Education Department calls on colleges to stop asking about applicants’ criminal histories
Higher Ed Dive
MAY 1, 2023
The recommendation came in a wide-ranging report about how colleges can better support students who were formerly incarcerated.
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Higher Ed Dive
MAY 1, 2023
The recommendation came in a wide-ranging report about how colleges can better support students who were formerly incarcerated.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Department of Education for a program to teach K-12 teachers about civics, history, and media literacy. The co-pilots of the program are Dr. Lauren Harris, an associate professor of history education, and Dr. Leanna Archambault, professor of learning design and technology. million from the U.S.
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Insight Into Diversity
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Throughout its history, higher education in the U.S. Although Black History Month was federally designated in 1986, similar weekly and monthly celebrations had already existed for more than 50 years. Throughout history, some activists who were for Black liberation found their homes in the academy.”.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
The exclusion and omission of Black history threatens to harm not just the Black community at large but also students and the very future of the nation, experts said during a Nov. The discussion was moderated by Dr. Marcia Vandiver, associate professor of elementary education at Towson University. the NREI website stated.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Alex Red Corn Recently at our Indigenous Peoples Day gathering at Kansas State University, Chief Ben Barnes of the Shawnee spoke from the heart about matters related to Shawnee histories and their ongoing presence as a Native nation. and worldwide, have a complicated relationship with institutions of education.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Kenyon College President Dr. Sean Decatur will be stepping down from his current role at the end of 2022 to become president of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in April 2023. Dr. Sean M. Decatur Decatur has been the school’s president for almost a decade, his tenure having begun in 2013.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 9, 2023
Grinnell College is launching a Department of African Diaspora Studies. The department will be led by a senior-level endowed chair who will design the curriculum and major. Black studies is not just about the past or history — it also provides us with so many paths forward toward more equitable community building.”
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 9, 2023
dissertation, titled “A Jotería Identity and Belonging: Pláticas of Co-Creation with Queer and Trans Latinx Graduate Students in Higher Education,” not only describes his research as a prolific scholar and noted activist, but it also represents some of his own intriguing journey. “I Sergio Gonzalez’s Ph.D.
WCET Frontiers
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
For those in higher education, the U.S. Department of Education created its own rumblings by releasing new guidance with rules about any contracted services and a series of questions about companies helping institutions with online learning. Did you hear that loud noise last Wednesday?
Higher Education Inquirer
JULY 12, 2023
The University of Phoenix (or at least its name) may soon enter the ash heap of US history--and rise again as a state-run robocollege. Once hailed as the leader in affordable adult education for workers entering middle management, it is a shell of its former self--in an economy less certain for consumers. It's a Long Story.
WCET Frontiers
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
WCET Frontiers would like to honor our veterans by sharing about the history of Veterans Day and also share some updates on federal policy issues for institutions to watch that affect the process and delivery of Veterans benefits. Bill education benefits receive a Monthly Housing Allowance (MHA) for the terms that they are enrolled.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 21, 2022
It prepared me to be a very specialized political theorist in a poli sci department of at least a couple dozen people. Instead, I’ve spent most of my career in places where the poli sci department was either one person or two. My weirdly accurate title was “assistant/associate professor of general education.”)
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 18, 2024
Educators who train and prepare students to become teachers, gathered this weekend at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) to call attention to the ongoing challenges that face K-12 learning. AURORA, Colo.—
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2024
Paula Krebs Report on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes draws on findings from a number of different sources, including the Hamilton Project, the National Humanities Alliance, the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, and Humanities Indicators. in history. “I in English. “[It
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 15, 2024
Donovan Livingston, award-winning educator, spoken word poet, and public speaker, has spent his career in education bridging the gap between his artistic sensibility and commitment to college access, and social justice. “A in educational leadership and cultural foundations from UNC Greensboro.
The Change Leader, Inc.
JULY 4, 2023
Department of Education – Accreditation and Quality Control 36 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton The recently filed Florida v. Department of Education lawsuit over accreditation and control could change the face of higher education across the US. The US Department of Justice has yet to file a response.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 15, 2022
“Departments as such should avoid statements on what we call here ‘external’ matters (state, national, or international policy matters),” the guidelines say. Those in the department with dissenting views should be able to express them in the same forum, the guidance also says. Departments vs. Individuals.
WCET Frontiers
OCTOBER 17, 2023
The State Authorization Network (SAN) is pleased to release a very thorough examination of state authorization of distance education through the lens of a colleague who witnessed many steps in the development of consumer protections for students participating in interstate distance education.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 27, 2024
Brandi Waters, senior program manager of AP African American Studies at the College Board, and Dr. Ericka Armstrong Dunbar, professor of history at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. She is always looking to center the story of Black women in history, particularly to find ways to make those stories resonate with the students of today.
The Guardian - Higher Education
MAY 5, 2024
Academics warn loss of higher education arts and humanities courses will harm understanding of racism and imperial history Cuts to arts and humanities subjects within higher education will have damaging implications for our understanding of race and colonialism, academics have warned.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 11, 2024
What does Diverse: Issues In Higher Education mean to you? When the first edition of what was then called Black Issues In Higher Education was published on March 15, 1984, it was two days before my 14th birthday, and I was still adjusting to ninth grade in a public high school after attending a private school from second grade to eight grade.
HEPI
MAY 30, 2023
There is a long history of people getting their predictions about the future of technology, including the future of technology in education, wrong. Just ten years ago, in the words of Wired magazine, Sebastian Thrun declared that ‘ In 50 years … there will be only ten institutions in the world delivering higher education ’.
HEPI
JANUARY 24, 2024
Mathias Cormann, Secretary General of the OECD, on the value of higher education in developed countries. Never mind that the 50% target he refers to relates to tertiary education, I am certain he is not alone in believing that too many people go to university. In 1998, 20% of adults in the OECD had a tertiary education.
WCET Frontiers
MAY 16, 2024
Department of Education (Department) have a common goal to support a student participating in an educational program leading to a state license to complete the state educational requirements to pursue their goal of becoming employed in the occupation for which they were trained and educated.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Title: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Drexel University, Jointly Appointed, History and Africana Studies, Drexel University Tenured: No Age: 42 Education: B.A., political science, University of California at Irvine; B.A., Asian American studies, University of California at Irvine; M.A.,
University Business
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Higher education has adapted slowest to artificial intelligence (AI), according to Tyler Cowen, economics professor at George Mason University. We stand at a very unusual moment in human history,” Cowen said. The post Economics professor: Higher education has adapted slowest to AI appeared first on University Business.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
LAS VEGAS-- Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
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.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
The University of Maryland (UMD) has released its first report covering the history of their institution and its intersection with slavery, The 1856 Project – Reconstructing the Truth. University of Maryland campus, Memorial Chapel. These [reports and investigations] aren’t designed to make universities look bad.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 9, 2024
Frye Hall is one of six buildings on campus designed by the architectural firm of the late Phil Freelon, a nationally recognized figure in the architecture community who led the design team for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Secretary of Education and former interim JSU president. “He He is one of the only people I can think of who has a full comprehension of the history, trajectory, strength, vulnerabilities, and basic needs of the university. in history and Spanish and a master’s degree in education from Mississippi College and a Ph.D.
The Guardian - Higher Education
APRIL 10, 2024
Evaristo, along with former students and writers, issued a plea to Goldsmiths to reconsider the removal of “pioneering” postgraduate courses after plans were announced to cut the jobs in 11 departments. Continue reading.
University Business
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Beginning in July 2024, the Department of Education will hold colleges and universities on a tighter leash regarding their graduates’ employment outcomes. “Higher education is supposed to be an invaluable investment in your future. “Higher education is supposed to be an invaluable investment in your future.
Insight Into Diversity
JULY 5, 2023
Northern Arizona University’s (NAU) Department of Occupational Therapy is working to address these challenges by providing Arizona foster youth with skills, training, and support. They will also receive education in areas such as self-care, health and safety, money management, and employment.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 31, 2023
“As an anchor in DC’s African American community and site of one of the nation’s leading preservers of African American history, Howard University is well positioned to spearhead the process of preserving Mary Church Terrell’s legacy and the broader legacy of the vibrant African American community that is central to LeDroit Park’s history.
The Guardian - Higher Education
MARCH 18, 2024
My friend and colleague of 50 years, Robin Okey, who has died aged 81, was emeritus professor of history at the University of Warwick. He was a remarkable person in so many ways. Continue reading.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 1, 2024
But Dr. Ajhanai Keaton, an assistant professor in the Department of Health and Sport Sciences at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, says that, while the NCAA’s policy has good intentions, there are no clear repercussions for athletic departments that do not include DEI programs.
The PIE News
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Global Affairs Canada (GAC) is currently leading the development of Canada’s third International Education Strategy (IES) to follow the current strategy that expires on March 31 next year. GAC’s task is further complicated as the responsibility of education policy lies exclusively with the provinces.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A. We are fixing a broken system and making sure that students know, before they take out loans, when college programs have a history of leaving graduates with high debts, low earnings, and poor career prospects. Department of Education Under Secretary James Kvaal.
Faculty Focus
MARCH 7, 2024
One of the most pressing issues for higher education within the last several years is the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI). At the heart of composition faculty in particular, but of the entire higher education community as well, are those of us looking for solutions for students using AI to write papers. WHPS Tech Tip.
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
The UK secretary of state for education, Gillian Keegan, has shown strong support for international students and the wider sector, with reports that she will oppose any potential cuts to international student numbers by the Home Office. “It’s world-leading, a great advert to our country.”
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 28, 2023
“It opens up and broadens knowledge and understanding of cultural differences that we experience, especially in higher education.” Massasoit will begin offering the two-year program this fall – the goal being to enroll at least 15 students – with courses about Black history, literature, music, education, healthcare, and criminal justice.
Faculty Focus
MARCH 7, 2024
One of the most pressing issues for higher education within the last several years is the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI). At the heart of composition faculty in particular, but of the entire higher education community as well, are those of us looking for solutions for students using AI to write papers. WHPS Tech Tip.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 8, 2023
He will also take on the role of tenured professor in the school’s kinesiology department. billion research enterprise; created a Campus Safety Commission; and appointed a special commission to look at the UNC’s history with race. Jackson, dean of the MSU College of Education and search committee member. Dr. Kevin M.
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