ACPA

JANUARY 17, 2024

Dr. Pruitt -Logan’s career of contribution to higher education began at Howard University in 1950 as Resident Intern and Women’s Counselor. She later held the positions of Dean of Women and Dean of Students at Albany State College in Georgia and in a similar position at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.

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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. Over these 16 years, he has excelled as a scholar, academic leader and civil rights activist.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Hundreds of schools are experimenting with the process, and six states will have some form of direct admissions by this fall. Odle and Delaney studied the direct admissions process at six schools that are part of the pilot, some private, some public, some small, some large, and all ranging from moderately selective to open access.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Intentionality from institutions in terms of which high schools and communities they choose to invest recruitment efforts in was a key component that was highlighted. Michael Bastedo, associate dean of University of Michigan’s Marsal Family School of Education, advocated for: holistic review.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

College students have been shown to be likelier to pass courses with race-matched instructors, likelier to receive higher grades in those courses, and likelier to persist in school. Griffin, the dean of the College of Education at the University of Maryland. But only 16% of professors were Hispanic and 10% were Black.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 30, 2023

Research has repeatedly shown that a student’s high school GPA is a better predictor of college success than standardized test scores such as the SAT or ACT. The development and use of standardized tests in higher education came out of the eugenics movement. But there are deeper issues, too, involving race and equity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

According to MSU’s Education Policy Innovation Collaborative, in 2021, more Michigan teachers exited the profession than entered, and new teachers were less likely to renew their certificates. Dr. Roland Mitchell, dean of Louisiana State University’s College of Human Sciences and Education, applauded the restructuring. “I

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. The New England Commission of Higher Education] is getting more comfortable with pilots, for examples.”

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

” A “group of faculty,” added Burbules, Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, “is not the same thing as a department. ” (Burbules has contributed opinion pieces to Inside Higher Ed.). But having the conversation is a first step.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 28, 2022

trillion omnibus federal spending bill that was signed right before Christmas by President Joe Biden, are funding provisions and policy changes that impact the world of higher education. The new legislation was welcomed by policy experts, although it did not contain everything that they had hoped for.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2024

Similarly, many university administrators, including education deans, disseminated statements illustrating their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The Chronicle of Higher Education has even instituted a DEI Legislation Tracker to track anti-DEI higher education policies.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

The Education Department announced last month that it would revisit nearly three decades of policy making under Title IV of the Higher Education Act that has largely restricted colleges from paying recruiters based on how many students they enroll. “This is helping us small and middle-sized schools survive.”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 20, 2023

is vice president of impact and planning for Lumina Foundation, an independent, private foundation in Indianapolis committed to making learning opportunities beyond high school available to all. Before 2011, Brown was a senior research associate at the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. She focused largely on access to higher education, noting the well-known findings within political science that tie increased political engagement – voting, volunteering, even running for office – with increased formal education.

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