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UPCEA 2024 Recap: Uncertainty in Higher Education

MindMax

This year’s conference was centered on the following themes: “growing [higher education’s] impact through expanded access and innovation (focused especially on emerging topics such as AI), broadened inclusivity, policy advocacy, organizational transformation, engaging faculty and other critical partners, and building our individual networks.”

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7 higher education trends to watch in 2024

Higher Ed Dive

Colleges will likely grapple with continued consolidation, the rise of artificial intelligence and more attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion.

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Reflection & Predictions: A Conversation on Higher Education Trends

MindMax

What do higher education leaders worry about the most? I recently hosted an interactive event bringing together leaders and pioneers in the higher education community for an evening of discussion on an important and relevant topic: Reflections & Predictions. What gives them hope for the future of our field?

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Campus Free Expression, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Can — and Must — Coexist

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They come to college after years of pandemic-related interruptions to their lives and education. We do that by gathering diverse, inclusive communities where all feel supported and encouraged to share different views and perspectives. We are asking today’s college students to go a long way to become the leaders the world needs.

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Education Department Outlines Strategies for Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education

Higher Education Today

Title: Strategies for Increasing Diversity and Opportunity in Higher Education Source: U.S. Department of Education, Office of the Under Secretary The U.S. Read more » The post Education Department Outlines Strategies for Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education appeared first on Higher Education Today.

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Higher Education Reexamined at ASHE Conference

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MINNEAPOLIS—Amid the ongoing attacks to higher education, experts who study the field are gathering this week to debate and respond to the growing political challenges that have impacted colleges and universities. It’s really about the importance of relationships,” he said of the association that will turn 50 in two years.

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Challenges for Higher Education: An Emerging Skills Shortage and Inequity in the Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

American higher education is called upon to serve a variety of purposes: advancement of knowledge, expansion of cultural appreciation, extending understanding of societal benefits and obligations, and preparing a diversity of students with the skills they need for a successful and rewarding life. Dr. George R. & Rios-Aguilar, C.,