article thumbnail

The Growing Role of Artificial Intelligence in College Admissions

Insight Into Diversity

One common use for AI is automating an applicant’s preliminary screening using the data from documents like transcripts and SAT or ACT scores. Highly selective schools with more intricate evaluation processes are even more likely to maintain the human element in admissions decision-making, even as AI becomes more prevalent.

College 115
article thumbnail

A dean and her son experience community college (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Data reports and college initiative documents blanket my desk. Benton is dean of English and reading at Montgomery College, in Maryland, and an adjunct faculty member in George Washington University’s Graduate School of Education and Human Development. As I look around my office, 18 years of texts crowd my bookcases.

university leaders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Racial and Gender Inequities Found in Field of Educational Measurement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This study, for us, was about seeking to understand the scale of the gender and race issues we face as a field and to document the disparities we see as baseline data to help track our progress towards more equitable work environments over time.” Susan Lyons, executive director of WIM and one of the report's authors.

Education 123
article thumbnail

Rhodes College to Establish Institute for Race and Social Transformation

Insight Into Diversity

Projects will range from documenting the oral histories of Black Memphians during the Civil Rights era to understanding where resources should be situated in our city to better serve our neighbors who are unhoused,” said Natalie Person, iRaST director and dean for curricular development at Rhodes, in a press statement.

article thumbnail

Scholar Who Creates Inclusive Spaces - Dr. Melva Treviño Peña

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Find your people, learn how to support them, and let them support you when you need it too.” Human interaction is at the center of Dr. Melva Treviño Peña’s work. Treviño Peña, an assistant professor in the department, describes herself as a human geographer, ethnographer, and social scientist.

article thumbnail

How Colleges and Universities Nationwide are Commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“King recognized that the work of the civil rights movement increasingly needed to be connected to the work of the labor movement — since without safe, well-paying, meaningful work all other human rights are in jeopardy,” according to the website. One of its events will be a Jan. 18 panel discussion about King and the late Rev.

College 123
article thumbnail

Rhodes College Awarded $800,000 for Research on Racial Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Awarded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities, the college has announced the creation of the Institute for Race and Social Transformation. “We Many of the historical documentation that takes place in the city surrounds the lead up to-and the aftermath of the assassination of Dr.

Equity 89