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W Kim Lee and Dr. Carolyn Stefanco hen the American Council on Education launched its Moving the Needle initiative over a decade ago to raise awareness about gender parity in highereducation or lack thereof only 23% of college presidents or chancellors were women. in the majority white college town in the Mountain region.
When I became president of the University of La Verne in 2011, I often shared the story of why I was drawn to this role—and why it resonated so deeply with my family’s values. My husband and I were committed to raising our daughters in a community that embraced inclusivity, service, and the transformative power of education.
Since Apple introduced Siri, its voice-controlled software, in October 2011, consumers have begun normalizing interactions with narrow AI. Community Colleges Are Well Positioned Historically, equity and inclusion in highereducation have been shaped by various legislation and milestones that improved learner access in America.
This past fall, Coppin welcomed Wes Muhammad, a 14-year-old from Baltimore into its largest freshmen class since 2011. The growing interest in Coppin, Jenkins says, has elevated its national recognition, including being listed as a top producer of HBCU students by Diverse. Coppin was always my first choice, says Muhammad.
Moreover, given the current socio-political era of anti-DEI, faculty and other university personnel have been losing funding, positions, and operational units that support research and programming that help the most vulnerable student populations to thrive and attain optimal outcomes in highereducation and in their personal lives.
What does Diverse: Issues In HigherEducation mean to you? Daniels Of course, I was not reading academic journals and highereducation publications then. Over the years, I’ve observed at least seven (7) best practices in Diverse: Issues In HigherEducation that other media outlets might be well-served to emulate: 1.
A leader of the Detroit chapter of the NAACP, Johnson passed away in 2011. Arthur Johnson, who served as a senior vice president at Wayne State University and was a classmate of King at Morehouse in the 1940s, created the first MLK Tribute at the school.
The proportion of schools awarding conditional scholarshipsfinancial aid that can be withdrawn if students fail to maintain certain academic standardshas decreased substantially, from 61% in 2011 to 32% in 2023. Employment outcomes for recent graduates have remained relatively stable.
: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Critical Social Justice Education , co-written with zlem Sensoy, which received both the American Educational Studies Association Critics Choice Book Award (2012) and the Society of Professors of Education Book Award (2018).
In May 2011, Dr. Cheryl Davenport Dozier stepped in as Savannah State University’s interim president. But as for her new path in highereducation, Dozier said during a 2011 news briefing: “I’ve been charged to come down and lead and that’s what I’ll do.”
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and highereducation institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries. But we need to look closer at the data.
In 2011, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his work on sport-related concussions. Serving as the chancellor of an Association of American Universities institution, he has navigated the complexities of highereducation with a strategic vision that has led to institutional growth and success,” said Dr. Jerlando F.
This is his second time serving in the role, initially from 2005 to 2011. Overton James T. Overton has been named chief of the police department at Delaware State University. Overton holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Delaware State and a master’s degree in human resource management from Wilmington College in Delaware.
He served in the Texas House of Representatives from 2011 until 2022, representing District 19. James White James White has been appointed vice president of governmental affairs and civic engagement at Texas Southern University.
For years, advocates for highereducation in prison programs worked to see Pell Grants reintroduced for incarcerated individuals. We’re looking at this unique intersection of two really big systems—the correctional system and the highereducation system meet at college-in-prison programs,” said Pokornowski.
Educational research demonstrates the impact of engagement, both social and academic, on student outcomes like persistence (Deil-Amen, 2011; Karp et al., Physical Review Physics Education Research, 12 (1). The Journal of HigherEducation, 82 (1), 5491. link] Deil-Amen, R. Ellerbrock, C.,
Brooks continued his exploration of the vast African diaspora in 2011, alongside other internationally known scholars, as the general editor of the 1,600-page African American Almanac (Cengage Gale, 2011).
The data shows that, from 2011 through 2020, there was a 39% drop in Black male enrollment in colleges across the United States. This decline should be alarming and open our eyes to a deeper issue within our educational system. Dual enrollment students provide colleges with another opportunity to become a bridge to highereducation.
While hip-hop may not often be referenced as tantamount with highereducation, many artists have referenced the academe within their works. John’s University where he graduated magna cum laude , highereducation has found its way into the lyrical content of the genre. Dr. Jeremy C.
I like being able to work with students, faculty, and colleagues in a different kind of way [that] made me more aware of the community of highereducation and not just a department, class, or advising relationship with a student. “I like the problem-solving,” Allen says. “I To me, it felt bigger.”
The unanticipated ferocity of the scripted efforts to eliminate DEI on highereducation campuses has caused numerous institutions to reverse their previous commitments to a set of “core values” that were intended to evolve their environments and structures into settings that were more welcoming to and supportive of underrepresented constituencies.
The Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs (PPWSA) study was first proposed by Ralph Newell at Diverse as a partnership with ACPA-College Student Educators International in 2011. After engaging with a volunteer advisory board, the Governing Board approved the study.
by Maria-Ligia Barbosa In Latin America, highereducation has undergone intense transformation. million in 1990, 25 million students in 2011, and 30 million in 2019. In Argentina and Uruguay, the demand for highereducation was met by the public sector. million, reaching 8.4
VanDerveer has established herself as one of the top coaches in the history of collegiate and international women’s basketball and has been inducted into both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (2011) and the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame (2002).
Before going deeper with our assertions, we (the authors that pinned this piece) also acknowledge that dishonor, is not the sole experience for Black scholars and sdministrators, who serve in highereducation. HigherEducation is a very challenging environment for anyone but particularly for scholars and administrators of color.
The well-known political figure was a state representative in the Georgia General Assembly, having served as minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives 2011-2017. Walters Endowed Chair and we are pleased to welcome her to Howard University.”
The ETS Research Institute develops frameworks for innovative personalized assessments that enable learners to demonstrate the full spectrum of their skills and competencies, generate crucial insights, and inform educational policies globally. The chair is named after Gordon, a prominent psychologist and education researcher.
According to the study, Indiana’s grade retention policy was in effect from the 2011-2012 through 2016-2017 school years. It used the Indiana Reading Evaluation and Determination (IREAD-3) test to gauge student reading proficiency before the fourth grade.
2011 academy graduate Melissa McCafferty also accused Sulmasy of verbal harassment and of texting her that he would only write her a law school recommendation if she sent him photographs of herself, telling her he had always loved her foot tattoo.
Individuals committed to community colleges and the vital role they play in American highereducation continue to advocate for the students and the institutions that serve them. The purpose of community colleges is to increase access to highereducation for the most vulnerable populations.” Dr. Everrett A.
He’s why Americans should have hope for highereducation and advocate for more investments in leaders who walk their talk.” In 2005, Curry took a job at Compton College in an entry-level position within student services, ultimately working his way through the ranks of leadership to become interim president in 2011.
Public highereducation appropriations rose nearly 4% beyond inflation last year, according to the State HigherEducation Finance’s annual report. Perhaps more relevant to higher ed leaders, fiscal year 2023 saw the largest decline in tuition revenue since SHEF began tracking such data in 1980.
He led the Tide to nine SEC championships and won national titles in 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, and 2020. Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne called Saban “one of the greatest coaches of all time, in any sport.” Saban led LSU to SEC championships in 2001 and 2003, when he won his first national title.
Though students with ASDs are entering college at higher rates, the completion rate is much lower than neurotypical peers (Sanford et al., Planning for HigherEducation , 47 (1), 3. Currently, 1 in 36 children in the United States is diagnosed ( Autism Statistics and Facts, 2023). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Keywords: Student Research, Experiential Learning, High-Impact Practice Introduction We adapted and implemented high-impact practices (HIPs) to engage undergraduate and graduate students in faculty research based on the principles of adult learning theory (Knowles, 1990) and cognitive learning theory (Sincero, 2011). & McKee, M.
In 1997, Deep Blue beat a world champion chess player (Chess.com, 2018), and Watson beat Ken Jennings in 2011 (Markoff, 2011). Yes, ChatGPT is going to make us rethink highereducation in many ways, but so have the advances noted above, and so many others. 2011, Feburary 16). But people still play chess.
Therefore, we conducted empirical research to study the extent that anti-racist teachers can disrupt resegregation in special education , using nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-2011. Multicultural gifted education (2nd ed.). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Prufrock Press. Shifrer, D.,
Stout also acknowledged the sector’s overall enrollment losses, particularly among Black learners, whose enrollment fell by 26% between 2011 and 2019. Stout characterized the work to close equity gaps in highereducation as Sisyphean, constantly pushing the rock uphill, a brutal battle against gravity that always seeks the summit.
Specifically, the term refers to unequal access to digital multimodal technology, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, and high-speed internet (West, 2011). As members of the highereducation community (instructors, students, and other education paraprofessionals), we work, study, and interact in a largely digital environment.
This programming supports ongoing dialogue in the academy about creative scholarship in terms of documentation, promotion, and institutional support (see, Adams & Meyer, 2011; Cantor & Lavine, 2006; Hays, 1989; Kezar et al., The Chronicle of HigherEducation, 52 (40). 2018; Miller, 2022; Rautkorpi, 2007). & Meyer, S.
For most of its 50-year history, the Pell Grant has not covered summer classes, with two brief exceptions: 2009-2011 and 2017 to the present. Liu found clear advantages for the students who got summer money.
Forsyth’s coaching career is gilded with accolades, including the NGCA Coaches Hall of Fame in 2011; WGCA’s National Coach of the Year in 2004; and Golfweek National Coach of the Year in 2011. It just was a really natural evolution honestly."
Government’s underestimation of inflation has eroded teaching resources, according to thinktank University students in England are seeing less spent on their education than at any time since their tuition fees were tripled in 2012, according to new analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
When Dr. Devorah Lieberman became president of University of La Verne in 2011, a private institution of approximately 8,000 students about 35 miles east of Los Angeles, she was in many ways seeing life come full circle. I’m looking very carefully at where I can continue to add value in highereducation,” Lieberman said.
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