Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Sacramento State — home to the largest number of Black students within the California State University (CSU) system — is launching what will become the nation’s first-ever Black Honors College. Slated to begin operating in the fall, the honors college will enroll students who have a GPA of 3.5 or higher and an interest in Black history, life, and culture.
Dr. Josie Ahlquist
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
How would you describe the state of your division’s marketing and communications? Are strategies effective and consistently funded? Is staff centralized or dispersed? In a new bi-annual study, Dr. Josie Ahlquist sought to discover trends, challenges, and strengths in student affairs.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
AERA Fellows were announced on Thursday and a distinguished list of researchers topped the list including Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson. Jackson, a professor and dean of the Michigan State University (MSU) College of Education, is among 24 exemplary scholars selected by the American Educational Research Association. Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson “The 2024 AERA Fellows join an exceptional group of scholars, and we are thrilled to welcome them,” said AERA Executive Director Dr.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Online Course Provider 2U Faces Doubts It Can Continue Lauren.Coffey@… Thu, 02/15/2024 - 03:00 AM The financially challenged company said it needs to undergo major changes to survive.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
African American History Month marks a period in which Americans can celebrate together, because it spotlights the possibilities and the promise that the country remains poised to offer, even as we acknowledge the mistakes and shortcomings of the past. The nation owes a debt of gratitude to celebrated historian Dr. Carter G. Woodson for his conception and development of this singularly American institution which provides a shared opportunity, on an annual basis, to take a snapshot of the interna
Confessions of a Community College Dean
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Pro-Union Is Pro-Student Elizabeth Redden Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:55 AM Improving working conditions for non-tenure-track faculty is what’s best for students, Anna Harrison writes.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
When Adrianne Washington, dean of special academic programs at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), found that the Honors Program was overlooking the school’s Black men, it didn’t sit right with her. Adrianne Washington "It was difficult for me to think that I had a thriving Honors Program — our students find considerable success — but that there was a group of students who was invisible,” says Washington.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
A new National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) report analyzes a Unified Servicing and Data Solution (USDS) contract, set to go live in the spring, and its potential impact on student loan borrowers’ rights and experiences. Alpha Taylor The U.S. Department of Education awarded new student loan servicing contracts to five companies last year under the USDS solicitation to improve student loan servicing, provide better customer service to borrowers, and better hold servicers accountable.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
The looming enrollment cliff and a slow recovery from pandemic-related enrollment dips have left higher education institutions across the country looking for ways to boost interest and applications from potential students. But not every bump in applications is a positive sign. In fact, the ease with which prospective students can now apply to college — and be accepted — is one of the factors behind a disturbing trend: the rise in so-called ghost students.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Tory Verkamp Tory Verkamp has been named vice chancellor for university advancement at Missouri University of Science and Technology. She served as assistant vice chancellor of university advancement. Verkamp holds bachelor’s degrees in journalism and Spanish and a Master of Public Affairs degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
A Rabbi Walks Into a Christian University Sara Weissman Thu, 02/15/2024 - 03:00 AM Belmont University’s new hire signals ramped-up support for Jewish students. Other Christian universities are also increasingly embracing students of other faiths.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
University of Kentucky President Dr. Eli Capilouto is publicly opposed to bills proposed by state legislators to limit diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, reported the Lexington Herald Leader. Dr. Eli Capilouto Capilouto criticized Senate Bill 6 from Sen. Mike Wilson of Bowling Green, which would block all DEI initiatives that promote so-called “discriminatory concepts.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
College Endowment Returns Ticked Up in Fiscal Year 2023 Josh Moody Thu, 02/15/2024 - 03:00 AM Thanks to strong public equity markets, endowment returns bounced back after falling last year. But they’re still a long way from the sky-high returns of FY 2021.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
The Minority Male Initiative, an annual conference aimed at helping shape the futures of high school juniors, seniors, and current Brookdale Community College students will take place next week at the New Jersey institution. With its theme, Tomorrow Belongs to Those Who Prepare for it Today - Malcolm X , the conference aims to provide firsthand information about different career opportunities and education on personal development.
University Business
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Enrollment wasn’t the only significant metric to bounce back in higher education in 2023. After an 8% percent drop off in fiscal year 2022, endowment has surged back, nearly recouping its loss with a 7.7% gain, according to the latest report by the National Association of College and University Business Officers and Commonfund (NACUBO-Commonfund).
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Sheryl R. Wilson Sheryl R. Wilson has been named vice president for culture and belonging at Bethel College in Newton, Kansas. She served as the executive director of the Kansas Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution at the college. Wilson holds a bachelor’s degree in mediation and communication studies and a master’s in liberal studies from the University of Minnesota.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Focusing on Personality Type and Interests to Support Student Success Melissa Ezarik Thu, 02/15/2024 - 03:00 AM Career coach Marta Koonz offers an overview of the use of assessments in guiding academic and career choices, including group and individual models for helping students maximize the results.
Experiential Learning Depot
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Happy National Nutrition Awareness Month, friends! Well, very shortly (March). It’s always a fantastic time to have your students work on a meaningful and impactful health project, but National Nutrition Awareness Month is a great excuse to take that plunge. Coming up with a good nutrition or health project idea can feel daunting because you want it to matter.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
The American Association of University Professors is starting what it is calling a Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom with a grant of more than $1.5 million from the Mellon Foundation.
Roompact
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, “What is the future of the RD position and role?” Guest Post by Dr. Tiffany Schmidtberger-Okolo, Residence Life Professional In my current role, I am developing an assessment framework for residential life services. This process has necessitated a thorough reflection on what students should know when.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Seventy-five administrators and professors from at least 61 institutions are calling on the Education Department in a letter released Wednesday to abandon its current proposal to change how colleges and universities can bill students for books and supplies.
Teaching Matters Academic Communities
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
In this post, alumna Yval Koch talks about the moment she realised that her learning process didn’t apply to all learners, which motivated her to reflect on how to create inclusive learning environments as she ponders pursuing a career in academic teaching.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
The University of Wisconsin at Madison will likely be required to admit all in-state students who graduate in the top 5 percent of their high school class under a bill approved by the state Legislature Tuesday, the Associated Press reported. The measure requires all other campuses in the Universities of Wisconsin system to admit the top 10 percent of state high school graduates.
Ray Schroeder
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Just one-third of students who started at community colleges transferred to four-year institutions, and fewer than half of those students earned a bachelor’s degree in six years, new research from a trio of organizations found. That translated to just 16% of these community college students getting a bachelor’s degree in that time frame, according to reports released Wednesday from the Community College Research Center, the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program and the National Student Clea
Teaching Matters Academic Communities
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Image credit: Unsplash CC0 In this post, alumna Yval Koch talks about the moment she realised that her learning process didn’t apply to all learners, which motivated her to reflect on how to create inclusive learning environments as she ponders pursuing a career in academic teaching. Yval recently graduated from The University of Edinburgh with an MA in Geography and this post is part of the Learning and Teaching Enhancement theme: ‘Learning how others learn’.
Ray Schroeder
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Colleges and universities are appealing to older students to helpmitigate an upcoming “enrollment cliff.” Enrollment in institutions of higher learning among traditional-aged college students, already in decline, is expected to drop more dramatically beginning in 2025. Some colleges are making it easier for older students to return to the classroom by offering remote schedules, financial relief and childcare help.
University Business
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Nationwide, only about one-third of students who start at community colleges ultimately transfer to four-year schools, and fewer than half of those transfer students earn a bachelor’s degree within six years. That means just 16% of all community college students attain a bachelor’s degree, according to recent reports by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University, the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program and the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
Gray Associates
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Discover the transformative power of AI across industries and academia, from reshaping job markets to fueling scientific discovery. Dive into the booming demand for AI talent, the rise of specialized programs in higher education, and the real-world applications of AI in fields like marketing and materials science. As the AI revolution accelerates, higher education institutions are poised to equip the workforce with the skills needed to thrive in an AI-driven world.
University Business
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Across the higher education landscape, the challenge of attracting adult learners to higher education has become universal. As a college based in the UK, the choice and opportunity for adults reentering education tends to be limited. And in the past decade, they’ve begun to turn away from higher education. In the 2019-20 academic year, adult learners made up 37% of all undergraduates.
SRHE
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
by Claudio Morrison and Janroj Yilmaz Keles Introduction A paper for the Symposium on ‘Inequalities in HE during Covid-19’ (SRHE Conference, 6 December 2023, Birmingham) provides new evidence on the ‘social suffering’ that university students endure due to precarious employment. Based on findings from the project ‘Learning from Labour: Critical Pedagogy for Working Students’ carried out at Middlesex University in 2022-2023, the study explores the educational and employment challenges faced by wo
University Business
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Concordia University in Ann Arbor is facing financial problems that will likely lead to cutbacks of staff and programs. In an email sent out to Concordia students on Tuesday, President Erik Ankerberg said that the university is spending more money than it’s taking in, particularly on the Ann Arbor campus, and changes must be made to operate within existing revenues.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Today on the Academic Minute: Daniel Ernst, assistant professor of English at Texas Woman’s University, explains what a platypus has to do with artificial intelligence. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
College for Creative Study
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
The post Alumna Trinity Akins (’21, EA) is among the esteemed participants of Nickelodeon’s Artist Program in Burbank CA appeared first on College for Creative Studies.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Jewish college students are expressing in a new survey increased frustrated with the lack of response from university presidents and leadership to ongoing antisemitism on campus. Adam Lehman The online survey was conducted between Feb 5-7, by Benenson Strategy Group on behalf of Hillel International, and included 300 Jewish college students. It found that 57% of students are not satisfied with the response of their administration to acts of violence and hate on campus since Oct. 7.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
The Kentucky state Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would ban diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at the state’s public universities, the Associated Press reported. Now the bill goes to the Kentucky House, which—like the Senate—has a Republican supermajority.
University Business
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
A bill that would allow people who have dropped out of high school to get tuition waivers to pursue diplomas and workforce credentials at Florida colleges got unanimous backing Wednesday from a key House committee. But some members of the House Education & Employment Committee raised concerns and questioned whether, as one Republican put it, the bill would give high school dropouts a “better deal” than students who graduate.
Higher Education Inquirer
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
[Editor's note: This article was first published at BryanAlexander.org ] Over the past year at least a dozen American states have taken a very interesting step. They have removed a college degree requirement for applicants to some or most state jobs. It’s a way of helping people “break the paper ceiling,” of advancing without needing to have postsecondary education credentials.
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