Building a Foundation that Positively Impacts Los Angeles
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 2, 2024
Having served as vice president for student affairs at Cal State, Fullerton, from 2012–19, Eanes was familiar with the Cal State system.
Two Community Colleges Recognized for Excellence in Student Success and Equity
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Southwestern Oregon Community College, an ATD member since 2012, has distinguished itself through its targeted support of adult learners and first-generation students. The college's focus on gateway courses has yielded particular success, with math completion rates increasing by 11 percentage points and English completion rates surging by 17.2
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Georgetown University's President to Step Down, Following Health Challenges
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
He will hold the title of President Emeritus and will rejoin the faculty. Professor in the Math and Statistics Department, with a secondary appointment in the Sociology department, has been Provost since 2012. “In Groves, who also holds the Gerard J. Campbell, S.J.
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Beyond the Campus Food Pantry
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
As the holidays approach, today’s colleges and universities are increasingly marked by overflowing donation bins containing canned goods collected by every student organization and faculty department to stock the campus food pantry. Hopeful signs for a future beyond campus food pantries abound.
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Higher Ed Unionization Has Surged Since 2012, Bucking U.S. Labor Trends
Confessions of a Community College Dean
AUGUST 29, 2024
Most of the growth came at private institutions, where faculty unionization has also spiked. The number of unionized grad-student workers more than doubled in just over a decade, according to a new report on higher education labor. Higher education unionization has been surging. Story after story of successful union drives has suggested this.
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Pushing to No Longer Keep Meredith College a ‘Best-Kept Secret’
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 21, 2024
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 higher education and not just a department, class, or advising relationship with a student. From 2012 to 2018, Meredith also carried out its largest fundraising campaign yet, raising more than $90 million.
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Dr. Berenecea Johnson Eanes Appointed President of California State University, Los Angeles
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
I look forward to engaging and collaborating with Cal State LA’s talented students, staff and faculty to continue the institution’s journey to new heights in student success, research, scholarship and creative activity, and community engagement.” Dr. Berenecea Johnson Eanes Eanes will become the university's first woman president.
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Dr. Kristine Dillon Appointed Interim President of Whittier College
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 20, 2023
Dillon – a Whittier Board member from 1994-2012 and chair of its Enrollment and Student Life Committee from 2002-2012 – rejoined the board earlier this year. Dillon holds a Ph.D. in economics of higher education from Claremont Graduate University, a master’s in education also from Claremont, and a B.A. in English from Whittier.
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Student-Athlete Health and Wellness Study Findings Revealed at NCAA Convention
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 11, 2024
In the aftermath of the pandemic, the student-athlete survey, which was administered by NCAA faculty athletic representatives (FAR), reveal the attitudes of more than 23,000 student-athletes across all three NCAA divisions. That number—up from 63% in 2012 — is deeply encouraging, said Bell.
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Patricia Timmons-Goodson Appointed Dean of North Carolina Central University School of Law
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 16, 2023
She retired from the Supreme Court in 2012. Patricia Timmons-Goodson Timmons-Goodson is a retired North Carolina Supreme Court associate justice, the fourth woman and the first African American woman in the role. She is currently a member of the American Bar Association (ABA) and co-chair of the board of the NC Justice Center.
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Using Cogenerative Dialogues for Learner-Centered Teaching
The Scholarly Teacher
DECEMBER 11, 2024
2020; Lang 2021; McRee 2012), results are often self-reported assessments and focus on the characteristics of the instruction such as good course design or expert presentation; less typically does the research focus solely on the learner (Gore et al., Navigating the use of cogenerative dialogues: Practical considerations for graduate Faculty.
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Creating Classroom Camaraderie to Promote Learning: 3 Strategies
The Scholarly Teacher
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Maintaining student engagement is difficult; this is not a controversial opinion or surprise to most faculty. Stoner and Fincham (2012) say, “Part of the responsibility of being a faculty member is to identify what motivates students and to adapt teaching styles so that they are conducive to effective learning” (para.
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Medaille University Announces Coming Closure on Aug. 31 After Plan for Acquisition by Trocaire College Falls Through
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 16, 2023
In Fall 2012, it had 2,600 students. The school will work to help students transfer and help faculty and staff find new employment. Neither school can share details on why the plan for Trocaire to acquire Medaille's assets and keep its programs alive fell through, Quigley said.
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Langston University President Dr. Kent J. Smith to Retire at End of Spring Semester
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 9, 2023
Dr. Kent Smith “We appreciate Dr. Kent Smith’s unwavering commitment to Langston University since he became President in 2012,” said Jarold Callahan, chair of the Oklahoma A&M System Board of Regents. “As Smith, the leader of Oklahoma's only historically Black college and university (HBCU), has announced his retirement, KOSU reported.
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A State of Affairs, the Underrepresentation of Minority Community College Trustees
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 7, 2023
There is considerable research generated about African Americans in higher education, specifically faculty. In fact, most studies concerning African Americans have focused on the retention of students or faculty (Wolfe & Dilworth, 2015).
Fuentes Earns the AAHHE Mildred García Founders' Award
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
David Fuentes Fuentes is associate dean in the College of Education at William Paterson University, where he began his career in higher education as an assistant professor of teacher education in 2012. He serves as co-director of the Center for Teaching Excellence.
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Dismantling Global Injustices
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 17, 2024
Clark, Binghamton University as well as so many others who have supported and helped me along the way Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Most things can wait. Mark enrolled at the New School, where he earned a master’s degree in international affairs in 2012. Cingranelli, Binghamton University and Dr. Dave H.
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Dismantling Global Injustices - Dr. Brendan Skip Mark
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JANUARY 25, 2024
Clark, Binghamton University as well as so many others who have supported and helped me along the way Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Most things can wait. Mark enrolled at the New School, where he earned a master’s degree in international affairs in 2012. Cingranelli, Binghamton University and Dr. Dave H.
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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 29, 2024
While total enrollment in KCTCS has declined since 2012, URM enrollment has increased. From there, she began to work with representatives — faculty and staff — from both two-year and four-year institutions. This model has learning objectives and content that were agreed upon by faculty and staff across the state,” says Offutt.
Study: Black Medical Students Experience Higher Rates of Attrition Than Peers
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 1, 2023
programs between 2004 and 2012, following their enrollment status through 2020. They also suggested that these institutions create direct interventions, adding that more diverse classrooms and faculty lead to a greater sense of belonging for Black students. The study assessed attrition rates among students who enrolled in M.D.-Ph.D.
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Scholar-Practitioner Helps to Promote Inclusivity at Alma Mater
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 6, 2024
Patterson-Stephens guided the development of CMU’s first strategic plan for diversity since 2012 and reinstated the Faculty and Staff of Color Alliance, which had remained inoperable since 2013. The Alliance works to support faculty and staff recruitment and retention at the university.
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DEI: Informing the Implicit to Create the Explicit in Classroom Culture
The Scholarly Teacher
MARCH 29, 2023
Pedagogical leadership must balance the validation of students’ cultural socialization and prior experiences (Gay, 2018), with the creation of a sense of belonging and academic discourse that is personally meaningful to participants (Garrison, 2012). 2010; Garrison & Arbaugh, 2007; Swan et al., 2010; Swan et al.,
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Examples of Excelencia
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Associate Level English for Academic Purposes Reading Area Community College (Reading, PA) The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at Reading Area Community College (RACC) began in 2012 to strategically reduce credit requirements and accelerate student progression with the goal of boosting enrollment and success rates. are Hispanic.
Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. She concluded the fellowship and joined the faculty of John Jay.
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Remuneration under inflation: Adjusted faculty salaries and benefits continue to plummet
University Business
JUNE 14, 2023
Despite average salaries for full-time faculty members from fall 2021 to fall 2022 increasing to heights not seen in 30 years, historic increases in inflation have butchered those gains—and a slew of others. However, once adjusted for inflation, full-time faculty salary decreased by 2.4%. Nearly 900 U.S. Nearly 900 U.S.
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Some Rules for Campus Resistance
Confessions of a Community College Dean
APRIL 15, 2025
Some Rules for Campus Resistance Elizabeth Redden Tue, 04/15/2025 - 03:00 AM A 2012 governance fight at the University of Virginia offers lessons for other faculty who might need to host a little rebellion on their campus, Charles Mathewes writes. Byline(s) Charles Mathewes
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Watch for these 5 high-impact trends shaping higher education business in 2025
University Business
JANUARY 28, 2025
Mergers and acquisitions accelerate, making restructuring a major issue Well see a substantial uptick in merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the year ahead, along with closures that force students and faculty to migrate to different institutions. increase in unionized faculty and a 133% surge in unionized GSEs since 2012.
2023 Seal of Excelencia
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 9, 2023
“Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Dr. Erika D.
Georgian Court University Boasts Women-Led Majority Leadership
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 12, 2023
The school went co-educational in 2012, but its concern for women remains. And in 2022, women make up 67% of faculty. So women in leadership is not new to our institution by any stretch of the imagination. And because it's already built into the culture, students are expecting that dynamic. They expect women to be leaders."
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A Scholarship in Telling Stories in the African Diaspora
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Brooks met Naomi Hodge-Muse, co-author of Tales of Koehler Hollow , in 2012. Well, to my amazement, there was and is a very long-standing and pronounced African American presence throughout the history of Appalachia.”
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An Activist-Scholar
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 17, 2024
Sarah Banet-Weiser, University of Southern California; Dr. Radhika Parameswaran, Indiana University; and Dr. Sue Zaeske, University of Wisconsin-Madison Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Enjoy every stage of your academic career. I’ve always been interested in academic administration,” says Lopez. “I After she earned her Ph.D.
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Access Must be Front Burner for Community Colleges
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 2, 2023
There is the possibility of increasing enrollment with high-demand programs like nursing and other areas of healthcare, said Lee, but such programs are costly in order to ensure adequate skills labs and faculty. Lee said funding needs to be cultivated from hospital systems desirous of building their nursing workforce.
E-Communication Skills: Bridging a Gap
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
Dr. Dan Florell “We were both at a loss for how to respond,” wrote Eastern Kentucky University professors Dr. Steffen Wilson and Dr. Dan Florell in a 2012 essay titled, “What Can We Do About Student E-mails?” Faculty perspectives on the matter as well as its frequency and seriousness vary greatly. How serious is it?
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Community-Engaged Scholar Dr. DeLeon Gray Believes in the Value of Hyperlocal Work
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Gray began conducting youth programs when he arrived at North Carolina State as a professor in 2012. “From the more localized view, I’ve learned how to serve students that go to urban and predominantly Black and Latino schools,” he says. These schools feel like home to me.”
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Exploring the History of Latinos in Baseball
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 31, 2023
Burgos arrived at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2001, where he earned tenure as an associate professor in 2007 and rose to full professor in 2012. Burgos has written two books, Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line, which examines the U.S.’s He is also a curator of ¡Pleibol!
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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 31, 2024
The four-year graduation rate for students who entered in 2012 was 52.8%. Faculty from the College of Engineering and College of Sciences play an essential role. Faculty do it as part of their research and part of their service to the university and to the state.” That rose to 61.2% for students who entered in 2017.
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Promotion and Tenure: Guidelines to Succeed
The Scholarly Teacher
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
John Griffith, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University- Worldwide Campus Key Words: Faculty Mentoring, Tenure Process, Faculty Advancement Key Statement: Successfully navigate promotion and tenure systems and protect your time and energy by using a stepwise approach to demystifying institutional processes.
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Valarie Greene King
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 21, 2022
When the University of Central Florida (UCF) struggled to diversify its predominately White student and faculty demographics, it turned Dr. Valarie Greene King, an Army-trained clinical psychologist, to help drive the diversity agenda. That was 20 years ago and she’s never looked back.
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Onondaga Community College Offers $75,000 Retirement Incentive
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 3, 2023
The Onondaga Community College Board of Trustees approved a $75,000 early-retirement incentive for senior faculty members on Tuesday in response to enrollment losses. Faculty members over the age of 55 are eligible for the new early-retirement package, which includes postretirement health insurance. million and $1.7 Hide by line?
Dr. Barbee Oakes
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
But as the architect of Wake Forest University’s first strategic plan for diversity and inclusion, Oakes has made the work of fostering and maintaining cultural competence on campus, a shared experience among faculty, staff and students. Oakes, who has the distinction of being the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D.
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Leveraging Diversity to Fuel the Creative Arts
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 7, 2023
Students and faculty find a way to produce creatively, even if it’s not formal,” said Akbar. At Fort Valley State, Akbar is the faculty advisor and producing director of the Joseph Adkins Players, the official student drama organization on campus, and she has produced an anti-lynching play series since 2012. “In
Practical Pedagogy Tips for Educators at Minority-Serving Institutions
The Scholarly Teacher
APRIL 27, 2022
Key statement: This post offers suggestions about ways faculty can improve student learning experiences at MSIs with small changes to classroom practices. However, developing faculty-led pedagogical interventions is difficult work. How can faculty contribute to underserved students’. Briwa , Angelo State University.
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Why Public Trust in Higher Ed Is Declining — And What Leaders Can Do About It: Rebuilding Confidence in Higher Education: Addressing Challenges Through Transparency, Affordability, and Workforce Alignment
The Change Leader, Inc.
APRIL 3, 2025
National Center for Education Statistics ( NCES ) data show that the college enrollment rate for high school graduates dropped from 47% in 2012 to just 39% in 2022, with young men driving much of this decline. Purdue Universitys tuition freeze, implemented in 2012, exemplifies cost containment that builds trust.
Have Academic Library Staffing Numbers Really Declined That Much Over the Past Decade?
Confessions of a Community College Dean
FEBRUARY 12, 2023
The data available spans from 2012 to 2020. Here is what it looks like: Full+Part-Time 2020 38,510 2019 40,884 2018 41,479 2017 41,490 2016 41,993 2015 42,782 2014 43,610 2013 44,677 2012 67,074 Not sure why there was such a significant drop between 2013 and 2012. Probably some change in how library staff are counted.
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