Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Danielle Ren Holley, president-elect of Mount Holyoke College. The Howard University law professor and dean has been named Mount Holyoke College’s first permanent Black female president in the institution’s 186-year history. Danielle Ren Holley, current dean and professor of law at Howard University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2024

Throughout this process, I have learned so much about Texas Southern University, and I am honored to join this esteemed institution with such a rich history,” said Crawford. “I Crawford III was selected as the sole finalist for president of Texas Southern University. Crawford retired after 30 years with the U.S.

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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. Several of them are also coming in as either the first woman or the first of their race or ethnicity to lead their school.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., The college says it froze undergraduate majors with “very low student enrollment.” Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members. In addition to these cuts, one lecturer was not reappointed.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

These transgressions, and more, earned Yale FIRE’s 2022 Lifetime Censorship Award and surely contributed to its almost-dead-last showing in our College Free Speech Rankings. FIRE remains hopeful the broader university’s dark, censorious days may soon be history. The post Yale Law dean’s message to alumni promises free speech changes.

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University Business

JULY 31, 2023

Erica Muhl – Berklee College of Music Berklee College of Music’s Board Chairman Martin Mannion announced that Erica Muhl would not be returning as president following a mysterious leave of absence she took in June. . Saint Mary College In a more peaceful leadership transition, Jason Adsit of Mt.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 17, 2023

and Grace Stokes professor at New York University Law School. Murray believes that such a ruling will only be the beginning of battles about how race can factor into the operations of a school, in areas such as the administration of scholarship money and the hosting of affinity groups. The participants were not optimistic. “To

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

” The university plans to recruit Jewish faculty members to teach in the university’s law school, pharmacy school and new medical school, scheduled to open in 2024. It also can lead to a lack of consensus on things like this.” Is this diversity newsletter?:

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University Business

MARCH 31, 2023

Over the past two weeks, the higher education landscape has seen a handful of shifts in school leadership. Some individuals decided to assume the presidency at another school and one who took a step down to pursue their dream job. First-time president Xavier A. Cole, will become the president of Loyola University New Orleans.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

Especially on college applications. I had told a friend, a female Harvard classmate, that I thought I would cry when, as expected, the Supreme Court finally ruled against the use of race in college admissions. My mere presence at “that school in Boston” did not persuade young Roberts of the merits of diversity. Say it now.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Beginning July 2023, over 700,000 incarcerated adults will become Pell Grant eligible , enabling qualified students to pursue federally funded college education for the first time since the 1990s. The History of Higher Ed for Incarcerated Students. The majority of US jobs require some college to a bachelor’s degree.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. If no one studies history, we don’t get the next Doris Kearns Goodwin; if no one studies English literature, whence the next David McCullough? New tools.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission. Many faculty members worry that if graduate school is viewed as essentially a workplace, then research institutions will become less and less educational, and professors will increasingly treat their graduate students truly like staff, with no obligations to mentor or advise.

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EAB

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The good news for schools looking to improve their graduate and adult learner marketing is that big consumer brands are setting an example for higher ed—especially at a time when finding and recruiting prospects is increasingly complex. For most schools I talk to, there is a desire to know more than what their current systems can tell them.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 11, 2023

So as we grew as an institution and my management responsibility started to grow, I realized the only shot that I had at being able to be the father, husband, and college president that I wanted to be was to reduce the number of people that I was managing. "So We're not going to be who we can be as a college until you figure that out.'

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

Hoisting handmade signs and equipped with fans and water bottles to combat the heat, the strikers started by picketing at AU’s Washington College of Law, where first-year law students were starting orientation and returning ones had their first day of classes. Pleasant, where she’s lived for the past two decades.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutes Diantha Ellis is Associate Professor of Business in the Stafford School of Business of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. The classic fifty-minute lecture with a non-stop flow of information is increasingly ill-suited to the modern college classroom. However, there is hope for today’s professors.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

As we know from the college rankings, higher education isn’t immune from the tyranny of metrics and the incentives to distort or omit data. Some law schools admit less qualified students on a part-time or probationary status to exclude them from the rankings that look exclusively at full-time students.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Reading Time: 9 minutes Black History includes success stories of numerous Blacks who have contributed to the progress made in higher education. Throughout history, Black Americans have endured a long, tedious journey in achieving educational opportunities. at an American university. Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

Reading Time: 9 minutes Black History includes success stories of numerous Blacks who have contributed to the progress made in higher education. Throughout history, Black Americans have endured a long, tedious journey in achieving educational opportunities. at an American university. Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Brian Rosenberg, president emeritus of Macalester College and a visiting professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has written the best article that I’ve read on the recent decision by leading law schools to boycott the US News ratings. College ratings take various forms. Blog: Higher Ed Gamma.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Elevating Stories of the Unrecognized — Agnes Scott College. In July, Agnes Scott College launched the Acknowledging our Past: Acting Now for a Transformed Future project, which aims to elevate the lives and stories of the people of color who built the college. Multicultural Mentorship — Augustana College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Hector Balderas will become president of Northern New Mexico College (NNMC), effective Jan. I’m honored that the regents, faculty and staff will collaborate with me as we take on Northern New Mexico College into the future, building on student success and institutional development. from the University of New Mexico Law School. .

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Higher Ed Marketing Lab

JULY 1, 2021

?. In this episode, we talk about financial aid leveraging —the common and sometimes controversial practice of using data-driven approaches to inform how schools use institutional funds to manage enrollment and tuition revenue. Joining us in the conversation is Echo Delta data scientist and consultant, Dr. Jimmy Jung. My passion began there.

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Today's Learner

APRIL 12, 2023

Reading Time: 5 minutes Dr. Cherly Gary-Furdge is a Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology at North Central Texas College After the death of George Floyd, there was an awakening in the United States about issues centered around racism. The senator asked her if she “believed that the Critical Race Theory was taught in K-12 schools.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

In 2024, I celebrate an anniversary that is special to me, 25 years of close affiliation with America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), especially those in my home state of Mississippi. Dr. Chris Gilmer I came to Tougaloo College in a most interesting manner.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

The functions that colleges and universities are supposed to fulfill and the responsibilities they are expected to meet are constantly expanding, and only the wealthiest institutions can meet those expectations. I find it remarkable that leading law schools decided to attack the ranking system by denying U.S.

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University Business

AUGUST 7, 2023

Thomas in January during a pivotal period in its 139-year history. Once a s mall Catholic liberal arts college, St. As undergraduate enrollment at Minnesota colleges and universities has dropped by almost a third over the past decade, Vischer reported St. What does it mean for the responsibilities that colleges need to take on?”

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

“This incident is particularly harmful to our Black community members during this important celebration of Black History Month.” “Imagine a school so dumb that the punishment for spewing hate speech is a subtweet,” a student replied. Burwell the very next day voicing concerns about the investigation.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Image: In his new podcast series, Gatecrashers: The Hidden History of Jews and the Ivy League ( Tablet ), Mark Oppenheimer, writer and co-host of the podcast Unorthodox , examines how elite institutions sought to limit the number of Jewish students a century ago—and how the advent of that quota system has shaped U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The descendants of the founder of the University of California Hastings College of the Law sued California on Tuesday to block the state from changing the name of the institution, the Los Angeles Times reported. “This is a critical step toward healing a traumatic history and rectifying wrongs.”

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

Image: Some leaders of historically Black colleges and universities say they’re frustrated by a lack of communication and insufficient support from federal agencies after bomb threats swept their campuses six months ago. “I’m beyond frustrated,” Carmen Walters, president of Tougaloo College, said at the event.

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University Business

JUNE 1, 2023

Around the country, several college leaders have spoken up to defend free speech against a student body that they believe steps on free expression. Their opinion isn’t unfounded either; Undergraduate students are by far the most likely demographic to attempt imposing sanctions on college professors. President Martha E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2024

Claudine Gay, who made history when she was named the first Black president of Harvard University six months ago, resigned from the university on Tuesday amid a flurry of allegations involving plagiarism and concerns over her handling of antisemitism on campus. "A Jones, who is a graduate of Harvard's Law School. "In

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

Lawmakers across the country tried to enact 563 measures to restrict the teaching of “critical race theory” from 2021 to 2022, according to a new report from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

To recap some basics, on October 31 the Supreme Court heard arguments related to lawsuits that Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) brought against Harvard College and the University of North Carolina, in connection with these institutions’ race-conscious admissions practices. Harvard Law School. Jeannie Suk Gerson.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

Illinois Tech is also one of just 88 institutions named an American Talent Initiative ‘High-Flier’ by the Aspen Talent Institute and Bloomberg Philanthropies for ensuring college access and success. Previously, Echambadi served as the dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.

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