Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 18, 2024
Spelman College has received a historic $100 million gift. The Atlanta-based institution was founded in 1881 and is considered a leading liberal arts college and global leader in the education of women of African descent. It boasts its ranks among the leading producers of Black women who complete Ph.Ds. in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2024
DEI Spending Banned, Sociology Scrapped in Florida Josh Moody Thu, 01/18/2024 - 03:00 AM Florida’s State Board of Education imposed new prohibitions on DEI spending at state colleges, following a similar decision for state universities.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 18, 2024
Diverse: Issues In Higher Education's 2024 Emerging Scholars shared sentiments of drive, hope, community, and validation during a webinar Thursday. To accompany the release of its 2024 Emerging Scholars magazine edition, Diverse hosted its first-ever panel for the 15 outstanding scholars it recognized this year. The panel was moderated by Dr. Jamal Watson.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2024
4 More Colleges Face Civil Rights Investigations Katherine Knott Thu, 01/18/2024 - 03:00 AM The Education Department has now opened dozens of investigations into antisemitic and other bias-related incidents on college campuses since Oct. 7. But resolutions that could lead to changes are expected to take a while.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 18, 2024
The Fielding Graduate University community is mourning the death of Dr. Orlando L. Taylor, the Distinguished Senior Advisor to the President. The university noted contributions to be made in memory Taylor’s memory may be made to the Marie Fielder Center for Democracy, Leadership, and Education at Fielding. Dr. Orlando L. Taylor delivers an inspiring speech to a full house Jan. 10, 2020, in Santa Barbara, California.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2024
Leading for Equity and Justice Sarah Bray Thu, 01/18/2024 - 03:00 AM Julia Chinyere Oparah offers strategies to help women of color transform higher ed as senior administrators without sacrificing their careers and health.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 18, 2024
Student success experts have prescribed potential solutions to declining Black student enrollment and retention numbers in California’s public universities in a recent report published by The California State University (CSU) Office of the Chancellor. Class of 2022 data revealed that only 48% of Black, first-year students who enrolled in the CSU in fall 2016 earned their degree in six years, according to the Black Student Success Workgroup Report.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 18, 2024
Everywhere you look there are signs that the higher education sector is precariously rocking, such that even a strong jab might take it down. The suicides and resignations of key leaders and the broader mental health crisis are a signal that cannot be ignored. 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 a
ISA Journal
JANUARY 18, 2024
We are excited to announce our ISA scholarship winners for Spring 2024! Congratulations to Sofia, Pranjal, Olivia, and Emily. From enjoying the delectable, local cuisine in Spain to exploring the castles of England, our scholarship winners share what they’re looking forward to most while abroad.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 18, 2024
Viviana Valle Gomez Viviana Valle Gomez has been appointed associate director of women, gender, and sexual equity at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Valle Gomez holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and gender, sexuality and women’s studies from the University of California, Davis, and a master’s in American studies from Columbia University in New York.
Gray Associates
JANUARY 18, 2024
Colleges and universities are in the middle of an academic arms race to create curricula relevant to today’s jobs. If your institution wants to be ahead of the curve and discover the next exciting academic program to offer students, take some advice from Gray Decision Intelligence.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 18, 2024
The American Association of Colleges and Universities ( AAC&U ) has announced the 2024 recipients of the annual K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award. A past annual conference hosted by the American Association of Colleges and Universities. “This year’s recipients truly embody the commitment to excellence in teaching, scholarship, leadership, and civic engagement that Pat Cross championed throughout her distinguished career,” said AAC&U President Dr.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2024
Harvard May Keep Interim President ‘For Years’ Marjorie Valbrun Thu, 01/18/2024 - 03:00 AM Despite some calls to replace former president Claudine Gay with another Black woman, tradition and mercy might prompt persistence of white male leadership.
Roompact
JANUARY 18, 2024
Other Posts in This Series: Part 1 | Part 2 Within Student Affairs, assessment is often an expectation of everyone’s work. Whether you are someone in an entry level role or have been around the block for 20 academic years, assessment likely comes up. I believe it is critical within our assessment efforts that we.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2024
A union representing Washington State University student academic employees announced Wednesday—on the first day of its strike—that it had reached a tentative agreement with the institution.
Ray Schroeder
JANUARY 18, 2024
But roughly a third of the survey’s participants said they hadn’t fulfilled those objectives: 30% of recent completers have not been consistently employed in the field they studied, and 35% earn less than they had expected. “These two measures – career advancement and higher income – are where we see the largest gaps between what recent graduates are hoping to get out of their grad school experience vs. how well their school actually delivered for them,” the researchers note in a slide deck shar
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2024
The president of Loyola University Maryland has formally acknowledged the university’s historical connections to slavery, according to a university spokesman.
Teaching Matters Online Learning
JANUARY 18, 2024
In this post, Nikki Stuart and Lauren Johnston-Smith describe how MOOCs required us to rethink how to create open and free courses that would engage large numbers of learners. They explain how over the years, they’ve adapted their services in response to the lessons learned from their experiments.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2024
Today on the Academic Minute: C. Michael White, Distinguished Professor and chair of pharmacy practice at the University of Connecticut, details one avenue of treatment for those with severe post-traumatic stress disorder.
Ray Schroeder
JANUARY 18, 2024
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will discontinue its bachelor’s and master’s degree programs at the end of the 2024-25 academic year, citing declining enrollment and increased operating costs. PAFA’s board of trustees unanimously voted to end the programs Tuesday after attempts to find an academic partner proved unsuccessful, it announced Wednesday.
Teaching Matters Online Learning
JANUARY 18, 2024
From The Campus, Times Higher Education In this post, Nikki Stuart and Lauren Johnston-Smith describe how MOOCs required us to rethink how to create open and free courses that would engage large numbers of learners. They explain how over the years, they’ve adapted their services in response to the lessons learned from their experiments. Nikki Stuart is a digital programme manager and Lauren Johnston-Smith is an online learning marketing projects manager at the University of Edinburgh.
AIFS Abroad
JANUARY 18, 2024
Many sleep on Ecuador as a summer destination, but they forget that it’s home to history’s most famous study abroad experience — Charles Darwin’s trip to the Galápagos Islands , where he famously was inspired to form his theory of evolution. Because of the relatively small differences in weather across its seasons, Ecuador and the Galápagos are wonderful year-round, but summer is low key a great time to go.
University Business
JANUARY 18, 2024
With geopolitical tensions mounting, the Canadian government announced a new security system for university research that aims to prevent tech secrets leaking to key Chinese, Russian or Iranian research institutions. The new policy –the most detailed security procedures yet made public in the West–would bar federal Canadian funding for “sensitive” research projects linked to any of 103 foreign universities and institutions that the government says “could pose a risk to Canada’s national security
Dr. Al Solano
JANUARY 18, 2024
LISTEN TO THE EPISODE Learn about culturally affirming and meaningful assignments. In this episode, I interview Dr. Christine Harrington, Faculty, Community College Leadership Doctoral Program, Morgan State University. The focus of the episode is her book, Creating Culturally Affirming and Meaningful Assignments: A Practical Resource for Higher Education Faculty.
University Business
JANUARY 18, 2024
More than a century later, amid a nationwide shortage in primary care doctors, Duquesne is getting its medical school. Duquesne’s College of Medicine has officially opened, with a focus on training primary care physicians who will practice in high-need areas in the region. Pennsylvania has a predicted shortage of 1,000 primary care physicians by 2030, according to the Hospital and Healthcare Association of Pennsylvania, and twice as many medically underserved areas than the national state averag
AIFS Abroad
JANUARY 18, 2024
It might seem ages away, but January Term of 2025 is just around the corner. It’s not too early to start to think about where you’ll be during the winter of next year — it could be with new friends in a whole new country! Did you know that you can study abroad during winter break ? Here’s all you need to know about AIFS Abroad’s January Term 2025 study abroad programs and why we recommend them: What is January Term?
College Forward
JANUARY 18, 2024
AmeriCorps member Chris has been making waves not only as a college access coach at Westside High School, but also as a drama coach at Fort Calhoun High School. Passionate about the performing arts, Chris recently directed a one-act play, titled The Day the Internet Died. The play explored the chaos that ensues in a small town when the internet suddenly vanishes.
ISA Journal
JANUARY 18, 2024
As I prepared to leave for my flight to New York, I had one of the biggest emotional breakdowns I’ve had in months. I was set to leave for my flight to New Jersey on Sunday, September 10, at 6 a.m. I missed my flight.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2024
This week’s episode of the Syllabus podcast features Danielle Holley, president of Mount Holyoke College. The Syllabus podcast is from the Office of Open Learning at American Jewish University and Inside Higher Ed.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 18, 2024
The Florida State Board of Education established regulations this week to restrict the Florida College System’s (FCS) use of state or federal funds for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. Florida Commissioner of Education Manny Diaz, Jr. The rule bans FCS's 28 schools from using such funds for programs “that categorize individuals based on race or sex for the purpose of differential or preferential treatment," The board replaced the course "Principles of Sociology" with an American h
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2024
Lake Erie College Struggles to Repay Bond Debt Doug Lederman Thu, 01/18/2024 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Doug Lederman
University Business
JANUARY 18, 2024
Test-optional policies have become common in higher education. Nearly 2,000 colleges and universities didn’t require SAT or ACT scores for admission this academic year. While it was a rational choice during the pandemic, institutions are slowly moving toward making it the new status quo. The move has left admissions teams to rely solely on GPA as a quantitative metric to aid their decision-making.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 18, 2024
The fight for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives has reached an important juncture in the state of Florida. With regulations by the Florida Board of Governors that threatened to dismantle DEI-related programs in public colleges and universities, now passed by the Florida Department of Education, it is crucial for the nation to rally and prevent potential ramifications that could ripple throughout the country.
University Business
JANUARY 18, 2024
The floodgates are opening for international students as pandemic-era travel restrictions are left in the dust, and data suggests that learners abroad are readily taking interest in the U.S. once again. However, as higher education in the U.S. seems to be changing , so does the international recruitment landscape: Competition from countries like the U.K., Australia, and Canada is increasing, concerns over U.S. safety are changing, and online modalities are making it easier than ever for students
University Business
JANUARY 18, 2024
The Florida Board of Education said Wednesday it has implemented “strict regulations” limiting the use of public funds for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs, activities, and policies in the Florida College System. The new rule defines DEI as as “any program, campus activity, or policy that classifies individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation and promotes differential or preferential treatment of individuals on t
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