Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

For Fall 2021, the College of the Desert’s (COD) student headcount included 8,213 Hispanic students, 1,657 white students, 395 Asian students, 252 Black students, 28 American Indian/Alaska Native students, and seven Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Island students. Community colleges serve the most diverse students in all of higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Faculty and staff at the University of Colorado Boulder walked out and protested for higher wages and other demands Thursday, CPR reported. Non-tenure track faculty, contracted staff, and student workers demanded raises and better working conditions. In 2021, the majority of CU’s faculty is non-tenure-track (66%).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

Faculty at Chicago State University walked off the job Apr. The faculty are negotiating and striking for better pay and reduced workloads. They work overtime — I’ve seen it,” said Muriel McClendon, a Chicago State graduate student who protested with faculty. The professors put in the time and work.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

Faculty members will vote next week on resolutions to express no confidence in embattled president E. According to WBOY 12 , a no-confidence resolution was also filed against Gee in December 2021, accusing him of refusing to institute a COVID-19 vaccination mandate. The turmoil at West Virginia University continues.

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 20, 2024

Reprinted with permission. Background As faculty, our (Assif and Kim) collaboration started during COVID. For the next three months, our group reviewed each section of the course master syllabus, based on our lived experiences as students and faculty and informed by the initial readings.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

California’s community colleges are lacking in full-time faculty, according to a recent report from California’s state auditor. The state-ordered audit looked at hiring and state funds spending practices for full-time faculty at four community college districts: Foothill-De Anza, Kern, Los Rios and San Diego.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

Any recent gains in salary for full-time faculty members have been swallowed up by soaring inflation. Full-time faculty saw a 4% bump for the year ending fall 2022, the largest single-year gain since 1991. It’s really hard to track data on adjunct faculty. But skyrocketing inflation caused a 2.4%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Williams College faculty voted 81-5 to approve the creation of an Asian American studies (AAS) concentration beginning Fall 2023, The Williams Record reported. An AAS program at Williams is a long time coming, having seen 34 years of activism by faculty, alumni, and students in support of instituting AAS. “In The vote – done at a Dec.

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The Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Katie Morales , Tanner Health System School of Nursing University of West Georgia Cindy Johnson , Tanner Health System School of Nursing University of West Georgia Key Statement: Reflection can create connection and caring between faculty and students, enhance learning and success, and promote collaborative professional encounters.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 17, 2024

Indiana University at Bloomington faculty members voted no confidence in their president, provost and a vice provost Tuesday, following multiple controversies over academic freedom. The vote of no confidence in Pamela Whitten, the IU system president since 2021, passed 827 to 29.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

Caring Campus, a program to have faculty contribute to fostering a culture of caring for students at schools, is related to observable benefits, according to a recent report by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Columbia University. At least it's one approach to helping them to fit into those efforts."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

The University of Louisville (UofL) has launched a fundraising campaign to match a $10 million state investment, which will go towards adding endowed faculty positions and advancing university research.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Among the latest efforts are HB 715 in North Carolina, which would remove tenure for future faculty in the University of North Carolina (UNC) system and at public community colleges, and SB 266 in Florida, which would give the state more control over the content of core classes and limit funding for DEI efforts.

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Higher Education Today

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The post New Report Sheds Light on College Faculty and Staff Mental Health appeared first on Higher Education Today. The 2023-24 survey results are based.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Nearly two-thirds of faculty members view textbook affordability as a top priority for their universities, according to the annual Faculty Watch Report.

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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. from fall 2021 to fall 2022, the best one-year increase since 1990-91. . Nearly 900 U.S. Nearly 900 U.S.

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University Business

APRIL 6, 2023

is slowly but surely relying more heavily on contingent faculty and graduate student employees as tenure and tenure-track faculty positions decline, according to a key summary from the American Association of University Professors. In 1987, part-time faculty made up 33% of the workforce. The academic workforce in the U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

Image: While this academic year saw the largest one-year increase in full-time faculty members’ average salaries in over three decades, that still wasn’t enough to stop their real wages from falling due to inflation, the American Association of University Professors noted this Thursday alongside its latest salary survey data.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

How flashpoint response impacts faculty well-being. natural disasters, life-altering political decisions), especially when they want to reassure faculty that their well-being is top of mind. Impact on faculty. How will this flashpoint impact faculty perceptions of physical or psychological safety? Expert Insight.

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EAB

MARCH 9, 2023

Blogs 4 takeaways on combatting faculty burnout from our gathering of academic leaders EAB recently launched the first two-part event series for our partners focused on combatting faculty burnout and integrating a culture of well-being in academic affairs. 5 critical to dos for academic leaders to support student success 2.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

They participate in department and faculty meetings and go above and beyond staying for office hours. And as they increasingly make up the majority of your institution’s faculty workforce , their pay, benefits and job security continue to sour. Nearly two-thirds of faculty wish they were full-time.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 1, 2023

Dr. Badia Ahad Ahad is currently vice provost for faculty affairs and professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. “I I think my most important role as dean will be to ensure that students, faculty and staff have the tools and the resources that they need to be and to do their best,” Ahad said. “I Ahad holds a B.A. and a Ph.D.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

Image: The percentage of nonmedical, “instructional staff” faculty members at public and nonprofit private colleges and universities who work full-time but aren’t on the tenure track has almost tripled since 1987, relatively steadily increasing from 5 percent to 13 percent. “The U.S. “The U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Noun '29 Chair in Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at Grinnell and serves as the faculty lead of Team Renfrow. Dr. Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant (faculty lead of Team Renfrow), with Mrs. Edith Renfrow Smith and Feven Getachew (first student member of Team Renfrow). Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant, who holds the Louise R.

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PUC

AUGUST 26, 2024

In 2021, Christa came on board as a full-time professor for the nursing department. She was hired as one of PUC’s nursing clinical instructors in 2017 and decided to stay to stay due to the beauty of the Napa Valley, the team she works with, and some of the amazing students who are now her coworkers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2023

“KerryAnn O’Meara is an esteemed scholar and expert on the development and implementation of organizational practices that empower and support faculty diversity and inclusion, and strengthen institutions overall,” said TC President Dr. Thomas Bailey. “Dr. O’Meara holds a B.A. in English literature from Loyola University in Maryland, an M.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff. In academic year 2021-22, 45.1%

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As of fall 2021, the university had about 2,990 undergraduates and 1,260 graduate students. Walker, the AAUP’s grievance officer, alleged in a letter to the provost that the university had failed to follow the union contract’s procedures by circumventing the Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee. She said 4.4 ” On Jan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2024

In 2021, more than four decades after Vanderbilt University expelled Lawson for his involvement in the civil rights movement, the private, Nashville University decided to honor the civil rights stalwart with the creation of the James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of Nonviolent Movements at Vanderbilt University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

The association’s “Higher Education Faculty Salary Analysis” examines full-time faculty and graduate assistant salaries at the national, state, and institutional levels. In higher education, the data reveal that while the average salary for full-time faculty increased 4% in 2022-23, over 2021-22.

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EAB

AUGUST 1, 2023

Infographic 3 Reasons Why Faculty and Staff Leave Their Jobs Due to Climate How higher ed institutions can foster inclusive interactions with leaders, managers, and colleagues This infographic outlines ways that institutions can foster an inclusive campus climate among leaders, managers, and colleagues.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2024

The outcomes Despite minor improvement in Fall 2021, rates of retention – those who come back to the same school the next year – and persistence – those who continue at any institution – among Latino students continue to trail behind national averages by several percentage points, according to the report.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

Gray felt inspired to instead become a chaplain at Amarillo College and help faculty and staff of the two-year institution with their mental health struggles. Gray was more interested in the mental health of faculty and staff members. “The timing couldn’t have been more perfect,” Gray said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2024

The Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom white paper explores whether and how 11 think tanks helped created a self-reinforcing echo chamber of reports, commentary, webinars, op-eds, and other content villainizing faculty and academic institutions.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The faculty resolution on Gee said what it called his administration’s poor planning, faulty decision making and financial mismanagement has significantly contributed to the crisis. The university’s faculty assembly later passed a second motion calling for WVU to freeze ongoing academic program and faculty cuts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Dr. Curtis Byrd, co-author of the 2021 book Academic Pipeline Programs: Diversifying Pathways from the Bachelor’s to the Professoriate. We’re looking at creating a national clearinghouse of diversity, BIPOC [Black, Indigenous, People of Color] initiatives for minoritized students, faculty and staff at universities,” said Byrd.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

The values and mission are lived beautifully by the faculty, students, staff, and administration. As vice president of Student Life at La Sierra University from 2007 to 2021, she led 10 departments ranging from athletics and counseling to campus security and spiritual life. It has been a sweet surprise to see God connect our paths.

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