Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

At college and university academic libraries, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives often involve improving item-collection policies and enhancing access to materials for students and community members, resources for faculty research, and educational programming on related topics.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

At this rate, the paper says, “higher education will never achieve demographic parity among tenure-track faculty.” The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33 percentage points per year. percentage points per year in the period studied. percentage points per year.

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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.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In the last two weeks in higher education, the number of presidents to announce retirement doubled that of confirmed hires. While SVU is technically a secular private liberal arts college, it identifies with the values of the LDS Church. But those who decided to step down are doing so on sound footing.

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University Business

JULY 5, 2023

Its decisions to rule against affirmative action have struck a nerve with higher education leaders. The National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE) fears the implications extend outside campus confines and programs.

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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.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Many came to the sleepy village in central Vermont because of the college’s sharp focus on environmental law and policy, as well as its progressive outlook on justice. He said the college’s innovative restructuring plan and progressive history drew him to the job. “I’m very optimistic.”

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

The disruptors’ diagnosis of the weaknesses in today’s system of higher education is not wholly wrong. But as the political winds shift and doubts about higher education’s value swell, a growing number of traditional higher ed’s potential competitors see an opening. So do other institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Image: Scholars in Florida are angry, disappointed and divided over a recent joint statement , signed by Florida College System presidents, promising to “not fund or support any institutional practice, policy, or academic requirement that compels belief in critical race theory or related concepts.”

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Alphabet Soup - Higher-Education Organizations There are dozens of national, international, and regional organizations supporting higher education. They work on policies and best practices for research and scholarship in higher education. They focus on expanding access to all students.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. It also was a serious loss for the Worcester region because of Becker College’s long and impactful history in the area and the prominence of several academic programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A professor of Chicano/Latino studies and history at the University of California, Irvine, Anita was a high school teacher at 23, then a K-12 school director of curriculum and assessment, a freelance journalist and a migrant rights activist, before earning her Ph.D. We need it desperately, both to be able to survive and to thrive.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

institutions have launched programs to support Ukrainian students on their campuses, ranging from large public universities such as Texas A&M University to small liberal arts colleges like Mount St. Over the past 10 months, a number of U.S. Joseph University , a Catholic institution of about 2,000 students in Cincinnati.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

Much of the early history of grades in American higher education was associated with creating a way to determine which student would give that speech. Mace At most higher education institutions, a Faculty Marshall will lead academic processions carrying a symbolic mace designed specifically for that institution.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

14 November · Episode 181 Tough Times Ahead for Higher Education Enrollment 42 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Dive into the complexities of higher education enrollment–navigate through its current challenges, and uncover strategies for the tough times ahead.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

With their enhanced academic experience, strong sense of community and emphasis on engaged learning, the public honors college provides a model of what public higher education can be. Writing as a relic of the 1960s, I ask, must we replicate within universities the status hierarchies that prevail in higher education as a whole?

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 24, 2023

I've dedicated my life to helping more and more diverse students be more successful in the world of higher education so that they have more opportunities in their lives. That's everything from big innovation to the policy that allows people to do their life's best work. Be servant leaders. But that doesn't just happen.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

Welcome to the second post in our series on higher education enrollment shifts. The work group joins us today to discuss the ways higher education institutions are responding to the shifts in enrollment. In 2021, Delaware State University acquired Wesley College : a private liberal arts college in Dover, Delaware.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

Welcome to the second post in our series on higher education enrollment shifts. The work group joins us today to discuss the ways higher education institutions are responding to the shifts in enrollment. In 2021, Delaware State University acquired Wesley College : a private liberal arts college in Dover, Delaware.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 2, 2024

2 January · Episode 188 AGB Board of Directors Statement: A Conversation with the EVP 38 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton A conversation with Mary Papazian about the recent AGB Board of Directors Statement and the pivotal state of higher education board governance. higher education.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

John Katzman, who founded Princeton Review, says up to a third of overall university expenses could eventually be cut without damaging the education experience. I’m sure we’ll dig into it, but I also have to wonder if part of it on the cost side has to do with public support of higher education. You have all these things.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 28, 2023

Governor’s latest shot in his war on woke is the shock appointment of rightwing trustees to progressive New College New College of Florida started making history from the day it opened its doors to its first incoming class of 101 undergraduate students in 1964. Continue reading.

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Echo Delta

OCTOBER 30, 2021

And with two decades of experience in and around higher education, he is a sharp thinker on all things enrollment, not to mention, he is a fantastic human being. She is a nationally recognized expert and author on the topics of enrollment and student success with over 25 years of experience in higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2023

Image: Hamline University has been engrossed in an academic freedom debate this year over the actions of an adjunct instructor at the private Minnesota institution who was teaching global art history. Hamline is a liberal arts institution, the oldest in Minnesota, the first to admit women, and now led by a woman of color.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Within higher education, its historical sociologists, like Steven Brint and David F. Labaree, who have taken the lead in bringing theory to bear on the ongoing processes, trends, and developments that reshape higher education over time. Let’s begin with the history of American higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Reflecting on the past is as valuable in our personal and professional lives as it is in policy making. How might this precept apply to higher education? As the historian Henry Steele Commager observed six decades ago, American higher education is an amalgam of four distinct educational traditions.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Thanks to funding from the New York-based Teagle Foundation, which is dedicated to supporting and strengthening liberal arts education and punches well beyond its weight, a number of other institutions have adopted somewhat similar models. A more profound problem, which the Harvard professor of public policy Robert D.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Why, then, should my thoughts about the future of higher education be any more accurate? His pieces, which appear frequently in Inside Higher Ed and Times Higher Education , focus on a series of issues that our campuses should take more seriously. Let’s look at three.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

opened with a searing attack that is at once ferocious and amusingly sarcastic: “Recent visitors to the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum were greeted with some unpleasant news: the museum was contaminated. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Inquiring minds would like to know.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A recent blog posting by Michael Feldstein, one of higher education’s most astute observers, asked a fascinating question: If you were designing Cal State today, what would you do differently? This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

12 December · Episode 185 AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education 49 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton McNaughton and Reichman cover the processes and conclusions of the AAUP report, emphasizing the detrimental effects on academic governance, academic freedom, and the well-being of faculty and students.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

16 January · Regulatory Changes and Their Implications for Higher Education Mergers 39 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Insights on regulatory changes, negotiated rulemaking, NC SARA, and the impact on higher education mergers. Thinking about a merger? Listen in.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

In Florida and Texas, 2023 has brought a wave of proposed policies, leadership firings and new appointments, and political maneuverings designed to stifle DEI initiatives and closely related higher education offices. Ramifications and Pushback Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

Q: You call your book “the political history of an idea.” ” What is that idea and why do we need to know its political history? A: The idea really, is how Americans think about education—what we want it to do. government policy than of higher ed per se. The book traces how that idea changed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2024

The issue for us on campus is freedom of expression,” said Dr. Najam Haider, chair of religion at Barnard College, a private women's liberal arts college that is part of Columbia. Universities have long been sites of student political expression and protest, said Barnard history professor Dr. Premilla Nadasen.

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