Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

Dr. Tryan L. McMickens’s scholarship centers on historically marginalized and underserved populations that suffer from inequities, particularly in higher education. The research is rich and ever-manifesting on college campuses for McMickens, an associate professor of higher education and the director of the M.S.Ed. in Higher Education Administration Program at North Carolina Central University, an historically Black university in Durham, North Carolina.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 15, 2024

In Kentucky, federal student aid form completion is down by double digits from last year. State officials hosted a 12-hour telethon in a castle to help close the gap. Everything glittered at the first-ever Kentucky FAFSAthon. The buntings and tablecloths shone gold under the fill lights, as did the hosts, Casi Benedict and Keith Ritchie, who sported a matching gold dress and bowtie, respectively.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

The American education system faces a persistent and troubling gap: the significant underrepresentation of Black male educators. With Black males making up only about 2% of all educators nationwide, this issue is more than a diversity problem. It is a systemic crisis that impacts student outcomes and educational equity. Research underscores the profound impact of Black teachers on preK-12 student achievement, particularly for students from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 15, 2024

A new survey from New Mexico shows that nearly 60 percent of students are food insecure. Experts say that number likely rose when the state’s free-tuition program made college more accessible for low-income learners. In the fall of 2019, after years of declining enrollment, higher education institutions in New Mexico were seeking a new way to attract adult learners in the hopes of matching the state’s peak head count of around 154,000 postsecondary students, last achieved in 2010.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

Learning continues to be an obstacle for nearly a third of students, according to 2023-24 survey data released by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Dr. Peggy G. Carr “In the latest data from the School Pulse Panel survey we are seeing signs of change in the areas of learning recovery and student absences in public schools.” said NCES Commissioner Dr.

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University Business

AUGUST 15, 2024

Our old school cafeteria was sitting unloved, waiting for someone to come along and repurpose it into a more useful, engaging space for the modern learning environment. We have a lot of clubs on campus that needed a place to convene, plus students who really wanted a place where they could go and hang out between classes. So, we had the 7,000-square-foot space ready to convert, but before we started, we really wanted to get student feedback on what they wanted from the space, how they planned to

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

Dr. Jessica Snowden Jessica Snowden has been named vice chancellor for research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Snowden holds master’s degrees in health professions teaching and technology and in clinical and translational research from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha as well as a medical degree from Texas A&M College of Medicine.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

Phill Gross The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) is launching a new partnership that seeks to cultivate a student pipeline from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) into the financial services sector. The planned program, known as Project ACCLAIM (Accelerating Learning in Asset Investment Management), is funded by a $10 million gift from Adage Capital Management and Elizabeth and Phill Gross.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 15, 2024

On Wednesday, a judge dismissed a lawsuit that had sought to invalidate the parts of a new Indiana law requiring public colleges and universities to deny tenure to professors who are “unlikely to foster … intellectual diversity” and requiring post-tenure reviews that consider whether tenured professors have provided “intellectual

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The Guardian Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

James Esses lost place at Metanoia Institute in London after he campaigned against proposed conversion practices ban A student psychotherapist who was expelled from his master’s course after expressing gender-critical views has received an apology from the training institute where he was studying. James Esses has reached a settlement with the Metanoia Institute in London, which specialises in training counsellors and psychotherapists.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 15, 2024

Joseph Glover just started as the University of Arizona's provost on July 1, but he’s already leaving. He’s returning to an institution that’s having its own share of abrupt leadership changes. Glover, who was the University of Florida’s provost for 15 years before leaving that role in July 2023, is now heading back to Florida to be the interim provost.

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The Guardian Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

Proportion of top grades is best outside pandemic but results in Wales and Northern Ireland fall compared with last year A-level results – live updates Sixth-formers in England are enjoying a bumper crop of top A-level results, surpassing previous pre-pandemic highs in the proportion of A* and A grades awarded, thanks in part to strong performances in maths and sciences.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 15, 2024

American University’s Kogod School of Business grew its center for entrepreneurship to encourage and engage all students on the topic via three strategic pillars. Like any good startup, a college’s entrepreneurship program requires time, resource investment and creative thinking. At American University in D.C., the Kogod School of Business launched an entrepreneurship initiative in 2014 that has grown over the past decade to include an undergraduate minor, business incubator and regular campus-w

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Roompact

AUGUST 15, 2024

We're pleased to welcome Jeanette to the show this week where she and Dustin discuss the importance and methods of utilizing the ACUHO-I Standards in our departmental processes. Jeanette also shares some reflections on recently earning her doctorate in Educational Leadership.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 15, 2024

Reengaging history with the social sciences and contemporary challenges. The discipline of history, while continuing to produce valuable scholarship, is in a rut. The kind of methodological, conceptual and theoretical breakthroughs that took place in the 1970s—with the rise of the new social and new cultural history and the opening of wholly new fields, such as environmental history, the new labor history, urban history, and women’s history—are now a half century in the past.

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The Guardian Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

Education secretary says grades are not expected to fall from last year as students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland receive results Private schools which could close as a result of the government’s plans to impose 20% VAT are already facing “big budget shortfalls”, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said. She told Sky News: Private schools are businesses that can make choices about how they manage their budgets, the level of fees that they charge, and ultimately, it’s about how at

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 15, 2024

Nearly 30 percent of borrowers were past due on their student loan payments in January of this year, a few months after the federal government lifted the pause on payments, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found in a new report.

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The Guardian Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

North of England lags far behind south-east in national exam grades and university application rates Pupils achieved their best A-level results in a generation on Thursday with marks that highlighted the growing gap between the strongest and weakest-performing parts of the country. While the national exam grades were among the highest for decades, regional differences showed areas in the north lagging far behind the south-east.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 15, 2024

Declining Enrollments Hit Public Regional Universities A couple of weeks ago, I discovered this great article from Sarah Torres Lugo and Sarah Pingel, “Dueling Institutions: Intentionally Supporting Public Research and Regional Universities Amid Declining Enrollment.” in the latest issue of Change Magazine.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 15, 2024

In this blog post, Tessa Warinner, wellbeing adviser at the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, discusses ‘Burnout’ – a rising concern in academia. Tessa discusses what it feels like, its prevalence, impact, and signposts helpful resources for managing it.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 15, 2024

Students across every institution type and demographic—including household income—link the cost of tuition to their academic success in a new analysis of Student Voice data. Students across income levels indicate paying for college impacts their academic success, according to a new analysis of data from Inside Higher Ed’s annual Student Voice survey with Generation Lab.

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The Guardian Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

Four board members stepped down at Florida A&M University upon interim president Timothy Beard’s request Just two weeks before the 2024-2025 school yearbegins and one week into his tenure, the interim president of Florida A&M University, Timothy Beard, has called on the board to resign. “As you know, our University (Famu) is at a critical juncture, where we must align our leadership, vision, and strategies to meet the evolving challenges and opportunities ahead,” Beard wrote in his lette

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 15, 2024

A Holy Cross University donor is suing the institution in an effort to recoup $21 million, alleging that the university delayed construction on a performing arts center and was not transparent in how it used his funds, The Boston Globe reported.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 15, 2024

Image by macrovector on Freepik In this blog post, Tessa Warinner, wellbeing adviser at the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, discusses ‘Burnout’ – a rising concern in academia. Tessa discusses what it feels like, its prevalence, impact, and signposts helpful resources for managing it. This post belongs to the Hot Topic theme: Critical insights into contemporary issues in Higher Education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 15, 2024

Jeremy T. Murphy outlines five ways to encourage them to shift their focus from the instructor to one another in whole class discussions. As an undergraduate, I took a seminar dedicated entirely to Ulysses by James Joyce. Joyce’s modernist novel is mystifying, so question marks hung on the ends of students’ contributions. As we delivered our tentative remarks, we looked to our professor at the head of the table.

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Higher Education Whisperer

AUGUST 15, 2024

Universities Australia has ramped up its "Universites Matter" campaign, with advertisements on broadcast TV. The advertisement depicts research helping Australian health and industry. There is no direct mention of recent government moves to restrict the numbers of international students, but clearly the campaign is being run in response.

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Missouri State

AUGUST 15, 2024

The Office of Student Conduct is thrilled to have all of you back on campus. With all the excitement of arriving or returning to campus, it’s important to be prepared. Alcohol and drug use are often depicted in the media as a vital part of college culture. In reality only 49% of college students aged 18-22 report consuming any alcohol in the past month (NSDUH, 2022).

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Gray Associates

AUGUST 15, 2024

Dual enrollment is rapidly expanding, with students aged 17 or younger now representing 10 percent of undergraduate enrollment, especially at community colleges. As this trend continues, institutions are navigating both opportunities and challenges in financial sustainability. Discover how states are embracing innovative funding models that prioritize equity and long-term success, helping turn this enrollment growth into sustainable revenue for institutions and positive outcomes for students.

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SRHE

AUGUST 15, 2024

by Lucy Cokes ‘Live briefs’ are used in Higher Education programmes, and I suggest that they can help promote equity and employability if they are used in very specific ways. The use of live briefs takes place not only in the creative industries, but also across more practical or core subjects in HE. and has many parallels with a wide range of other teaching tools.

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AIFS Abroad

AUGUST 15, 2024

Eager to step into the footsteps of a college student who is experiencing life in South Korea? We recently caught up with AIFS Abroad student McKailyn, a Secondary Math Education major with a minor in Spanish from Ball State University. She spent her summer break studying abroad in the capital city of Seoul on our program at Sogang University. Read on to learn more about her study abroad experience with AIFS Abroad and the impact of being an international student in Seoul.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

AUGUST 15, 2024

Hello SAAL Blog readers! Here is the next installment of our conversation series getting to know the leaders that make up this wonderful group of Student Affairs Assessment Leaders and learning from their personal stories. I joined the SAAL blog team after starting a new director role and, being new, I reached out to others who have been doing this work for a while.

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ISA Journal

AUGUST 15, 2024

As I have now concluded my study abroad term with ISA, I have been reflecting on the experience and just how special it truly was. Driving to work back in the States, I find myself reminiscing on the life I had just weeks ago, walking cobblestone streets and eating dinner at 8:30 p.m.

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University Business

AUGUST 15, 2024

Lackawanna College plans to merge with Philadelphia-based Peirce College to create the largest, private, nonprofit open-enrollment college in the state, the institutions announced jointly Wednesday. The merger, which will give both colleges increased presence and offerings, will result in Peirce taking Lackawanna College’s name in summer of 2026 as the two become a singular institution.

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Clark Nesxen

AUGUST 15, 2024

With an increasing amount of electric power vehicles and equipment entering the market, electric infrastructure has become a priority nationwide. In the following, Clark Nexsen energy market leader Stephen P. Wilson highlights how the firm is preparing federal government agencies and locations for an electric future. On December 8, 2021, President Biden signed Executive Order 14057: Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability.

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University Business

AUGUST 15, 2024

The American Association of University Professors announced on Monday the reversal of its 24-year-old stance opposing academic boycotts with a statement saying faculty members and students should be free to assess the specific circumstances of systematic academic boycotts and make their own choices regarding their participation in them. According to its new policy, AAUP said academic boycotts are not inherently violations of academic freedom and can instead be “legitimate tactical response

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

The ACLU of Florida has responded to allegations that the New College of Florida discreetly dumped hundreds of library books in a landfill. The act was brazen censorship that harkens back to when academic freedom is sacrificed on the altar of political expediency, asserted the ACLU of Florida, an affiliate of the nonprofit, nonpartisan American Civil Liberties Union.

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University Business

AUGUST 15, 2024

Nearly four months after Minouche Shafik’s shaky Congressional hearing on campus antisemitism, the Columbia University president has announced her immediate resignation, citing the “considerable toll” protests surrounding the Israel-Hamas war have taken on her and her family. “I have tried to navigate a path that upholds academic principles and treats everyone with fairness and compassion,” she wrote in a public statement. “It has been distressing—for the comm

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