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What can private institutions do about the middle-class squeeze?

University Business

As institutions increase their need- and merit-based scholarships to assist families from opposite ends of the economic spectrum, students in the middle are left with fewer options—and higher bills. ” Greene’s comments shed light on a more significant issue across higher education. Is aid a zero-sum game?

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Higher Education Reexamined at ASHE Conference

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He fears that the attacks on diversity will likely increase as the 2024 presidential election grows nearer. “I am definitely concerned, but that’s why I wanted to be in this space,” said Foster. asked Martínez-Alemán, who is also an associate dean for faculty & academic affairs at Boston College.

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Discussing the 4 Pillars of Immersion: Information Literacy

ACRLog

Rebecca is the Associate Dean for Learning and Engagement at Penn State University. Explore the connection between communication as a product of scholarship (formal/informal) and the literacies one may engage naturally or intentionally. Editor’s note: This guest post has been authored by Carlos Duarte and Rebecca Miller Waltz.

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Using the Law to Help Shape Public Policy - Jamelia N. Morgan

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I definitely didn’t think I was going to be a law professor, but I always wanted to be a teacher,” she says. Gowder, a Professor of Law and associate dean of research and intellectual life at Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law. “I grew up in Los Angeles in the early 1990s, and we had Johnnie Cochran on T.V.

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Librarians should stand with the Internet Archive (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Jeff MacKie-Mason is university librarian, chief digital scholarship officer and professor in the School of Information and the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley. MacKenzie Smith is university librarian and vice provost of digital scholarship at University of California, Davis.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After she told him, he said, “Hmmm… the school has definitely changed.” It’s definitely helpful to hop on the group chat and process or go eat lunch together,” says Hall. Hall was encouraged to lean into who she is, to do, as she put it, the scholarship that feeds her soul. It definitely helped me stay in the role.”

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Century-Old Institutions Paving the Way for DEI in Sports with Strategic Plan

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Molly Harry, an assistant professor of recreation and sport management at the University of Arkansas, says student-athletes are more likely to choose their college based on scholarship amounts, proximity to home, playing time, and the potentiality of NIL deals. athletic system and not the athletes themselves.