Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2025

Education is the key to unlock the golden door to freedom. George Washington Carver People generally enroll in college with dreams of creating lives like the ones their parents provided, or better. Ambitious, and often anxious, students enter collegiate Alicia P. Peoples environments aspiring to find answers, solve problems and create systems to support themselves and others.

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Roompact

JANUARY 5, 2025

Residence life professionals often joke about the perennial stress of the job: late-night duty calls, back-to-back meetings, endless emails, and an overwhelming list of responsibilities. While humor can be a healthy coping mechanism, it also hints at a larger cultural issue (one that certainly has been highlighted by work culture during and since the pandemic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2025

A new report from United Educators reveals that enrollment concerns reclaimed the top spot as the most pressing risk facing colleges and universities in 2024, with 71% of institutions identifying it as a major challenge. This represents an increase from 67% in the previous year. The annual Top Risks Survey, which gathered responses from 194 colleges and universities between August and December 2024, showed a significant shift in institutional priorities.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2025

Learning and Work Institute says 71% of Londoners and 65% of adults in Scotland will have degree by 2035, compared with 29% in East Yorkshire Economic growth in the UK risks being held back by a skills chasm between regions, as London and the south-east suck in highly qualified workers, according to a report by the Learning and Work Institute. The gap between high- and low-skilled areas of the UK is already wider than in many comparable countries and is forecast to widen, the thinktank says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2025

Marist College, the private school in Poughkeepsie, New York, has announced it will become Marist University effective later this month, marking a significant milestone in its nearly century-long history. The change comes after unanimous approval from the Board of Trustees and the New York State Board of Regents. President Dr. Kevin C. Weinman emphasized that the new designation better reflects Marist's evolution from a small regional college into a comprehensive global institution.

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Higher Education Whisperer

JANUARY 5, 2025

In its latest social media promotion Torrens University has boasted "Think this ad was written by an AI expert? You'd be right. Apply now to graduate with a Graduate Certificate of Software Engineering". It is a bold move, but a little confusing as there is a lot more to software engineering than AI. Also a graduate certificate is only six months full time study.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 5, 2025

The measure now goes to the groups elected council for approval, disapproval or a vote of the organizations 10,000-plus full membership. NEW YORK CITYAmerican Historical Association members attending the groups annual conference voted 428 to 88 Sunday to approve a resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza and the U.S. governments funding of Israels war.

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