Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2025

Education is the key to unlock the golden door to freedom. George Washington Carver People generally enroll in college with dreams of creating lives like the ones their parents provided, or better. Ambitious, and often anxious, students enter collegiate Alicia P. Peoples environments aspiring to find answers, solve problems and create systems to support themselves and others.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 2, 2025

I hope that everyone had a restful break and is excited to come back for what will undoubtedly be an eventful year in the world of higher education. This spring is going to be quite busy for me with three faculty searches, our once-a-decade academic program review, the most travel for presentations that I have had since before the start of the pandemic, and responding to a host of media and policymaker requests about what will be happening over the next few months.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 6, 2025

December Brings Late Round of Job, Program Cuts Josh Moody Mon, 01/06/2025 - 03:00 AM Fiscal challenges of 2024 will extend into the new year with several institutions announcing plans to drop jobs and programs due to structural deficits.

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Ed.gov Blog

JANUARY 3, 2025

By: Dr. Rudy Ruiz, Founder, Edifying Teachers As a young Latino who went from a low-income neighborhood on Milwaukees South Side to graduating with honors from Stanford, I didnt aim to make it out of the community, but to improve it. I completed an alternative teaching certification program to help change the odds for young Continue Reading The post Raising the Bar for Better Retaining BIPOC Educators through Mentorship appeared first on ED.gov Blog.

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Roompact

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Every year, Roompact puts out a ton of content on topics of interest to college student housing and residence life professionals. This year included nearly 200+ new posts, including 40+ new podcast episodes. Come take a look at our most viewed content of 2024. A number of our top ten blog posts came from the.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2025

As a first-generation Black graduate student attending a large PWI research one university, I recognized the importance of leveraging my cultural assets to persist Jason K. Segrest through my program. From mentors, professors, and members of my cohort, I realized that this journey is not meant to be traveled alone. Likewise, as a higher education professional, I have mentored and supported first-generation Black postsecondary STEM students who share similar life experiences, aspirations, challen

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 6, 2025

Downwardly mobile graduates are arguably becoming the UKs electoral kingmakers and could spur a political revolution Some groups loom larger in the national imagination than others. It has become a shibboleth that economically left, socially conservative ex-Labour voters in the red wall are the UKs political kingmakers and therefore must be wooed. Yet there is little mention of the graduate without a future , a group that first emerged after the 2010 student protests and continues to grow in nu

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2025

The world of applications has been moving slowly but firmly toward a strong focus on users and their experience. Rather than make users dig through a hodgepodge of different applications with different user interfaces, designers and developers have worked hard to create unified experiences: web applications that look seamless, aimed at making end users more productive, reducing frustration and speeding their paths through even complicated tasks.

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Roompact

JANUARY 1, 2025

Whether theyre corkboard, tackboard, or a completely different material, I dont think its an understatement to say that bulletin boards have been a mainstay in residence halls since their establishment on college campuses. In the days before social media and email, bulletin boards were one of the best ways to spread the word on events.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2025

A new report from United Educators reveals that enrollment concerns reclaimed the top spot as the most pressing risk facing colleges and universities in 2024, with 71% of institutions identifying it as a major challenge. This represents an increase from 67% in the previous year. The annual Top Risks Survey, which gathered responses from 194 colleges and universities between August and December 2024, showed a significant shift in institutional priorities.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 1, 2025

All we want are the facts, maam. Jack Webb, from the television series, Dragnet (1951-1959) If it were a matter of the facts alone, the right-wing attack on higher education would be unintelligible. From the attacks, one might think that the college scene is hugely skewed in favor of the underrepresented students towards whom diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives are directed.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The Dartmouth College mens basketball team is dropping its historic bid to form a union, months after voting to do so.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2024

In this 7th annual end-of-year episode of Changing Higher Ed, Dr. Drumm McNaughton swaps roles as our guest, while Tom Netting of TEN Government Strategies hosts the discussion. Together, they review McNaughton's higher education predictions for 2024 and share his insights into the challenges and opportunities awaiting higher education in 2025. What youll gain from listening to this podcast: Political Impact: Understand how the polarizing election year reshaped higher education and what legisla

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Roompact

JANUARY 3, 2025

Winter break provides a well-deserved respite for students and staff alike and, for some teams, a much-needed restart as you head into a new semester together. After the long break, RAs return with renewed energy but may feel disconnected from their team or uncertain about the semester ahead. Using the time set aside for Winter.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2025

Guilford College President Dr. Kyle Farmbry announced his resignation last week after serving three years at the helm of the historic private Quaker institution located in North Carolina. The departure comes as the college grapples with growing budget deficits and adapts to changes in higher education Farmbry was the first African American to lead the institution.

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University Business

JANUARY 6, 2025

Artificial intelligence is transforming higher education, influencing recruitment, research and classroom experiences.But while we tend to talk about AI as if its a single, monolithic technology, thats of course not the case. AI encompasses a huge variety of algorithms that range from simple, rule-based systems to hugely complex, deep-learning models.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 6, 2025

U.S. Senator Jerry Moran and Representative Tracey Mann of Kansas recently announced plans to propose legislation to remove Haskell Indian Nations University from the control of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education, The Kansas City Star reported.

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AIFS Abroad

JANUARY 3, 2025

Accounting is one of the most in-demand fields in todays job market. To stand out from your peers when searching for a top-notch accounting job in the future, its essential to have an internship on your resume that provides hands-on experience and expands your professional network. Experiencing an internship abroad is an excellent way to expand your global perspective and demonstrate to future job prospects that you can collaborate effectively with partners and clients from diverse backgrounds.

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Roompact

JANUARY 4, 2025

At many universities, live-in residence life professional positions such as residence hall coordinators, assistant directors, and area coordinators are seen as “entry-level stepping stone” roles for individuals aspiring to move into higher positions within higher education or student affairs. This perception undermines the significance of these positions and the professionals who occupy them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 6, 2025

In a significant leadership transition at one of legal education's key institutions, the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) has appointed Sudha Setty as its new president and chief executive officer, effective July 1, 2025. Setty, who currently serves as dean of the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law, will bring her extensive experience in legal education and commitment to diversity to the organization.

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University Business

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Education for a Lifetime How one university turned a struggling enterprise into a $6 million lifelong learning powerhouse A decade ago, the University of South Floridas Continuing Education program was by all accounts a financial burden. Then part of USFs Innovative Education division, the unit was losing $60,000 a year. It seemed impossible to justify its existence at a time when higher education was focusing on workforce alignment and the employability of graduates.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 6, 2025

The Dream of a Climate Justice University Johanna Alonso Mon, 01/06/2025 - 03:00 AM Drawing on 30 years of experience researching climate, Jennie C. Stephens argues that modern universities are systematically unequipped to fight climate change.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 4, 2025

From MIT Press: " The Myth That Made Us exposes how false narrativesof a supposedly post-racist nation, of the self-made man, of the primacy of profit- and shareholder value-maximizing for businesses, and of minimal government interferencehave been used to excuse gross inequities and to shape and sustain the US economic system that delivers them. Jeff Fuhrer argues that systemic racism continues to produce vastly disparate outcomes and that our brand of capitalism favors doing little to reduce d

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Roompact

JANUARY 5, 2025

Residence life professionals often joke about the perennial stress of the job: late-night duty calls, back-to-back meetings, endless emails, and an overwhelming list of responsibilities. While humor can be a healthy coping mechanism, it also hints at a larger cultural issue (one that certainly has been highlighted by work culture during and since the pandemic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2025

For the first time in college football history, the upcoming Orange Bowl semifinal guarantees that an African American head coach will advance to the National Marcus Freeman Championship game, as Penn State's James Franklin faces Notre Dame's Marcus Freeman. Franklin has previously expressed his aspirations regarding this milestone. In a 2019 appearance on HBO's "24/7 College Football," he shared his goal of becoming the first African American head coach to win a college football national champi

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University Business

JANUARY 6, 2025

State university systems and private colleges have ramped up free tuition programs over the past year hoping to quell public skepticism regarding the affordability of a degree. States with free-tuition or “last-dollar” scholarship programs prior to 2024 have seen stronger application and enrollment numbers. However, erasing college tuition and related frees does not equate to a free education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 7, 2025

The Universities of Wisconsin, a 13-institution system, may eliminate the requirement that its president form search committees to help find and select other top system leaders. Current system policy says the president, currently Jay O. Rothman, must appoint a search and screen committee when a vacancy occurs in a system administration senior leadership position.

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AIFS Abroad

JANUARY 6, 2025

Biology is a gateway to careers in a range of industries including healthcare, conservation, research, education, and beyond. To stand out in todays competitive job market, aspiring biologists can gain a major edge with an international biology internship that builds both necessary skills and a global professional network. Imagine learning cutting-edge lab techniques, mastering data collection and analysis, and connecting with expertsall while exploring exciting cities across the globe!

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2025

Learning and Work Institute says 71% of Londoners and 65% of adults in Scotland will have degree by 2035, compared with 29% in East Yorkshire Economic growth in the UK risks being held back by a skills chasm between regions, as London and the south-east suck in highly qualified workers, according to a report by the Learning and Work Institute. The gap between high- and low-skilled areas of the UK is already wider than in many comparable countries and is forecast to widen, the thinktank says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 6, 2025

Its a reminder that you are a representation for many others and many other players that look the same way I do. Your color shouldnt matter. Your evidence of your work should. After leading the University of Notre Dames football team to a 23-10 victory over the University of Georgia in the Sugar Bowl, head coach Marcus Freeman Christian Collins guaranteed that this years NCAA Division 1 FBS national championship will be the first to feature a Black head coach regardless of the victor between Fre

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University Business

JANUARY 2, 2025

Virginias leadership in combating hazing on college campuses played a pivotal role in shaping national reforms after President Joe Biden signed the Stop Campus Hazing Act into law in his final days in office. The legislation aims to enhance student safety by requiring colleges and universities to report hazing incidents under the Clery Act and standardizes definitions for tracking hazing statistics across the country.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 7, 2025

Congress Failed to Pass WIOA Update. What Does That Mean for Higher Ed? jessica.blake@ Tue, 01/07/2025 - 03:00 AM Congress looked set to pass the bipartisan bill to update the workforce development law but then scrapped the legislation at the last minute. That failure leaves money on the table for community colleges.

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Parchment

JANUARY 7, 2025

Non-degree credentials are growing rapidly, but what does non-degree credential quality look like? In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Michelle Van Noy, Director of the Education & Employment Research Center at Rutgers University. She shares a framework for non-degree credential quality and highlights the research around outcomes for non-degree credential attainers.

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ISA Journal

JANUARY 7, 2025

Hit the road with video blogger Gabrielle as she and her friends combine three Italian classics during their last week abroad: food, wine, and Vespas. [link] Gabrielle Traina, University of Utah, is studying abroad with ISA in Florence, Italy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2025

Marist College, the private school in Poughkeepsie, New York, has announced it will become Marist University effective later this month, marking a significant milestone in its nearly century-long history. The change comes after unanimous approval from the Board of Trustees and the New York State Board of Regents. President Dr. Kevin C. Weinman emphasized that the new designation better reflects Marist's evolution from a small regional college into a comprehensive global institution.

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University Business

JANUARY 2, 2025

Higher education is undergoing a profound transformation, with online learning shifting from a temporary solution during the pandemic to a core component of many institutions long-term strategies. Students today read less than 15% of their assigned materials a concerning trend that demands a new approach to how learning content is delivered and consumed.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 7, 2025

The Rise of the Accelerated M.B.A. kathryn.palmer Tue, 01/07/2025 - 03:00 AM Prospective students are increasingly skeptical that dropping out of the workforce for two years to earn the degree is worth it.

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