Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2023

has been tapped to become dean of the Howard University School of Law. Fairfax is a passionate legal educator whose extensive scholarship and commitment to criminal justice reform are deeply aligned with the law school’s mission,” said Howard President Dr. Ben Vinson III, who announced the appointment effective July 1, 2024.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Howard University law professor and dean has been named Mount Holyoke College’s first permanent Black female president in the institution’s 186-year history. Under her leadership, the law school increased its national profile, created new programming and pulled in more funding and resources.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2024

Crawford III was selected as the sole finalist for president of Texas Southern University. Throughout this process, I have learned so much about Texas Southern University, and I am honored to join this esteemed institution with such a rich history,” said Crawford. “I James Crawford III James W. The sky is the limit.”

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

and NYU have all recently elected a Black or female president—or both—for the first time in their schools’ histories. Mills’ extensive involvement with the university since 1999 put her at the forefront of the race. She has published articles in Harvard Law Review and Cornell Law Review, among others.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

John Karl Scholz (Photo: UO Website) With experience as a professor, economist and provost (which he currently still serves at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), his focus at Oregon will be student career readiness and postgraduate success. from Arizona State University in Psychology. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 17, 2023

A full recording has emerged of students at Stanford University law school disrupting a talk by Judge Kyle Duncan of the U.S. Duncan was a target because he has a history of anti-LGBT activism. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The audio recording was reproduced by David Lat for the legal blog Original Jurisdiction.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

But FIRE, ever hopeful that change could yet be on the horizon, hopes a strong (albeit imperfect) statement last week from Yale Law School’s dean could usher in that long-awaited era. FIRE remains hopeful the broader university’s dark, censorious days may soon be history. We’re (very) cautiously optimistic.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

Image: Belmont University, a private Christian institution in Nashville, Tenn., University leaders recently announced they’re specifically recruiting Jewish faculty members to teach in three of its graduate programs, hopefully as early as this spring. It’s one of the things that makes Belmont great.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 17, 2023

and Grace Stokes professor at New York University Law School. They broadly agreed that the plaintiffs who are suing Harvard and the University of North Carolina, claiming that their affirmative action policies discriminate against Asian Americans, do not represent the views of that group as a whole.

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University Business

JULY 31, 2023

Following the California State System’s high-profile hire of Mildred García as chancellor over two weeks ago, two major university presidents at Texas A&M and Stanford caught the national radar following their high-profile resignations. Katherine Banks – Texas A&M University M.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. If no one studies history, we don’t get the next Doris Kearns Goodwin; if no one studies English literature, whence the next David McCullough? New tools.

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University Business

MARCH 31, 2023

Cole Effective the first of June, the student affairs vice president at Marquette University, Dr. Xavier A. Cole, will become the president of Loyola University New Orleans. Cole received his doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania where he studied the effectiveness of Jesuit universities in preparing future lay leaders.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The History of Higher Ed for Incarcerated Students. In the early ‘90s, there were more than 770 college and university programs in nearly 1,300 prisons nationwide , all thanks to funding from the Pell Grant. Take the Higher Education in Prison program at Portland State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

As university administrators and admissions officers scramble to comply with the Supreme Court’s opinion, here’s the counterintuitive way out. Legally, that’s just impossible,” said Katyal, a law school professor of more than 20 years. In other words, I was born into Filipino American history. Be color blind.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

Image: Monday was the start of Welcome Week at American University. campus were greeted not only by smiling university ambassadors but also a picket line of more than 100 members of the university’s staff union, gathered for the first day of a weeklong strike. Students and parents arriving at the Washington, D.C.,

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MAY 11, 2023

Note: This interview in the Weekly Wisdom Series originally aired on April 17, 2023 as part of the University Innovation Alliance’s Innovating Together Podcast , appearing live on Facebook , Twitter , and LinkedIn. Sorrell is the longest-serving President in the 151-year history of Paul Quinn College. President Sorrell B.A.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Universities bracing for enrollment about to fall off a demographic cliff. Tenure I wholeheartedly agree with one headline: “ Tenure threatened in US more by universities than politicians.” It will change higher education forever. Eroding public confidence in higher education. Grave threats to tenure. percent in 2004 to 54.4

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Reading Time: 9 minutes Black History includes success stories of numerous Blacks who have contributed to the progress made in higher education. Throughout history, Black Americans have endured a long, tedious journey in achieving educational opportunities.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Reading Time: 9 minutes Black History includes success stories of numerous Blacks who have contributed to the progress made in higher education. Throughout history, Black Americans have endured a long, tedious journey in achieving educational opportunities.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Some law schools admit less qualified students on a part-time or probationary status to exclude them from the rankings that look exclusively at full-time students. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Steven Mintz Show on Jobs site: Disable left side advertisement?:

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Resolutions and Safe Spaces — Adelphi University. Adelphi University’s Office of Community Concerns and Resolution was established in fall 2021 to simplify and enhance the system for reporting discrimination, bias, and abuse. AmeriCorps Tutors for Youth — Arkansas State University.

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University Business

AUGUST 7, 2023

Rob Vischer took over the University of St. Thomas in January during a pivotal period in its 139-year history. Thomas is now the largest private university in Minnesota and is eyeing to expand its influence across state and national lines. Thomas maintain positive growth as a religiously affiliated university?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As attorney general, he secured the largest opiate settlement payment in state history and hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements from corporations for preying on New Mexicans. Balderas holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from New Mexico Highlands University and a J.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Brian Rosenberg, president emeritus of Macalester College and a visiting professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has written the best article that I’ve read on the recent decision by leading law schools to boycott the US News ratings. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

In 2024, I celebrate an anniversary that is special to me, 25 years of close affiliation with America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), especially those in my home state of Mississippi. Her life was palpably in danger every day that she integrated the University of Mississippi’s law school.

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Today's Learner

APRIL 12, 2023

DEI and CRT are not the same Colleges and universities started having hard conversations and implementing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion trainings. For example, if colleges and universities do not implement DEI training, imagine the impact this will have on our students. Isn’t Black History part of America’s History?

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: The reaction was swift when an anonymous student wrote “Black people suck” on a library whiteboard at American University in February. “This incident is particularly harmful to our Black community members during this important celebration of Black History Month.”

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Higher Ed Marketing Lab

JULY 1, 2021

I mean, nothing like this has happened before, at least in sort of data tracking history. I came across a little data point the other day saying law school applications and admissions where way up year over year. The senior level of the university started to be on board like, “Hey, here’s the risk.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The descendants of the founder of the University of California Hastings College of the Law sued California on Tuesday to block the state from changing the name of the institution, the Los Angeles Times reported. “This is a critical step toward healing a traumatic history and rectifying wrongs.”

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

Image: Some leaders of historically Black colleges and universities say they’re frustrated by a lack of communication and insufficient support from federal agencies after bomb threats swept their campuses six months ago. More than a third of the nation’s HBCUs received bomb threats this year, starting in January. Now stop crying.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

The functions that colleges and universities are supposed to fulfill and the responsibilities they are expected to meet are constantly expanding, and only the wealthiest institutions can meet those expectations. I find it remarkable that leading law schools decided to attack the ranking system by denying U.S. Seize the day.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Image: In his new podcast series, Gatecrashers: The Hidden History of Jews and the Ivy League ( Tablet ), Mark Oppenheimer, writer and co-host of the podcast Unorthodox , examines how elite institutions sought to limit the number of Jewish students a century ago—and how the advent of that quota system has shaped U.S. Q: How so?

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HESA

MAY 4, 2023

On this week’s episode of The World of Higher Education Podcast , Bryan Alexander joins us to talk about his new book, Universities on Fire, Higher Education in the Climate Crisis , which was published in March by Johns Hopkins University Press. AU: Bryan, you’ve written a book about universities and the climate crisis.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2024

Claudine Gay, who made history when she was named the first Black president of Harvard University six months ago, resigned from the university on Tuesday amid a flurry of allegations involving plagiarism and concerns over her handling of antisemitism on campus. "A Jones, who is a graduate of Harvard's Law School. "In

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University Business

JUNE 1, 2023

Brown, in the twilight of an 18-year career at Boston University, wrote a searing article scolding his student body for the way it received spring commencement speaker and alumnus David Zaslav during the ceremony. “History teaches us that this is a temptation to be avoided.” Zaslav, the president and CEO of Warner Bros.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2023

They offer several policy suggestions, including the funding of prevention and education initiatives against radicalism, mandating hate crime data collection as a pre-condition for receiving federal funds, and holding tech companies to civil rights laws prohibiting discrimination. It’s more a call to action,” he said.

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