Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

The recent announcement of Dr. Claudine Gay’s resignation as president of Harvard University swiftly spread through the news and has been an ongoing conversation, particularly among those within higher education academic communities. Epps of Temple University and Orinthia T. Gay’s resignation as president is Harvard’s loss.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 6, 2023

Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate race-conscious admissions , a civil rights group has filed a lawsuit to stop Harvard University from using legacy admissions practices. “There’s no birthright to Harvard,” said LCR Executive Director Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal in a statement.

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FIRE

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The largest survey ever conducted of campus free speech ranks 248 colleges. Michigan Tech comes in first and the University of Virginia makes the top 10 while Harvard ranks dead last with the lowest score ever.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Ruth Simmons, the outgoing president of Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), will become a senior adviser to the president of Harvard University on engagement with historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), effective Jun. 1, The Harvard Gazette reported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2023

has been tapped to become dean of the Howard University School of Law. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, a master’s from the University of London, and a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School, where he was an NAACP Legal Defense Fund Scholar and an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

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University Business

APRIL 19, 2024

With the pandemic all but ending in 2022 and in-person events back in full swing, colleges, universities, faculty, students and nearly everyone had the opportunity to rejoice. It represents the highest jump in reported campus crimes since universities began compiling statistics on it due to the Clergy Act of 1990.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

Supreme Court struck down race consciousness in college admissions on Thursday, upending four decades of precedent. Secondly, Roberts wrote, college admissions is a zero-sum game, and the racial admissions systems inevitably use race as a negative characteristic and require racial stereotyping. In a pair of votes, the U.S.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and College Pulse have released their annual ranking on campus free speech , and one of the most prestigious universities in the nation received the lowest score possible: a fat zero. But Harvard is not the only elite college featured in such an unflattering spot.

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University Business

DECEMBER 5, 2023

For example, University of California, Berkeley; University of Michigan; and University of Wisconsin-Madison are among a few in the tight bubble of schools responsible for domestically training 80% of U.S. Some consulting firms begin their marketing tactics early in these top-flight college students’ academic careers.

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University Business

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A nationally recognized online disinformation researcher has accused Harvard University of shutting down the project she led to protect its relationship with mega-donor and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Read more from WHDH.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Image: Harvard University announced its 30th president Thursday, drawing from within to hire Claudine Gay, the first Black president in the institution’s nearly 400-year history. Though Gay has not previously held a presidency, she has a long history with Harvard. College was always the expectation for me.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 25, 2023

Marla Frederick will become dean of Harvard Divinity School (HDS), effective Jan. Dr. Marla Frederick She is currently the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion and Culture at Emory University. “I Garber, provost at Harvard. Frederick holds a bachelor’s degree from Spelman College and a Ph.D.

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University Business

JANUARY 12, 2024

Leadership at Harvard University will get to test their equanimity after a headline-worthy shakeup that shot one of the world’s most prominent institutions of higher education into the defensive on the first days of 2024. Stepping down Mark Anarumo – Norwich University (Vt.) Mark Anarumo, a retired U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

A report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) suggests that diversity gains made at the most selective colleges and universities — even with race-conscious affirmative action — have been marginal. President and Fellows of Harvard College ended race-conscious affirmative action.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

Ohen will become chief equity and inclusion officer (CEIO) for Amherst College. I am thrilled beyond words to join the Amherst College community–a place that is deeply committed to excellence, equity and inclusion for all members of our community across all dimensions of our diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences.”

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 21, 2023

A new partnership between Harvard Library and the HBCU Library Alliance aims to advance efforts in digitizing and preserving collections at historically Black institutions. The Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative will provide $6 million in funding for the four-year project to aid the development of the HBCU Digital Library.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Steve Bumbaugh, senior vice president of College and Career Access at the College Board, sits in conversation with Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett-Helaire, assistant professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard University and leading researcher behind the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Kizzmekia S.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

However, higher education leaders worried about the relevance of the college degree in the coming decade can relax: a pair of reports suggest that degree earners still hold a considerable advantage in the application pool and are guaranteed to fare better a decade removed from school. Certificates led the way.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2024

Most selective private colleges and universities in the U.S. public institutions, the report turns its attention to the nation’s private schools, namely the 122 most selective private four-year colleges and universities in the nation. For 2020, Harvard University scored 52, an F. In the wake of the U.S.

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University Business

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Cornell and Harvard University, two of the most prestigious Ivy Leagues in the country are leading institutions when it comes to bringing in students from around the nation. Only 16% of Harvard’s class of 2026 consists of international students, according to the school’s admissions statistics. California.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Delisle Warden Delisle Warden has been appointed vice president for policy and general counsel at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland. He served as associate dean for the Center for Professional Development and Career Strategy at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Adler University has named Dr. Lisa Coleman its next president. Having spent my career addressing how to transform inequitable systems, it is an honor to align my life’s work with Adler University,” said Coleman. She previously served as Harvard University’s special assistant to the president and first chief diversity officer.

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University Business

MARCH 22, 2023

When it comes to university prestige, no other country seems to hold a candle to the United States, according to the most recent international rankings by higher education analyst Quacquarelli Symonds. was the University of Pennsylvania, with two bests in Nursing and Marketing. University of Oxford (U.K.) universities past U.K.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

As university administrators and admissions officers scramble to comply with the Supreme Court’s opinion, here’s the counterintuitive way out. Especially on college applications. Chief Justice John Roberts was at Harvard the same time I was there. So can Harvard a private institution violate the Equal Protection Clause?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 21, 2023

Ohen has been appointed chief equity and inclusion officer at Amherst College. Ohen served as associate dean for equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging at Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Since the Regents of the University of California v. Harvard College and the University of North Carolina (SFFA) , the Court is once again faced with the decision to respect decades of precedent or reverse the holistic admissions policy that selective colleges have used since the Court ruled in the Grutter v.

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University Business

JANUARY 31, 2023

It’s no surprise that college students have it rough. It’s become the number one priority among college students, according to a recent survey by TimelyMD. Using this data, they found that certain college towns are home to some of the most stressed-out students in the country.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

Bill Woodson Bill Woodson has been appointed vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. in Organizational Leadership from the University of Minnesota.

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Academe Blog

JULY 13, 2023

HAYNES The US Supreme Court has recently ruled that colleges and universities can no longer use race as a factor in college admissions. This ruling was the result of a specific challenge to admissions policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. BY NORRIS M.

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Inside Higher Ed

JULY 4, 2023

The Supreme Court decision on affirmative action won’t change deeper reasons Asian Americans are disadvantaged in elite college admissions, Leelila Strogov writes.

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University Business

MAY 1, 2024

Forbes examined over 1,700 colleges with at least 4,000 students and parsed its list down to those with highly selective admission rates (below 20% at private schools and 50% at public), applicant classes in which 50% of students provided standardized test scores and impressive clout from surveyed hiring managers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

The Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation has launched a scholarship program in partnership with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) to provide educational advancement opportunities to descendants of Jesuit and Catholic slaveholding in the United States.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2023

At Harvard, armed police officers raided a student residence hall after a reported hostage situation. The string of swatting incidents follows the recent deadly shooting at Michigan State University and the stabbings currently haunting the University of California, Davis.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 12, 2022

It has helped generate student bodies that are vastly more diverse than the ones I encountered in college. Earlier this fall the Supreme Court heard lawsuits against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, alleging that their affirmative action policies discriminate against Asian Americans.

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MindMax

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The panelists in attendance included some of my personal mentors: Bea Gonzalez , Former VP for Community Engagement, Special Assistant to the Chancellor and Dean of University College at Syracuse University Hunt Lambert , Dean Emeritus of the Division of Continuing Education and University Extension at Harvard University Karen Sibley, Ed.D.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Donovan Livingston, award-winning educator, spoken word poet, and public speaker, has spent his career in education bridging the gap between his artistic sensibility and commitment to college access, and social justice. “A A lot of my work is grounded in how Hip Hop informs student experiences in college,” Livingston said.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A new system largely based on university performance at enrolling and graduating students from various backgrounds has seen Princeton take top spot in the latest U.S. The rest of the top 10 included the University of Pennsylvania in sixth place, CalTech and Duke tied for seventh place, and Brown and Johns Hopkins tied for ninth place.

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