Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2024

Another school year is underway, which means millions of students are again struggling to learn without their basic needs met, and thousands of colleges are trying to teach with grossly inadequate resources. Far from “very demure, very mindful,” this situation should engage us. It should make us think. It should make us vote. Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab The fact is that the egregious underfunding of American public higher education and its minority-serving institutions is primarily a political problem

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 28, 2024

The university says creative writing faculty recommended returning its Jones Lectureships to their “original intent” as short-term teaching appointments for talented writers. A lecturer of 20 years said he thinks there’s a “peasants and lords issue” in the program. Some Stanford University lecturers are likening it to the “red wedding” in Game of Thrones—a massacre of characters by their supposed allies amid what had been billed as a celebratory feast.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2024

Scholars, practitioners, policymakers, funders, students, and concerned citizens from around the world will convene in October for the 2024 International Colloquium on Black Males in Education. Community Conversations is a forum open to the local community of concerned citizens that is designed to cultivate broad-based discourse on topics associated with Black males in education during the annual International Colloquium on Black Males in Education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 28, 2024

The Virginia women’s college made the change to comport with its founding documents, creating a stricter gender admissions policy than many of its peers. In a move that has upset students, alumnae and faculty, Sweet Briar College announced earlier this month that it was changing its admissions policy and will no longer accept transgender applicants.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2024

Dr. LaVar J. Charleston has been named vice chancellor for inclusive excellence at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dr. LaVar J. Charleston “As a two-time alum, I am profoundly grateful for the opportunity to advance the work of inclusive excellence at UW–Madison, and I look forward to further collaborations with our campus and state,” said Charleston, who holds a master’s and Ph.D. in educational leadership and policy analysis from UW–Madison’s School of Education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 28, 2024

Nationally, completed applications from high school seniors are down by about 9.5 percent. A federal funding boost has helped some states over the summer—but only so much. In West Virginia, billboards declare that students should fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and “fetch funds for college fast.” In Alabama, students who have yet to finish the form are receiving direct text messages reminding them to complete their FAFSA.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2024

The University of Arizona College of Nursing has received a $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Indian Health Service. Dr. Timian Godfrey The grant is expected to fund the Indians in Nursing: Career Advancement and Transition Scholars Program for five years, providing as many as six Indigenous students at the nursing college with financial support for tuition, fees, and a living stipend.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2024

The U.S. Department of Education has released its framework for the 2025–26 FAFSA Testing Period, which starts Oct. 1. Jeremy Singer “We’re using the beta testing period to uncover and fix issues with the FAFSA form before the form is available to millions of students and their families,” said FAFSA Executive Advisor Jeremy Singer. The testing period leads up to the Dec. 1 open window for the 2025–26 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®), available to all students and contributors.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 28, 2024

Elizabeth H. Bradley and Jonathon S. Kahn ask if the breakdown of dialogue on campus is in part a reflection of how we teach. A new academic year is set to begin after what was one of the most tumultuous years on college campuses since the Vietnam War–era protests. Depending on one’s perspective, higher education institutions have emerged as sites of protest against a disturbing foreign conflict rife with humanitarian crises; they have been dangerous hotbeds of radicalism threatening Jewish comm

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2024

Erika Thompson Erika Thompson has been appointed associate director of the Center for African and African American Studies at Rice University in Texas. She served as the community liaison for the African American History Research Center at the Gregory School within the Houston Public Library system. Thompson holds a master’s in Africana studies from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and a master’s in American Studies from the University of Maryland.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 28, 2024

To help scale traditional faculty/student models of undergraduate research engagement, institutional leaders can consider research peer mentoring, group-based programs and community-engaged research, write Brett H. Say and Caitlin Pingree. University research plays a pivotal role in helping society develop new knowledge, inform action and advance the public good, with university faculty being the primary drivers of research innovation within higher education institutions.

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The Guardian Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2024

The scrapping of the Erasmus scheme was a mistake. But by working with Brussels, the PM can put it right In my lifetime, it has always felt as if the government has served old people at the expense of young people. The most notable example during the Conservatives’ time in office was the huge increase in university tuition fees to £9,000, while older voters had the security of the pension triple lock and no shortage of polices that worked in their favour.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2024

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has a long-standing reputation as a leader among scientific and technological research universities. And now, as of April, it has another feather in its cap: RPI is the first college anywhere to host an IBM quantum computer. The university, in upstate New York, unveiled the device — the IBM Quantum System One — in a computer center that once served as a Catholic community chapel.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 28, 2024

The Education Department will partner with community-based organizations, high schools, colleges and states to recruit students who’ll test the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, which is set to launch later this year.

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Higher Education Whisperer

AUGUST 28, 2024

Tom Worthington with the student team: Ethan Teber-Rossi & Steven Nguyen at DeloitteGreetings from Deloitte in Adelaide, where a team of ANU Techlauncher students is competing in the national AIIA iAwards. It was only yesterday the students were told that I am not doing the presentation, they are.

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University Business

AUGUST 28, 2024

Senior leadership is beginning to view alternative credentials as a fundamental aspect of their enrollment strategy—and accreditors are listening. But costs, opaque data and unfruitful corporate outreach efforts have prevented colleges and universities from implementing the programs at scale, to name a few barriers. Institutions looking to solidify their non-degree micro-credential and digital badge strategy can model solutions from these 10 schools where thousands of students are upskilling in

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 28, 2024

Australia will limit how many international students it accepts in an effort to reduce migration to pre-pandemic levels, the BBC reported Tuesday. One of the world’s largest international education markets, Australia hosted about 717,500 international students this year (in a country with a population of 26 million); in 2025, the government is capping enrollment at 270,000.

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University Business

AUGUST 28, 2024

Register Now Date & Time: Thursday, September 26th at 2 pm ET Innovation is necessary for thriving in today’s volatile higher education environment, yet many campuses face strapped resources and limited budgets. “Plagiarism” through peer collaboration is actually a very useful tool for facilities and finance leaders to help innovate their campuses.

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NACADA

AUGUST 28, 2024

Elevate your academic advising skills and network with professionals from around the world through the concurrent sessions planned at the NACADA 2024 Annual Conference ! Highlighting the theme of “A Beautiful Day in the ‘Burgh: Championing Advisors as Helpers,” offerings include a diverse array of sessions tailored to enhance your expertise and address the challenges faced by advisors today.

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University Business

AUGUST 28, 2024

Coconino Community College was founded in 1991 to serve the county around Flagstaff, Arizona, amid fears that, as a local paper editorialized back then, many people there “cannot afford to or are not allowed to enroll at Northern Arizona University,” the local state school. For 30 years since, the community college has embraced its obligation to those underserved people, many of them low-income minorities, in keeping with its motto: “Start Small, Go Big.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 28, 2024

The Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at Northwestern University said on social media that the institution’s Feinberg School of Medicine had deleted photos of pro-Palestinian and Arab students from Flickr and Instagram.

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University Business

AUGUST 28, 2024

To Messina College student Ryan Pina, going to college isn’t something he wants to do just for himself. It’s something he wants to achieve for his entire family — something to make them proud. “My mom is an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, so she came here for opportunity and to give her kids an opportunity. So I wanted to make the most out of that and I want to make her happy,” said 17-year-old Pina, who attended the Academy of the Pacific Rim Charter Public School in Boston.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 28, 2024

Two dozen state attorneys general have cautioned Brown University against divesting from Israel ahead of an October vote by the Board of Trustees, Bloomberg reported.

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AUGUST 28, 2024

Nicole Pelt is on track to be the first person in her family to graduate college. The 20-year-old Diné student is in her senior year at the University of New Mexico’s Albuquerque campus. She chose Native American Studies as a major because she wanted to learn about potential solutions to the impacts of colonization, like a widespread lack of clean, running water on the Navajo Nation.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 28, 2024

The University of Michigan student government, which is controlled by a pro-Palestinian group called Shut It Down, is withholding funds for all activities until the university commits to divesting from Israel and companies that profit from the war in Gaza, The New York Times reported.

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Campus Sonar

AUGUST 28, 2024

Last academic year ended tumultuously for many campuses with protests and graduation converging at the end of the semester. We’ve spent some time thinking about how campuses can reimagine, reframe, and rebuild their place in communities and society—and the public’s trust—amidst the current state of unrest in the Middle East and on many campuses. A key concern is understanding how to center our audiences and their needs when we know they’re far from homogenous.

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Higher Education Inquirer

AUGUST 28, 2024

According to the LA Times , students at Cal Berkeley, San Jose State, San Francisco State, and the University of San Francisco plan to hold coordinated protests on their campuses tomorrow. These protests are a continuation of this year's earlier protests against Israel's atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza. With the genocide expanding to the West Bank and Southern Lebanon, there will certainly be resistance despite administrative and police efforts to make protests difficult.

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