Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2024

On May 8, Khaya Njumbe walked across the commencement stage at Indiana University (IU) Northwest. He would go on to earn three associate degrees in general studies, liberal arts, and biology. It wasn’t a very good environment for me,” said Njumbe. Khaya Njumbe.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Exploring Transfer program at Vassar College is a summer intensive that immerses currently enrolled community college students in an academically rigorous environment, providing vital support and encouragement so they can ultimately continue their education at a competitive four-year institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Morgan State University has received $596,383 for a human behavior study regarding responses to environmental indications of fire, with the findings expected to help in improving fire safety systems and building design. College of Liberal Arts at Morgan State is the principal investigator, and Dr. James A. Gilliam, Jr.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

A project at Montclair State University (MSU), a public research university in New Jersey, focuses on reviving the Native American Munsee language, while faculty and students at Haverford College, a private liberal arts school in Pennsylvania, are working in Oaxaca, Mexico, to safeguard Zapotec languages.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

Historically, those hired to teach at the university level complete the required studies in a given discipline. Therefore, it is appropriate that consideration be given for an educator’s aptitude to use technological tools in learning environments. To further investigate this matter, I looked at position descriptions for faculty.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

“The University of Austin looks more and more like a viable challenge to the higher education establishment. ” That statement comes from a tweet by The Dartmouth Review describing UATX, a private liberal arts college proposed in 2021 “dedicated to the fearless pursuit of truth.” “Light.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

William & Mary has long had a liberal arts orientation and strong tradition of shared governance. The faculty have seen our elected representatives marginalized, our perspectives dismissed, and our involvement in university governance largely eliminated.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 5, 2023

A liberal arts education is the ultimate preprofessional education; it can prepare you for any career. I applied to non-tenure-line teaching positions, linguistics-adjacent orgs and a bunch of university admin jobs. Flexibility and rigor aren’t diametrically opposed. Instead, I moved to D.C. with no job and no plan.

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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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University Business

APRIL 24, 2023

Most college or university presidents to have recently taken the helm might have had a grasp of their job expectations before the turn of the decade—or even when the pandemic went into full swing. No cohort of presidents might be more familiar with this than those leading small private colleges or universities in the Northeast.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Those people of color who received some or all of their higher education at predominantly white institutions frequently describe their experiences in these hallowed environments as bittersweet, with more emphasis on the bitter than the sweet. It’s common knowledge that change in the academy happens very slowly.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

in educational leadership from the University of New England that he earned after getting a bachelor’s degree in political science and government and a master’s degree from Western Illinois University. He now has a Ph.D. I want to try to capture that within the HUB,” he said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

said 2020 helped corporations, nonprofits, educational institutions, and government entities see there was crucial work to be done in creating a more just and equitable environment and society. Brooke Vick, chief diversity officer and associate provost for equity and inclusion at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa.,

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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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University Business

DECEMBER 12, 2023

“Bottom line: Big Brother is watching,” wrote one University of Florida professor in an email to his colleagues and collected by the special committee. Some faculty members whose identity or research does not align with the state’s viewpoint expressed it has created a hostile environment for them.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? If, for most students, the primary measure of an undergraduate degree is return on investment, shouldn’t our institutions double down on those high demand, high return fields and let the liberal arts shrink to an appropriate size?

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

In the college environment an intent to persist is needed, and by promoting resiliency in such a way students are encouraged to understand that their own free will and mindset largely influence their success. Amy Winger is an online instructor for the University of Phoenix. Dweck, Carol. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The city and area hold a large population of people from places such as India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, along with more recent refugees from Afghanistan and Syria, according to Dr. Jason Oliver Chang, director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut.

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Creatrix Campus

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Example: As the admissions director for a liberal arts college, your aim is to boost international student enrollment by 15% in two years, focusing on business and tech programs. Example: Suppose you're responsible for marketing at a state university. Identify what sets your college or university apart from the competition.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Declines during the pandemic have been steepest among community college students and African American and Latinx males, Lynn Pasquerella , president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, points out. On other hand, changing demographics also mean colleges cannot abandon the liberal arts in favor of career preparation.

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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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University Business

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Managing a college or university hasn’t been a winning numbers game for a long time. In this pivot-or-perish environment, schools that are thriving have found ways to build relevance, even in an era of declining enrollment and rising costs. Another is Georgetown University, with its prime location in Washington, D.C.,

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University Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A proposed fundraiser event by a small liberal arts school president has incited an avalanche, calling for the resignation of a school dean and drawing the Board of Trustees into the muck as 120 faculty pressure the Board to begin its new president search immediately. “And that position has just been on a constant revolving door.”

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

In the college environment an intent to persist is needed, and by promoting resiliency in such a way students are encouraged to understand that their own free will and mindset largely influence their success. Amy Winger is an online instructor for the University of Phoenix. Dweck, Carol. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The drop led to financial difficulties, which were exacerbated by VLS’s independent status, meaning it was not backed by a larger university or system that might help cover costs. It’s been a rough decade for Vermont’s small liberal arts colleges. Smolla believes that trajectory is changing.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Brooke Vick, PhD The organization is a consortium of senior diversity officers from 36 private liberal arts institutions across the U.S. What can colleges and universities do to ensure equitable admission without violating the court’s ruling? What are the challenges of implementing and maintaining these initiatives?

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HEPI

APRIL 18, 2023

Figuring out not how to code but how to contain code within parameters that are ethical, that recognise the needs of diverse communities, that work against bias and that contribute to human and societal flourishing are surely some of the most urgent and important work universities can undertake.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

APRIL 15, 2022

For centuries, faith and reason have met in the world’s great universities. Our founder, Benjamin Kurtz, sought a community that would sponsor such an endeavor, and Selinsgrove offered to help if he would also provide a traditional liberal-arts education to their sons and daughter who were not called to the ministry. Hindu 0.5%

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Susquehanna President's Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

At Susquehanna, we receive a list of 222 “national liberal arts colleges.” Some, like Wall Street Journal/THE assess all institutions together rather than separating liberal arts colleges from large universities or institutions that recruit regionally versus nationally. These are important measures of outcomes.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

But a combination of competitive pressures, demographic patterns and accreditation requirements in one of its most job skill–focused undergraduate fields has led the private liberal arts institution to create its first-ever master’s degree—and to consider adding others. percent from the previous year and about 18.4

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Image: A powerful heat wave that began a week ago is forcing colleges and universities across the West Coast to take extra safety precautions, such as providing additional air-conditioned places to study on campus and advising students on how to recognize heat exhaustion. The campus has some dorms that have fans but no air-conditioning.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

Not dissimilar are the college classrooms of smaller, liberal arts colleges. The question of how to incorporate digital technology into traditional human knowledge acquisition is essential to the future of universities. Historically, universities have focused on teaching students to think with printed texts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A year ago, Coe was the only college or university to earn B or above on all four pillars. In her course design, readings, discussion structures, and content, LeMay says she incorporates a respectful tone and environment. But during the 2021-22 academic year concerns about diversity in leadership surfaced. My classes reinforce that: a.)

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Image: When Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity Washington University, was speaking at a conference on Catholic higher education last month, she referred to the university, a women’s institution in Washington, D.C., When she became president of Trinity in 1989, the university’s future seemed dire. and Canada.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Image: In the perpetual tug-of-war between openness and confidentiality in searches for new college and university presidents, secrecy has been winning in a rout. Ultimately, though, “if you want to be president of a liberal arts college, you’ve got to be able to deal with cantankerous faculty members.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The city and area hold a large population of people from places such as India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, along with more recent refugees from Afghanistan and Syria, according to Dr. Jason Oliver Chang, director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut.

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CommCentered

DECEMBER 12, 2021

For a newbie professor, it was a safe and collaborative environment that helped me hone my craft. When I started researching branding in Catholic colleges and universities throughout the United States, I had hoped to find some of this familiar culture, tone, feeling, and overall spirit of the many brands consistent with my experience.

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