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 retired after 30 years with the U.S. He is expected to begin his new duties as Texas Southern president in late May.

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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., laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. The college says it froze undergraduate majors with “very low student enrollment.”

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EAB

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

700,000 incarcerated students will be Pell-eligible in 2023. Online students and other non-traditional audiences are increasingly an area of focus for institutions nationwide. But there is one large group of non-traditional students that’s been previously excluded: incarcerated students.

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FIRE

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Starting in 2015 with its viral Halloween costume imbroglio , Yale has since weathered poorly-handled speaker shout-downs , created a COVID-19 surveillance state, and was caught on tape trying to force a student to apologize for something he had every right to say. Almost 1,500 people have signed it to date.

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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. Why is it so easy to binge a show like The Witcher , but so hard to keep students focused throughout class? Show interest in your students as people. Act 1: The Warm-Up.

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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. ” While the majority of Belmont students are Christian, the number of non-Christian students has increased over the years.

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University Business

JULY 31, 2023

Marc Tessier-Lavigne – Stanford University Thanks to the shrewd inquiry of a first-year journalism student, Marc Tessier-Lavigne resigned from Stanford University following heavy scrutiny over his academic work’s potentially manipulated scientific research data. “I don’t trust the administration in their ability to have the best.”

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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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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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University Business

MARCH 31, 2023

Two nabbed the presidency for their first time, one of them being the first person of color at the school to do so. Cole Effective the first of June, the student affairs vice president at Marquette University, Dr. Xavier A. There’s no better place to greet the student body through jazz than New Orleans.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

To students, if you were bashful before, don’t be. 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. He wasn’t one of the students from well-heeled Filipino families.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission. Campuses struggling with a student mental health crisis. Unionization With Princeton and Stanford next on the graduate student unionization front, it’s clear that universities have become the hotbed of labor organizing. It will change higher education forever.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

Students and parents arriving at the Washington, D.C., They are mostly student-facing roles, including academic advisers, program coordinators, library staff and support staff in the admissions and financial aid offices. “That really begins to affect services for students and faculty.” The strike, announced Aug.

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EAB

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In my role as a Senior Data Scientist in EAB’s Adult Learner Recruitment division, I have seen first-hand that applying these marketing strategies to graduate and learner student recruitment translates to enrollment growth. Your high affinity students might surprise you. Translating insights into increased campaign performance.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 11, 2023

One piece of advice I would give to leaders is that your staff, your students, they actually want to know you. The students knew they could come to my office, sometimes 8:00, 9:00 at night. President Sorrell learns from students, too, and he shared this candid exchange with his intern: "She said, 'You are incredibly gifted.

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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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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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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

It provides students, faculty, staff, and alumni with a single place to report nonemergency complaints or concerns, including those involving harassment and sexual misconduct. Adelphi also introduced Students Beyond the Binary, a new student organization focused on transgender and gender-nonconforming issues.

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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.

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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. It contained a poem she had written for her daughter.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

It is exceedingly difficult, for example, to learn much about disparities based on race, ethnicity, gender, class, the experience of transfer students or employment outcomes, let alone the quality of the education that the institution offers. Issue 3: Student learning and employment outcomes.

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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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Higher Ed Marketing Lab

JULY 1, 2021

As a higher ed veteran with over 20 years of experience, Jimmy has successfully led enrollment management at multiple institutions around the country and has consulted internationally in the areas of marketing, program evaluation, data analytics, and student success. My passion began there.

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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

Image: The reaction was swift when an anonymous student wrote “Black people suck” on a library whiteboard at American University in February. “This incident is particularly harmful to our Black community members during this important celebration of Black History Month.”

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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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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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University Business

JUNE 1, 2023

Brown, in the twilight of an 18-year career at Boston University, wrote a searing article scolding his student body for the way it received spring commencement speaker and alumnus David Zaslav during the ceremony. ” And BU’s president is not alone in being fed up with students’ interpretation of free speech.

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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. The situation in brief.

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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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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. Moreover, Illinois Tech’s employment rate is 92% six months after graduation, even when 37% of its students receive Pell Grants.

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HESA

MAY 4, 2023

This book is one of the few that looks at climate action through the lens of a particular economic sector or set of actors, in this case, our own sector of universities and colleges. And also just helping students think about the general dislocations that climate crisis may bring about. So that’s one we have to take a look at.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

The bumpy bus ride from Tougaloo College, Mississippi’s private Historically Black College or University that boasts the production of over 40% of the state’s Black physicians and dentists, is punctuated by a steady flow of thick, balmy air desperately trying to provide relief while obviously in need of a refrigerant top-off.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MARCH 7, 2024

On this episode from the Weekly Wisdom podcast series, we spoke Dr. Charles Welch , President and CEO of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU). I had been president of the student body in high school, and then I became president of the student body at the University of Arkansas.

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