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Descendants of Enslaved Offered Need-Based Scholarships through Partnership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Monique Trusclair Maddox Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation The Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation announced applications are open for an advancement of education scholarship program in partnership with Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF). Williams, the president and CEO of TMCF.

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The Goldsmiths crisis: how cuts and culture wars sent universities into a death spiral

The Guardian - Higher Education

Arts education is essential – yet on both sides of the Atlantic, the humanities and critical thinking are under attack. With massive redundancies announced at this London institution, is it the canary in the coalmine? So much becomes possible when you’re living together 24/7.” Continue reading.

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University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff to Launch Scholarship Program as Part of Federal Agriculture Career Initiative

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) will be part of a federal initiative to recruit and retain underrepresented minority students in food and agriculture careers. Dr. Nina Lyon-Bennett As part of the U.S. The ability to afford tuition is a major factor impacting student enrollment, retention, and persistence to graduation.”

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National University Announced The Launch Of The Cause Research Institute

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Honor and invest in Ukraine through scholarships (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In the spring of 2022, at least 15 colleges and universities , including my own, Alfred University, jointly awarded honorary degrees during our commencement exercises. The higher education institutions conferring honorary degrees on Zelensky committed to assisting Ukraine in other ways.

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Is Academic Scholarship Stagnating?

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What if we ranked universities not by inputs but by outputs? A recent piece in Forbes echoes an argument that I made several months ago : That the preeminence of many of the most highly regarded American universities is fading. Cal Tech, MIT, UC-Berkeley, and the University of Chicago.

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The Humanities are in the Midst of a Historic Paradigm Shift

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The conservative Manhattan Institute recently published a report that argues that the promotion of Social Justice ideology in K-12 schools and colleges is having a measurable impact on students’ political views and partisan leanings. What has changed over the past decade is that: 1.