC officially opened its male/men's resource center (MRC), which is dedicated to increasing the retention and graduation rates of male students, particularly self-identified Black and Latinx male students who are disproportionately impacted by equity gaps in student outcomes.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Wallace State Community College in Alabama put an instructor of history on leave, according to a CBS42 report about the instructor’s social media comments condemning a local LGBTQ pride event. The employee has been placed on administrative leave pending further investigation.”

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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

APRIL 9, 2023

The rest is history. Gonzales’ passion for education has culminated in a swift rise to being named chancellor of the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) last September. The district comprises 10 independently accredited colleges in Arizona serving over 94,000 students. A passion for education Dr. Steven R.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

George Mason University, College of Public Health. The College of Public Health at George Mason University (Mason) launched in November. It is the first college in Virginia to focus primarily on public health. The college was renamed and reorganized from the former College of Health and Human Services.

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HEPI

APRIL 10, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Philippa Page and Jennifer Richards of Newcastle University’s Humanities Research Institute. HEPI’s recent paper on the state of the humanities in the UK today can be read here. But how do we make this happen in local as well as more structural ways?

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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.” Even more striking are two striking facts. One is that Black teenagers have lower infant death rates than those in the 20s.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In April 2023, Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York, passed a significant threshold. Manhattan College has been classified as an emerging HSI for years, says Roy. Manhattan College joins the ranks of 570 HSIs in the U.S., Delgado is himself a child of immigrants and a first-generation college-goer.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

There’s near-infinite possibilities of studies that can be done about ways we close different kinds of equity gaps now that we have a more precise data set.” The data focus on 11 different MSI classifications used by the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Image: College and universities will need to diversify their faculties at about 3.5 This is the upshot of a new analysis in Nature Human Behavior that challenges the persistent idea that faculty diversity amounts to a “pipeline” problem. The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

At stake are hot-button issues involving equity, privilege, socioeconomic class and gender, ethnicity and race. ” Math instruction “has much to correct [because] the subject and community of mathematics has a history of exclusion and filtering, rather than inclusion and welcoming.” It’s necessary.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

With their mammoth lectures, terrible student-to-adviser ratios, heavy reliance on teaching assistants and postdocs, and priority placed on research and grant-getting, many would say that the answer is an unequivocal no, except for the small minority of students who are in honors colleges.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

We’ve invested in Public Health, Addiction Studies, and expanded our portfolio of nursing programs to create pathways from community college to the doctorate in nursing practice. I see it is a strategy for equity, for social mobility, for a thriving and inventive culture.

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ACPA

JANUARY 13, 2023

The 2015 competencies are : Personal and Ethical Foundations ; Values, Philosophy, and History ; Assessment, Evaluation, and Research ; Law, Policy, and Governance ; Organizational and Human Resources ; Leadership ; Social Justice and Inclusion ; Student Learning and Development ; Technology ; Advising and Supporting.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

For some assessments, professors may need to revert to traditional forms of teaching, learning and evaluation, which can be viewed as more human-centric. How can they promote equity and access? Anna Mills, English instructor, College of Marin. Neem, professor of history, Western Washington University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2024

King and Congressman Lewis were HBCU grads (Morehouse College and Fisk University, respectively) who consistently served as exemplars of the capacity developed, harnessed, and launched through an HBCU education. To be clear, the inability to value the magic produced by HBCUs like Wiley University should “DIE”!

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of higher education, marketing and communicating DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) values calls for innovative and intentional approaches. history,” says Shelley Willingham, chief revenue officer with The Diversity Movement, a business consulting agency. “If

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Diversifying Our Curing Community (DOCC) Arkansas State University College of Science and Mathematics DOCC seeks to increase the number of under-represented students accepted into medical schools. Adelphi’s female faculty members in the industry serve as inspiring role models.

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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. You cannot talk about education in this country without talking about race.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It was the Great Recession that brought mounting concerns over rising tuition and student loans, state cutbacks in higher ed spending, college graduates’ uneven employment outcomes, and return on investment to a head. Not only did the population become much more diverse, but college goers increasingly came from lower-income backgrounds.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Today’s customer-centered colleges and universities are not the learner and learning-centered universities we need. A customer-centric college or university prioritizes its brand. Second, it requires a campus to recognize these students’ life challenges and goals and respond accordingly. Be explicit.

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