Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) President and CEO Dr. Paul J. Dr. Paul LeBlanc During his tenure as SNHU’s fifth president, the school grew from 2,500 students to the largest nonprofit higher ed provider in the U.S., LeBlanc has announced that he will step down from the role on Jun.

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MARCH 23, 2023

West Texas A&M University President Walter Wendler is drawing ire for canceling a student drag show, arguing that such performances degrade women and are “derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny.” Students and First Amendment lawyers reject those assertions, calling his comments a mischaracterization of the art form.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2023

Jason Wingard, the first Black president of Temple University in Philadelphia, has resigned Mar. Jason Wingard Amid Wingard’s short and rocky tenure was worsening crime around campus, a graduate student strike, and a loss of confidence in his leadership among some faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Jarvis Christian University President and CEO Dr. Lester C. I called this meeting today because I wanted my students, faculty and staff to hear it from me first.” Newman will retire in June. Dr. Lester C. Newman Newman has served for 47 years in higher education and for the past11 years has helmed Jarvis.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 24, 2022

President Biden, while speaking at Delaware State University Friday about his plan to forgive student debt, briefly went back a few years to when he left the vice presidency in 2017. “And my wife, who’s a professor at a community college—she has two master’s and a Ph.D., Hide by line?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Smith University (JCSU) President Clarence Armbrister will retire in June. Armbrister – the 14th president of the historically Black college and university (HBCU) – broke the news in a message to students Jan. He will stay on as senior adviser until early 2024 to help the incoming president, he said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

Langston University President Dr. Kent J. Smith, the leader of Oklahoma's only historically Black college and university (HBCU), has announced his retirement, KOSU reported. My family and I have thoroughly enjoyed the years spent at Langston University. My children have grown up on our campuses," Smith wrote. "In

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2023

Vice President Kamala Harris and Dr. Glenda Glover Tennessee State University (TSU) President Dr. Glenda Glover will step down from her post at the end of the spring 2024 semester, closing out a decade of leading her alma mater, the Tennessean reported. I came to Tennessee State University, graduated in 1974.

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APRIL 26, 2024

In Colorado, fewer than half of high school graduates go on to college, well below the national average. In recent years, universities across the state have stepped up efforts to change that by offering free tuition to low-income students. Colorado Mesa University is one of the latest.

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FIRE

DECEMBER 13, 2023

HR927 threatens freedom of expression on college campuses by admonishing the presidents for rightly standing up to calls for blanket censorship of students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2023

Vermont State University (VTSU) President Parwinder Grewal has resigned. He cited personal reasons for his leave, according to Vermont State Colleges spokesperson Katherine Levasseur. “As Dr. Parwinder Grewal Grewal’s departure comes after less than a year in the leadership role.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 6, 2024

After months of deliberation, Brown University administrators announced the reinstatement of SAT/ACT testing requirements across the institution. The post Brown University Reinstates Test Requirements appeared first on Insight Into Diversity.

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

Texas A&M University’s Interim President Mark Welsh III told faculty and staff in College Station on Wednesday that the university will largely stay the course on many unpopular organizational changes initiated by his predecessor. Read more from The Texas Tribune.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 31, 2023

Lindenwood University in Missouri is expanding its reach with the acquisition of for-profit Dorsey College, a vocational school in Michigan, the St. Lindenwood Education System, the parent entity for Lindenwood University, is the official purchaser in the deal, and the two institutions will maintain separate accreditation.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JULY 21, 2023

Katherine Banks said in a resignation letter she would retire immediately as president, because “negative press has become a distraction” at the nearly 70,000-student campus in College Station. Continue reading.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Butler University plans to open a two-year college in the fall of 2025 to attract undocumented and historically underserved populations to pursue higher degrees. The exact tuition amount has not been set yet but Butler University President James Danko said the goal is to make college as low-cost as possible.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

University of Utah is showcasing the value of academic diversity after the state’s passing of HB 261 , which “prohibits an institution of higher education from establishing or maintaining an office… [that] is referred to or named diversity, equity, and inclusion.” HB 261 goes into effect in Utah July 1, 2024.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Higher education stakeholders have been transfixed by declining student enrollment numbers in the past decade, which were only exacerbated further by the pandemic. But at the beginning of this new fall semester, colleges across the country are reporting big turnarounds. gain in first-time college students, thanks in part to an 8.9%

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AUGUST 8, 2023

A mandated curriculum long sought by Virginia Commonwealth students and faculty members was set to take effect this fall. The university delayed it late last month, and advocates don’t buy its reasoning for doing so.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Students’ ineptness in critical thinking—along with oral communication, problem-solving and analytic reasoning—is not a short-term trend. But that’s insufficient,” says Doris Zahner, adjunct associate professor at New York University, Columbia University and Barnard College. About a fifth of all U.S.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

After announcing its founding in 2021, the University of Austin has won approval to issue liberal arts degrees and is now accepting undergraduate students for fall 2024, The Texas Tribune reports. John’s College in Maryland. I mean that quite literally…” the university stated on X, formerly known as Twitter.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 6, 2023

A Temporary Swing of the Pendulum on a Trajectory Toward Inclusive Excellence and Achievement In Students for Fair Admissions Inc. President & Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions Inc v. the University of North Carolina (SFFA) , the U.S. After Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Supreme Court heard arguments regarding race-conscious admissions policies, higher education stakeholders gathered to discuss the barriers keeping more women and people of color from becoming college and university presidents. Less than one third identify as women, and the majority of those women are white.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

First, post-traditional students being recruited aggressively by a surprisingly broad swath of colleges and universities. One could argue this trend started with the MOOCs and with OPMs like 2U moving upmarket, if you consider employed white-collar college graduates as post-traditional. Enrollment shifts.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 16, 2023

Thirteen university presidents are uniting on a new nonprofit initiative to address threats to U.S. democracy by fostering free speech, critical inquiry, and civil discourse on college campuses. Free expression and academic freedom are the bedrock not just of the university, but of democracy.”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

More than a decade ago, in 2011, former Cornell University president David Skorton penned an op-ed for The New York Times after a 19-year-old Cornell sophomore named George Desdunes “died in a fraternity house while participating in a hazing episode that included mock kidnapping, ritualized humiliation and coerced drinking.”

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University Business

OCTOBER 10, 2023

While NASPA has found that most colleges and universities have yet to adopt transparent policies on hybrid and remote work among its employees, two universities that have embraced it in some of their departments have experienced early signs of better staff recruitment, performance, work morale and performance.

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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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JULY 20, 2023

Three prominent schools have updated their admissions policy to no longer consider a student’s legacy status after considering the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action. California Congresswoman Barbara Lee recently explained how the practice disproportionately benefits wealthy white students.

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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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University Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Higher-education leaders are seeking better representation and support for diverse student populations. A 2021 survey found that 84 percent of university presidents believe that issues surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion should be addressed. It’s also essential to remember ELL students are not a monolith.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

Alabama State University’s Department of Athletics has announced its plans to launch a competitive women's flag football program in the 2024-25 academic year. The program will be the first at a Division 1 historically Black college or university, according to officials.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

With the goal of infusing scholarship into practice, thousands of student affairs practitioners from colleges and universities across the nation gathered in Boston to strategize about the future of the profession. My first NASPA conference was focused on the lack of current research on minority student retention.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2023

Racial hiring practices in college athletics saw minor improvement but gender hiring practices declined, according to the 2022 College Sport Racial and Gender Report Card (CSRGRC) from the University of Central Florida (UCF). of student athletes were Black or African American and 38.6% of student athletes were white.

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

As college enrollment numbers continue to decline, small private schools are slashing tuition prices in an effort to entice more students to apply. “We We know the price was scaring families away,” Lasell University President Michael Alexander said. Read more on Boston 25 News.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

Faculty leaders at a Minnesota college that dismissed an art history instructor who showed depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in a course have overwhelmingly called for the university president to resign. The post Faculty calls on embattled Minnesota college head to resign appeared first on University Business.

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AUGUST 14, 2023

West Virginia University is continuing a trend of drastic changes to its academic program and structure. This time, however, it’s not just focused on consolidating colleges. Per the university’s preliminary recommendations released on Friday, it suggests cutting 32 academic programs, 12 of which are undergraduate majors.

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