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Women’s Wrestling Aims At 2026 NCAA Championship Status

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Women’s wrestling may become the 91st NCAA championship sport in 2026. Second, as the recommendation also includes establishing a Women's Wrestling Committee, which would begin its work in January 2025, to allow time to prepare for a championship in winter 2026. The NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics voted at its Feb.

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Q&A: UNCF's Ed Smith-Lewis on the UNITE Convening and HBCU Transformation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It's about equipping institutions with the tools to drive change on their campuses, fostering cross-campus collaboration, and ensuring that HBCUs are setting an agenda for higher education innovation, not just responding to it. Diverse: Issues In Higher Education is proud to serve as this years media sponsor.

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Webinar Series Targets Governance Strategies for Leaders at Minority-Serving Institutions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A webinar series designed to address key governance challenges, and opportunities, confronting Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) kicks off Oct. The webinars will be broadcast over a two-year period, focusing on various aspects of board governance, leadership dynamics, and relationship management. Register at the CMSI website.

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Study Reveals Civic Literacy Lacking Among Americans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hilary Crow The foundation’s national survey examined responses from 2,000 registered voters and revealed that Americans lack basic understanding of government. It found that more than 70% of Americans fail a basic civic literacy quiz on topics like the three branches of government and the number of Supreme Court justices.

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Safe and ethical AI implementation in higher education

University Business

A recent survey from the American Association of Colleges & Universities and Elon Universitys Imagining the Digital Future Center reveals that more than half of executive higher education leaders havent harnessed the full power of generative AI and 57% reported their spring 2024 graduates werent prepared to enter a workforce that leverages AI.

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Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents Double Back to Approve Republican Funding Deal, Agrees to Cut Diversity Efforts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This vote today represents a vast overreach by a group of Republicans who’ve grown exceedingly comfortable overextending, manipulating, and abusing their power to control, subvert, and obstruct basic functions of government," Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Most UW employees will now see pay raises of 4% in 2023 and 2% in 2024.

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A People's History of Higher Education in the US?

Higher Education Inquirer

The History of Higher Education in the US over the last 4 centuries is worse than horrible--from a People's perspective. At the front end of the higher ed pipeline, the US is not producing enough domestic students with the resources or skills to succeed in college and beyond. In many cases it has been horrifying.