Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Middleton Social media is neither honest about nor friendly toward Black males in P-12 and higher education. Moreover, Hines, Fletcher, and Moore (in press) have noted, “Since the early 2000s, Black men and boys have garnered increasing attention in the education theoretical and scientific literature” (p. Hines, Donna Y.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Anyone who cares deeply about American higher education needs to come to grips with a series of hard and unpleasant truths: That this country’s system of postsecondary education relegates the students with the greatest needs to the most underresourced institutions. Without innovation no organization can thrive.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Sloan Foundation and RTI International have engaged in a study of Black and Hispanic individuals who have achieved PhD degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. Half of the top 20 bachelor’s degrees of Black STEM PhD recipients from 2010–20 were earned at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Midlands Innovation is a strategic research partnership of eight research intensive universities in the Midlands. HEPI is running a series of blogs with Midlands Innovation championing the role of technicians in higher education and research. per cent); to have graduated from a post-1992 university (55.3 Women represent 52.3

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Did you happen to see Malcolm Gladwell’s article “ Princeton University Is the World’s First Perpetual Motion Machine ”? In 1977, when the university’s endowment stood at $2 billion, its freshman class was 1,585. Inequities pervade American higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The school is now eligible for Title V HSI funds that can support student recruitment, education, sense of belonging, and completion. Demographic changes have led to an increasing number of Latinx students attending higher education. The 2021 Latinx population in the U.S. totaled 62.5 million, just under 20% of the U.S. totaled 62.5

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Elmer Guy first came to Crownpoint Institute of Technology in 1999 as dean of instruction, he could not have known that, 24 years later, he would oversee the institution’s renaming to Navajo Technical University (NTU). It became the first tribal college and university, or TCU, to offer a Ph.D. Dr. Elmer Guy “The Ph.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

A recent episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed ’s news and analysis podcast, examined the data and metrics colleges and universities are using—or should explore going forward—to gauge the value they provide to their students and other constituents. An edited transcript of the discussions follows. We have data from the U.S.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

colleges and universities. Podcast Highlights RSIs are their communities’ primary or only post-secondary education access point and are their most critical employer by launching businesses and consuming most of their goods and services. The type of mindset that boards should look for when appointing a president or chancellor.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Image: Cameron Mozafari wasn’t surprised when a student walked into his office at Cornell University and started crying. Many ran along the lines of “As a student & educator who recently fell off the face of the earth due to a severe depression—thank you so much for approaching this situation with compassion and grace.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Image: As recently as a decade ago, the concept of “value” rarely found its way into discussions about federal policy making about higher education. McCann: You certainly see it in the history around the policy, if not, in the Higher Education Act itself. But for too many of them, that doesn’t turn out to be the case.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer One year ago, the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program (Aspen) partnered with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) to launch the first cohort of the Transfer Student Success and Equity Intensive , a national effort to accelerate transfer reform at scale.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: A new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report notes some improvement in minority representation in higher education related to science, technology, engineering, math and medicine (STEMM)—but not enough to match those groups’ share in the overall population.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

For too long, US higher education has lagged in promoting democracy-focused education as core to the purpose and goals of a postsecondary education. As faculty, we constantly see opportunities for democratic education in multiple courses, departments, and disciplines. The tide seems to be turning.

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University Business

APRIL 30, 2023

For example, a student who enrolls in a university to study engineering discovers that they dislike the subject and transfers to another school. Higher education leaders can be proactive in this pursuit by promoting innovation through a learner-centric, data-informed strategy. A learner centric approach serves both interests.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

For too long, US higher education has lagged in promoting democracy-focused education as core to the purpose and goals of a postsecondary education. As faculty, we constantly see opportunities for democratic education in multiple courses, departments, and disciplines. The tide seems to be turning.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 14, 2023

This month, WCET will be focusing on enrollment trends and the impact those trends will have on higher education. colleges and universities have historically fluctuated, but this current drop in enrollments is not like previous ones. began with a limited vision of who should receive a college education. Enrollments in U.S.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

16 January · Regulatory Changes and Their Implications for Higher Education Mergers 39 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Insights on regulatory changes, negotiated rulemaking, NC SARA, and the impact on higher education mergers. Thinking about a merger? Listen in.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Civics education is all the rage. ” Support for civics education cuts across the political spectrum. What does civics education entail? But today, per-pupil federal spending on K-12 history and civics education averages $0.05 AAC&U’s track record speaks for itself.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

There is a strategy in play, attempts throughout the United States, to ban books and subject matter in schools, what PEN America has called a “legislative war on education.” While most target K-12 education, an increasing number concern colleges and universities. Youngkin signed Senate Bill 656 into law in April.

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