Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

Dr. Doris Yvonne Wilkinson, the first African American female appointed to a full time position at the University of Kentucky in 1967, has died at age 88. Dr. Doris Yvonne Wilkinson “Dr. Doris Wilkinson was powerful, influential and, at times, larger than life,” said UK's President Dr. Eli Capilouto. “It is with deep sadness that I learn of her passing, but I am comforted in knowing that her legacy continues to run deep across the foundation of our community.

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The Scholarly Teacher

JUNE 26, 2024

Mabel CPO Okojie , Mississippi State University Tinukwa Boulder , University of Pittsburgh Zoey Zhao , University of Pittsburgh Keywords: Digital Divide, Digital Equity, Educational Technology Key Statement : We discuss the complexity of the digital divide and the possibilities of achieving digital equity. Introduction The digital divide is a form of digital inequity that comprises complex interrelated problems requiring multifaceted strategies and solutions to achieve its opposite, digital equ

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

If you speak it into the world, it just might happen. That’s how Dr. Carrie Besnette Hauser became president of Colorado Mountain College (CMC) in 2013. Hauser had always admired the institution because of its unique, tax-based funding, its open-access dual-mission purpose, and its location, nestled into the scenic western slope of the Rocky Mountains.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 26, 2024

Saint Augustine’s board chair alleges that local business leaders are trying to force a merger with nearby Shaw. His claims come as alumni call for the board’s removal. As embattled Saint Augustine’s University fights for its survival amid severe financial issues, accreditation challenges and multiple lawsuits, Board of Trustees chairman Brian Boulware is alleging that local power players are trying to force a merger between SAU and Shaw University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

Dr. Ronald A. Johnson Dr. Ronald Johnson has been appointed interim president of Tennessee State University (TSU). Johnson takes the helm from retiring President Dr. Glenda Glover and is expected to serve in the role for one year, as the TSU Board of Trustees conducts a search for a permanent president. “We are pleased to welcome Dr. Ronald Johnson and have him join the TSU family,” said Dakasha Winton, chair of the Tennessee State Board of Trustees.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 26, 2024

Eastern Nazarene College, a private, nonprofit Christian liberal arts institution in Massachusetts, said late Tuesday that it would close and transition to “a new educational enterprise” to carry on its legacy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

Grant Stepp Grant Stepp has been named athletic director at Kentucky State University. He served as associate athletics director for development at Eastern Kentucky University (EKU). Stepp holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from Western Kentucky University and a master’s in sports administration from EKU.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

The National Football League has announced the roster of medical students participating in the NFL Diversity in Sports Medicine Pipeline Initiative. Michael Baham The league-wide program, launched in 2022 with the NFL Physicians Society and the Professional Football Athletic Trainers Society, aims to increase and diversify the pipeline of students interested in sports medicine careers, including on NFL club medical staffs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 26, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence holds “tremendous promise” in nearly every facet of higher education, but there need to be guardrails, policies and strong governance for the technology, according to a new MIT report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

Early elementary school teachers view chronically absent students less positively, even when they cause no trouble in the classroom, according to a new study published in AERA Open , a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association. Michael Gottfried The study by Drs. Michael A. Gottfried and Phil H. Kim at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

University of Reading project poses questions for integrity of coursework and take-home student assignments Researchers at the University of Reading fooled their own professors by secretly submitting AI-generated exam answers that went undetected and got better grades than real students. The project created fake student identities to submit unedited answers generated by ChatGPT-4 in take-home online assessments for undergraduate courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

Real average salaries for full-time faculty members remain below pre-pandemic levels, according to a report released by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2023–24 , highlights trends in faculty compensation, tenure and contingency, pay equity, and institutional finances in higher education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 26, 2024

Belle S. Wheelan, president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on Colleges, will retire next June after what will have been 20 years in the role, the accrediting agency announced Monday. Belle S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

A new issue brief from the American Council on Education (ACE) calls on institutions to take care to ensure that voting resources offered to their students are nonpartisan and that their communications with students are received that way. Peter McDonough “ Student Voting and College Political Campaign-Related Activities in 2024 ” is an update of ACE’s 2023 publication that provides general rules for institutions and campus communities regarding involvement in political campaign-related activitie

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 26, 2024

A new report shows the importance of aid offers in college decisions—not just amount but also timeliness and clarity, two factors hampered by the FAFSA debacle. For most prospective college students, the amount of financial aid they receive is one of the most important—if not the most important—factor in choosing where to attend. According to a new survey from Ellucian, a financial aid technical solutions company, 76 percent of students said their financial aid award helped them determine where

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

Remember the knock-on effect ? That's exactly what Education Northwest’s recent evaluation of the College Housing Assistance Program (CHAP) in Tacoma, Washington, underscores. By addressing the fundamental need for stable housing, CHAP empowered students, particularly those facing homelessness or housing insecurity, to achieve academic success. It also made it possible for them to become healthier and supported their families’ financial security.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 26, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence holds “tremendous promise” in nearly every facet of higher education, but there need to be guardrails, policies and strong governance for the technology, according to a new report.

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Roompact

JUNE 26, 2024

Ahhh summer…where have you been all of my professional life? I always love when colleagues from around campus see me and ask, is this your down time? Do you ever really get a summer break? I usually just nervously scoff and say yeah I guess June is our “down time” but who am I kidding?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 26, 2024

The former University of Arizona graduate student convicted of murdering a professor on campus has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the Associated Press reported

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The Guardian Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

Lack of funds is a big issue in state schools, with experts wanting Labour to be bolder with its spending plans UK election live – latest updates Labour appears poised to win a historic election victory on 4 July. In the series Life under Labour , we look at Keir Starmer’s five key political missions, and ask what is at stake and whether he can implement the change the country is crying out for.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 26, 2024

Marisa Quinn has compiled a list of dos and don’ts for newly appointed college and university leaders to consider while preparing for their positions. Cascading announcements reporting on the appointments of new presidents, provosts and deans have begun in earnest and will continue for months to come. As this year has demonstrated, such positions are more challenging than ever before, and college and university leaders need all the help they can get to land and launch well in these roles.

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Higher Education Whisperer

JUNE 26, 2024

Creative Connect Panel at CBRIN: Lucy Sugerman, Elvis Gleeson, Emma Laverty, & Owen WalterGreetings from Canberra Innovation Network, where I am taking part in "Creative Connect", sponsored by the ACT Government. We were surveyed beforehand and it turns out the largest group are digital creatives (which I guess I am) and we like meeting over lunch (CBRIN have put on a good spread).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 26, 2024

Colleges can draw inspiration from an unexpected source—wildfire management—and a strategy that field is relying on to prepare for devastating summer wildfire incidents, writes Timothy Renick. Higher education is facing a growing completion crisis. There are now 40 million people in the United States who earned some college credits but never graduated.

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NACADA

JUNE 26, 2024

Do you want to go to the NACADA Annual Conference, but nobody else from your institution is going? Come anyway, you may be going solo, but you won’t be alone! Not only will you have the opportunity to meet thousands of other Advising professionals from around the country, your adventure will bring you, a “champion of students” to the “City of Champions”, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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University Business

JUNE 26, 2024

College enrollment among young Americans has been declining over the past decade. That decrease is mostly driven by fewer young men pursuing degrees. A Pew Research study finds about one million fewer young men now enrolled in college compared to 2011. Geoff Bennett took a closer look at why for our series, Rethinking College. Watch the PBS News Hour report.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 26, 2024

Today on the Academic Minute: David Spence, professor of business, government and society at the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business, explores who is to blame for slowing the transition to a low-carbon-energy future.

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University Business

JUNE 26, 2024

The idea that a college degree levels the playing field for students of different socioeconomic classes has been bolstered in recent years. Research from 2011 and 2017, for example, found that earning a bachelor’s degree helped students from less advantaged backgrounds do as well as their better-off peers. Jessi Streib, a sociology professor at Duke University, was skeptical.

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Ed.gov Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

It has been nearly 18 years since Congress ended the joint consolidation loan (JCL) program; no new JCLs could be issued, and JCLs could not be reconsolidated or separated. Borrowers who were married and combined their individual federal student loans into a single joint Direct Consolidation Loan or joint Federal Consolidation Loan with their spouse Continue Reading The post Implementing the Joint Consolidation Loan Separation Act appeared first on ED.gov Blog.

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University Business

JUNE 26, 2024

The use of technology to supplement and even replace people in workplaces has, perhaps ironically, long been a defining characteristic of humans. From the tools of early man through the printing press, the industrial revolution, robotics and now the emerging presence of artificial intelligence, relieving people of the burden of work (or the company of workers) has been happening for a long time.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 26, 2024

Judges have temporarily blocked the new Title IX regulations in 10 red states so far. Experts expect a long legal fight that could end at the Supreme Court.

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University Business

JUNE 26, 2024

Lindenwood University recently announced it’s letting go of 12 staff members and two faculty members and may decide not fill up to 50 positions in order to help cut its operating budget by 10%, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. While enrollment began to fall at the Missouri-based private university last fall , this year’s FAFSA complications have compounded the issue, forcing Lindenwood to make its second round of layoffs in a single year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

Earlier this year, LGBTQ+ students and victims of campus sexual assault gained new protections under the Biden-Harris Administration’s finalized revision of Title IX regulations. The rules – released April 2024 after being announced in 2022 – represented a landmark effort to solidify discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity as violations of Title IX as well as to counteract the Trump Administration’s stricter ways of defining and determining sexual harassment.

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University Business

JUNE 26, 2024

UC Berkeley will expand antisemitism education to all incoming students beginning this fall, after pro-Palestinian protests over the Israel-Hamas war fueled anxieties among many Jewish campus members, Chancellor Carol Christ announced this week. For the first time, the campus will provide a five-year funding commitment to widen the educational effort, which began on a much smaller scale in 2019, to all new students, leaders of official student organizations and residential assistants.

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