Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2024

When journalist Nathan McCall released his 1994 autobiography, Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America , my mother was among the first wave of people to purchase a copy. She didn’t buy the book for me as a young aspiring journalist who was still in college at the time, although I’m sure she would have. Rather, my mother bought McCall’s book for herself because – like many readers – she was riveted by a report on NPR about McCall’s remarkable foray into the newspaper business after ha

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2024

Antisemitism Awareness Program Launched at HBCUs Sara Weissman Fri, 03/22/2024 - 03:00 AM Students at South Carolina State University and Voorhees University are learning about antisemitism and the history of Black-Jewish relations as part of a new program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2024

Community colleges have the ability to not only put students on the right path, but most importantly, ensure that students begin on the right foot. That right foot has so many implications, the first of which is the financial impact of attending a community college as the first step toward a bachelor ’ s degree. Currently, students are more immediately aware of the return on interest (ROI), and they want to know —up front — the lasting impact of their choices of when and how they engage in highe

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2024

The Education Department acknowledged Friday that a calculation error led to inaccurate aid estimates for a sizable portion of student aid forms processed in the past few months. “The FAFSA Processing System (FPS) was not including all data fields needed to correctly calculate the Student Aid Index for dependent students who reported assets,” department officials wrote in an announcement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2024

Hillary Folsom Hillary Folsom has been appointed director of advancement and alumni relations at Gadsden State Community College. She served as financial director of, and marketing liaison for, Interfaith Ministries, a regional nonprofit organization focused on the homeless and unsuitably housed. Folsom holds a bachelor’s degree in communications and an MPA from Jacksonville State University.

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SRHE

MARCH 22, 2024

by Panagiota (Peny) Sotiropoulou At the beginning of February 2024, I attended the in-person workshop on Using Diary Method in Social Research , organised by the SRHE and facilitated by Dr Emily Henderson, Dr Zoe Baker and Dr Ahmad Akkad. Figure 1: Dr Zoe Baker presenting a group task during the workshop As a reflective, life-long learner, I think there is no bigger satisfaction than sharing lessons learned from attending professional development opportunities like this with a wider audience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2024

Dr. Diane Ryan Diane Ryan has been named vice president for academic affairs at Harford Community College in Bel Air, Maryland. She served as the vice president of academic affairs at Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona. Ryan earned a bachelor’s degree in mass communications and a master’s in communication studies from Western Illinois University as well as a Ph.D. in community college leadership from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2024

Ron Price Ron Price has been appointed vice president of the new Division of People, Culture, and Equity at the College of Southern Maryland. He served as the vice president of human resources and chief diversity officer for Colby-Sawyer College in New Hampshire. Price holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in public administration from the University of Virginia.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2024

Eastern Gateway Community College, which has struggled financially over the last year, is set to begin dissolving in June unless it receives enough funding. EGCC trustees decided at a Wednesday meeting that unless the community college is able to obtain “sufficient” funding by May 31, it would begin the process of folding on June 30.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2024

Kristen Miller Kristen Miller has been appointed president of Southern Maine Community College. She served as vice president of academic affairs at White Mountains Community College in New Hampshire. Miller holds a bachelor’s degree in communications and English from Sonoma State University in California, a master’s in education and education leadership from the University of New England in Maine, and a doctorate in higher education leadership from Capella University in Minnesota.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2024

Despite protests from students on multiple campuses, Alabama’s governor signed into law Wednesday legislation that will, within public higher education institutions, limit so-called “divisive concepts” plus diversity, equity and inclusion programs and transgender individuals’ access to campus bathrooms.

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Ray Schroeder

MARCH 22, 2024

Just as the University of Idaho reaches crunch time for its acquisition of the University of Phoenix, it is getting a major cautionary example from Arizona, where a similar purchase is producing mounting costs and political recriminations. The University of Arizona began working to buy the for-profit Ashford University in 2020 and completed the deal last year.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2024

Third-party investigators hired by Lincoln University’s Board of Curators found no evidence that university administrator Antoinette (Bonnie) Candia-Bailey, who died by suicide earlier this year, had been bullied by the university’s president, as she had alleged in a 12-page letter to him the morning

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 22, 2024

In this post, we share with you the Collegiate Commentary from our latest Teaching Matters newsletter: Five take-aways from the ‘Embedding enterprise in the curriculum’ series. In this commentary, Professor Ross Tuffee discusses the importance of developing “un-employability skills” in student cohorts.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2024

The University of California’s Board of Regents on Wednesday postponed a planned vote on a policy that would prohibit academic departments and other academic units from posting political statements on their website homepages.

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College Forward

MARCH 22, 2024

By executive director Deb Salls At College Possible Minnesota, we strive to celebrate the hard work and dedication of our AmeriCorps coaches year-round. March 11-15, 2024, otherwise known as AmeriCorps Appreciation Week, we call special attention to the impact coaches make on the students they serve and the College Possible organization as a whole. AmeriCorps coaches at College Possible provide direct service to students, helping them persist through graduation in numbers that exceed those of th

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2024

Faculty, students and alumni at Providence College in Rhode Island have accused the administration of “hypocrisy toward and systemic oppression of LGBTQ+ people at PC,” The Providence Journal reported Thursday.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2024

Today’s college libraries are gathering places as much as they are spots where students come to read. When it came time to renovate Sam Houston State University’s Newton Gresham Library, staff knew that the focus was going to be on a lot more than books. After five decades serving students, the library was ready for an upgrade — and not just in the way its visitors perused their reading material.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 22, 2024

The Wallace monument in Stirling, © Guillaume Piolle / CC BY 3.0 In this post, we share with you the Collegiate Commentary from our latest Teaching Matters newsletter : Five take-aways from the ‘Embedding enterprise in the curriculum’ series. In this commentary, Professor Ross Tuffee discusses the importance of developing “un-employability skills” in student cohorts.

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University Business

MARCH 22, 2024

Nia Dyer’s dream of graduating college next year is on the line. She’s one of about 645 students receiving state aid to pay for college through the Fostering Independence Grant program — the first of its kind in the nation to cover not only tuition but full cost of attendance of college for Minnesotans who have been in foster care. Read more on MPR News.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2024

New Presidents and Provosts: Jackson State, Lower Columbia, Nevada State, Northshore Technical CC, Upper Iowa, Yavapai Doug Lederman Fri, 03/22/2024 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Doug Lederman

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University Business

MARCH 22, 2024

Two smaller northwest Ohio colleges are merging, though the two campuses will remain open. Presidents of the University of Findlay and Bluffton University made the historic announcement on Thursday. Read more on News Talk 1480 WHBC. The post Two neighboring northwest Ohio universities to merge appeared first on University Business.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2024

Today on the Academic Minute: Kaitlin Woolley, associate professor of marketing at the SC Johnson College of business at Cornell University, looks short-term to help us stop unhealthy behaviors.

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University Business

MARCH 22, 2024

On Tuesday, reports surfaced that 48 colleges across the country continue to require prospective students to receive the COVID-19 shot for admission, almost a year after the pandemic was declared over by Congress. Lawmakers and policy experts are decrying the ongoing mandates as discriminatory, unnecessary, overly burdensome, and potentially dangerous.

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MultiFamily Insider

MARCH 22, 2024

Introduction: Illegal dumping remains a persistent issue for multifamily residential properties, often overlooked and under addressed. As individuals take advantage of the anonymity afforded by these bustling spaces, property owners face increased costs for dumpster services, including potential penalties for exceeding trash limits. This blog.

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University Business

MARCH 22, 2024

Pennsylvania lawmaker and state higher education leaders’ recent nod to performance-based funding has brought the money allocation tool back to the forefront as Texas and Oregon have also agreed to enact similar models for their two-year institutions last summer. While the model has been adopted and discarded across the country since the 1970s, recent guidelines are ensuring its staying power.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2024

House Panel Advances Anti-‘Political Litmus Test’ Bills jessica.blake@… Fri, 03/22/2024 - 03:00 AM Democrats call the GOP-sponsored bills an unnecessary attempt to codify rights already protected by the First Amendment that could hinder antisemitism response.

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University Business

MARCH 22, 2024

Hired Jonathan Alger – American University (D.C.) Following a successful 12-year presidential stint at James Madison University in Virginia, Jonathan Alger is packing his things and moving into D.C. to lead American University. Alger leaves JMU in great shape. He helped double the university’s endowment, raise external research funding by more than 92% in the past four year, earn an R2 Carnegie Classification to R2 and transitioned its athletics program to the FBS as a Division 1 pro

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2024

A Republican congressman from North Carolina wants to prohibit federal funding, including student loans, for medical schools with diversity, equity and inclusion-related policies and requirements.

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Ray Schroeder

MARCH 22, 2024

President Joe Biden proposed expanding access to free community college across the U.S., and other initiatives to make higher education less costly. In the president’s budget for fiscal 2025, Biden called for increasing the amount of Pell Grants and establishing a “Reducing the Costs of College Fund.” President Joe Biden has proposed expanding free community college across the U.S., and other initiatives to lower higher education costs.

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