Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 27, 2023

A new report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) finds that more than half of the 2023 graduating class had an internship. Mary Gatta, director of research and policy for NACE, said it's essential to think of internships as a systemic issue that disproportionately affects students from marginalized communities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Carpenter While it is tempting to look at all the external factors that impact every institution’s ability to solve the larger societal problem of historical racism, our colleges won’t make significant progress without efforts to systematically address their institutional structures and practices that perpetuate inequities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 27, 2023

A new report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) finds that more than half of the 2023 graduating class had an internship. Mary Gatta, director of research and policy for NACE, said it's essential to think of internships as a systemic issue that disproportionately affects students from marginalized communities.

Advocate 87

Advocate Recruitment Policy Equity 87

Today's Learner

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Online classes tend to have less completions than in-person classes. This impacts their ability to graduate and further worsens institutional and educational inequities. Apart from the obvious differences between on-campus and online classes, and mini-term versus full-term classes, perhaps the biggest one is the attrition rates.

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Deans for Impact

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

But in immersing himself in the class as a student, Evans is able to experience firsthand what the coursework and discussions are communicating to students – many of whom are aspiring teachers – about the complex field and profession of teaching.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

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. The School of Health and Behavioral Sciences at Bryant University in Rhode Island welcomed its first classes in June. in high demand.”. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

It also has implications for the alarming issue of the school-to-prison pipeline. Students who are academically behind are more likely to experience behavioral issues, which can lead to disciplinary actions and ultimately contribute to their involvement in the criminal justice system.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I (Ford) was reading a commentary on the top number of “issues” facing education/ educators and became even more outraged and indignant on terminology used to describe children who live in poverty, Blacks, and other minoritized students. High-stakes testing and evaluation. f. Under-preparation for College and Careers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 11, 2023

Green said that he incorporates hip-hop in the classes that he teaches, adding that students examine hip-hop principals as a framework for discussing issues of inequity and activism through the lens of the musical genre. And a number of people have debunked that. I think there's still that popular stigmatization."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Adele Newson-Horst was developing a grant proposal, she quoted a 2015 article published in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education that noted HBCU institutions had been slow to introduce gender-related programs. Even in the teaching evaluations, students talk about how their thinking has been transformed through the class. and globally.

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HEPI

JANUARY 26, 2023

This led to unprecedented numbers of working-class children joining the elite. No serious person can deny that this egalitarian education was inevitably of much poorer quality and led to spiralling educational inequalities. It didn’t have to be this way. Thus goes the central argument and complaint of this book.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In 1977, when the university’s endowment stood at $2 billion, its freshman class was 1,585. In 2021, after the endowment had risen to $53 billion, the first-year class consisted of 1,675 freshmen. That “ elite colleges simultaneously reproduce class inequality and belief in the justness of that inequality.”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Interventions to improve student success rates such as corequisite designs, curriculum alignment with high school math and increased support services provide certain levels of improvement but do not address the underlying issue: the student-deficiency mentality common among higher education practitioners. Students do well in these courses.

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HEPI

JANUARY 17, 2023

Through the voices and experience of disabled students, our study reveals three key issues that hinder equitable participation, quality of experience, and successful outcomes. Building on the issues identified, our research recommends approaches that will challenge the current situation for disabled students in higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

At stake are hot-button issues involving equity, privilege, socioeconomic class and gender, ethnicity and race. Underlying these controversies is a bigger issue: Is possible to bring many more students, not just those gifted in mathematics, to an appropriate level of competence?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

That inequities pervade American higher education, including gates that restrict entry into high-demand, high-salary majors in computer science, economics, finance, engineering and nursing. This means that most classes are instructor-centered and involve little active or experiential learning apart from instructor-led discussions.

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Higher Education Education Professional Development Equity 94

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The institute will also connect its students with the healthcare inequities seen around the world, helping them to dream up solutions to systemic problems, particularly in low-resource areas with higher populations of poorer or rural residents. but around the world.

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Schooling Medical School Equity Achievement 107

Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

At our welcome event for this fall’s freshman class, we ran out of chairs for the first time in recent memory. . Together, we developed an education and research initiative to address racial inequities plaguing the U.S. As dean of an education school, the pressure to create solutions to a cacophony of issues is mounting.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Choice for instructors and students Students have multiple classes, which means multiple required textbooks. The pandemic has shone a light, and in many cases, exacerbated, the inequities that exist in education. In the meantime, you’re setting up and gathering course materials and content for different platforms and course modalities.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I have been fortunate to have a perch on which to write about a host of highly charged issues that matter a great deal to me. Which means I should not flinch when really tough issues arise. But there are some real issues that need to be raised irrespective of your ideological leanings.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

This is first and foremost a student wellbeing issue – universities want students to progress and succeed to their full potential. But it’s also a financial concern – universities must ensure student retention and completion to protect their revenues. What does engagement mean to students? said it was ‘very’ or ‘extremely important’).

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Grades can perpetuate bias , inequalities, and injustice, reduce student motivation and willingness to challenge themselves , and add enormous administrative burdens. The second component of the final grade, student self-grading, helps address some of these issues. Participation in office hours, live classes, and events.

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SRHE

MARCH 1, 2024

by Fabio R Aricò, Laura Harvey and Ritchie Woodard The pattern is familiar across many universities: more and more students are asking to be excused from attending classes, submitting coursework, and even sitting examinations, because of work commitments. Her research is in the area of inequality and education. Dr Laura A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Understanding the perspectives of Coe community members who have been affected by these issues has been invaluable.” My purpose is to help the institution be more proactive about increasing collective awareness of institutional inequities so that we can promote systemic change with the involvement of both internal and community stakeholders.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As such, this global movement has forced us to revisit what and how topics and issues are taught in Pre-K-12 and higher education courses; as such, it has forced us to confront the sources of white supremacy, intolerance, and anti-Blackness and hate based on race and ethnicity.

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Higher Education Education Inclusivity Environment 125

Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

All of my experience is coming from teaching undergraduate courses and sociology about inequality. And I ultimately conducted some research about it to understand it in this undergraduate context, particularly issues around equity and engagement. From the instructor standpoint, [HyFlex] feels like teaching two different classes.

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The PIE News

JULY 20, 2023

There was also evidence of digital inequity relating to wifi, access to devices, data costs or working spaces. We found that respondents felt some degree of disadvantage in the job application process due to age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, social class, disability/health condition or neurodivergence.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It grows out of racial resentment or gender bias or homophobia or class interest and is institutionalized in law, religion, educational practice, and public policy. Let me ask: Are we teaching the courses our students need or the classes we want? Are your advanced classes truly advanced, or simply narrow?

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HEPI

DECEMBER 22, 2022

All too often, those who go to schools with money, those who have family stability, or those who come from white middle-class backgrounds are the ones it is assumed university is really for. When people get to university, the assumption of a middle-class lifestyle continues. A seat at the table.

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University Higher Education Environment Scholarship 86

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In the almost 30 years since Proposition 209 was passed, the UC system has learned about how to increase the diversity of their medical school enrollment, creating classes that more directly mirror the demographic populations of its state. Roughly half of the UC Davis School of Medicine’s class of 2026 represent minoritized populations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Jackson hoped that her institution would respond, issue a statement about what had happened and the pain that it might bring Black and brown employees. She never considered raising the issue. According to Williams, nurses have always been involved in addressing society’s inequities. It never did. It’s traumatic.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

The consequence: the richest institutions can fully fund the education of lower-income students, while the vast majority of working-class and lower-middle-class undergraduates must take out loans to pay for their education. The result was to anger middle-class parents while failing to increase net revenue. They’re not.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Alternative Scenario A: “A More Insular World” envisages a divided and insular landscape with restricted opportunities for international mobility; greater inequality within and across nations; and threats to democracy leading to instability in funding and information. This requires deep changes in culture and funding.

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Education Higher Education Inclusivity Technology 52

WCET Frontiers

MARCH 7, 2024

We see the potential issues when it comes to implicit bias in technologies such as AI and the inherent inequities that exist due to disparities in access to current technological tools, capabilities, and resources. All of us need to keep privacy and data protection in mind when working with these tools.

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ACPA

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

This feeling made me want to pursue a career in international higher education to implement a program for reverse culture shock and many other issues in studying abroad. Most students who study abroad are white, usually traveling somewhere in the Global North, which reflects the massive inequity of accessibility.

Advise 52

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Grades can perpetuate bias , inequalities, and injustice, reduce student motivation and willingness to challenge themselves , and add enormous administrative burdens. The second component of the final grade, student self-grading, helps address some of these issues. Participation in office hours, live classes, and events.

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Students Achievement Policy Administration 81

Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Teachers will tell you that class sizes are a prime determinant of student success. Smaller classes mean that teachers can ‘ read the room ’ and adjust their approaches accordingly. AI could allow class sizes beyond any claim to be manageable by individual faculty. If that data is biased, its decisions will also be biased.

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