Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 27, 2023

Evan Mandery attacks elite colleges' practices, from admissions inequities to socioeconomic stratification. This is the first of a two-part conversation.

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Academe Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

BY JENNIFER RUTH The rejection of the College Board’s AP course in African American Studies is only the latest in a series of disturbing news relating to education coming out of Florida.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 27, 2023

Critics antagonize institutions for perceived biases. This group envisions another way with a new campus-based network.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

As an undergraduate, Sergio Brack made a name for himself as co-founder of College CoD — the College Call of Duty league — and president of the University of Mississippi’s esports organization. After graduating in 2020, he became director of esports at Ottawa University in Kansas. Today, he directs the esports program at the University of Maryland. He spoke with EdTech: Focus on Higher Education about his path to success, college-to-career pathways and the need to improve diversity within the sp

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 27, 2023

Mental health professionals stress the need to invest in innovative programs to help recruit and retain K-12 counselors, psychologists and social workers.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer In 2021 and 2022, AACRAO staff (American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers) joined the growing national conversation on re-envisioning transfer, sharing research and recommendations in addition to highlighting the infrastructure deficiencies and need for a more global perspective in the “Beyond Transfer” blog.

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UW Presidential Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Resources UW CareLink (PEBB benefits eligible employees, their dependents and household members) Let’s Talk (Seattle students) Accessing mental health care (Seattle students) Counseling services (UW Tacoma students) Counseling services (UW Bothell students) UW Student Counseling Center (Seattle students) Bias Reporting Tool – To report incidents of bias or violations of UW policies for non-discrimination Washington State Human Rights Commission Complaint Form Our community joins communities acr

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

A new slate of trustees may mean disruption for the campus. By Tom Bartlett A new slate of trustees may mean disruption for the campus — starting with the possible dismissal of the president.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

Image: For years, Indigenous students at Syracuse University have been urging administrators to increase campus supports for them, including in the counseling center. Now, in addition to pet therapy, meditation and roommate mediation, Syracuse students can seek treatment from Diane Schenandoah, a faith keeper of the Oneida Nation who uses traditional practices—including hands-on energy work and ceremonial rituals—to bring about healing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

CVS Health has announced an initiative to help address barriers to care in underserved U.S. communities, and some higher ed institutions are taking part. Joining the CVS Health Community Equity Alliance are Meharry Medical College , Sinai Chicago, and Wayne State University, to which CVS Health will give funding to for initiatives. CVS will be working with Sinai Chicago to bring health resources to underserved communities; with Meharry to expand the community health worker workforce; and with Wa

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

Image: Campaigners want to stop Spanish universities from obtaining the right to take positions on nonacademic issues guaranteed by law, which they claim will muzzle minority views. Tensions between individual and institutional politics are particularly pronounced in Catalonia, where university statements supporting pro-independence leaders have attracted legal penalties.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

On Thursday evening, the president of the philanthropic Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dr. Elizabeth Alexander and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Dr. Lonnie G. Bunch III came together to discuss the increasingly vital role public institutions play in teaching American citizens their country’s history, particularly the history of Black people.

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Terminalfour

JANUARY 27, 2023

Should you switch to GA4? This week we have a quick overview of the changes and top tips for transitioning across ahead of Universal Analytics ending in July.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

MassBay Community College will be offering free education and training in the areas of computers and technology to unemployed and underemployed workers. This endeavor – funded by a three-year, $300,000 grant from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development – will allow students to take classes such as: Computers & Technology, offered in Spring 2023; CompTIA A+ certification, offered in Fall 2023; and Microsoft Office, offered every semester through MassBay’s Corpor

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

Category: Conditionally Accepted Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt offers advice about how underrepresented faculty members can best navigate campus visits at predominantly white institutions. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: diversity faculty Section: Diversity Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

The U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has concluded that Troy University did not make reasonable and responsive adjustments responsive to a student’s pregnancy-related adjustment requests during the 2020-21 school year. OCR had been investigating Troy regarding whether the school had responded to the student’s requests in a manner that complied with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

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ACRLog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Content warning: mass shooting, death Bear with me; this might be all over the place. Despite its name, East Los Angeles College (ELAC) is a community college located in Monterey Park, a city in Los Angeles’ San Gabriel Valley. But yes, ELAC was once part of unincorporated East Los Angeles before being annexed in the early 1970s. East LA is well known as a largely Hispanic community, over 95% according to the 2020 Census, while Monterey Park has a majority Asian American population at 65%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

In time for Black History month, SUNY Cortland will be formally having its inaugural Abraham Lincoln DeMond 1889 Day , in honor of the school’s first African American alum – in 1889 – amid prejudicial policies and segregation. Abraham Lincoln DeMond The annual event will begin at 6 p.m. on Feb. 1, in the Corey Union Function Room. Speakers will include Pittman; Ernest Logan, president emeritus of the American Federation of School Administrators; and Cortland President Dr.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

Union members are accusing three University of California, San Diego, professors of giving “unsatisfactory” grades to 21 teaching assistants and a graduate student researcher for participating in the recent strike. In a Wednesday news release, the United Auto Workers said it violates California’s Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act to “retaliate against people on strike in any way, including by docking their grades.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

Although the COVID-19 pandemic intensified racial divides in America, it did have one tempering effect. As students moved off campus and learned from home, the battles that had raged over building names statues, and memorials of figures associated with slavery, segregation, and eugenics cooled. Now, with campus life having returned to some version of normal, debates over landscape fairness are back.

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Liaison International

JANUARY 27, 2023

New Common App Data Highlights Positive Application Trends Recent analysis of newly released Common App data indicates that applications and admissions could be poised to bounce back in 2023, particularly among underrepresented minorities and first-generation students. Through January 1, students submitted nearly 1,080,000 distinct first-year applications overall, compared with about 903,000 during the 2019-2020 academic year, a 20% increase.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

Should Spanish be a domestic language in higher education? In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez’s Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera discusses this question. Herlihy-Mera is a professor of humanities at UPR–Mayagüez and author of Decolonizing American Spanish (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022). A transcript of this podcast can be found here.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

Anita B. Walton Anita B. Walton has been named vice president for institutional advancement at Hollins University in Roanoke, Va. Walton holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s in higher education administration from North Carolina State University.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

Lawmakers and student debt advocacy groups are pushing the Biden administration to develop backup plans in case the U.S. Supreme Court rules against the administration’s one-time student loan forgiveness plan, Bloomberg reported. The report was based on two sources familiar with the informal discussions. One possible option is for the administration to change the legal justification for the plan.

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University Business

JANUARY 27, 2023

Established in 1988, the mission of the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) is to make the center a leading institute in ocean and earth science and technology. SOEST scientists and engineers work to understand the interrelationships of the sea, atmosphere and Earth to learn how to sustainably enhance the quality of lives, as well as bring an enrichment of intellect, culture and technological advances to Hawaii.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

Saying it found “material weakness” in the Education Department’s financial statements for the last year, an outside auditor declined to issue an opinion on the documents. KPMG, the independent auditor hired by the department’s inspector general, said the department wasn’t able to provide the necessary evidence to support its estimate of how much student loan forgiveness will cost, which was based in a large part on how many people would apply for debt relief.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

One of the few things more complex than a cloud network is an enterprise network. The diversity of applications and the burden of legacy technology place ridiculous requirements on enterprise networks, and the price of those requirements is paid with the individual efforts required to keep things up and running. What’s more complex than an enterprise network?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has resolved a complaint about the way Troy University, in Alabama, handled a student’s pregnancy. The student complained that when she “became unable to fit into a classroom desk due to her pregnancy, she requested a table for one of her classes, but never received one. She also was penalized in a class for poor attendance and received a failing grade in another class because she was denied the ability to make up work.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

By Stephanie M. Lee President Biden’s former science adviser is returning to the Broad Institute following allegations of bullying.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

Teachers went on strike for two days, starting Wednesday, at the University of California Lab School, which the Los Angeles Times described as “an elite pre-K-through-sixth-grade school nestled in a quiet corner of the UCLA campus,” which “has offered a nurturing environment for students whose parents won a coveted spot for their child.

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University Business

JANUARY 27, 2023

The California State University system is putting campuses on notice: Enroll more students or lose money. It’s a stunning reversal of fortune for the 23 campuses of the country’s largest public university system, which have collectively lost 27,000 students in two years — part of a national wave of declining college enrollment. In fall 2020, Cal State posted its highest-ever enrollment, a capstone to almost ceaseless growth in its six decades as a unified system.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

More medical and law schools have announced that they are leaving the U.S. News & World Report rankings of those institutions. The medical schools of Cornell University and the University of Chicago are the latest to join the movement. Harvard University kicked off the effort this month, and it was quickly joined by the medical schools of Columbia and Stanford Universities and the University of Pennsylvania and the Icahn medical school of Mount Sinai.

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University Business

JANUARY 27, 2023

Since 1983, U.S. News & World Report ’s annual ranking of colleges and universities has been a driving force in American higher education. But recently, the ground behind the rankings has begun to shift. In November, Yale and Harvard jolted the academic world when they announced that they would yank their law schools from the list altogether — a decision that has had a domino effect on other prestigious law and medical programs.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

Nearly a decade after the Obama administration broached the idea of rating colleges and universities, the Biden administration is ready to take another crack at the historically fraught concept. This time around, the administration is planning to publish a list of programs that are considered to have a low financial value to students and taxpayers. But first the department must decide how to determine which programs have low financial value—a question that’s been the subject of much research but

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

University of Florida raised $4.6 billion in a campaign that started in in 2014. The campaign’s original goal was $3 billion. York College of Pennsylvania has raised $92 million in a campaign that started in 2020. The original goal was $50 million, which was increased to $70 million. Editorial Tags: Fund-Raising Is this diversity newsletter?: Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?

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Michael Fullan

JANUARY 27, 2023

We are excited to announce that Barnes and Noble is running an online-only promotion of 25% off preorders. The offer is good until end-of-day tomorrow, January 28. Use the link below and promo code PREORDER25 at checkout. [link] Jossey-Bass 2023 Break out of the traditional, narrow role of principal and transform your school for the better In 2014 Michael Fullan set his sights on the daily needs of school leaders in his bestselling book The Principal. … Read more Today only!

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University Business

JANUARY 27, 2023

Three Florida nursing schools sold thousands of fake nursing diplomas worth millions in a scheme that allowed aspiring nurses to bypass the required training to become licensed in the profession, federal prosecutors alleged Thursday. Siena College, Palm Beach School of Nursing and Sacred Heart International Institute – all based in south Florida – combined to distribute more than 7,600 fraudulent diplomas worth over $100 million or roughly $15,000 per diploma, federal prosecutors said.

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