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Honor and invest in Ukraine through scholarships (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The higher education institutions conferring honorary degrees on Zelensky committed to assisting Ukraine in other ways. Scholarships, for example, are an especially effective means to help Ukrainians build a better future for their nation.

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Rutgers Webinar Discusses Health Equity, Minority Health, and Medical Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The current state of health equity and medical education were key topics at a webinar on Tuesday sponsored by Rutgers University’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice. The Proctor Institute – housed in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Graduate School of Education – hosted the event in honor of Black History Month.

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Honoring identities and pursuing excellence: meet Valerie Sakimura, DFI’s new executive director

Deans for Impact

It was the first time that Valerie and her friends had experienced Pidgin being treated by an educator as worthy of deep study and analysis, and they felt affirmed and validated. That’s the power of an educator,” she says. “To Those were my first experiences as an educator, and they made me excited about the potential of teaching.

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Community College of Vermont and Hospital Pay Students to Take Classes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Facing a national shortage of early childhood educators , the Community College of Vermont (CCV) and the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) have teamed up for an innovative solution: paying students to reduce their hours at their jobs in favor of taking more classes. SVMC’s initial idea was to fund scholarships.

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Dr. Kimberly Andrews Espy Named First Woman President of Wayne State University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Previously, she was senior vice president for research at the University of Arizona; vice president for research and innovation and dean of the graduate school at the University of Oregon; and faculty at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. In 2022, Espy was a San Antonio Business Journal Women’s Leadership Award winner.

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Teacher shortage tied to education programs' enrollment drop

Inside Higher Ed

The president of the National Education Association called the lack of classroom teachers a “ five-alarm crisis.” The flow of new teachers through the pipeline has slowed to a trickle, in part due to years of declining enrollment in education programs.

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Honors ed is changing to grow more accessible (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

More recently, NCHC adopted a sweeping redesign of national standards for honors education that had been in place for three decades. Those new benchmarks have significant implications for the roughly 1,500 institutions of higher education that have honors programs and honors colleges on their campuses.

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