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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“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.

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Adler University Announces Tenure Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Adler University will offer a tenure program to full-time faculty for the first time beginning in the 2023-2024 academic year, university officials announced on Monday. and private universities offer tenure, very few faculty receive the honor and benefit of tenure.

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Fellowship Program Highlights the Work of Disabled Scholar-Activists

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bowen Cho Beitiks opened fellowship applications in January 2023 to early-career scholar-activists with project proposals related to disability studies or disability justice. Throughout the following 10 months, the fellows participated in meetings with their faculty mentors and optional monthly cohort-wide calls to discuss their progress.

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See what’s driving the sudden rise in institutional neutrality

University Business

The number of colleges and universities that have adopted institutional neutrality has dramatically increased since Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, according to a new report from Heterodox Academy, a nonprofit organization focused on viewpoint diversity. Only 33 private institutions have adopted institutional neutrality.

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Boldly Future Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

With enrollment hovering at 13,885 as of fall 2023, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (N.C. A&T) is the largest historically Black university in the country. Smith-Jackson Over the course of more than 30 years as a faculty person and researcher, Dr. Godfrey A. Dr. Tonya L. Ambition N.C.

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The college closings of 2024—and what lies beyond

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Year founded: 1900 Union Institute & University (Ohio) Union Institute & University announced it would close just nine days before its intended date on June 30 due to issues surrounding the pandemic. Year founded: 1946 University of the Arts (Penn.) Founded: 1938 Oak Point University (Ill.)

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Is this the first college closing announced in 2025?

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The online university blamed other institutions’ adoption of online learning modalities at the onset of the pandemic for stripping away its enrollment base. In 2023, it failed to pay employees on time and was evicted from its Walnut Hills Campus. Year founded: 1946 University of the Arts (Penn.)