Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Nine out of ten raise their hands,” said Jean, assistant provost for special programs at MSU. Dr. Daniel Jean, assistant provost for special programs at Montclair State university. It helps roughly 100 students complete college each year. Jean’s work at MSU helps him connect with some of these populations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Dramatic changes are coming to the education program at Michigan State University (MSU), a response both to student needs and a nationwide teacher shortage. In 2021, students sent a letter to the provost expressing their qualms about the financial and mental burdens. They don't come back to complete student teaching.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

Martin Luther King Day approaches this year, colleges and universities across the nation are gearing up once again to celebrate and honor the life and legacy of the civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. Penn State , for instance, has events lined up for a number of its campuses. In 2023, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of hip hop.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Daniel Jean often recounts with sadness the story of Robert Daniel Cuadra, an 18-year-old honor student from Paterson, New Jersey, who was planning to embark on a promising college career at Montclair State University in the summer of 2022. Gonzales, Montclair’s provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, was clear.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

In fact, he found the idea of being a teacher a little insulting. But now, with decades of experience in teaching and higher education under his belt, he’s looking at new ways to shape the student academic experience, leading with equity and access in mind. ” That was the first moment that education was planted in my mind.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2024

MEGA is a workgroup at MSU that targets the recruitment and retention of Black and Latinx men to college. When Dr. Daniel Jean, assistant provost for special programs at MSU, took the stage, he immediately connected to the high schoolers by sharing his own backstory, revealing how his beginnings may be similar to theirs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Starting with programs for middle and high school students, through supports for graduate students, the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) has provided inspiration, insight, encouragement, and community for engineering students.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

JUNE 8, 2023

With the rise of the new chatbot ChatGPT, colleges are restructuring some courses and taking preventive measures. Responses of Colleges Some educators, however, see ChatGPT as an opportunity, not a threat. However, other colleges point to the difficulty of controlling cheating by students. A red flag instantly went up.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

As educators teaching in professional studies programs, our aim is to create classroom experiences where our students can work with professional partners, developing projects that have impact in the real world. We believe implementation is a salient part of the professional studies experience.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

million in faculty salaries while increasing its student-faculty ratio, Allegheny College in Pennsylvania charged a task force with reviewing its academic programs. In the task force’s final report, Allegheny’s Chinese program was listed under “maintain,” not the latter two at-risk categories.

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University Business

MARCH 8, 2024

The majority of the college leaders transitioning in or out of the president position in the past two weeks have demonstrated excellence in one of higher education’s top executive positions. The newly appointed president has also programmed pathway programs for students on the other side of the spectrum—Maine high schoolers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Following up plans for educational access and equity with actions has become the hallmark of Grand Valley State University, which has a statewide presence in Michigan. Dr. Chasity Bailey-Fakhoury “We’ve instituted an all-employee DEI training,” says Dr. Jesse M. After the death of George Floyd in 2020, Dr. Philomena V.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Image: If the Biden administration wants to create a list of “low-financial-value” postsecondary programs, it’s going to have to overcome stiff opposition from the higher education lobby, which decried the plan as a slippery slope, problematic and potentially dangerous.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 2, 2023

Image: One in five students has been unable to register for classes at some point because of an advising, financial or other kind of institutional hold. This is just one finding from Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse’s recent Student Voice survey of 3,004 undergraduates about navigating their academic paths.

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University Business

MAY 26, 2023

Two presidents’ tenures at the helm of their respective institutions lasted more than 10 years. Before becoming president, at least two leaders have served higher education in an academic or administrative capacity for over 25 years. Stephen Perez currently serves as interim provost and vice president of Academic Affairs.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

As educators teaching in professional studies programs, our aim is to create classroom experiences where our students can work with professional partners, developing projects that have impact in the real world. We believe implementation is a salient part of the professional studies experience.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

A growing number of community college systems, in California , Florida , Louisiana , Tennessee , Texas , New York City and elsewhere, have stopped requiring students to take remedial courses before they can enroll in college-level courses—the long-standing model for remedial education. Hopefully, others will follow suit.

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University Business

DECEMBER 20, 2022

For the past two years, Santa Clara University has won a DEI award from the publication INSIGHT Into Higher Education magazine. We’re now looking at greater services to help build such pipelines and serve our talented and under-resourced students so they truly thrive at college—with scholarships and fellowships, internships, and mentorship.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

APRIL 1, 2024

However, in this episode of the Weekly Wisdom Series , we spoke with President Casey Sacks , who began working at West Virginia’s BridgeValley Community and Technical College after serving two years as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Colleges at the U.S. Department of Education. And that got us the grant.

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EAB

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In my experience managing graduate business enrollment, the pool of students applying to business programs is always changing. And that’s especially true today: according to GMAC, there have been an increasing number of applications to specialized business master’s programs, while applications to MBA programs have been declining.

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University Business

JULY 5, 2023

The Supreme Court’s long-awaited decisions on two cases that would implicate the fate of race-conscious admissions at public and private institutions’ undergraduate levels finally came out last week. Its decisions to rule against affirmative action have struck a nerve with higher education leaders.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Some Musings on College Rankings College rankings continue to proliferate, and in many cases muddy the waters for prospective students and their families. Most of the leading rankings of institutions use an in-house algorithm that utilizes certain data points to create a score. Each year, U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

And so a key finding of Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse’s recent Student Voice survey of 3,004 undergraduates about academic life, including advising and registration—that nearly half of students haven’t been advised on courses and course sequences required for graduation—surprises Knibbs.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Principle 2: An education that is skills and outcomes focused—that does much more to ensure that students become better communicators and can apply critical thinking, close reading and numerical skills in real-world contexts. Indeed, many are already being piloted at various institutions across the country.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Alphabet Soup - Higher-Education Organizations There are dozens of national, international, and regional organizations supporting higher education. most institutions will accept transfer credit from other regionally accredited institutions. They have over 400 member institutions. · In the U.S.,

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

” Outside of the education program at USC Aiken, nearly all of Walsh’s professors lecture nearly all the time, he says. ” Lectures are a “great tool for college courses, but they are just used way too often,” he says. This makes a “teaching style that didn’t work for me” the No.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2023

As higher ed nears the looming enrollment cliff , colleges and universities looking to drive enrollment growth must identify more pathways for students to obtain a college degree, especially in the case of first-generation students. She started her education career in K-12 and moved to community college leadership.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Melik Khoury, President of Unity Environmental University, offers an inspiring narrative of transformative growth and forward momentum in an agile and sustainable higher education business model. High Achievement Growth in Institutional Performance Unity went from 540 students to over 7,500, and expecting 10,000 within the next 2 years.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Image: With colleges and universities now starting their third pandemic-era fall term, COVID-19 safety precautions—and faculty members’ thoughts on them—are very much a mixed bag. Take two Pennsylvania institutions, the University of Pittsburgh and Temple University, for instance. A New Accommodations Process.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

62% of students surveyed worry little (or not at all) about their college being targeted by cybersecurity breaches or cyberattacks, even though they could jeopardize their personal data. 19 to 27 by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse with support from Kaplan. 19 to 27 by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse with support from Kaplan.

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