Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2024

California State University (CSU) system employees who are members of the California Faculty Association (CFA) will go on strike next week, starting Monday. Dr. Christopher Cox Cal State University The multi-day strike – from Jan. 22-26. – was prompted by the faculty union’s demands not being met, including the pay increases they asked for. The union is asking for 12%-raises, though the school system is offering increases of just 5% after recent negotiations.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Building Belonging to Benefit Black Male Students Sarah Bray Fri, 01/19/2024 - 03:00 AM Katelynn Jarrells offers advice for how faculty, staff and top administrators can help retain them by working to create a community of support.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2024

Harold Ellis Harold Ellis has been appointed director of athletics at Morehouse College in Atlanta. He served as an assistant coach and as a scout for several teams in the National Basketball Association. Ellis, who played professional basketball in Greece and spent three seasons in the NBA, is a graduate of Morehouse College.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Interest in Skill-Based Learning Not Keeping Up With Demand jessica.blake@… Fri, 01/19/2024 - 03:00 AM A new study found 86 percent of faculty and staff say there’s a need for new skills-based learning models, but only 22 percent of their institutions had implemented them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2024

The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education has reached a tentative agreement with unionized faculty for a new four-year labor contract, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Dr. Kenneth Mash APSCUF Details will not be disclosed until after the contract language is finalized and the agreement is ratified by union members and approved by the school system’s board.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Pretty Much the Only Thing I Learned From the Harvard Disaster Elizabeth Redden Fri, 01/19/2024 - 03:00 AM A social media skirmish points to problems in how colleges view continuing ed, Ryan Craig writes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2024

Christian Mills Christian Mills has been named director of the Quality Enhancement Plan at Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina. Mills served as a campus and community liaison with Our Money Matters. She holds a bachelor’s degree in women and gender studies from the University of Delaware and a master’s in special education from Wilmington University in Delaware.

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Roompact

JANUARY 19, 2024

This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, “What is the future of the RD position and role?” Guest Post by Sam Ferrigno, University of Maryland Baltimore County As I enter my fourth year as a full time live-in professional, I’ve often found myself wondering if the RD position is at its core.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2024

Arizona State University is slated to become the first higher education institution to partner with the artificial intelligence company OpenAI, which will give ASU students and faculty access to its most advanced iteration of ChatGPT.

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Ray Schroeder

JANUARY 19, 2024

"2024 will be the year that firms get serious about applying generative AI to their own internal data sources and making information and insights available to their employees to help them do their jobs even better." Additional research from Digitate suggests 90% of IT decision-makers across all sectors plan to implement automation in the next year, with 56% expecting to make significant progress in IT organizations during the next six months.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2024

A House committee is seeking answers after an independent auditor found “material weaknesses” in the Education Department’s financial statements for the second consecutive year.

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Higher Education Whisperer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Tom Worthington, interviewed at Parliament House on Sky News, 19 January 2024This week I was interviewed at Parliament House for a news item on data centers and their expanding energy use ("Tech companies spending billions to meet data centre demand", Brent O'Halloran, Sky News 19 January 2024). There are boom times in Australia, and world wide for data centers.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2024

Spelman College, a historically Black women’s college in Atlanta, has received a $100 million gift, the largest single donation to an HBCU in history, according to a press release from the college Thursday. The donation is from businesswoman and philanthropist Ronda Stryker, a member of Spelman’s Board of Trustees since 1997, and her husband, William Johnston, chairman of the wealth management firm Greenleaf Trust.

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Terminalfour

JANUARY 19, 2024

In 2024, the University of Manchester is ringing in its bicentenary with a vibrant burst of purple brilliance that extends far beyond the confines of its campus. We highlight some of the campaign's best launch moments.

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Ray Schroeder

JANUARY 19, 2024

But there are signs that things are not as rosy in U.K. doctoral education as some imagine. In November, the Student Loans Company noted the “first potential yet small decline in the take-up of postgraduate doctoral student loans,” with sums borrowed in 2022–23 down by 12.3 percent. There are also indications that the number of funded Ph.D. studentships will not be as plentiful over the next few years.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2024

City College of San Francisco was placed on warning status this week by its accreditor, the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

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AIFS Abroad

JANUARY 19, 2024

Just in time for award season, we’re excited to announce that AIFS Abroad has officially been named the Top Rated Study Abroad Provider of 2023 by GoAbroad, a long-standing and well-respected online directory and review site for international education programs. We don’t do what we do for awards or recognition, but this acknowledgment is incredibly meaningful to our team, as it symbolizes how our participants feel about the quality and impact of our programs.

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College for Creative Study

JANUARY 19, 2024

Over the course of the Fall semester, the College for Creative Studies hosted 17 sponsored projects and competitions across a variety of disciplines. Students from Product Design and Illustration to Communication Design and Transportation Design were able to partner with local and global brands to work on a specific project tailored to meet the needs of our industry partners.

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CAPD

JANUARY 19, 2024

On November 18-19, 2023 CAPD and the Office of Graduate Education (OGE) successfully organized the 18 th annual Path of Professorship program. Path of Professorship is a 2-day workshop for women interested in pursuing academic careers. This revered tradition was created by Blanche Staton, former Senior Associate Director of OGE in 2006. In attendance were 38 PhD students and 30 Postdoctoral fellows.

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University Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

This year marks 100 since Spelman Baptist Seminary became Spelman College, the all-women HBCU in the heart of Atlanta, Ga., which we know today. And as of Thursday, Spelman has set another historical milestone centered around the wonderfully round number. On Thursday, the Atlanta-based liberal arts institutions received a $100 million donation. It is believed to be the single-largest one-time donation ever granted to an HBCU.

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PUC

JANUARY 19, 2024

Coming from Thornton, CO is Maxwell Scholar Matthew Winokan. Last school year he attended Campion Academy in Loveland and now at PUC is majoring in pre-nursing.

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University Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

Arizona State University will become the first-ever higher education institution to partner with OpenAI , allowing the school full use of the company’s flagship product, ChatGPT. The partnership will allow ASU faculty and staff to utilize the “advanced capabilities” of ChatGPT Enterprise to enhance teaching and learning, the university said in a press release.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2024

Today on the Academic Minute: Megan Holycross, assistant professor in the department of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell University, explores one question about our planet that still vexes researchers.

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University Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

The political turmoil that rocked universities over the past three months and sparked the resignations of two Ivy League presidents has landed like an unwelcome thud on institutions already struggling to maintain the trust of the American public. For three generations, the national aspiration to “college for all” shaped America’s economy and culture, as most high-school graduates took it for granted that they would earn a degree.

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College for Creative Study

JANUARY 19, 2024

The post Alumna Cailyn Dawson included in group exhibition at Thierry Goldberg Gallery in New York appeared first on College for Creative Studies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2024

Doctoral candidates Dion T. Harry and Joshua D. Wallace have been chosen to receive the Dr. Melvin C. Terrell (MCT) Educational Foundation’s 2023 MCT Scholarship. The annual scholarship is meant for matriculating students in master’s or doctoral programs in student affairs or higher ed administration-related fields. Dion Harry Harry is a North Carolina State University doctoral candidate studying higher education opportunity, equity, and justice.

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University Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

In all that she’d learned in her 40 years of working in higher education, Lori White had found herself in entirely new territory. For the first time in her career, she was the president of a university. This also marked the first time in DePauw University’s history that a woman and a person of color was stepping in. But this was March of 2020.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2024

Christian Colleges Navigate Abortion Debates in a Post-Roe World Sara Weissman Fri, 01/19/2024 - 03:00 AM Some scholars say discussions of the topic are now more nuanced and complex. Antiabortion activists believe the discourse has become too permissive.

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University Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

The system designed to handle allegations of sexual assault on college campuses is badly broken. Over the past 15 years, the rules have changed dramatically depending on whether a Democrat or a Republican occupies the White House; in March , they will change again. But the fundamental premise is the same: an adversarial system that pits one side against the other.

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