Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

The legacy of mistreatment that American Indians and Alaska Natives have endured is evident in the educational statistics. Only 16.1% of AIAN people over 25 have a bachelor’s degree or higher, less than half the rate of Americans overall, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In an attempt to address this disparity, the Lilly Endowment, has announced a five-year, $38,775,000 grant to the American Indian College Fund, the nation’s largest charity for Native higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 2, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation For a few years, I’ve used my last blog post of the calendar year to aggregate the book reviews I’ve published over the past year. This post always generates several emails in which readers share what they’ve read over the past year. It is always rewarding to see an overlap in the reading habits of our Inside Higher Ed community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

Wayne State University has received $6 million for a cluster hire program to recruit and hire 30 new humanities faculty and create a Black Studies center. Dr. M. Roy Wilson The multi-million dollar grant – from The Mellon Foundation – will allow the school to recruit 10 tenure-track faculty; 10 tenured associate or full professor-level faculty; and 10 early career scholars for the Pathway to Faculty program, an initiative to prepare people for tenure-track roles.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 2, 2023

Who is your favorite poet’s favorite poet? In today's Academic Minute, a Commissioner’s Choice Award segment as part of University of Dayton Week, Minnita Daniel-Cox looks into one such person. Daniel-Cox is an associate professor of voice and coordinator of the voice area at Dayton. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. Section: Academic Minute File: 01-02-23 Dayton - Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Artist Legacy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

New Orleans, Louisiana will be the newest location for nonprofit Generation Hope's Scholar Program , which aims to support and give young parents wrap-around services to help them attain college degrees. Nicole Lynn Lewis Program participants will get resources and services, such as tuition assistance, crisis assistance, emergency funding, mentoring, mental health, and career support.

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The Higher Ed Marketer

JANUARY 2, 2023

Search engine marketing is top-of-mind for most higher ed marketers, but it’s still a drastically underutilized marketing mechanism. In fact, according to our guest, Faton Sopa , co-founder and CEO of Manaferra , only three of the top ten websites that commonly show up from higher ed search terms are school websites. In Part Two of our discussion around search engine marketing, we address some common shortfalls in higher ed marketing SEO strategies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

In December, the US General Accountability Office (GAO) published a report indicating variation in how colleges show cost and aid information in financial aid offers, which makes it harder for students to compare offers. Approximately 91% of colleges understate or don't include net price in college offers, according to the report. Steve Colón Steve Colón, CEO of college admission nonprofit Bottom Line said that more needs to be done in the wake of the report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

Ivana Rich Ivana Rich has been appointed associate vice president and director of intercollegiate athletics at Edward Waters University in Jacksonville, Fla. She holds a master’s in sports management from VSU, a master’s in human services counseling from Liberty University, and a doctoral degree in curriculum and instruction/educational technology from the University of South Carolina.

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Caylor Solutions

JANUARY 2, 2023

What’s your school’s unique selling proposition? Finding it hard to articulate? Let’s explore your school’s value and create a powerful USP. The post How to Create a Strong Unique Selling Proposition for Your School appeared first on Caylor Solutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 2, 2023

Historian of education Jonathan Zimmerman’s superficial commentary on “affirmative action and anti-Asian bias” (Dec. 12) demands a response. Without checking any evidence, Zimmerman parrots opinion essays in The New York Times and elsewhere that repeat the undocumented, ideologically fueled court filings— not initiated by either Asian-Americans or other American—by a well-funded right-wing campaign of assault on the proven (if never 100 percent perfect) record of af

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Student Association Senate’s finance committee Monday reported a record-low fulfillment of student organization funding requests due to budget cuts. Nathan Nguyen, the director of the Legislative Budget Office and an ad hoc member of the committee, said student organizations requested about $2.2 million for the spring semester, but the SA’s budget consists of about $343,000, only 16.75 percent of the amount requested.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2023

It has sometimes felt like the past year has seen a torrent of valuable books on education, including higher education, even if there has not always been the time to read and digest them properly – there are good reasons why HEPI papers are designed to be read in one sitting or, as we tell our authors , to be ‘short enough to read on a single train journey’ [of, admittedly, indeterminable length].

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

A group of students and community members from Richland Center are trying to prevent the end of in-person classes at their college campus next summer. The group delivered a petition with 1,400 signatures urging University of Wisconsin System President Jay Rothman, state lawmakers and Gov. Tony Evers to find a way to save UW-Platteville Richland. The students and some Richland County officials traveled to Madison on Thursday to deliver the petition and testimonials to Rothman during the December

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 2, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A Gallup and Purdue poll of 30,000 college grads from 2014 found that students who had a rich, robust relationship with a faculty member were twice as likely as peer graduates to report high levels of well-being. But only 14 percent of graduates said they had experienced such a relationship. Two books that appeared in 2020 – which were mainly written pre-pandemic -- speak to an issue that campuses need to take more seriously: The centrality of interpersonal relationsh

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