Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image: The University of Houston suddenly removed its dean of social work last month. The former dean, Alan Dettlaff—who is returning to the social work faculty, for now—says his views on racial justice got him fired. “Moreover, we have yet to see our social work leaders take a bold stance on police divestment.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Students at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY. UNT and LaGuardia’s student centered, data-driven approaches are helping their students succeed in the classroom and beyond, offering considerable returns on their educational investment. Kenneth Adams, president of LaGuardia Community College.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

I could brag about the thousands of lives that have been changed by the community college mission. I could talk for hours about access initiatives such as self-placement models and open educational resources or brilliant faculty who guide and support critical thinking. By this time, he had truly found his groove. I am in awe.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2024

SEATTLE-- Prominent student affairs practitioners of color shared powerful stories of leading in higher education amid major challenges, including the recent COVID pandemic and ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. As such, Shivers said, it's important that student affairs professionals practice self-care. "Our

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MindMax

DECEMBER 15, 2022

What do higher education leaders worry about the most? Former Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Emeritus Dean of the School of Professional Studies at Brown University Gary W. Former Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Emeritus Dean of the School of Professional Studies at Brown University Gary W.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2024

“He could take a complicated, heated, and many-sided debate and go right to the essence of the problem and, seemingly without effort, come out with the three basic points and a suggestion about how to move forward, while easing the tension with a great sense of humor. Gone far too soon.” Gavin Newsom. Look where we are now.

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Continuous Learning Institute

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As institutions attempt to implement a variety of priorities, they understandably focus on the end result: improved student outcomes and equity. For improved student success and equity outcomes to be realized, there needs to be changes in college educator attitudes and behaviors.[1] Program mapping development 3.

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Deans for Impact

OCTOBER 3, 2022

With a rigorous approach to instruction, he taught students to analyze literary works in both standard English and Pidgin. To lift up and recognize the different identities and capacities that students bring, and open up opportunities and different ways of engaging and thinking.”. What is the purpose of schooling?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

Image: Connecting students and alumni can be challenging, especially for a school with a widely dispersed population, but Grinnell College is closing the gap between its graduates and current students by hosting short virtual networking events. Requiring alumni to register first also drives students to register, Peltz shares.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

After 20 years in online teaching, my experience and research has taught me some things that have helped cultivate a long and meaningful career. Encourage the introvert When I started teaching online in my twenties, I was so excited about it that I told all my friends they should do it too. What do you need from me?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Image: The University of Wyoming is launching a new program focused on boosting enrollment and graduation rates among rural students in the state. The initiative will provide college-prep training to up to 2,000 high school students selected from 10 rural public schools, funded by a $1.2 million grant from the U.S.

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Creatrix Campus

MARCH 12, 2024

Empowering Student Success: Enhancing Student Information and Academic Advising editor Tue, 03/12/2024 - 03:05 Welcome to our insightful guide, 'Empowering Student Success: Enhancing Student Information and Academic Advising.' Work closely with students to address academic challenges and career goals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

Georgia State University has launched a teacher prep and retention program to help ensure students in metro Atlanta school districts receive stable, qualified classroom instruction. At the same time, licensed and certified classroom teachers will earn a Master of Education degree to enhance their skills and advance in their careers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

Xavier University of Louisiana, an historically Black university (or HBCU) in New Orleans and top graduator of Black students who pursue medical degrees and doctorates in the health sciences, is partnering with Ochsner Health, the area’s leading medical training center, to open Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine (XOCOM). This can be me.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

Students at Connecticut College have occupied several buildings on campus, including part of the administration building, to demand the resignation of President Katherine Bergeron, Connecticut Public Radio reported. The students are angry about a planned fundraising event at Everglades Club in Palm Beach, Fla. Hide by line?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Conway-Turner, who grew up in a small town in Missouri, said her journey mirrors that of many of the students at Buffalo State University (part of the State University of New York system). As a first-generation college student, she appreciated the process of education and embraced its transformative aspects.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: A line of students out the door of the advising center, extending down the hallway to the floor below. That’s how academic advising at Tallahassee Community College used to look, says Pamela Johnston, dean of career and academic planning there: “Very reactionary.” percent this academic year over last.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image: Academic library professionals across the higher education landscape are championing student success initiatives within their own spaces, particularly to equip new students for their academic careers. Many even have dedicated student success librarians, solely focused on collaborative, resource-focused programming.

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University Business

APRIL 12, 2024

Larry Johnson first encountered Stella and Charles Guttman Community College in 2015 as a dean at Broward College (Fla.) when he read the seminal book “Redesigning America’s Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success.” Guttman’s hypothesis has been well supported so far.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

Yale University has made major changes to its medical leave policy that will allow students struggling with mental health problems to take time off—rather than withdraw—and to return to campus when they’re ready, without reapplying, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean In response to the post about naming “noncredit” programs after what they are not, Anne Hofmann of Frederick Community College tweeted, “Can we stop saying ‘nontraditional students’? It suggests by contrast that younger students don’t work for pay.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The University of California, Irvine, will launch an interdisciplinary, pre-health professional development program, which aims to support students from underserved communities interested in healthcare careers. UCPPP will expand the pool of talented and motivated students who will go on to practice healthcare where it’s needed most.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Khalid Long, associate professor of theatre arts; and Phylicia Rashad, dean of the fine arts college. When I was a student in the College of Fine Arts at Howard University, in what was then called the Department of Drama, I would often sit and gaze in wonder at the Academy Award that had been presented to Ms. Hattie is coming home!”

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Edu Alliance Journal

DECEMBER 5, 2022

December 5, 2022 by Dean Hoke : In the newest edition of the 2022 Open Doors Report, US university’s international student enrollment shows encouraging signs. International students coming to the United States are reported at 948,519, which nears the pre-pandemic level. Why is that a problem? India – 375,055.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image: Fully supporting students means explicitly teaching them critical thinking, Louis E. Newman argues in Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success (Radius Book Group). Newman, whose book will be published March 7, is former dean of academic advising at Stanford University and John M.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

But now, with decades of experience in teaching and higher education under his belt, he’s looking at new ways to shape the student academic experience, leading with equity and access in mind. Q: What led you to a career in higher education and, specifically, focused on student success?

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Though smaller than other schools that also appeared on the award list, it is strategic about putting its resources to good use, says Jason Mott, PhD, director of the pre-licensure program and an associate professor. Male Faculty, Students Serve as Role Models and Recruiters. Outreach Efforts Help Dispel Misconceptions .

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

” 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.” “I don’t think anybody is going to feel comfortable talking about this right now,” said Wendy Wilson-Fall.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

While building a 15-year foundation in admissions and enrollment management, Williams found herself engaging with students long after they had enrolled, which naturally expanded to helping them successfully navigate campus. Her main responsibility is broad: to serve undergraduate student scholars and their unique academic goals.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Reading Time: 4 minutes When considering studying with your institution, prospects are actually “buying” three things: the career, the institution, and the program. This means that, when searching for alternatives and evaluating your offer, they have 3 sets of questions: The Career Is this the right career for me?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2023

As part of the Maximizing Access to Research Careers program, Gonzales did a summer at Duke University, where he studied the optimization of hydrogels to promote the 3D growth of cells. “I Looking to find out more, he sent emails to 10 Duke professors, asking about the biomedical program, and seeing if he could meet students in it. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Morris has seen and done almost everything over her 30-year career. It was the best thing that happened to me, being able to culminate my compassion for people and my compassion for students into one dynamic career." She does not expect anything from us or the students that she is not willing to do herself.”

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Dr Michelle Morgan, Dean of Students at the University of East London. This piece is the first part of two discussing the rise in student mental health issues. These data provide valuable insights into student characteristics. The second part will be published tomorrow.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 23, 2023

Image: Boise State University opened its Micron Student Success Center earlier this year and will formally induct the space in April, offering a consolidation of resources for its engineering students to promote a sense of belonging and create a resource center. Facundo’s goal is for the center to be student informed.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 2, 2023

A graduate from a Japanese university himself, his experiences as an international student influence his job every day. I’m now dean of academic affairs at the same institution. I’m now dean of academic affairs at the same institution. What do you like most about your job? One student’s life changing story?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

The private Roman Catholic university boasts a leadership of majority women, with women leading all four of the school's academic schools as deans. Warner, a former GCU School of Business dean herself, said that during her time as dean, all three of GCU’s academic deans were women then as well. It was in our curriculum.

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