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Creating Safe Spaces: Future Teachers of Color Summit

The Scholarly Teacher

This article describes a Future Teachers of Color Summit. Our Why The faculty involved in this project identify as BIPOC teacher educators. We are five out of nine BIPOC faculty in the same teacher education department, and, as such, we often are asked or “voluntold” to do this as part of our higher education service duties.

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A small college is failing. Is a rich Canadian to blame?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Earlier this year, the college announced a funding gap of $2 million that it needed to close quickly in order to remain open. And given Chung’s track record of sinking other colleges, faculty and staff worry the King’s College may be headed for the same fate. Some faculty and staff saw warning signs from the start.

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Paying it Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Gretchen Matthews, Virginia Tech Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Try, try, and try, and then you will get it. He has written more than 20 journal articles on algebraic coding and cryptography. He’s looking around, seeing what’s here, and seeing possibilities for growth, extension, development.”

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College endowments dropped in fiscal year 2022

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Even as endowment returns dipped, colleges tapped those assets to fund their needs. The median percentage of budgets funded by endowments was 5.3 Study respondents reported spending $25.8 billion from their endowments in fiscal 2022, roughly $2 billion more than the $23.9 billion institutions spent in fiscal 2021.

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University of Kentucky trains teachers in Holocaust education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: University of Kentucky faculty members are working to train hundreds of K-12 teachers in the state to teach about the Holocaust. The initiative plans to use a second round of funding to train another cohort of teacher leaders this summer to teach another set of workshops. Beam Institute for Kentucky Spirits Faculty Fellow.

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Political tensions erupt at Bakersfield College

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Some members of the Renegade Institute for Liberty, a controversial group of professors at Bakersfield College, are enmeshed in an increasingly vitriolic dispute playing out on the California campus that has pitted students and faculty members against each other and prompted their supporters and critics to take sides.

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The Forces That Are Shaping the Future of Higher Education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

It’s these long-term developments, processes and trends, which take place under the surface, that even the most powerful politicians or institutions must respond to. million in federal relief funding. Arkansas’s Henderson State cut its faculty and staff from 330 to 230. percent year over year.