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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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

in New York University’s joint Ph.D. program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The institution has a storied history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2023

National University (NU) announced the launch of the Cause Research Institute (CRI), a new applied Research and Development arm that will coordinate research, scholarship, and other innovation efforts focused on social sector challenges, including education, health, human services, and criminal justice.

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Dan Cohen

JANUARY 24, 2022

I also happen to love this passage from Rollo May’s book, which is incredibly relevant to the Humane Ingenuity newsletter. Joel Willick, an engineering student at Northeastern University, has created a delightful robot named Bob ROS , an excellent play on the late, great Bob Ross of PBS’s cult hit “The Joy of Painting.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

Wayne State University has received $6 million for a cluster hire program to recruit and hire 30 new humanities faculty and create a Black Studies center. The grant also helps fund the launch of the Detroit Center for Black Studies, which will be faculty-led and help connect Black Studies faculty from Michigan institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

Mellon Foundation Dr. Elizabeth Alexander and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Dr. Lonnie G. Bunch III came together to discuss the increasingly vital role public institutions play in teaching American citizens their country’s history, particularly the history of Black people. Mellon Foundation. in September 2016.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 19, 2023

The Institute for Race and Social Transformation (iRaST) will undertake an in-depth examination of historical and contemporary social issues that impact the local community. The post Rhodes College to Establish Institute for Race and Social Transformation appeared first on INSIGHT Into Diversity.

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Dan Cohen

MAY 25, 2021

Here’s a fun, brief introduction by Garrett Dash Nelson, with zooming and snapping hand motions reminiscent of Minority Report : And here’s a fuller example on the history of trolleys in Greater Boston: Note that this will work for other digital images, not just maps. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The four-year, Catholic private school officially became an Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), meaning over 25% of their undergraduate population are Latinx. population representing a 13% growth from the year 2000, according to the Latino Policy & Politics Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. totaled 62.5

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 11, 2023

We love his warmth, candor, and willingness to put a human face on the challenges of higher education leadership. Leaders Are Human, Too President Sorrell believes that a leader's willingness to show vulnerability can become a strength. It's really important that we just be human." We got pregnant. Now we've got a baby.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma No longer can academic historians dismiss popular biographies or nonspecialist accounts of the past as low-powered history. But, of course, the purpose of many popular histories differs profoundly from those written by academics. ” None of that is true about the best nonacademic histories today.

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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. Why is that?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: A new research initiative seeks to expand access to clear, precise data about minority-serving institutions. The founders of the Minority-Serving Institutions Data Project say policy makers, researchers and advocacy groups all define MSIs in different ways, which leads to inconsistent and inaccurate studies of these institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Before we start down this slippery slope, let’s consider what we can do to address the assumptions and change the crisis narrative surrounding the humanities. Discounting tuition for the humanities reinforces already unsustainable and inequitable practices. Rising student loan debt and tuition need to be addressed.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Walker has become dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, effective immediately. Walker Walker, a scholar of religion, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, and ordained American Baptist clergyperson, has been the school’s interim dean since January. Institute of Peace U.S. Dr. Corey D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

Paula Krebs Report on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes draws on findings from a number of different sources, including the Hamilton Project, the National Humanities Alliance, the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, and Humanities Indicators. in philosophy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

The recent announcement of Dr. Claudine Gay’s resignation as president of Harvard University swiftly spread through the news and has been an ongoing conversation, particularly among those within higher education academic communities. Epps of Temple University and Orinthia T.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Since its launch in late 2022, the Department of Black Studies at the University of Rochester (UR) has worked to advance conversations surrounding Black and African culture and identity through an interdisciplinary, global lens. Thanks to a new $3 million grant from the Andrew W.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Wayne State University has received $6 million to recruit and hire 30 new humanities faculty and create a Black studies center. and global histories, culture, social, economic, legal, and health systems. .

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University Business

JULY 6, 2023

Led by professor Leland Harper, the initiative was fueled by a $34,905 planning grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to “design a new, coherent D&I certificate program … that is qualitatively distinct from the D&I certificates offered at other institutions,” records show. Read more from the New York Post.

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The PIE News

JULY 13, 2023

A new generation of Indonesians will have the chance to study at an Australian university at home, as three more Australian institutions plan to launch campuses in Indonesia. Over time, campus numbers are expected to reach 2,500 students, the university has said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

An upcoming exhibition at Brown University will depict the incarcerated life of political activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, through a collection of written papers and other materials, to educate people on the realities and inequalities of the American prison system. 28 to July 2024, across multiple campus sites. The event will take place Sept.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Although most graduates of our institutions of higher learning leave these portals with a greater measure of information and a more precise level of understanding than when they arrived, these omissions still result in their exit with a mindset that could be characterized as “artificially intelligent.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? None were pedagogues; they were mentors, who treated me as if I had ideas worth considering.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

The City University of New York has received $5 million from the Mellon Foundation to expand CUNY’s innovative Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative. The project was created with support from the foundation to drive change across CUNY's 25 campuses and advance racial and social justice initiatives. Dr. Félix V.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

degree in Human Services, Social Justice Advocacy. “We We provide an education for a diverse group of people, and many of them are part of groups that have been experiencing social injustices,” said Dr. Denise Rossilli, an associate professor and coordinator of the human services program at HCCC. “We HCCC is not alone.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sacramento State — home to the largest number of Black students within the California State University (CSU) system — is launching what will become the nation’s first-ever Black Honors College. or higher and an interest in Black history, life, and culture. We’re creating an institution within the institution.”

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HEPI

MAY 30, 2023

There is a long history of people getting their predictions about the future of technology, including the future of technology in education, wrong. Just ten years ago, in the words of Wired magazine, Sebastian Thrun declared that ‘ In 50 years … there will be only ten institutions in the world delivering higher education ’.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2024

King around this time of the year, but I depart from that practice to speak directly to you, the Scholars, Leaders, Activists, Debaters, Vocalists, and Athletes of Wiley University. To be clear, the inability to value the magic produced by HBCUs like Wiley University should “DIE”! Dr. Herman J. Again, magic happens.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 4, 2023

Mellon Foundation, Wayne State University will create the Detroit Center for Black Studies and recruit 30 new humanities faculty. The faculty-led, multidisciplinary center will connect Black Studies faculty from institutions across the state of Michigan, the university announced in December.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The UK’s University of Birmingham has hosted a series of events aimed at leveraging cultural assets to foster soft diplomacy across the US. And that can be through links [with] training, investment economics, research opportunities, going to university [and] travelling in the UK as tourists.”

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2024

From designing custom art images to creating “Soundful: AI Music Generator” songs and videos to interacting with historical figures through “Hello History” fun chats, AI has the capability to boost education and deep learning. Only affluent universities and technology companies had access to experiment with what AI could mean in the future.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 31, 2023

Image: Two students have been “debarred” by a top Indian institution after screening a controversial BBC documentary critiquing the country’s prime minister—a move that some academics fear could have a “chilling effect” on free speech on the nation’s campuses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. remembers the joyful opening of the LGBTQ+ Resource Office on the main campus of Prairie View A&M University. In 2022, the university finally launched an official LGBTQ alumni affinity group, ARC.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2024

Two major New York state universities are collaborating with a teacher-run organization seeking to teach communities and students about civil resistance in local history, creating an online platform to display the organization’s curricula and local resistance efforts.

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Higher Education Inquirer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And did you know all of this mess can be attributed directly to a set of misguided economic nostrums that go by the name of "Human Capital Theory" ? This is the tragedy of deeply flawed Human Capital Theory. Sadly, Human Capital Theory does not take any of this into account.

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