Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

Sometimes it still surprises me when I think about the fact that we’re actually together,” said LaVar Charleston. history, gender and race with the law. They collaborate on projects that improve access to graduate school for under-resourced students and students of color. Sherri Charleston studied the intersection of U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will give Howard University a replacement of actor Hattie McDaniel’s Best Supporting Actress Academy Award. Khalid Long, associate professor of theatre arts; and Phylicia Rashad, dean of the fine arts college. Hattie is coming home!”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

Image: Everyone knows Black students encounter bias in college. So do queer students. Jeffries, the dean of academic affairs, Class of 1949 Professor in Ethics and professor of American studies at Wellesley College. He interviewed students at more than a dozen colleges, some of which were historically Black.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

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 We are grateful for support from the Mellon Foundation,” said Dr. Jennifer Collins, president of Rhodes Colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

Day, the Centennial Conference announced its creation of a three-year strategic diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) plan, uniting the conference’s 11 private, Division III institutions in a shared mission to make their athletics programs a place where all students, particularly those in marginalized populations, feel they belong.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

Ubiquitous learning—the idea that everywhere you go, you’re learning all the time—lets us take advantage of the concept that in every interaction, there may be opportunities for students to engage with our subject matter if we can just get them into that holistic thinking mode. I always require students to talk to at least 10 people.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

Ubiquitous learning—the idea that everywhere you go, you’re learning all the time—lets us take advantage of the concept that in every interaction, there may be opportunities for students to engage with our subject matter if we can just get them into that holistic thinking mode. I always require students to talk to at least 10 people.

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University Business

MAY 10, 2024

“Others that have a long history—or even a short history—but don’t have that specific attention tend to maintain just a steady state.” Before becoming the private liberal arts school’s second president, he was a founding faculty member and became the dean of faculty after SUA graduated its first class.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

Image: When Andrea Mora enrolled at University of California, Irvine, in 2012, she was a low-income, first-generation student. She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2024

A special kind of energy comes with doing something no one else has, and it’s buzzing around California State University, Sacramento (Sacramento State), this spring as early applications are being reviewed for the inaugural cohort of 70 students who will enroll in the trailblazing Black Honors College (BHC).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

But rather, it's the elimination of opportunities to retain faculty and students [who] this country and its universities has historically never served,” McCune said. Opportunities that are being eliminated are opportunities for students for whom the culture has not been able to be inclusive and inviting.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Dr. Monte Randall This partnership aims to create collaborative learning communities and research initiatives connecting the two campuses, with the money going towards supporting CMN’s transition from a two-year to a four-year institution. government 15 years earlier.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Bolstered by state and national workforce needs and their promising return on investment, the STEM track represents a gold mine for colleges and universities that want to ensure credentials from their institution are providing students with good job prospects and gainful employment.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

That shortfall resulted in low levels of student knowledge of and participation in democracy, as evidenced by alarmingly low voting rates and other civic indicators. Students have opportunities to play leadership roles not only in voter mobilization work but issue activism. The tide seems to be turning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The Proctor Institute – housed in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Graduate School of Education – hosted the event in honor of Black History Month. Sullivan discussed his latest book, We’ll Fight It Out Here: A History of the Ongoing Struggle for Health Equity, which chronicles the history and impacts of AMHPS.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

It’s unclear who supported the letter beyond those four, but 23 would represent over two-thirds of the college’s department heads and program chairs. ” The second point said that “Dean positions are created and filled before dean positions are defined[;] input is requested only after key decisions are made.”

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: Yeshiva University, a Modern Orthodox Jewish institution, is launching a new program intended for Christian students. Students have the option of completing the program online or on Yeshiva’s campus in New York City. Support for Israel is a point of political common ground for some Jews and evangelical Christians.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Elmer Guy first came to Crownpoint Institute of Technology in 1999 as dean of instruction, he could not have known that, 24 years later, he would oversee the institution’s renaming to Navajo Technical University (NTU). Those same students are talented, creative. program — Diné (Navajo) Culture and Language Sustainability.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Many institutions seeking to balance the racial composition of their student bodies are left to wonder about the next steps. This is not to say that the construct of race is not important for understanding American history, politics, and civics; for we understand our nation has not fully reconciled its racial tensions.

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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. Gay, currently the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was hired after a search that began in July to replace Lawrence S.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Amid declining enrollment, diminished public confidence and generational shifts in the workforce, change may be our only constant and the only universal necessity in the 21st century. It’s essential to position academic reviews in the context of their long history and widespread use. of our student body.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

About seven years ago, Columbia University welcomed its first HBCU Fellowship cohort, allowing students who had graduated from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to pursue select master’s degrees in the university’s School of Professional Studies (SPS), all the while getting financial, career, and academic support.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

The push for more representation and education about Asian identities at Amherst College has been a multi-decade affair. It’s involved protests and urging from all levels, from students to university leaders. We have to be understood on our own.” He joined in.

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FIRE

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The college cited three incidents that led to her firing: In 2017, Jones signed her name and college affiliation on a published open letter supporting the removal of Confederate monuments in Dallas. Lawsuits are our last resort when colleges prove unwilling to respect faculty and the First Amendment.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The money will be targeted at students with physical disabilities at a university known for its strong track record in providing disability services. Leshner said it was important to Zweig that the funds go toward supporting career-driven individuals with disabilities. Image: A $10.9

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Faculty members, Brown recalls, were worried that students would use ChatGPT to cheat and bypass any difficulties they encountered, negatively impacting learning. But this method led to its own problems, including students’ work being falsely flagged as AI-generated. Dr. Joseph F. Brown A perfect solution was not easy to find.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

My children would ask every 30 minutes of our 12-hour holiday trek from Fishers, Indiana, to my hometown, Fort Worth, Texas. While we no longer make that trek and my youngest finally got it after a while, I still experience similar questions and assumptions about those gas station stops and getting there. Are we there yet?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Since 1804, the New-York Historical Society (New-York Historical) and its stewards have been preserving and showcasing history. A lot of the time, when people think of the work that goes on in museums, they think about curation, what's the exhibition,” Paley said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Dr. Aaron Goodson “It’s really important that we see Black women in this position of leadership as head coaches in our sport,” says Smith, who is co-chair of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee. “In She rebranded Cal’s annual tournament to reflect a focus on social justice and equity.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

In the spring of 2022, at least 15 colleges and universities , including my own, Alfred University, jointly awarded honorary degrees during our commencement exercises. Zelensky noted in his recent address to our Congress that financial assistance to Ukraine represents an investment, not charity.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

I thought, what with high rates of inflation, a depressed stock market, and lots of reports of crime, the Democratic party was about to face a red wave. I even thought that Ukraine was far more dependent on NATO, and especially US support, than it actually is. ” Our hunches, instincts, and gut feelings often lead us astray.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2023

Image: Hamline University has been engrossed in an academic freedom debate this year over the actions of an adjunct instructor at the private Minnesota institution who was teaching global art history. The instructor had warned students in advance of her plan to show the image. ” And she noted limits on academic freedom.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Graves remembers being a young student in public school, looking forward to the third Monday of every January as a day off. Higher education institutions are the engines of change in our society, premier hubs for knowledge production," said Graves. Morehouse students and others across the U.S. Dr. Glenell M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It bans affirmative action not only in race but other protected categories, and not just in admissions but in hiring practices and awarding money,” says Dr. Mark Henderson, associate dean of admissions and vice chair for education in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of California (UC) Davis. Dr. Jessica Faiz.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

Image: Connecticut College president Katherine Bergeron is stepping down in the wake of student protests and widespread calls for her resignation over missteps on diversity, equity and inclusion. Bergeron made the announcement Friday morning, writing in a statement that she would formally step down “at the end of the current semester.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Image: An English professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University said his teaching contract has been put on hold after complaints about his instruction on race and racism. 15, I concluded a class and walked out of the classroom to find the provost and the dean of the school of liberal arts and sciences waiting for me,” Joeckel wrote.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

That shortfall resulted in low levels of student knowledge of and participation in democracy, as evidenced by alarmingly low voting rates and other civic indicators. Students have opportunities to play leadership roles not only in voter mobilization work but issue activism. The tide seems to be turning.

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