Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

Not only do HBCUs enroll twice as many first-generation, low-income students, but they also outperform peer institutions in improving the economic standing of their students. Although they represent only three percent of higher education institutions, HBCUs produce nearly 20 percent of Black college graduates. They still do.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

It’s especially thrilling to see a variety of positions and institutions represented in this section of each semi-monthly edition. Juan Gilbert, a 2002 Emerging Scholar, a decade later received the 2011 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. Identifying up-and-coming scholars.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. We are an affordable institution. Also, it’s the environment.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Institutions wary of the battle to unwind the work of equity, inclusion, justice, and belonging would do well to invest in leaders whose work epitomizes its core values. As we have become more diverse and reflective of our state, we have also become better as an institution.” But is it really?

Inclusivity 97

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Additionally, half of the six presidents to be hired or retired hail from an institution with strong religious ties. Cordon’s seven-year leadership stint with LDC Church saw her navigate the institution through the COVID pandemic. News and World Report rankings among private, non-profit schools in New York.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Navigating the Crossroads of Tradition and Modern Market Dynamics Colleges and universities have a long history of helping students transform their lives. But in a world overflowing with choices and information, institutions should adapt to the changes and evolve to see prospective students as customers.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Partly a history and in part a sociology of English as a profession, Professing Criticism is an extraordinary book, truly a landmark work of scholarship and interpretation, without a doubt the most important intellectual and sociocultural study of a humanities field that I have encountered.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

But if trends hold, just a fraction of them will make the jump–especially to a selective institution. percent at highly selective institutions this past spring. This past spring, we awarded the Undergraduate Transfer scholarship to 100 high-achieving community college students , the largest group in the program's history.

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University Business

JULY 5, 2023

The Supreme Court’s long-awaited decisions on two cases that would implicate the fate of race-conscious admissions at public and private institutions’ undergraduate levels finally came out last week. Its decisions to rule against affirmative action have struck a nerve with higher education leaders.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. The assistant principal for boys suggested she apply to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). regrettably, the award ceremony was cancelled in 2009.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

Lately, university governing boards around the country have been considering the balance and diversity of intellectual scholarship in the institutions they oversee. Department of Education to develop and assess institutional quality standards. is going in the wrong direction.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Shouldn’t the goal of an undergraduate education go beyond producing budding businessfolk or chemists or engineers or literary critics or manufacturing career-ready graduates? Yet few secular institutions strive to actually achieve those objectives. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The main reasons Tavárez cites for discounting humanities tuition are lower market value of the humanities, fewer job prospects for humanists, and lower research expenditure for humanities scholarship. With the rise of digital and public-facing scholarship, humanities research costs are rising.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

The two pieces, one by David French, the political commentator and New York Times opinion columnist, and another by Brookings Institution fellows Emily Markovich Morris and Ghulam Omar Qargha, argue that without a well-defined sense of purpose, individuals and institutions inevitably lose their way.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

This academic and professional development initiative encourages and assists students from underrepresented groups to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math. . to offer scholarships to DACA students. Scaling Up Programs for Underrepresented Students — Georgia Institute of Technology.

Inclusivity 105

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Restructuring Higher Education for Today’s Demographic Traditional higher education structures were designed for a different demographic, and they often hinder institutions from adapting to the needs of today’s students. This shift in perspective can lead to more inclusive and successful educational experiences.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Chairs and departmental committees don’t have to agree on unsatisfactory ratings under the proposal: a single unsatisfactory rating in one area or more, from a chair or committee, leads to a performance improvement plan—or termination, depending on the professor’s history.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Unlike programs on Critical Race and Ethnic Studies programs, which had grown increasingly widespread, and which were founded at such institutions as Augsburg, Gonzaga, Manhattan College, Miami of Ohio, Pace, St. John’s University, UC-Merced, and the University of Denver, the Chicago and Yale initiatives are less U.S.

History 84

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I recently ran across a white paper called Ideas for an Affordable New Educational Institution out of MIT’s J-WEL center. Viable solutions to these challenges will require abandoning some of our long-held assumptions about how institutions of higher education should operate. Ideas for an Affordable New Educational Institution.

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

The award of doctorates in Divinity had ceased to depend on advanced scholarship, and had often became more or less honorific as new Bishops began to be granted an automatic Doctorate of Divinity. An institution may choose to add research to the contracts of its own academics. Oxford and Cambridge took note.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

McCann: You certainly see it in the history around the policy, if not, in the Higher Education Act itself. As you point out, the gainful-employment regulations are a prime example of trying to put some math behind those words and try[ing] to really hold institutions accountable where the Higher Education Act does specifically call for it.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The graduate school has offered two-year master’s degrees through CMU’s renowned college of engineering since 2011. million investment in the institution, and in higher education development across Africa. Yesterday, CMU, the Rwandan government and the MasterCard Foundation announced a “transformational” $275.7

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

The first, which initially arose in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent a millennium ago, offered professional training in law, medicine, and the church and later in such fields as architecture, business, engineering, and the sciences. This idea was brought to the American colonies largely by graduates from Cambridge and Edinburgh.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

Higher education leaders who want to increase inclusion while maintaining affordability at their campus can emulate the actions of Illinois Institute of Technology’s ELEVATE program. Because of how the public perceives higher ed , institutions must provide different pathways for students to receive an education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is expanding into STEAM, with the addition of art. Akbar, professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Fort Valley State University, an HBCU institution in Georgia. We practice theater as scholarship, as performance and as activism,” Akbar said.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

Institutional leaders stepped up to support voter engagement initiatives and action plans. As the most recent National Survey of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE) report shows us – and for the first time in modern history – students turned out at rates commensurate with those of all voters – 66% (Thomas et al.,

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

Institutional leaders stepped up to support voter engagement initiatives and action plans. As the most recent National Survey of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE) report shows us – and for the first time in modern history – students turned out at rates commensurate with those of all voters – 66% (Thomas et al.,

Arts And Sciences 71

Arts And Sciences Faculty History Environment 71

Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The result, according to Feldstein: these institutions “make the same research demands on faculty and incur expenses for building out facilities that are not focused on creating well-educated citizens, successful professionals and thoughtful human beings. ” So what should these broad-access institutions do instead?

Arts And Sciences 71

Arts And Sciences Liberal Arts Advise Model 71

Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Suny’s emphasis on the power of narrative is in line with a broader drift in scholarship that is exerting a powerful influence on anthropology, history, medicine, psychology and sociology. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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UW Presidential Blog

MAY 15, 2024

Some of our largest events, including a night market, Engineering Discovery Days and a Meany performance for elementary and high school students from across the city and state, were joyously celebrated on campus. The encampment involves a small fraction of our 50,000 students and of our 700-acre campus.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

” This report marks a critical juncture in the AAUP’s history, being one of only eight special reports issued, and underscores a growing concern over political interference in the realm of academic governance. These changes speak to the human cost of political interference, affecting the very heart of educational institutions.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of higher education, recent regulatory changes by the Department of Education, effective July 1st, have significantly redefined the processes for institutional mergers and acquisitions.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Roots is both a dramatization of Haley’s family history and a depiction of chattel slavery as that economic labor system existed in America during colonial times and following the Revolution that established a new republic. Roots isn’t “history.” Afterward, for the first time, I was enraged about my education.

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