Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

The annual forum brought together more than 650 students, faculty, athletic directors, and administrators for a three-day conversation focused on enhancing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging initiatives at colleges and universities. That topic was among many issues discussed Thursday at the NCAA Inclusion Forum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

They also threaten promotions and tenure pursuits by potentially punishing faculty for not following the state’s definitions of DEI, the suit alleges. These regulations are a totalitarian triple-whammy,” FIRE attorney Daniel Ortner said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Although a full discussion of HICC is beyond the scope of this opinion editorial, we begin with the working definition proposed by Billy Vaughn and the Diversity Officer Magazine : “…an ability to successfully negotiate cross-cultural differences in order to accomplish practical goals.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

The budding Black studies department at the University of Rochester will fast-track their hiring of faculty with the help of a $3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation. chair of faculty programs and departmental initiatives in the university's Black studies department. Dr. Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. McCune, Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The conference underscored the mission of postsecondary institutions and academics to work against dehumanizing atmospheres and support the best policies and practices that improve student belonging, community connection, and create thriving faculty. “We While TCUs are not a monolith, she found similarities in methodology.

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The Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 31, 2024

Scholarship wrappers can help faculty get more out of their scholarship and support deeper reflection on professional learning. How can faculty support critical reflection while at the beginning or in the middle of a scholarly project, extend their learning after completion of the project, and identify and learn from mistakes?

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The Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 26, 2023

Such exchanges help them see for themselves that understanding requires more than the ability to recall a basic definition from a textbook. Thinking about the sequence of questions prompts faculty to reflect more on how to help students get the most out of retrieval practice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

There is considerable research generated about African Americans in higher education, specifically faculty. In fact, most studies concerning African Americans have focused on the retention of students or faculty (Wolfe & Dilworth, 2015). Trustees reported their college also broadened the definition of diversity to include opinions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

He fears that the attacks on diversity will likely increase as the 2024 presidential election grows nearer. “I am definitely concerned, but that’s why I wanted to be in this space,” said Foster. asked Martínez-Alemán, who is also an associate dean for faculty & academic affairs at Boston College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

Words of Wisdom for new faculty: Challenges alone dont define you, but rather it is how you respond to challenges that make the difference. I know there are students out there that could definitely succeed, they just need the resources. From the age of five, Dr. Angelica Witcher Walker knew she wanted to be a nurse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Nonetheless, the percentage of women STEM faculty remains disproportionately small. Women now receive around 40% of STEM PhDs — far from parity but a definite improvement. He describes it as a way to help women on faculty get the sort of information that’s often shared in informal social connections between men.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

By our definition, students have entered a program when they have explored options and chosen a program direction, passed introductory program gateway courses, and developed a full-program educational plan. Connections with faculty are important. Faculty should know students’ preferred names and use them from the very start.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The CASE Insights SM on Voluntary Support of Education (VSE) survey is the definitive source of data about philanthropic support for nonprofit and public higher education institutions in the U.S. The annual survey results were released today by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in a research brief. of the total.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As I moved from a faculty role into more administrative work, the words stayed with me though they no longer informed text selection, course design, or other personal pedagogical practices. It resonated immediately in the context in which I heard it — in a gathering of religion scholars of color.

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PUC

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

He was an adjunct faculty member in the psychology and social work department, a student worker in the academic administration office, and a TA in the psychology and biology department. Id definitely recommend living abroad. While living in China, I taught chemistry and psychology to English-speaking Chinese students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Lesley Shawler Title: Assistant Professor, School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences; Faculty Supervisor, Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders, Southern Illinois University Age: 38 Education: B.A., She called it “definitely a unique experience that allowed me to meet well-known behavior analysts.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

The conference attendees were a mix of students, faculty, donors, education administrators, and edtech professionals. This suggestion is reasonable given the common occurrence of faculty in the higher education sector being hired without any prior preparation to teach [facilitate learning].

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As institutions wrap up their fall semesters, many faculty, staff, and students look forward to a chance to go home to familiar stomping grounds and family traditions. But for students who identify as LGBTQ+, particularly those who identify as non-binary, going home for winter break can paint a more complicated picture.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. Canton, who is also an associate professor of history, hired two faculty members in year one. Last year, he hired another faculty person. there were protests on campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

Consider this: The World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2019 updated definition of burnout includes three dimensions: “Burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. While important, “the work” goes deeper than putting Black faces and voices in your curriculum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 8, 2023

There has definitely been an increase of students who are coming to the center for services,” says Terry. A lot of parents and faculty have reached out, just to have answers of what’s going on, how do we support our children?” It’s definitely a hard place that it puts us in,” Terry says. “We says Terry. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Adrianna Kezar, director of USC’s Pullias Center of Higher Education, said that although the bill gives attention to individual student supports, such as coaching and advising, it does not seem to do much to review ineffective structural campus policies or improve faculty working conditions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The federal government, on the other hand, uses a straightforward numerical definition to classify as Hispanic Serving Institutions any two- or four-year nonprofit degree-granting college or university where enrollment is at least 25% Latine. Investing in diversity among faculty, staff and administrators is a critical component.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 6, 2023

Provosts could make better decisions if they had better data on faculty research, career interests of prospective students, and research funding trends. Faculty could be freed from the burdens of populating personnel files and reports. There’s definitely risk associated with data privacy. People were drowning,” said Borgman.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Grow where you’re planted.” I definitely didn’t think I was going to be a law professor, but I always wanted to be a teacher,” she says. Title: Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Tenured: Yes Age: 38 Education: B.A., political science, Stanford University; M.A.,

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Did you know that full-time faculty at 4-year universities are: 225 percent more likely to be of a non-Chrisitian faith than other US adults. More than half of full-time faculty have at least one parent with an advanced degree. What explains the faculty’s unrepresentativeness and the sluggishness of change?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

It also added professional development for all the tutors and faculty. Graduate Level Project upGRADS California State University, Fullerton (Fullerton, CA) Less than 10% of college and university faculty in the U.S. Excelencia in Education sees this as a program that is helping develop professionals and future faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As Chat GPT and other innovations that make use of artificial intelligence technologies are brought forward, faculty members and administrators throughout the academic community are appropriately raising concerns about their potential adverse effects on the higher education experience.

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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

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

APRIL 2, 2023

Dr. Stephanie Aguilar-Smith, an assistant professor at the University of North Texas Santiago and Aguilar-Smith agreed that the issue stems from the definition of an HSI. Santiago argued that HSIs should endeavor to hire faculty that look like the students they teach. It’s made it challenging to know what’s impactful,” said Santiago.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Once I actually got into the doctoral coursework and got to work with the theory faculty here at UK, it really helped me to transform myself into thinking that teaching students and teaching them well is going to really equip them to be able to do whatever they want to do,” says Yuen. On the performing side, I’m also diverse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

The increasingly aggressive stance toward the sector among both federal and state politicians, growth in faculty departures, ongoing staff burnout, and persistent dearth of enrollment among low-income, rural, and male-identified students are all troubling too. Definitely. Absolutely.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

What happened to me is definitely influenced by a toxic political culture, and it’s my opinion that the university is playing a role,” The plans may not affect PBA, but they still set a tone for the state, Joeckel said. “Of Of course I can’t say with certainty the connection, but things like this do not happen in a vacuum,” Joeckel said.

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University Business

JANUARY 2, 2025

The legislation aims to enhance student safety by requiring colleges and universities to report hazing incidents under the Clery Act and standardizes definitions for tracking hazing statistics across the country.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

Recently, when I was asked to appear on a Diverse sponsored panel at the recent AAC&U annual meeting on the best practices of attracting, hiring and retaining diverse faculty and administrators, I approached it from a journalist’s perspective. Broadening the definition gets you more candidates, and more diversity. Keon stays on.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

Faculty should be committed to teaching the diverse student body. “I Even though we’re a teaching institution, the nature of passion that a faculty member has for his, her or their research is important because that ignites some spark in students.” Fox praises faculty, some of whom were frontline workers, for their dedication.

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