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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. As of fall 2023, 69% of the student population at CSUSB identified as Hispanic or Latino. Morales, president of CSUSB.

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MAY 14, 2024

Faculty representatives at the University of Pittsburgh have ratified the first union contract that sets a salary and wage minimum for workers at the university. The tentative agreement is over two years in the making since the university’s faculty voted to unionize as the USW–Union of Pitt Faculty. all faculty.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A troubling new survey reveals that nearly one-third of American Jewish college students believe faculty members on their campuses have promoted antisemitism or created learning environments hostile to Jews, highlighting growing concerns about discrimination in higher education.

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JUNE 3, 2024

Columbia College Chicago has laid off 70 faculty and staff members with plans to remove 32 vacant positions to address financial concerns amid declining enrollment numbers. Adjunct professors at the college went on a weeks long strike in October 2023 with demands for job security and health insurance.

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APRIL 4, 2025

While community colleges play a crucial role in providing accessible and affordable education to diverse student populations, many still struggle to fully accommodate students with disabilities, according to insights from community college students, faculty, and higher education experts.

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JUNE 26, 2024

Real average salaries for full-time faculty members remain below pre-pandemic levels, according to a report released by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Its findings come from AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Lowery-Hart previously spent almost a decade as president of Amarillo College in Texas, where he was recognized with the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence in 2023. “But, because of those realities, leading with love is harder than it’s ever been.”

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JANUARY 17, 2025

Nicastro, West Chester University; Dr. Jeff Martoff, Temple University; Dr. Ronald Krauss, Transportation Security Laboratory Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: It sounds silly but say yes to the things you want to do and no to the things you do not want to do. physics education, West Chester University; M.A.,

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JUNE 3, 2024

Columbia College Chicago has laid off 70 faculty and staff members with plans to remove 32 vacant positions to address financial concerns amid declining enrollment numbers. Adjunct professors at the college went on a weeks long strike in October 2023 with demands for job security and health insurance.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The 2023 American College Presidents Study (ACPS) was released with sadly predictable results. As the study progressed, we wanted to explore these STEM faculty members’ transition to senior leadership administrative positions at universities nationwide. Only 15% were men of color, and 13% were women of color.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

According to university officials, the institution has reduced its expenses by approximately $17 million this fiscal year compared to 2023. The cuts include 67 staff positions, 37 full-time faculty positions and 32 adjunct faculty positions. SAU also discontinued several under-enrolled programs. “As

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has announced the 2023 recipients of its annual K. It is open to doctoral-level graduate students planning careers in higher ed and nominated by faculty or an administrator. 18–20, 2023. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The 2023-2024 Digital Learning Pulse Survey revealed that three-quarters of higher education trustees, faculty, and administrators believe GenAI will noticeably change their institutions — and help solve ongoing issues. But only 16% of faculty and 11% of administrators feel prepared for change.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

The California State University (CSU) has reached a tentative agreement with the California Faculty Association (CFA), ending their systemwide strike after one day. “I This tentative agreement makes major gains for all faculty at the CSU.”

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APRIL 4, 2023

Martha Enciso, associate vice president of student affairs at California State University, Fullerton, has won the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators’ (NASPA) 2023 Mena Valdez Award.

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MARCH 6, 2025

He was inducted as an AERA Fellow in 2022, served as Division G's vice-president from 2020-2023, and was elected to AERA's Executive Board. A former middle school teacher who founded a rites of passage program, Morris has been actively engaged with AERA since 1995. This year's annual meeting will take place next month in Denver.

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

Cabrini University has laid off six full-time faculty – three of them were tenured – this month as part of budget cuts to help remedy its financial deficit, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The six – 8.7% No programs were eliminated as part of this plan,” said spokesperson Trish Bradley.

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APRIL 25, 2025

Strayhorn few years ago, Liu (2023) published, Everyone is Talking about Belonging in The Chronicle of Higher Education. There can be no question that this reflects a growing infrastructure to support belonging for all faculty, staff, and students in higher education. A Dr. Terrell L. Her opening lines were perennial: Its everywhere.

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The Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Students in these classes, generally freshmen, often report feeling stressed, anxious, and overwhelmed (Bouchrika, 2023) , and identify these feelings as the most common obstacles to their academic performance (Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021). 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). 2023; Park et al., Jacobson, K.,

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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

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MARCH 20, 2025

Charitable contributions to American colleges and universities increased by 3 percent in the 2023-2024 academic fiscal year when adjusted for inflation, according to a report released Thursday by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The survey, which has tracked philanthropic support for U.S.

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The Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

2023) is challenged by relatively low persistence and completion rates when compared with four-year counterparts (Chen et al., Learning Assistantships in Community Colleges Learning assistants (LAs) are undergraduate students who engage as classroom support for faculty instructors in college courses (Ellerbrock et al.,

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

Vassar College President Dr. Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Bradley has been awarded a 2023 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, Yale University Graduate School’s highest alumni honor. Bradley was commended for her scholarly work in public health and her commitment to the health and well-being of local and global communities.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2022

George Washington University’s (GW) adjunct faculty union voted on a bargaining agreement on Nov. Per that agreement, GW part-time faculty may see their first contractual raise in four years and an increase in base salaries – from $4,467 to $5,000.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

David Beasley will join the faculty of its Joseph F. Between 2017 and 2023, he served as executive director of the U.N. The University of South Carolina has announced that former South Carolina Gov. Rice School of Law. Former South Carolina Gov.

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Being able to create effective well-structured learning outcome is a valuable skill required of all learning designers, faculty and quality officers. Intended Learning Outcomes are the foundations of any sound well-aligned course and programme design. I have created a short, self-study, course hosted on a Moodle instance.

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JANUARY 3, 2023

Illinois State University will be launching an online seminar series to help teach faculty how to create inclusive and equitable classes. People are working to understand what ‘equitable’ means for their courses,” said Dr. Deneca Avant, interim assistant vice president for faculty development, diversity, and learning. .

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

between fall 2020 and fall 2023. Dr. Rebecca Ashford of Chattanooga State highlighted the award as "a testament to the bold, innovative work our faculty and staff have done to remove barriers and create real opportunities for students to thrive." Chattanooga State saw its fall-to-fall persistence rate increase by 7.1 percentage points.

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APRIL 24, 2025

The proportion of non-exempt staff aged 55 and older has declined from 34 percent in 2019-20 to 31 percent in 2023-24, indicating a slightly younger workforce than before the pandemic. The report also highlights demographic shifts within this workforce. The disparity is even greater for Black women (92 cents) and Hispanic women (94 cents).

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FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In May 2023, interim president Dr. Kimberly Ballard-Washington stepped down citing personal issues, following a controversial campus reorganization that eliminated several major programs including English, history, environmental science, and Africana studies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Supreme Court decision in June 2023 to ban race-conscious college admissions, and the fallout since then, have been sobering, including for Asian Americans who were swayed by SFFA. Despite the media attention and racialized division that this case drew, the U.S.

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APRIL 9, 2023

In recognition of his commitment to inclusive excellence, servant leadership, and his devotion to lifting up the disenfranchised in the community college space, Gonzales has been named a 2023 recipient of the Diverse Champions Award. A passion for education Dr. Steven R. He pays attention. He’s grounded and he just truly cares.

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MAY 31, 2023

Cloud State University’s financial issues and cuts are getting worse, with its $18 million budget deficit in fall 2023 projected to grow to $24.5 The school is planning to cut approximately 100 more faculty within five years, on top of the previously announced 20-plus faculty positions to be phased out next year.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Dr. Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican, will become president of the University of Florida (UF), effective early 2023. Sasse’s selection and candidacy was surrounded by student protests , controversy, and a faculty vote of no-confidence. We want Gators to go out and serve Florida and the world.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

Starting in the 2023–24 academic year, students will have the opportunity to engage with and learn from her in the classroom, benefiting from her unparalleled experience in foreign and domestic policy,” Yarhi-Milo said.

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MARCH 18, 2025

Nicole Pulliam In my first year as a faculty member, I was the shiny new object. Rashma Saujani, in her 2023 commencement speech, likened societal pressures on women to the 1890s concept of bicycle facea fabricated ailment used to deter women from gaining independence. Impostor Syndrome or Systemic Failure?

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

“This is an HBCU-centric program, and we are unapologetic about it,” says Dr. Elfred Anthony Pinkard, who served as president of Wilberforce University from 2018 until his retirement in 2023. But we look at them as absolute crisis-related departures and I think we really need to move away from that.” From May 12-14th, H.E.L.F. Innovation.

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