Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

For over 150 years, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have not only been sites of academic excellence but also powerful economic engines in their local and regional communities, leaving a lasting mark on the nation's landscape. Beyond classrooms and campuses, the impact of HBCUs resonates in various economic and community development initiatives that transcend traditional education boundaries, fostering job growth, workforce development, and training opportunities.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2024

Undergraduate enrollment is up again, according to new data. Community colleges focused on vocational training in particular made major gains last fall. Undergraduate enrollment rose in fall 2023 for the first time since the pandemic, according to the latest report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The report, released today, found that undergraduate enrollment grew 1.2 percent in fall 2023 compared to the prior year, adding roughly 176,000 students to college enrollment r

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

The 64th Sit-In Anniversary Breakfast and Wreath Laying is set for Feb. 1. The North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University community will gather at the North Carolina A&T Alumni-Foundation Event Center to celebrate the legacy of four A&T freshmen who were keystones in the civil rights movement in 1960 during their sit-in at the downtown Greensboro Woolworth’s lunch counter.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2024

The university’s public affairs school published poll results criticizing university leaders, who then insulted the poll’s methodology. The school fired back. An unusual war of words has broken out between Virginia Commonwealth University and one of its own schools over the validity of public opinion polling that criticized the university for a costly failed project.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

The San Diego Community College District (SDCCD) has boosted the minimum wage for all its permanent employees to $30.58 per hour, which is nearly twice the state’s minimum wage. Edith Rangel is one of 250 permanent employees who will benefit from an increase in San Diego Community College District's minimum wage to $30.58. Previously, it was $22.13.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2024

The university reached out to Sidechat after student reports of “concerning” content. Harvard University has asked the leaders of a social media app that allows anonymous posting to tamp down on “concerning content” following student complaints of antisemitic messages. University officials met with the app Sidechat’s team this month, asking them to do more to monitor and moderate content, Harvard said in a statement to Inside Higher Ed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

After years of declining numbers, undergraduate enrollment at U.S. higher education institutions is finally seeing growth again, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC). Dr. Jeremy Cohen According to the NSC’s Current Term Enrollment Estimates Fall 2023 report – released Tuesday – overall fall undergraduate enrollment at U.S. colleges and universities rose by 1.2%, a minor change where the number of enrollees went from 15,072,249 to 15,248,077.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

Hodan Hassan Hodan Hassan has been appointed vice president of the Office of Institutional Advancement and chief advancement officer at Morehouse College. Hassan holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physics and a master’s in math education and applied mathematics from Long Island University as well as a Ph.D. in technology, policy, and innovation at Stony Brook University.

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University Business

JANUARY 24, 2024

In ninth-grade algebra class at my Minnesota high school, I started losing faith in math. I sat there incredulously, watching equations with letters bounce across the page. While my academic rigor began to fade, so did my reputation; the year before, I got into a fight at school. Now, as an ardent advocate for the transformative power of education, I look back at that time and realize how much it had to do with how alone I felt.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2024

The U.S. Education Department will fix an error in the formula that determines how much financial aid a student can get, which would have cost students about $1.8 billion, the agency told NPR Tuesday.

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Roompact

JANUARY 24, 2024

This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, “What is the future of the RD position and role?” Guest Post by Carley Eichhorn, Residence Life Professional So, you’ve heard of iPad kids, right? You might have seen the term used on social media or have laughed at TikToks featuring these kids. If you.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2024

Being true to ourselves is a barometer of well-being, but what if aspects of our true selves are counterproductive for us or our institution? Jacob A. Brown, C. K. Gunsalus, Nicholas C. Burbules and Thomas Byrne offer some answers. A common exhortation from today’s leadership gurus in academia and popular media is to “be authentic” or your “true self” at work.

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Ray Schroeder

JANUARY 24, 2024

Earlier this month, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey announced a series of budget cuts amid a $1 billion shortfall. Evan Horowitz, the executive director of the non-partisan Center for State Policy Analysis a Tufts University's Tisch College, spoke about what those $375 million in cuts mean now and in the future. "I do think this is the beginning of the new normal, if not something worse than that," he said.

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Campus Sonar

JANUARY 24, 2024

Our 2024 kicked off with a trip to sunny Florida for the Council of Independent Colleges Presidents Institute. The conversations and sessions covered the toughest current topics, such as endowments, cost of attendance, artificial intelligence, and others, giving us renewed appreciation for the hardest job in higher ed. Attendees navigated issues and solutions critical for campus leaders this coming year.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2024

An attorney representing the University of Louisiana System has subpoenaed a USA Today reporter to turn over information he gathered for an award-winning series of articles about violations of the federal Title IX law across the university system,

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SRHE

JANUARY 24, 2024

by Omolabake Fakunle and Helen Higson We were very proud to have our paper accepted at SRHE’s 2023 Research Conference. This was particularly because we value our collaboration, which was born via SRHE, and our paper was about that journey. This blogpost shares highlights from our SRHE 2023 conference paper which outlined: (i) our collaboration to publication research story; (ii) the importance of SRHE in our collaborative journey; which amongst many positives for nearly a decade, links directly

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2024

A group of Jewish scholars is defending Harvard University’s appointment of Derek Penslar, the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, who has criticized Israel, as co-chair of the university’s new antisemitism task force.

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Ray Schroeder

JANUARY 24, 2024

An external analysis brought in by a group representing some DePaul faculty claims that the university is in solid financial condition despite last year’s projected $56.5 million budget gap from the administration. DePaul’s American Association of University Professors (AAUP) chapter crowdfunded to bring Howard Bunsis to present his findings in mid-November, shortly before the holiday break.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2024

Police are investigating an alleged chemical attack at a pro-Palestinian demonstration on the Columbia University campus last week, Gothamist reported Tuesday. Several protesters, who were rallying against U.S.

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University Business

JANUARY 24, 2024

For almost a quarter of a century, a coterie of the nation’s most elite universities had a legal shield: They would be exempt from federal antitrust laws when they shared formulas to measure prospective students’ financial needs. But the provision included a crucial requirement: that the cooperating universities’ admissions processes be “need-blind,” meaning they could not factor in whether a prospective student was wealthy enough to pay.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2024

Today on the Academic Minute, part of Northern Kentucky University Week: Tan Boston, assistant professor at the Salmon P. Chase College of Law, discusses issues related to compensation for the names, images and likenesses of college athletes.

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University Business

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Biden administration has quietly pushed back against a plan by the University of California to allow thousands of young people without legal immigration status to hold campus jobs. Through a series of recent calls, the Department of Homeland Security pressed UC officials to reconsider what it saw as a direct challenge to federal law during an election year, according to four university officials.

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The Humphrey Group

JANUARY 24, 2024

Discover the meaning of leadership presence. Ash Kay covers examples of workplace presence and how you can harness authentic leadership in any setting.

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College for Creative Study

JANUARY 24, 2024

The post Alumnus Mario Moore’s exhibition “Revolutionary Times” on view at the Flint Institute of Arts appeared first on College for Creative Studies.

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University Business

JANUARY 24, 2024

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer plans to urge state lawmakers to pass legislation that would provide free community college tuition for all high school graduates during her sixth State of the State speech on Wednesday. Whitmer also prioritized community college access in her annual address last year. State lawmakers responded by temporarily lowering the minimum age for free tuition from 25 to 21 years old.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

Under the Biden-Harris administration’s student loan SAVE repayment plan, low- to moderate-income borrowers may be able to not only save more money, but also have an easier time owning homes for themselves, according to a joint report from the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) and the California Policy Lab (CPL). Christelle Bamona Center for Responsible Lending The Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan is an income-driven repayment (IDR) plan meant to reduce the monthly payments that bor

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