Academe Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In the excitement (or disappointment) last Tuesday, however, the ongoing national struggle over history education received short shrift. Would it be the seventh state in a row to recognize a woman’s bodily integrity as a constitutional right? Buried in…

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2024

Columbia Journalism School plans to honor the life and legacy of the trailblazing Black investigative journalist and activist, Ida B. Dawn Kissi “There is a tradition in this country of the advocacy journalist, and within that long history Ida B. Wells, in a day-long symposium March 25. The inaugural Ida B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Alex Red Corn Recently at our Indigenous Peoples Day gathering at Kansas State University, Chief Ben Barnes of the Shawnee spoke from the heart about matters related to Shawnee histories and their ongoing presence as a Native nation. and worldwide, have a complicated relationship with institutions of education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2023

has been tapped to become dean of the Howard University School of Law. Fairfax is a passionate legal educator whose extensive scholarship and commitment to criminal justice reform are deeply aligned with the law school’s mission,” said Howard President Dr. Ben Vinson III, who announced the appointment effective July 1, 2024.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2023

Black history — and Black Americans — are under attack. Since 2021, legislatures and governors in 19 states have enacted educational gag orders that restrict teaching and learning about allegedly divisive concepts such as race, racism, and American history. The fate of affirmative action in higher education awaits a U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Testy has been appointed executive director and CEO of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). Testy, the current president and CEO of the Law School Admission Council, begins her new role effective July 1. She also chaired the planning committee for the AALS Workshop for New Law School Teachers in 2010.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2023

dissertation, titled “A Jotería Identity and Belonging: Pláticas of Co-Creation with Queer and Trans Latinx Graduate Students in Higher Education,” not only describes his research as a prolific scholar and noted activist, but it also represents some of his own intriguing journey. “I Sergio Gonzalez’s Ph.D.

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University Business

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Hood College will receive $54 million from Hodson Trust on Monday which is the largest gift in the school’s 130-year history. The educational institution says that 100% of the money will go toward undergraduate scholarships which will benefit the students. Read more from FOX Baltimore.

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MindMax

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Summer isn’t what it used to be for higher education institutions and their students. Today, colleges and universities everywhere increasingly embrace the concept of a holistic year , and summer sessions have become an essential component of both standard and alternative educational pathways. Study abroad programs.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

MARCH 29, 2023

Reading Time: 10 minutes Communication is key for schools looking to connect with potential students and build meaningful relationships. In fact, great communication and a deep understanding of your target audience are two things that can help your school boost its enrollment numbers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Educators who train and prepare students to become teachers, gathered this weekend at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) to call attention to the ongoing challenges that face K-12 learning. Supreme Court case that desegrated public schools. AURORA, Colo.—

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Ron DeSantis’ attempts to "bring the state back to the pre-Civil Rights era by banning Black history from the classroom." DeSantis is using his office to sanitize Black history from the education system,” said Sharpton. “He He is sending a message that it is permissible to make racism state policy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A new study conducted by the ultra-conservative Manhattan Institute and published by the City Journal claims to prove that Critical Race Theory (CRT) is being taught in K-12 education. Rather, it is evidence that, maybe, more students are being exposed to an honest, non-propagandized version of race relationships and American history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The ruling sent medical schools across the nation scrambling to adjust admission standards to abide by the new law of the land. These barriers [to entry] manifest early, prior to even applying to medical school,” says Faiz. Roughly half of the UC Davis School of Medicine’s class of 2026 represent minoritized populations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2024

Two major New York state universities are collaborating with a teacher-run organization seeking to teach communities and students about civil resistance in local history, creating an online platform to display the organization’s curricula and local resistance efforts. s most segregated school systems, the map states.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Keir Starmer should revitalise Sure Start, focus on children’s happiness – and give a crucial boost to further education Our writers and experts name the pledges Labour must include in its manifesto Children became unhappier in the past decade, according to the annual Good Childhood report. Nothing else. Nothing else.

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MindMax

JANUARY 5, 2023

Summer isn’t what it used to be for higher education institutions and their students. This changing landscape presents significant opportunities for schools to increase revenue, grow enrollments, and boost persistence and graduation rates. A Brief History of Summer Programming. Opportunistic Era. Study abroad programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

At Generations College, nestled in the heart of Chicago, we have witnessed firsthand the life-changing power of education for single parents. As the third oldest two-year, private nonprofit college in the nation, we have been at the forefront of innovation in education since our founding in 1904. According to the U.S.

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MindMax

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Breakfast Club, hosted by Chief Learning Officer, has a 17-year history of connecting leaders over breakfast to strengthen the link between learning and development, and business strategy. Watch “The Changing Face of Executive Education” webinar event which took place on October 13, 2022 and moderated by MindMax CEO, Lee Maxey.

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The PIE News

JUNE 26, 2023

A new initiative will be implemented this summer aiming to improve the integration process for international students as they join Luxembourg’s school system. The legislation , presented by Minister of Education Claude Meisch earlier in June, will be voted on in the Chamber of Deputies before the summer recess.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The Higher Education Inquirer has been tracking Ambow Education (AMBO) for about two years. Ambow Education is the owner of the NewSchool of Architecture and Design in San Diego and the former owner of Bay State College which closed in 2023. The company, which until recently was based in Beijing, has a troubled history.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JULY 12, 2023

The University of Phoenix (or at least its name) may soon enter the ash heap of US history--and rise again as a state-run robocollege. Once hailed as the leader in affordable adult education for workers entering middle management, it is a shell of its former self--in an economy less certain for consumers. It's a Long Story.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 28, 2023

In doing so, it will become the first two-year school in the state to offer such a degree, GBH News reported. It opens up and broadens knowledge and understanding of cultural differences that we experience, especially in higher education.” We've been charged with creating more engaging curriculum,” Sauvignon said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

Hamline University faculty leaders are calling for the resignation of Hamline President Dr. Fayneese Miller after her handling of a case where the school dismissed an art history instructor showing depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in a course, the Associated Press reported.

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UW Presidential Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Part of what makes Black history such a compelling lens is the bravery and tenacity with which Black Americans have persevered to overcome staggering obstacles and oppression that were — and are — built into our nation’s systems and structures from its founding and continue to be a source of systemic inequity today.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2023

Johanna Bond will become dean of Rutgers Law School, effective Jul. Johanna Bond Bond is currently the tenured Sydney and Frances Lewis Professor of Law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law and an affiliate faculty member in the university’s Africana Studies and the women’s, gender, and sexuality studies programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Yolanda Pierce will become dean of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School, effective Jul. A public theologian and leader on the role of religion in public life, Pierce is currently dean and professor of religion at the Howard University School of Divinity. 1, pending board approval. She is the first woman in the role.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

JANUARY 31, 2024

Though this feature is available to all social media users, over the past years, more and more companies, schools included, have started using it as a part of their marketing strategy. This significant trend underscores the importance of schools embracing live streaming as part of their marketing and communication strategies.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2024

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a significant conversation at every educational conference in the past two years throughout my usual treks to teacher education events. To the delight of some, and the horror of some, AI was at the forefront of educators’ minds in 2023. So, what really happened?

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It makes sense, considering how higher education faces revitalized pressure from students— and the federal government —to ensure high-value degrees with strong returns on investment. in the next decade, 12 points higher than the national average, according to Education Dynamics, a higher education market research company.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

Bunch III came together to discuss the increasingly vital role public institutions play in teaching American citizens their country’s history, particularly the history of Black people. It’s a history that must be told and folks are doing it—but Dunn does it at a risk to himself and the people he teaches.” Mellon Foundation.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

Williams from its law school, Williams’s descendants were irate. Richmond president Kevin Hallock broke the news to Robert Smith, Williams’s great-great-grandson and a graduate of the law school, over the phone. “History and posterity will judge the University and the Board.” ” Thomas C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Sean Decatur will be stepping down from his current role at the end of 2022 to become president of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in April 2023. Decatur Decatur has been the school’s president for almost a decade, his tenure having begun in 2013. Dr. Sean M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

What does Diverse: Issues In Higher Education mean to you? When the first edition of what was then called Black Issues In Higher Education was published on March 15, 1984, it was two days before my 14th birthday, and I was still adjusting to ninth grade in a public high school after attending a private school from second grade to eight grade.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2023

But experts believe that some institutions could be saved if their leaders were more open to a different option: merging with other schools before their circumstances grow desperate. There are several reasons that schools that may be in trouble don’t look to merge, said Azziz and Dr. Guilbert C. People didn’t even want to discuss it.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

MAY 1, 2024

Reading Time: 10 minutes In the dynamic landscape of higher education, institutions constantly seek innovative strategies to enhance their brand visibility, improve student engagement, and foster a sense of community. Let’s explore your role as a school and those who participate in your student ambassador program, respectively.

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WCET Frontiers

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

WCET Frontiers would like to honor our veterans by sharing about the history of Veterans Day and also share some updates on federal policy issues for institutions to watch that affect the process and delivery of Veterans benefits. Bill education benefits receive a Monthly Housing Allowance (MHA) for the terms that they are enrolled.

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