Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2023

Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) have been in existence for over 50 years, serving not only Native American and Alaskan Native students but anyone from the rural communities where they reside. train future teachers, nurses, engineers, and more. The 35 TCUs in the U.S. and improve American lives with progressive ideas.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

Under the University of Vermont’s (UVM) new open-access academic press, authors and readers will not have to pay fees to publish or access published materials. This endeavor was announced last week, with its first publication, The Journal of Ecological Engineering Design, released that week as well. "It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Federal support, funding opportunities, and advice were the topics of discussion at a Virginia Union University (VUU) webinar about STEM research at Historically Black colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Moore listed numerous NSF scholarships and programs beneficial to HBCU research in fields including STEM, data science, and computing.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B. Read about them here.

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The PIE News

JULY 6, 2023

Universities are “uniquely placed” to address workforce gaps and should effectively become “skills brokers”, a new report says. By developing knowledge workers that industry needs, universities can maintain their mission of enabling strong graduate outcomes, the paper from Nous Group indicates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

Matthews in starting what was initially a monthly newsletter on Black Issues In Higher Education , we now know the power of pathways in helping Black boys like me go from being a nerdy high school student in Richmond, Virginia, to a tenured professor at a flagship state university where the governor once stood in the Schoolhouse Door.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This can range from using STEM skills to create solutions for issues around climate change, in the fields of medicine and engineering, or in the productive use of artificial intelligence – to the societal and economic challenges of a globalised society, where world conflict and economic distress can be felt across borders.

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The PIE News

MAY 16, 2024

India has surpassed China to become the largest source country at US graduate level, according to the Recruiting for Key Disciplines in the US report. Student interest in MAs is growing across all disciplines, with a notable interest in business & management US masters growing by over 20% in the last 12 months, compared to 2.7%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

To this end, we provide P-12 educators; college/university faculty, administrators, and staff; and other education stakeholders a blueprint to collaboratively work with Black males through a culturally responsive lens. We followed a qualitative case study design to explore the experiences of 16 Black male academies of engineering students.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Many aspire to transfer to a four-year college or university. That’s disappointing, considering tens of thousands of community college students have the credentials, skills, and talents to excel at selective colleges and universities. percent at highly selective institutions this past spring.

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University Business

JULY 5, 2023

But Wesleyan University President Michael S. “Appealing to a principle of ‘color-blindness’ at odds with history and law, the Court’s conservative majority says, ‘trust us’ while it imposes its will on higher education’s admission policies,” Roth and Gonzalez wrote in an email.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

More from UB: Middle East conflict continues to stir backlash, compromise safety across college campuses Hires Bonnie Cordon – Southern Virginia University The Southern Virginia University Board of Trustees unanimously approved hiring Bonnie Cordon as the school’s 10th president.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 31, 2023

This week, we welcome Marc Watkins, Academic Innovation Fellow from the University of Mississippi. Enjoy the read, Lindsey Downs, WCET Preparing Faculty to work with AI The University of Mississippi is pioneering new approaches to prepare faculty for emerging technologies, like generative AI, in the classroom.

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University Business

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Federal officials discovered that land-grant HBCUs in 16 states have been underfunded compared to their neighboring, predominantly white research universities by more than $12 billion since 1987. The University of South Florida joined the network in September. However, there are other sources for HBCUs to explore.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

As for the idea that educational institutions require a distinct mission with well-defined implications policy and practice, what we see are campuses – with the exception of military academies or religious or small liberal arts colleges -- with multiple, complex, often conflicting and competing, functions and responsibilities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are safe spaces for personal development. HBCUs produce 40 percent of Black engineers, 40 percent of Black Congress members, 50 percent of Black public-school teachers, 50 percent of Black lawyers, 50 percent of Black doctors, and 80 percent of Black judges.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

That’s why Saleema, a young Afghan woman studying at University of the People , now presents as Madison from California in her online Principles of Business Management course. Akram followed through, was accepted and was offered a $20,000 scholarship. “I really hope that I am not the one to serve them all.

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The PIE News

MARCH 6, 2023

Clare led a delegation of university leaders and education stakeholders to India. “Australia’s universities are well placed to contribute to India achieving its domestic education goals and to supporting the skills and employment needs of key Indian industries,” he said. .

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HEPI

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The PhD as a route to social innovation and creative intervention does not replace the solid contribution to existing scholarship, but neither is it necessarily separate from it. Two obvious responses are – what about the value of the PhD as scholarship? And is it fair to ask so much of a first higher degree?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

population representing a 13% growth from the year 2000, according to the Latino Policy & Politics Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. It’s an interesting opportunity to come out to them to say, ‘I’m a university and college president, but your experiences resonate deeply with who I am,” says Delgado. “It

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

granting universities. Large-scale quantitative data such as these provide an invaluable evidence-based context about the areas of scholarship in which institutions are investing new faculty lines, a matter of interest to deans of graduate schools and provosts alike. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8

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Liaison International

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Scotus Ruling on Affirmative Action In July of 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled on affirmative action with a case brought against several universities claiming racial discrimination in admission. Now is a great time to work across the many functional areas of the university to seek guidance.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Image: Colorado could soon pass a law that would effectively allow public colleges and universities to admit more out-of-state students—if they also recruit more high-achieving state residents. Colorado law currently allows no more than 45 percent of each public institution’s incoming freshmen to come from out of state.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Stuart is the managing director of AfaraEd, a service that helps universities establish and grow their presence in East and West Africa. Apart from worrying about the dreadful run of recent results from Aberdeen football club, it is government policy globally that concerns me. Proudest career moment?

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Dr. Chris Howard , Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Arizona State University , arrived at his present position by an unconventional route, and he spoke with us about how leadership is more than a title, what a president actually does, an early lesson from the military, and three books that helped him define his role.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Jackson, a member of Delta Sigma Theta, had a sorority sister drive her to the airport following a visit to Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania. I thought I could make more of a difference at MIT because of its unique role in science and engineering.” En route, they heard on the radio that King had been shot and killed.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Academic Affairs Improving completion rates in gateway courses: Applying a root cause analysis model and equity lens Betsy Dunn-Williams, Dean of Academic Success, Campbell University Academic transformation framework implementation: Enhancing professional practice in higher education Dr. Denise Brown, Associate Dean of Health Sciences, The Christ (..)

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

workers value diversity in the workplace and want their companies to implement inclusive policies. Retention and graduation rates exceed national and Drexel University standards. Georgia College & State University Georgia College & State University J. Studies indicate that a majority of U.S.

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HEPI

MARCH 26, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Ian Walmsley, the Provost of Imperial College London and former Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford. This is how universities see it too. To move from ideas to impact, benefitting society.

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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. Policy makers also wind up making poor investments in some colleges and some programs that can’t live up to that promise. An edited transcript of the discussion follows.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Resolutions and Safe Spaces — Adelphi University. Adelphi University’s Office of Community Concerns and Resolution was established in fall 2021 to simplify and enhance the system for reporting discrimination, bias, and abuse. AmeriCorps Tutors for Youth — Arkansas State University. Minority Male Initiative — Broward College.

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ACPA

JULY 7, 2023

Although it’s a university it has its own admission requirement, usually, international applicants are required to submit English proficiency scores and high school transcripts. Some applicants who really want to study abroad in the US or like to be eligible for higher scholarships might fake their GPA or English proficiency scores.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Image: There’s a lot to like about proposed changes to West Virginia University’s appointment, tenure and promotion guidelines, from a faculty rights perspective. Anita Levy, senior program officer at the American Association of University Professors in Washington, D.C., WVU published the draft document on Oct.

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

The British Academy points to ‘the impact and value research’ in the humanities and related disciplines ‘can deliver to policy makers and the wider public’. A Concordat and Agreements Review (April 2023) formed a joint attempt to define ‘research culture’ initiated by Universities UK, UKRI and Wellcome. Oxford and Cambridge took note.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

The college has a single-parent cohort program called Career Links, which provides counseling (career and personal), scholarships, and additional supports, as well. Faculty members are encouraged to be family-friendly in their own policies. Provide more on-campus childcare specifically for student parents and their families.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

[link] Despite growing discussions of antiracist practices and policies in P-20 schools, education tends to critique racist structures without providing solutions that bring into the conversation the lived experiences of Black students, families, and communities. We also make recommendations for policy, practice, and research.

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