Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

As colleges and universities nationwide welcome a new cohort of students, the beginning of a new academic year generates a sense of anticipation. Greg Abbott signed a new law shutting diversity offices at Texas' public universities. For Black people to flourish and thrive, they need an environment that supports their holistic growth.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 28, 2023

Augmented reality (AR) is a powerful tool offering a variety of benefits to university teaching. From providing a lifelike virtual environment to helping students visualize complex scientific concepts, AR can revolutionize the way faculty teach (López-Belmonte et al., AR can help faculty breathe new life into the study of the past.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 28, 2023

Augmented reality (AR) is a powerful tool offering a variety of benefits to university teaching. From providing a lifelike virtual environment to helping students visualize complex scientific concepts, AR can revolutionize the way faculty teach (López-Belmonte et al., AR can help faculty breathe new life into the study of the past.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

These future collegiate athletes, and their families, will be informed in no uncertain terms that the institutions represented by the coaches offer welcoming and supportive environments to facilitate their development and meet their needs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Some parts of history have been suppressed in many states, books banned, curriculum and conversations disappeared, and even research agendas are on hold or downright outlawed and controlled. So how does such a living environment support young people and ultimately impact the future of America? But we are still not all convinced.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. The good news is that research points us to several aspects of inclusive and supportive classroom environments that positively impact belongingness.

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The PIE News

MARCH 20, 2024

Then I went into university, did corporate education. When you’re using huge volumes of data, artificial intelligence can help – but the things we sometimes do and see with data as humans are about making novel connections and AI can’t do that. It was really hard. I did it for five years and it taught me a lot.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Is A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures —an interactive, open-access, born-digital monograph developed by Brown University Digital Publications and published in August by MIT Press —the monograph of the future?

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Today's Learner

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

History will record the 2020s as not only the decade that ushered in a global pandemic, but also one that generated some of the fastest developments in artificial intelligence. As a result, the education process is changing at a rate we have not previously experienced, and the learning environment is undergoing radical development.

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Liaison International

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

NAGAP is thrilled to partner with Liaison on promoting GradCAS as a turnkey solution for graduate degrees in the arts and humanities, as well as the social and natural sciences,” said Keith Ramsdell , chair of external relations and partnerships and past president of NAGAP.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

When the novel’s narrator asks whether he will be the hero of his own life, he is in fact grappling with an issue, human and historical agency, that has become central to academic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Few words carry as much interpretive weight as “agency.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. In their day, Kingman Brewster Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2023

There are no final victories,” warned Dr. Harry Edwards, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the keynote speakers who addressed the more than 600 participants who attended the eleventh-annual NCAA Inclusion Forum. So yes, that level of concern, I think, is warranted.”

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HEPI

APRIL 10, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Philippa Page and Jennifer Richards of Newcastle University’s Humanities Research Institute. HEPI’s recent paper on the state of the humanities in the UK today can be read here. But how do we make this happen in local as well as more structural ways?

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

University of North Dakota (UND) Department of Social Work that reduces the disproportionate placement of American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) children away from their families has been awarded the necessary funding to further develop its work. million in October.

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HEPI

JANUARY 9, 2023

In the blog below, Professor Nishan Canagarajah, President & Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester, describes the opportunities and challenges this presents. According to the 2021 Census data, it has emerged as the first plural city in the UK where no ethnic group has a majority.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Evolving learner demands and fast-changing demographic realities are pushing colleges and universities of all descriptions to find new ways to serve new students. But in this quest for “the new”, Rovy Branon—Vice Provost of Continuum College at the University of Washington—says leaders should reflect back on their history for guidance. “I

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Cartter Professor of Higher Education Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of 23 books on higher education, reinforces this fact. Don’t get me wrong: some students benefit from a larger campus environment. The University of Southern California certainly did right by both me and my husband.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

(From left to right) Dr. Ezinne Ofoegbu from Santa Clara University, Leslie Uchenna Ekpe from Texas Christian University, Dr. Christopher J.P. Sewell, Dr. Emily Suh from Texas State University, Dion Tremain Harry from North Carolina State University, and Sam Owens from Texas State University.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. The good news is that research points us to several aspects of inclusive and supportive classroom environments that positively impact belongingness.

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PeopleAdmin

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A streamlined candidate experience and customizable platform are key to creating a unique application process that showcases the best of your college or university. Telling our story As many institutions did during the shifts in work environment of 2020 and 2021, Linn-Benton Community College decided to dive into a digital transformation. “We

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Image: When Whitworth University was hit by a cyberattack earlier this year, it faced a public relations nightmare , significant financial strain and a data breach that may have affected thousands of former and current students and employees. ” and “How do I secure myself in a Google environment?”

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

During the webinar, we heard about what generative AI has meant in practice for one university and we explored future developments with our expert panellists. Robin noted that usage of generative AI represented one of the fastest technology take ups in human history. What does generative AI mean in practice for a UK university?

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 10, 2023

My History with Online Courses Welcome to the third and final post in our series on higher education enrollment shifts. I loved how my university was offering these students a second chance to earn their degree without the additional burden of having to come to campus multiple times a week.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

[block:block=176] This apocalyptic narrative has a long history in the environmental movement and within academia. ” In today’s media environment, the rhetoric of doom is only a click away. Telling them that the future human condition will be fundamentally worse than the present is hyperbole.​ Teach social change.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Summarily, such DEI inquiry should help detect demonstrated achievement at transferring knowledge, engaging in advocacy, and impacting relevant change in human behavior across diverse groups. The article states that “faculty and students have to judge us by our actions” regarding support to their person and environment.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

George Mason University, College of Public Health. The College of Public Health at George Mason University (Mason) launched in November. The college was renamed and reorganized from the former College of Health and Human Services. Georgetown University, School of Health.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

In a 2020 book entitled The Purpose-Driven University , Debbie Haski-Leventhal, a professor of Management at Macquarie University and a scholar of corporate social responsibility, argues that the universities need to become more mission, vision, and value focused and to place a greater emphasis to their social impact.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

As vice chancellors for equity and inclusion for the 10 campuses of the University of California (UC) system, we share our perspective on how, even in politically charged times, senior diversity leaders can play central roles in the success of wider campus priorities. Our newer faculty ranks are at their most diverse in UC history.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This is especially significant when viewed next to the evolving demographics in higher education, where an increasing number of students of different races, ethnicities, nationalities, ages, sexual orientations, gender identities, socioeconomic statuses, abilities, and more are currently attending colleges and universities.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Student life offices would do more to create environments in which students can grow across all vectors. Based on his Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, this essay, entitled “Reparations for Black Americans can work. The events of 1989, far from representing the end of history, did undercut many utopian dreams.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? That gentlemanly definition drew a stark contrast between a liberal education, grounded in the arts and humanities and especially the classics, and a more practical, applied, vocational, or pre-professional education. Which degrees earn the most?

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Similar to our roads and bridges, the pathways between our colleges and universities have often been marked with potholes, roadblocks and lane closures. Currently, all the state’s community colleges and public universities, as well as 18 independent colleges and universities, participate in one or more of the pathways.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

MAY 1, 2024

This initiative not only empowers students by giving them a voice and leadership opportunities but also serves as a bridge between the student body and university administration, enhancing communication and mutual understanding. Example: John Cabot University has a robust student ambassador program. To what end?

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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. He takes the time to meet with his Latinx learners, to sit with them, discuss the challenges they face, and share his own history with them. totaled 62.5

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A lecturer at an Australian university found that a fifth of her students had already used ChatGPT on their exams. Scores of Stanford University students reportedly used it on their fall 2022 final exams mere weeks after its release. Place a stronger focus on the classroom and human interactions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Addressing the need Queensborough Community College (QCC), a two-year institution in the City University of New York system, conducted an equity audit that showed there were retention and graduation disparities for male students overall, with Black and Latinx male students disproportionately impacted. “The Dr. Roderick L. Dr. Roderick L.

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