UW Presidential Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

At the University of Washington, women have been making history since the University was founded. In Seattle, new Provost Tricia Serio serves as the University’s chief academic officer. Together, this marks first time in UW history that all four of these leadership positions have been held by women.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MAY 5, 2024

Academics warn loss of higher education arts and humanities courses will harm understanding of racism and imperial history Cuts to arts and humanities subjects within higher education will have damaging implications for our understanding of race and colonialism, academics have warned.

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HEPI

JANUARY 24, 2024

T his HEPI blog was authored by Vivienne Stern, Chief Executive of Universities UK, as an adaption of a speech she gave in response to a lecture by the Hon. Mathias Cormann, Secretary General of the OECD, on the value of higher education in developed countries. In 1998, 20% of adults in the OECD had a tertiary education.

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MindMax

JANUARY 5, 2023

Summer isn’t what it used to be for higher education institutions and their students. Today, colleges and universities everywhere increasingly embrace the concept of a holistic year, and summer programming is an essential component of their offerings. A Brief History of Summer Programming. Opportunistic Era.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The year, we celebrated our 20th birthday and it has arguably been HEPI’s biggest yet, with more website views than any other year in our history. Topping the charts is former Universities Minister Jo Johnson with his June piece on the importance of international students to UK higher education.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The University of California is trying to divide and conquer the 48,000 workers on strike by acceding to the demands of some groups but not others The strike by unions representing 48,000 academic workers at the University of California stands at a perilous crossroads.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2023

Black history — and Black Americans — are under attack. Since 2021, legislatures and governors in 19 states have enacted educational gag orders that restrict teaching and learning about allegedly divisive concepts such as race, racism, and American history. The fate of affirmative action in higher education awaits a U.S.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

MAY 1, 2024

Reading Time: 10 minutes In the dynamic landscape of higher education, institutions constantly seek innovative strategies to enhance their brand visibility, improve student engagement, and foster a sense of community. Example: John Cabot University has a robust student ambassador program. What Is A Student Ambassador Program?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The exclusion and omission of Black history threatens to harm not just the Black community at large but also students and the very future of the nation, experts said during a Nov. The discussion was moderated by Dr. Marcia Vandiver, associate professor of elementary education at Towson University. the NREI website stated.

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University Business

JUNE 5, 2023

Pennsylvania is facing a double-edged sword in funding its higher education system next year, so much so that Gov. Josh Shapiro proclaimed his state’s public higher education system “isn’t working. Consequently, university officials and state leaders are caught in a conundrum over what to do.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The state of facilities at historically Black colleges and universities, also known as HBCUs, again made headlines in recent weeks. Student protests broke out at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona, Fla., A history of higher education tells us why appeared first on University Business.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In the midst of Norway’s enchanting fjords and endless summer daylight, a gathering of educators takes place at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences in Bergen. For instance, VID Specialised University in Oslo and St. The institute’s beauty lies in its ability to foster brand-new partnerships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2023

So, when it came time for him to pick an academic pursuit, the study of Latinos and sports history naturally came to mind. I just wanted to understand what [the history was] behind this,” says Burgos. “I Latino, African American, and sports history. He is a professor of history at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

What does Diverse: Issues In Higher Education mean to you? Daniels Of course, I was not reading academic journals and higher education publications then. Over the years, I’ve observed at least seven (7) best practices in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education that other media outlets might be well-served to emulate: 1.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Matt Cook, who has written on queer urban life and the Aids crisis, takes up the new post at Mansfield College The renowned cultural historian Matt Cook is to become the UK’s first fully endowed professor of LGBTQ+ history in a newly created post at Mansfield College, Oxford. Continue reading.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

LAS VEGAS-- Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If

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Higher Education Inquirer

JULY 12, 2023

The University of Phoenix (or at least its name) may soon enter the ash heap of US history--and rise again as a state-run robocollege. Once hailed as the leader in affordable adult education for workers entering middle management, it is a shell of its former self--in an economy less certain for consumers. It's a Long Story.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) will host a series of events as part of its Third Annual Black History Month Festival this year. Black Resistance has taken many forms throughout history. Martha Biondi and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly of Wayne State University.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2023

Issue blown out of proportion, says Matt Cook, after appointment of ‘free speech tsar’ for higher education Oxford University’s new professor of LGBTQ+ history has accused the government of “fanning a culture war” over freedom of speech, insisting it is alive and well in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Arizona State University (ASU) faculty have received $1.6 Department of Education for a program to teach K-12 teachers about civics, history, and media literacy. Lauren Harris, an associate professor of history education, and Dr. Leanna Archambault, professor of learning design and technology. million from the U.S.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

University of California campuses come to a standstill as 48,000 student workers strike for better pay Three weeks of strikes by university academics has brought campuses across California to standstill. Labs are closed, assignments go ungraded.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The legislative ramblings in Florida and other states seeking to remove Black history from the curriculum and revise Black history should give us pause about what historical information students will enter university with. university policies and procedures) as presented is also decolonized.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JULY 23, 2023

University of Chichester proposes redundancy for Hakim Adi, first Briton of African heritage to become a professor of history in UK A university has come under fire for proposing to make the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK redundant and cut the course he runs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

Hamline University faculty leaders are calling for the resignation of Hamline President Dr. Fayneese Miller after her handling of a case where the school dismissed an art history instructor showing depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in a course, the Associated Press reported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2023

dissertation, titled “A Jotería Identity and Belonging: Pláticas of Co-Creation with Queer and Trans Latinx Graduate Students in Higher Education,” not only describes his research as a prolific scholar and noted activist, but it also represents some of his own intriguing journey. “I Sergio Gonzalez’s Ph.D.

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University Business

MAY 24, 2023

Earlier this year, the AAUP established a special committee to review the apparent pattern of politically, racially, and ideologically motivated attacks on public higher education in Florida. The post Florida higher ed faces an ideologically driven assault unparalleled in US history appeared first on University Business.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Higher education has adapted slowest to artificial intelligence (AI), according to Tyler Cowen, economics professor at George Mason University. We stand at a very unusual moment in human history,” Cowen said. The post Economics professor: Higher education has adapted slowest to AI appeared first on University Business.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The University of Chicago faces rising debt levels more serious than those at any of its peer institutions, a result of overspending in the sciences that could cost the elite campus its traditional strength in the humanities, a professor has warned.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Thompson will become president of Jackson State University (JSU), effective Nov. Thompson Jackson State University Thompson is currently deputy commissioner and chief administrative officer of the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL), the state’s public university system. in urban higher education from JSU.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Tyler Cowen speaks to students and faculty about “The Economics of Articifial Intelligence” on September 7, 2023, In the Great Hall of the Memorial Union as a part of the Iowa State Lecture Series Higher education has adapted slowest to artificial intelligence (AI), according to Tyler Cowen, economics professor at George Mason University. “We

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 17, 2023

More than a century ago, Thorstein Veblen and Upton Sinclair critically exposed the structure and history of US higher education. Yet there is still much that the public doesn't know about the higher education business. Others have followed.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Political interference in higher education, we are told , is increasing. The partisan divide in views on higher education, we hear , is deepening. ” As her own books demonstrate, political attacks on higher education date back much further. Of course not.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

GEDU has announced its acquisition of Tampa-based institution Schiller International University, marking the firm’s official expansion into the US market. Schiller International University has a great history of creating value through its presence on two continents across the Atlantic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Chaka Cummings has been appointed the inaugural executive director of The Association for Teaching Black History in Kentucky. Chaka Cummings The association – consisting of Berea College, Kentucky State University, the Muhammad Ali Center, and Kentucky History Resources, LLC – will be in the Carter G. Cummings holds a B.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

University of Maryland campus, Memorial Chapel. The University of Maryland (UMD) has released its first report covering the history of their institution and its intersection with slavery, The 1856 Project – Reconstructing the Truth. These [reports and investigations] aren’t designed to make universities look bad.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Higher Education Reading List One of our wonderful trustees recently asked me to recommend a higher-education reading list. Here it is: Newsletters and Magazines I start each weekday with a review of these three: Inside Higher Ed publishes a daily newsletter of current events in higher education.

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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. For our context in higher education, we must understand that students are now learning and completing their assignments differently than a year ago.

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