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Report Provides Frank Data on Black PhD Holders in STEM Fields

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

of people who earned these doctoral degrees from 2010–20 were Black Americans. Throughout the report, “Exploring the Educational Experiences of Black and Hispanic PhDs in STEM,” it is clear that Black, and to some extent Hispanic, students have very different experiences than their white and Asian counterparts.

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Accreditor emerging for intellectual disabilities programs

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Inclusive Higher Education Accreditation Council is set to make its first campus accreditation visit this week at Western Carolina University. Students in these programs are eligible for Pell Grants, though not federal student loan aid. “I also think it would help with students getting a job.

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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

It will change higher education forever. Eroding public confidence in higher education. As I read the higher ed press, I try to find the trendline. Is it that higher education is reeling, that past failures are coming home to roost, and the long-anticipated day of reckoning has at last arrived?

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Insights for Higher Ed Presidents: A Fireside Chat with Brit Kirwan: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 184 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. William E. "Brit" Kirwan

The Change Leader, Inc.

Drumm McNaughton Perspectives of a long-time R1 / AAU president that current presidents can put into use to overcome current challenges in higher education. In this episode, Dr. Drumm McNaughton invites Dr. Brit Kirwan back to discuss the dynamic and challenging landscape of higher education.

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HBCUs Can Help Reverse the Black College Enrollment Recession

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over the past decade, Black college and university enrollment has been dropping at alarming rates, declining 22% from 2010 and 2020. Instead of succumbing to despair, leaders who value diversity and view it as a strength in our higher education institutions and corporations must step up. Words of solidarity aren’t enough.

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Education Department to use secret shoppers to catch colleges lying

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Office of Federal Student Aid has not used secret shoppers before. “However, the federal government has a track record of using secret-shopper investigations to malign politically unfavored institutions with distorted findings that later result in the need for public correction,” Kent said.

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The Colbeck Scandal (South University and the Art Institutes)

Higher Education Inquirer

Studio's CEO Bryan Newman is a veteran of for-profit colleges and their surrogates, working at the University of Phoenix (1997-2010), University Ventures (2011-2017), and the defunct UniversityNow (2014-2016). The Art Institutes were granted about $10 million in government relief.