Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Former University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) Chancellor Dr. Rebecca Blank died Feb. Dr. Rebecca Blank Blank stepped down from the role in 2022 to become the first female president of Northwestern University, was one of the longest-serving chancellors in recent UWM history, having led the school for almost 10 years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

. — remembers the joyful opening of the LGBTQ+ Resource Office on the main campus of Prairie View A&M University. It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. In 2022, the university finally launched an official LGBTQ alumni affinity group, ARC.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 18, 2024

Spelman College, a private women’s liberal arts college in Atlanta, has received the largest single donation ever awarded to an HBCU (historically Black college or university). Of the $100 million, $75 million will go to endowed scholarships to attract future students while removing financial barriers, according to the institution.

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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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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. Holley added that mission-driven institutions have never been more important than now, “in such an era of censorship, book burning, and a denial of history.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

Hoeg says the timing of their announcement was purely coincidental, as she and the 11 institutional leaders on the Centennial President’s Council have been working to assess and align their campuses’ DEI policies since before 2022, when Centennial released its Student-Athlete Inclusion Policy.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Undoubtedly, international education is a challenging policy arena in Canada, which makes strategy development for one federal department a monumental task. GAC’s task is further complicated as the responsibility of education policy lies exclusively with the provinces. Creating consensus among all those diverse actors is difficult.

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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? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2024

I believe that the call to boycott athletics programs at Florida public colleges and universities should be modified to specifically target the football teams at the University of Florida (UF) and Florida State University (FSU). However, NIL. opportunities at UF and FSU.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University; Futurist, Latinx Pacific Archive; Co-Director, Situated Critical Race and Media (SCRAM). public & private sector organizations, Brown University; M.A., ethnic studies, San Francisco State University; M.A., Guevarra, Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Julian Vasquez Heilig, dean of the University of Kentucky’s (UK) College of Education, has been named the winner of the University Council for Educational Administration's (UCEA) 2022 Linda C. Tillman, distinguished visiting professor at Loyola Marymount University. Tillman Social and Racial Justice Award. s education system.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Many aspire to transfer to a four-year college or university. That’s disappointing, considering tens of thousands of community college students have the credentials, skills, and talents to excel at selective colleges and universities. percent at highly selective institutions this past spring.

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University Business

JULY 5, 2023

But Wesleyan University President Michael S. “Appealing to a principle of ‘color-blindness’ at odds with history and law, the Court’s conservative majority says, ‘trust us’ while it imposes its will on higher education’s admission policies,” Roth and Gonzalez wrote in an email.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Hughes Because I claim antiracism scholarship and practice antiracism in every space where I am present, I am often questioned and challenged. They claim, “All policies should be color-blind, otherwise “we” are practicing reverse discrimination and racism against white people.” Dr. Robin L. My counterargument hasn’t changed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

“Black and undocumented students are socially and politically left out of the conversation,” said Hall, an assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio. Dr. Kayon Hall, assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

More from UB: Middle East conflict continues to stir backlash, compromise safety across college campuses Hires Bonnie Cordon – Southern Virginia University The Southern Virginia University Board of Trustees unanimously approved hiring Bonnie Cordon as the school’s 10th president.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Molly Corbett Broad Molly Corbett Broad, former University of North Carolina (UNC) System president, has died on Jan. She came to North Carolina at a pivotal moment for our public universities, laying the groundwork for growth and progress across our state. “She 2, 2023, at age 81. She oversaw a historic $3.1 Her voice will be missed.”

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

International students seeking options in the UK and the US are continuing to place teaching and reputation at top of mind, while those looking to Canada are interested in tuition fees, scholarships and post-study work visas and career services are important in Australia, new research shows.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

Matthews in starting what was initially a monthly newsletter on Black Issues In Higher Education , we now know the power of pathways in helping Black boys like me go from being a nerdy high school student in Richmond, Virginia, to a tenured professor at a flagship state university where the governor once stood in the Schoolhouse Door.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Just ask yourself: Without sufficient graduate-level training in sub-Saharan African history, how can a teacher effectively respond to student questions? At the risk of some hyperbole, one could argue that the framework (especially after the recent deletions) reflects the state of Black Studies and African American History circa 1980.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are safe spaces for personal development. This is a significant moment in TMCF’s history, and it is rising to the challenge of changing the world one leader at a time with innovative initiatives. They still do. They still matter.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

University-licensed beers—usually ales developed by a local brewery, sponsored by a college or university and sold on tap in community restaurants and in cans at local stores—are not an entirely new concept. A day later, the university decided to stop production of the beer.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Two recent books that have received widespread attention underscore a much broader emotional or affective turn in humanistic and social science scholarship. Instead, a growing body of scholarship views emotions not as reflexes, but as purposeful and at least partly culturally constructed. Products of history. Matter William M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Scholarship has nearly always been done from a position of privilege, with respect to the vast majority of the human population, as studying arcane texts or elusive natural phenomena has never been something most people have had time or resources to do.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

George Mason University, College of Public Health. The College of Public Health at George Mason University (Mason) launched in November. Degree programs are focused on global and community health, health administration and policy, nursing, nutrition and food studies, and social work. Georgetown University, School of Health.

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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. You can bet money on it.”

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Binghamton University, New York The Glenn G. Bartle Library Tower at Binghamton University. American University, Washington D.C. An innovative and exemplary step toward advancing the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion, Purdue remains one of only three Big Ten universities currently elevating a similar position.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Thus, racial and class bias can be embedded in the policies, practices, and norms of institutions and organizations, and can result in unequal access to opportunities, resources, and power for individuals and groups.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Coupled with the $400 increase in the 2022 fiscal year, this is the largest two-year increase ever in the history of the grant. Toldson, professor of the counseling psychology program at Howard University and national director of education innovation and research at the NAACP, agreed. Dr. Ivory A. We have to elevate that.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This includes low expectations from teachers or counselors about a student's ability to succeed in advanced classes, funding constraints for offering such classes, inadequate support for faculty development, and exclusionary policies like pre-requisites or grade cutoffs. African Americans deserve better. Dr. Ivory A.

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The PIE News

JULY 4, 2023

Higher education leaders are calling for a science and research “rebalance” to supercharge global scholarship and create a research ecosystem that doesn’t disadvantage Africa and the Global South. “In this way, Africa’s agency will be fully recognised, reinforced and protected for achieving the envisioned Afrofutures.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

As colleges and universities nationwide welcome a new cohort of students, the beginning of a new academic year generates a sense of anticipation. Greg Abbott signed a new law shutting diversity offices at Texas' public universities. A typical example is the institution of scholarships and funds that target Black students.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 19, 2023

universities to reckon with their role in slavery and colonization. Universities were also powerful sources of racist ideologies that supported white supremacy and justified the replacement of Indigenous societies. Similar patterns can be seen at universities in other Anglo-settler societies. higher education system was built.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Lewis, the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Urban Education and the executive director of The Urban Education Collaborative at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. “He The focus, he says, must be on the creation and the implementation of policies that ultimately help to improve communities over the long haul.

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ACPA

APRIL 26, 2024

It is important for fat student affairs practitioners and fat students to receive the recognition of their work, advocacy, and scholarship. I will continue to advocate for policy and procedure change in ACPA to better support fat people. I see fat liberation integral to this work.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Policy Last week, I wrote about the recent federal omnibus bill and heard from several readers—thank you! I was a full Pell recipient when I was an undergraduate student at Michigan State University in the mid- to late 1980s. I also qualified for a full Michigan Competitive Scholarship. Basic Needs.

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