Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In 1986, when Damon L. Williams, Jr., was seven years old, he and his family received an invitation to attend his friend’s birthday party at a local golfing country club. He had been very excited to attend, until the week of the event. “We got uninvited, because Blacks weren’t allowed in the country club,” says Williams. Damon L. Williams, Jr. Williams says he wasn’t hurt when he read the country club’s by-laws and regulations—rather, he was confused.

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The Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

David Pleins , Assistant Director, Walker Center for Teaching and Learning, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Key Statement: Foreign language vocabulary acquisition (and the learning of information more generally) need not be a painful enterprise! Through focused retrieval practice, linking words to images, using iconic gestures, and acts of the imagination, students can learn course material more deeply and effectively.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

While higher education is a path to opportunity — many underrepresented, minoritized students face systemic barriers that make their graduate-level academic experience feel like an uphill challenge. Some barriers can be financial; others can be self-imposed, such as imposter syndrome and the struggle of questioning, “will I be able to measure up?” Dr.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Modern Language Association members hoped to pass a statement supporting boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. But the group’s Executive Council shot it down. In the 2010s, a handful of U.S.-based scholarly associations endorsed boycotting Israeli academic institutions. But not the Modern Language Association, the largest scholarly organization for the humanities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Despite the work of teachers laying the foundation for careers beyond secondary school, The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) says there are not enough well-prepared educators in the pipeline to teach. SREB represents and works with 16 states to improve public education at every level. In their latest report, " Teacher Career Pathways and Advancement Options " they emphasize the urgency to make the teaching profession more attractive through accessible and high-quality teacher pathways

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Kamala Harris’s election night watch party at Howard University was the first-ever held on a college campus. The evening ended on an uncertain note, but it was still a watershed moment for the HBCU. WASHINGTON, D.C.—Kamala Harris’s election night watch party at Howard University kicked off with a boisterous sense of celebration and optimism. It ended with a pensive, tired crowd whose dreams of putting an HBCU alum, and the first woman, in the Oval Office appeared to be slipping away by the hour.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Northeast Ohio is encouraging stopped-adult learners to re-enroll by promising to erase up to $5,000 in unpaid balances as they progress toward earning their degree. Two years into the experiment, tuition generated by the 500 students who’ve returned approaches $1.6 million— 25 times greater than their canceled debt , according to Ithaka S+R, a research nonprofit focused on higher ed accessibility.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Esports has come a long way from its beginnings as a misunderstood, niche extracurricular activity bubbling up on college campuses in the early 21st century. Today, it’s not a question of whether a university should support esports on campus but a matter of how and to what extent. At San Diego State University, a grassroots, student-led esports team grew so much that school officials decided to invest in a new Esports Engagement Center inside the school library.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The University of Arizona shed hundreds of jobs, replaced leaders and slashed budgets in an effort to shave $100 million off a major shortfall announced one year ago. Last fall the University of Arizona made a stunning announcement: Officials had miscalculated cash on hand by millions of dollars due to a flawed revenue-projection model and other missteps.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

by Sam Spiegel How can online learning programmes help tackle systemic global injustices with creative pedagogies? How can universities build effective educational environments and pedagogies to support critical thinking and vigorously challenge contemporary forms of racism, colonialism and inequity? These are some of the questions I have reflected on over the past almost 14 years of teaching at the University of Edinburgh.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Pepperdine students and facilities staff practice speaking Spanish and English together, building relationships and facilitating learning across departments. For college students learning a new language, it can feel difficult applying concepts in class to real-life situations, particularly listening or speaking. At Pepperdine University, a partnership between a Spanish language instructor and facilities staff members has helped equip students with practical language skills and create relationshi

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Roompact

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

You’ve seen your team through a lot: you have onboarded them during training in the forming stage, you helped them navigate the prominent conflict of the storming stage, and you supported the team as they found their new normal and made the role their own in the norming stage. But how do you push your.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

A workshop discussion at Student Success US considered the challenges that hinder retention and completion of students beyond their first year. Many colleges and universities have well-developed systems and supports for new students, from specialized orientations to dedicated first-year seminars and cohort-based models that help students feel connected to the institution.

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College for Creative Study

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Students from the Senior Brand Campaign course, taught by Professor and Chair Susan LaPorte and Professor Chad Reichert, have won international accolades through the Creative Conscience (CC) Competition #WhyVoteUSA. The students were asked to create a call to action to engage first time voters to lift their voices in the 2024 Presidential Election. Through creative social media content, Creative-Conscience strived to show young people that their voices matter and encourage them to educate themse

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Anthropic last month took the lead in providing early access to basic AI agents for the masses. This is a huge leap forward from the chat bots that have dominated early generative AI. Anthropic offers the new function that enables its Sonnet version to control your computer: “Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the first frontier AI model to offer computer use in public beta.

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ISA Journal

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Addison Cash is an ISA Athens alumna at the University of Denver. In the following blog, Addison observes almost a dozen specific cultural differences between Greece and the United States. For all of these differences, she prefers the Greek way.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

A group of for-profit colleges that challenged a legal settlement that canceled $6 billion in student loans lost its appeal to stop that agreement from taking effect.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As cybersecurity risks increase across industries, colleges—which increasingly depend on apps and software for teaching, learning and operations—remain valuable targets for cybercriminals and data exploitation. For years, cybersecurity experts such as the FBI have been sounding the alarm about the risks surrounding widespread collection of student data and the rapid growth of education technologies.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

A group of colleges that challenged a legal settlement that canceled $6 billion in student loans lost its appeal to stop that agreement from taking effect.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

A historic campus was devastated by fire Monday night as Knoxville College lost a building that has stood for over a century. “It’s just very sad, very sad to lose a part of history that needs to be saved. It’s a 100-year-old building that we lost,” Debra Espy, a neighbor near the college said. Knoxville College is a historically black college or university, also known as an HBCU.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

David L. Barnett, interim president of Brenau University, in Georgia, has been appointed to the job on a permanent basis.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

More than 80% of Latino students reported experiencing food insecurity while in college, with half saying the problem occurs weekly or even daily, according to a new survey from BSP Research and UnidosUS, a Latino nonprofit advocacy organization. Half reported having difficulty accessing affordable and healthy foods regularly. Emotional stress was the top reason two-thirds of respondents considered stopping out during their enrollment.

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Higher Education Whisperer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Wang, Chen, Zhang, Tzachor (2024) suggest that the demand for generative AI will create an e-waste problem of 1.2 to 5.0 million tons for 2020 to 2030. They also suggest this could be made worse by political restriction on access to more advanced efficient chips and rapid replacement of old hardware.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Donald Trump’s first term shone a political spotlight on higher ed that has only grown more glaring since. A second could bring more sweeping changes. After a divisive and historic election, Donald J. Trump emerged Wednesday with enough electoral votes to return to the White House in January. He's the country’s second ever president to serve two nonconsecutive terms.

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Higher Education Inquirer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

It is clear that when thousands demonstrate over a prolonged period dramatic changes can be made. People have wrought changes in the past, and they will continue to do so. Dr. DuBois , the great Negro historian, wrote in his "Farewell Message" : "Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth because the great end comes slowly; because time is long.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

On nine campuses in four states and Washington, D.C., our reporters got an earful from students and faculty as they waited, cast ballots and watched the returns. The race for president was still too close to call late Tuesday night, but college students turned out and made their voices heard. How they voted and what impact they’ll have is not clear, but they appeared poised to once again play a pivotal role in the election.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The election of Donald J. Trump as the 47th president of the United States on Tuesday, has signaled alarm across the k-12 and higher education landscape, leaving some educators worried that the former president will make good on his promise to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education and continue his crackdown of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at colleges and universities across the nation.

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