Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

The profile of the average community college student is changing. While two-year institutions still have significant populations of adult students and people desirous of enhancing their career options, there is a growing number of first-time college students, age 18 to 22, that are seeking a traditional college experience. Joshua Reda There are also students who don’t have stable or consistent homes who want a place to reside while pursuing their education.

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Nontenure track employees who teach or conduct research at Harvard University voted last week to unionize, creating a new bargaining unit representing thousands of workers. It’s Harvard’s first union representing these “contingent” faculty members, according to the new labor organization’s members. “Prestige is not enough,” Shahinaz Geneid, a visiting teaching fellow at Harvard and graduate student at Northeastern University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

State financial aid programs across the country have varying levels of accessibility for students and plenty of room to improve, according to a recent report from The Education Trust. Dr. Brittani Williams According to " Who Deserves State Financial Aid? ," insufficient state investments in higher education over the past two decades have led to significant increases of tuition rates and fees at public four-year colleges, leading to bigger hurdles for students looking to attend college, particula

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 8, 2024

After FAFSA Issues, Education Department Faces ‘Crisis of Credibility’ Katherine Knott Mon, 04/08/2024 - 03:00 AM Colleges and universities say they need more honesty and transparency from the department to rebuild their trust in the federal financial aid system.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

Picture this: you are in a hospital setting and you witness another staff member ask a Black medical student if they need help cleaning up. The staff member assumes the medical student is the janitor. Unfortunately, experiences like these are all too common in healthcare today. Within professional environments, microaggressions persist as a pervasive and often overlooked force, representing one of the most significant challenges to equity and inclusion.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 8, 2024

Pitzer Drops Study Abroad in Israel. Will Others Follow? Sara Weissman Mon, 04/08/2024 - 03:00 AM Student activists say the decision was an ideological move long in the making. College officials say an academic boycott had nothing to do with it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

Ashley Owens Ashley Owens has been appointed interim Title IX coordinator at Pennsylvania State University. She serves as director of student accountability and conflict response on Penn State’s Altoona campus. Owens holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Dayton in Ohio and a juris doctorate from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Ray Schroeder

APRIL 8, 2024

Oak Point University, a healthcare-focused institution in Chicago, will shutter next month, giving students little forewarning. Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois, said Wednesday it established a teach-out agreement to accept students of the closing university, and all credits earned toward a degree at Oak Point will transfer. In recent years, Oak Point has faced declining enrollment and increased monitoring from the state nursing board and its accreditor.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 8, 2024

Transforming Doctoral Education for the Future of Work Sarah Bray Mon, 04/08/2024 - 03:00 AM Roshni Rao and Tyler Sluder describe how experiential learning, interdisciplinary collaboration and advanced technology can prepare Ph.D.s to thrive.

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Roompact

APRIL 8, 2024

Springing Forward… We’re well into 2024 and are looking ahead to the closing of the halls and the starting of summer. We’ve got a TON of new content for you as well as some exciting Insight report updates that we think you will find particularly useful. Read on to find out what you may have.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 8, 2024

Twenty students were arrested at Pomona College Friday evening after pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the office of president Gabrielle Starr, The Los Angeles Times reported.

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APRIL 8, 2024

And at the rate that artificial intelligence is innovating everything from business operations and customer service, to workforce education and higher education, the world could (and will) look very different in the coming decades. That goes for both employers and employees, said Ravi Ramamurti, Northeastern University distinguished professor of international business.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 8, 2024

Twenty students were arrested at Pomona College Friday evening after pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the office of president Gabrielle Starr, The Los Angeles Times reported.

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Experiential Learning Depot

APRIL 8, 2024

As an experiential educator and parent, I understand the significance of introducing my students to career exploration activities and guiding them toward a logical career path, as well as ensuring they have real skills to navigate evolving career landscapes when I’m gone. Let’s talk about career exploration projects that students can apply to their real lives!

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 8, 2024

Report: Exploring the Differences in First-Gen Demographics Ashley Mowreader Mon, 04/08/2024 - 03:00 AM New data from Common App evaluates definitions of first-generation students and the impact any parental education can have.

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University Business

APRIL 8, 2024

Do we have to choose between diversity and objective measurements of college readiness? I think the answer is no, but that doesn’t mean we should rest content to return to the status quo. Universities should break the rigid SAT/ACT testing monopoly and welcome standardized tests that reflect the breadth and diversity of America’s educational landscape.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 8, 2024

More than 26 million Americans would benefit from the Biden administration’s latest plan to provide debt relief for student loan borrowers, the Education Department said Monday.

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University Business

APRIL 8, 2024

Led by many first-generation college students and those receiving financial aid in the state with the fewest college graduates, members say they want to usher in a new era of student involvement in university political life. The movement is part of a wave of student organizing at U.S. colleges and universities centering around everything from the affordability of higher education and representation to who has access to a diverse array of course offerings and workplace safety concerns.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 8, 2024

Today on the Academic Minute, part of Indiana University’s Total Solar Eclipse segment: Moira Marsh, researcher and folklore librarian, uses mythology to tell the story of the darkened daytime sky.

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University Business

APRIL 8, 2024

The school’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors has estimated that 60 people in DEI roles at the campus were let go but have not said how it arrived at that number. In a letter sent Thursday, the group argued that the cuts violated employees’ rights to academic freedom, due process and freedom of expression. It also criticized what it called a lack of transparency about how decisions were made and why input from faculty council was not taken into account.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

Leocadia I. Zak Agnes Scott College has been awarded $1 million in federal funds to train physician assistants and clinical mental health counselors in maternal and pediatric care. “We are immensely grateful to Senators [Jon] Ossoff and [Raphael] Warnock for their support of our work to educate healthcare professionals, especially those who can make a difference in the lives of women and children,” said Agnes Scott College President Leocadia I.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 8, 2024

Image credit: emotionpicture, Adobe Stock In this extra post, Jessie, Joanna, and Lissette share their experience working on a PTAS -funded project: Compassion and Empathy in Work and Life, highlighting how it contributed to the development of a self-directed course for students and staff. Dr Jessie Paterson retired in Dec 2022, and now holds an Honorary Fellowship.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 8, 2024

The Biden administration’s new rule making it easier for a defrauded borrower to seek debt relief has “numerous statutory and regulatory shortcomings,” a federal appeals court ruled last week. The judges said that a lawsuit seeking to overturn those regulations is likely to succeed. The administration is expected to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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University Business

APRIL 8, 2024

Presidents and other high-ranking administrative staff have been on the defensive recently as the public has heightened its criticism over whether higher education leaders are guiding the sector properly. Recent actions and published opinions from presidents, administrators and faculty also suggest that skepticism percolates internally. As technological transformations and new student demands challenge higher education’s legacy operations, these leaders are pushing for transformative—and p

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 8, 2024

The (AI) Counselor Is in Liam Knox Mon, 04/08/2024 - 03:00 AM AI-powered college advising tools promise to free up time-strapped counselors and “democratize” admissions expertise for less-privileged high schoolers. Will they?

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Ed.gov Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

BY: Amy Loyd, ED.L.D., Assistant Secretary, OCTAE The American postsecondary education system has seen many transformations, but none so democratic and revolutionary as the founding of the first community college in Joliet, Illinois in 1901. Then-president of the University of Chicago William Harper Rainey, and several other influential university presidents, were convinced that for America Continue Reading The post Community Colleges: Building Pathways to the Future appeared first on ED.gov Blo

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

The Biden-Harris Administration has released initial details of a new set of plans to provide student debt relief to borrowers nationwide. The plans would include 4 million borrowers who have already been approved for debt cancellation by the Biden-Harris Administration over the past three years. James Kvaal "These historic steps reflect President Biden’s determination that we cannot allow student debt to leave students worse off than before they went to college,” said U.S.

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