Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The direct impact of the SCOTUS ruling — how many fewer individuals of color have been admitted to medical programs this fall — is still unknown. Applicants can talk about race when they relate it to becoming a better person with more maturity and life experience.” But there are predictors. Nine states in the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The conference underscored the mission of postsecondary institutions and academics to work against dehumanizing atmospheres and support the best policies and practices that improve student belonging, community connection, and create thriving faculty. “We They’re there to provide access to higher education to their communities.”

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

But being an HSI isn’t “just about passing the 25% threshold — it’s about intentionality,” says Roy. population representing a 13% growth from the year 2000, according to the Latino Policy & Politics Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. The 2021 Latinx population in the U.S. totaled 62.5

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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. Her presence and impact will be truly missed on our beloved campus.” Danielle Ren Holley is breaking ground. She will step into her role on July 1, 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2023

For Dartmouth and Columbia, these are the first women presidents in their history, while Harvard welcomes its first African American president. Robert McCaughey, retired professor of history and Janet H. Commodore said having so many women in presidencies at the same time could have a broad impact.

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WCET Frontiers

JUNE 19, 2023

As states and institutions struggle with how to teach about equity, diversity, and inclusion, WCET and Every Learner Everywhere are celebrating Juneteenth by highlighting stories of how Black history is being discussed at institutions and organizations. adrienne maree brown) “all that i touch, i change. all that i change, changes me.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

AUL seeks out diverse applicants for their open positions through strategic networking and posting on job boards that have a proven mission to amplify diversity, equity, and inclusion. University of Colorado Colorado Springs Storytelling Professor ‘Ilaheva Tua’one, PhD reading at the PURR Storytelling Hour.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The gift was designated to establish a school of sustainability and climate studies, illustrating the growing concern about climate change among elite institutions and donors alike. Oreskes, a professor of the history of science at Harvard University, earned her Ph.D. But Oreskes refused the offer. Students and Scholars Push Back.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

He was a leader who saw our potential, saw our promise, and was committed to seeing the students in his school do better in ways that other schools did not.” He continues to advance our understanding of the possibilities that exist for youth in urban settings. It was like a lifetime away.” It was the best of times.”

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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 15, 2022

The guidance doesn’t—and, as mere advice, can’t—ban statements about social or political issues. “Departments as such should avoid statements on what we call here ‘external’ matters (state, national, or international policy matters),” the guidelines say.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Degree programs are focused on global and community health, health administration and policy, nursing, nutrition and food studies, and social work. The School of Health will largely focus on policy and public health concerns with an emphasis on addressing historical inequities and disparities in underrepresented communities.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 10, 2023

My History with Online Courses Welcome to the third and final post in our series on higher education enrollment shifts. In our first post, the WCET Steering Committee work group focusing on this area reviewed historical enrollment trends, changes in student markets, and what may be coming in the future.

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The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2023

Our consortium of 250+ colleges and universities and more than 200,000 alumni since our founding in 1950 are testimony that study abroad is a powerful, meaningful experience. We’re at a particularly pivotal moment in history where we need thoughtful, interculturally effective, empathetic global citizens more than ever.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It is the seventh in our series on leadership in partnership with NCEE. Traditionally, competition between universities around the world has been based on history and achievements measured by conventional metrics.

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HEPI

AUGUST 25, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for the HEPI 20th Anniversary Collection by Dr Jonathan Grant, founding Director of Different Angles Ltd, a consultancy that focuses on the social impact of universities and research. In this final essay, I want to draw on the lessons of the last 20 years to gaze into the crystal ball to think about the next 20.

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

At the time, we were all hoping things were about to revert to normal after the impact of COVID and the end of lockdown, though we had yet to hear of Omicron and we were not out of the woods yet. Back to the future I hope you will let me begin with some history. You have given me a lengthy list of issues to cover.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 27, 2023

In this respect, the academic advisors’ impact on a first-year student’s social integration (Robbins et al., The Center for Community College Student Engagement Report (2018) shows that effective advising may have a larger impact on returning students and thus colleges’ persistence and graduation rates.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 27, 2023

In this respect, the academic advisors’ impact on a first-year student’s social integration (Robbins et al., The Center for Community College Student Engagement Report (2018) shows that effective advising may have a larger impact on returning students and thus colleges’ persistence and graduation rates.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For years we have been discussing well-documented concerns about the mental health of college students. As an iteration of this change in mission, some counseling centers now outsource to online third-party vendors , such as Talkspace , to provide the personal and nuanced conversation that talk therapy requires.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Perhaps the following conversation between Anita Casavantes Bradford and Steven Mintz about how R-1s can support their faculty to find fulfillment in meaningful research and as transformative teachers and mentors can suggest some answers. ” However, our campuses and our faculty roles have changed dramatically in the last few decades.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Excelencia in Education works to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. These data-driven decisions allow us to refine efforts to better serve our student population.”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Drumm McNaughton discusses these shocking findings, along with where this money should go and how it must be spent, with Amy Privette Perko, CEO of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, an independent group with a legacy of impacting college sports policies to prioritize college athletic education, health, safety, and success.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Universities bracing for enrollment about to fall off a demographic cliff. Universities bracing for enrollment about to fall off a demographic cliff. Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission. In her creative writing courses, many students are writing about self-harm, suicide, violent rape, and necrophilia.

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SRHE

APRIL 25, 2023

The Committee, with a remit “to consider matters relating to industry, including the policies of His Majesty’s Government to promote industrial growth, skills and competitiveness, and to scrutinise the work of UK regulators”, published 12 questions on which it invited evidence. The concerns are not limited to people within the sector.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 4, 2023

Technology Partnerships and Higher Education A Conversation With Drew Magliozzi, CEO of Mainstay Alan Thu, 05/11/2023 - 06:00 Chatbots Higher Ed Leadership Innovation Spotlight In our mission to promote equity in higher education, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) highlights the strategies of our member institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Their physical landscape, architecture, departmental structure, institutional calendar, faculty hierarchy, curricular and extra-curricular offerings, and even their mission statements scream college. A generic mission statement won’t cut it. The key question is whether our campuses will change, or be left behind.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Joseph University , a Catholic institution of about 2,000 students in Cincinnati. We have an alum of our department, who owns a catering business and has a venue, and he offered the venue for free” to hold a fundraising event, said Ani Kokobobo, chair of the Slavic and Eurasian languages and literatures department.

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HESA

MARCH 30, 2023

This week’s guest on The World of Higher Education Podcast is Ethan Schrum, Associate Professor of history at Asuza Pacific University in California. We’re used to universities making big claims about being “essential” societal institutions, valuable tools, “instruments” for the state to achieve its goals.

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Higher Ed Marketing Lab

JULY 1, 2021

?. In this episode, we talk about financial aid leveraging —the common and sometimes controversial practice of using data-driven approaches to inform how schools use institutional funds to manage enrollment and tuition revenue. In this episode, we’ll be talking about financial aid leveraging. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Read about them here. Diversifying Our Curing Community (DOCC) Arkansas State University College of Science and Mathematics DOCC seeks to increase the number of under-represented students accepted into medical schools. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B. The Paul T.

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EAB

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Follow the podcast on Spotify , Google Podcasts , Apple Podcasts , SoundCloud and Stitcher or visit our podcast homepage for additional episodes. Finally, Art shares his thoughts on what university leaders might do within the limits of the law to minimize some of the adverse impacts of the Court’s opinion.

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HEPI

MARCH 7, 2023

I jumped at the chance to speak to London Higher in part because I am an alumnus of our host institution, having studied here at the end of the last century when Queen Mary University of London / QMUL was known as QMWC or Queen Mary and Westfield College. After my stint as a political adviser, I moved into my current role leading HEPI.

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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. The landscape of higher education governance is at a pivotal juncture.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

They suggest that institutions may need to revisit and potentially revise their missions to reflect these changing expectations, underscoring the need for strong enrollment management leadership. This may involve re-evaluating institutional missions and embracing more flexible, career-focused educational models.

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