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Ford Foundation to end diverse fellowship program

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The Ford Foundation is ending its longtime fellowship program for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from diverse backgrounds. The foundation says the decision is part of a longer-term pivot away from funding education—which ranks high among philanthropic causes—to supporting traditionally underfunded work in social and racial justice.

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The Changing Face of Collegiate Athletics – NCAA, Knight Commission, and Title IXChanging Higher Ed Podcast 121 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Amy Privette Perko

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The Changing Face of Collegiate Athletics – NCAA, Knight Commission, and Title IX – Changing Higher Ed Podcast 121 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Amy Privette Perko In this episode of Changing Higher Ed podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Amy Privette Perko discuss what’s happening with collegiate athletics and the key decisions […] The changing face of Collegiate Athletics prompts value-based decisions for college presidents and boards.

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A professor tries to convince herself not to quit academe (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

I thought if I tried to write about what could keep a person going when they want to leave, I might be able to get myself into a better place, writes Rachel Toor. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Nuthawut Somsuk/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Moodle Learning Platform Integrates Text-to-Speech Tools

Campus Technology

Students using the Moodle open source learning management platform can now listen to learning content in more than 50 languages, thanks to a new integration with digital voice and text-to-speech tool ReadSpeaker.

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Alabama community colleges wrestle with leadership turnover

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Frustrations with Alabama Community College System leaders came to a head among state lawmakers in Mobile this summer after the firing of the interim president at Bishop State Community College, Lawrence Brandyburg. The firing in June raised concerns about frequent leadership turnover at the historically Black community college and within the system as a whole.

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Purpose Driven Marketing Through Brand Storytelling

The Higher Ed Marketer

The most important part of storytelling in higher education is creating stories where students can easily insert themselves and be an active participant. . . Chad Wilson is the Vice President and Executive Creative Director of Marketing at Grand Canyon Education , an education service company that provides an array of support services in the post-secondary education sector, including work with their key client, Grand Canyon University. .

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How campus climate and student services interactions connect (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

For a long time, colleges and universities pushed back on the idea that students are customers. Colleges and universities don’t like to think of themselves as serving customers, but as enrollment challenges persist, many campuses have adopted a “serving the customer” mind-set with the goal of helping students matriculate and thrive.

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U of Kansas Can’t Ban Handguns Around Combustibles

Inside Higher Ed

The University of Kansas may not ban handguns, even where combustible materials such as rocket fuel are stored, according to the Lawrence Journal-World. Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little reportedly told the University Senate that while the policy is potentially “disastrous,” the state attorney generally told the university that it may not make exceptions to the state’s concealed campus carry law, which took effect in 2017.

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2022 Senior Scholars Grants

ACPA

Call for Proposals: ACPA Senior Scholars Grant Program. September 16, 2022. The American College Personnel Association (ACPA) and the Senior Scholars are committed to making policy programmatic decisions based on quality research data about the experiences of students, administrators, staff, and faculty at colleges and universities nationally and internationally.

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Closed Penn State Meetings May Violate Transparency Law

Inside Higher Ed

Leaders at Pennsylvania State University may have violated the state’s open meetings law by gathering in private, according to Spotlight PA. The executive committee of the university’s Board of Trustees has been meeting privately for over a decade, using a provision in the Pennsylvania Sunshine Act that allows public agencies to hold closed “conferences” for a limited number of purposes, such as completing a training.

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Hispanic, Latino, or Latinx? Why the difference matters.

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National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 – October 15) is here! Before you fire up your brand’s content calendar for the celebration, you may be asking “is the word Hispanic really the right way to address this audience?”. It‘s an important question, and we’re glad you’re asking it. As with all important questions, the answer is as nuanced as the task at hand.

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Oregon Apologizes for Chant During Brigham Young Game

Inside Higher Ed

The University of Oregon has apologized for a profane chant by some students while Oregon hosted Brigham Young University at a football game this weekend, KGW News reported. In the student section, some students chanted, “F**k the Mormons.” pic.twitter.com/FYXHNrVXes. — Nate Slack (@nateslack5) September 18, 2022. Utah governor Spencer Cox retweeted the video with the comment, “Religious bigotry alive and celebrated in Oregon.

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Mount Holyoke Workers Win New Contracts

Inside Higher Ed

Members of the service workers’ union at Mount Holyoke College have ratified three-year contracts with the college that will provide significant wage increases for 100 dining employees and 70 facilities employees, according to a press release from the college. The increases range from 11.5 percent to 24.5 percent and include general raises, wage adjustments and raises based on how long the workers have been employed by the college.

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Adults Who Do Not Want Children: Academic Minute

Inside Higher Ed

Today on the Academic Minute : Zachary Neal, associate professor of psychology and global urban studies at Michigan State University, discusses one group we don’t tend to hear about in the reproductive rights debate: adults who choose to remain child-free. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?

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Adults Who Choose to Remain Child-Free

Inside Higher Ed

Reproductive rights are important to everybody. In today’s Academic Minute, Michigan State University’s Zachary Neal determines one group we don’t hear about in this debate: the one in five adults who do not want children. Neal is an associate professor of psychology and global urban studies at Michigan State. A transcript of this podcast can be found here.

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Virginia Commonwealth Pays $1M to Settle Hazing Suit

Inside Higher Ed

Virginia Commonwealth University will pay $995,000 to the family of Adam Oakes, who died last year in a hazing incident, the Associated Press reported. The agreement also requires the university to make additional changes to its fraternity and sorority life to discourage hazing. In the future, VCU students must complete 12 credit hours before joining a fraternity or sorority.

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Flawed survey on the 'liberal arts' (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

Column: Letters to the Editor To the Editor: The survey and book that Scott Jaschik reports on (" What Are the Liberal Arts? ," Sept. 19) is seriously flawed and the reasons why help us to understand the problems that the Art & Science Group and study purport to study. While it is not clear who this group is, their qualifications and their sponsors, they begin by unknowingly referring to the confusing boilerplate cover of “the liberal arts.

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The Evolving Faculty Affairs Landscape

Inside Higher Ed

"The Evolving Faculty Affairs Landscape" is a new print-on-demand compilation of articles and essays from Inside Higher Ed. This free booklet exploring the shifting terrain for faculty members and the colleges and universities that strive to keep them engaged and productive can be downloaded here. On Wednesday, Oct. 12, at 2 p.m. Eastern, Inside Higher Ed's editors will present a webcast exploring the themes of this collection.

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Noncredit Programs: It’s Complicated

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Lee Gardner has an uncommonly good piece in the Chronicle this week about noncredit programs at community colleges. It’s worth the read. Rather than repeating its points, I’ll offer some commentary. Gardner makes a mistake of overstatement at one point when he claims that noncredit programs aren’t eligible for financial aid.

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Watch Your Language

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. Of all the traditional humanities disciplines, only one has consistently grown: linguistics. Sure, the number of philosophy majors has remained fairly steady, but linguistics flourishes, even as the number of English and history majors has fallen by half and as computer science now enrolls as many undergraduates as all the humanities majors combined.

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Black student borrowers are playing catch-up (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The GI Bill, signed into law in 1944 to provide World War II veterans with funds for college and housing, helped usher in much of today’s middle class. Approximately eight million veterans took advantage of educational benefits, and by 1950 the number of U.S. citizens with a college degree had more than doubled. For the first time, millions of veterans suddenly qualified for GI-backed mortgages, and by 1955, home loans worth about $340 billion had been granted to veterans, amounting to nea

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Student protesters disrupt controversial speaker at UNM

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The University of New Mexico became the latest stage for a now-familiar campus drama on Thursday, when student protesters disrupted a controversial speaker’s event and reignited discussion on the state of free speech on American college campuses. Over 100 students gathered on Thursday outside the Albuquerque university’s Student Union Building to protest conservative commentator Tomi Lahren, who the UNM chapter of right-wing campus group Turning Point USA invited to speak at a

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