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ACE Names 26 Emerging Higher Education Leaders

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Council on Education (ACE) selected 26 emerging college and university leaders for the 2024-25 class of the ACE Fellows Program. The ACE Fellows Program boasts having strengthened institutions in American higher education since its 1965 inception.

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A Multipronged Approach to Harnessing Virtual Reality to Advance the HBCU Mission

Faculty Focus

The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) stand out for recognizing that every student deserves access to quality education and are also centers for research and innovation (TEConomy, 2022). Research in healthcare (Kobayashi et al.,

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A Multipronged Approach to Harnessing Virtual Reality to Advance the HBCU Mission

Faculty Focus

The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) stand out for recognizing that every student deserves access to quality education and are also centers for research and innovation (TEConomy, 2022). Research in healthcare (Kobayashi et al.,

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Hold Fast to Dreams: Parting Words from Dr. Charlie Nelms

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

--Albert Schweitzer While growing up in the Arkansas Delta, my parents, preachers, and teachers agreed on one thing above all else: education is the engine of opportunity for individual success and the transformation of the Black community. Education is the engine of opportunity. In all honesty, doing so was not easy!

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UCD appoints first female president in 169 years

The PIE News

At University College Dublin, International Women’s Day was even more significant this year with the historic appointment of the university’s first woman president in its 169-year history. UCD is Ireland’s largest university with over 38,000 students and is ranked within the top 1% of higher education institutions worldwide.

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Texas A&M’s botched faculty hiring reaches top of the ladder, claims president’s job

University Business

This philosophy has become taboo in Texas since the governor banned such initiatives in higher education in June. The Rudder Association emailed university leadership advising against McElroy’s hire, suggesting it avoid “the divisive ideology of identity politics,” according to The New York Times.

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3 Ways to Adapt to the Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action

Liaison International

For at least a decade prior to the COVID pandemic, analysts, commentators, and experts of all varieties were convinced that higher education was ripe for disruption. Here are three things higher education leadership can do to build admissions resilience in the face of the recent SCOTUS decision. So where do you go from here?