Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

In some ways, 2020 seemed like it would be a watershed year for diversity officers. Given the spate of high-profile murders of Black Americans, we witnessed a surge of national empathy. In a short span of time, many college and university leaders within predominantly white institutions (PWIs) rushed to support DEI initiatives. Perhaps you recall the riotous clamor for “courageous” or “fierce conversations” — basically, a hunger for “real talk” about the perils of white supremacy and anti-Blackne

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 23, 2024

Rosemary Admiral writes that her sense of belonging at her institution has been shattered. What does it mean to be charged with criminal trespassing on a campus where you work, teach, socialize, pray and generally spend way too much time?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has announced steps it will take to comply with Senate Bill 129 affecting diversity, equity and inclusion programming on University of Alabama System campuses. Dr. Ray L. Watts The bill bans, among several prohibitions, certain public entities from maintaining diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and from sponsoring diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 23, 2024

GOP lawmakers, governors or boards in eight states have mandated new university centers focused on civics and “classical liberal education.” Critics call them beachheads for the ideological right. Florida’s creation appears to be the largest yet. In the summer of 2022, Florida newspapers reported on the strange appearance of $3 million in one-time funds from Florida’s GOP-controlled state Legislature for something called the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civics Education at the University of

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

Dr. Dwight A. McBride, who is currently a senior advisor to the chancellor and the Gerald Early Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been appointed executive director of the school's Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2). CRE2 was established in 2020 to bring the research force of WashU to study how race and ethnicity are integral to the most complex and challenging issues of the time.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 23, 2024

A new survey shows 70 percent of graduates think generative AI should be incorporated into courses. More than half said they felt unprepared for the workforce. A majority of college graduates believe generative artificial intelligence tools should be incorporated into college classrooms, with more than half saying they felt unprepared for the workforce, according to a new survey from Cengage Group, an education-technology company.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

Poe Hall, the education and psychology building at NC State, was found to be contaminated with cancer-causing PCBs. After months of delay, an independent access agreement between North Carolina State University and law firms representing sick clients will allow independent testing to be conducted within Poe Hall to determine the levels and kinds of PCBs present in building materials that may have caused former workers and students to become ill.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

Dr. Timothy Beard has been named interim president of Florida A&M University. He previously served as president of Pasco-Hernando State College, where he also worked as vice president of student development and enrollment management. Dr. Timothy Beard He is expected to assume the position Aug. 5, pending contract negotiations. The move follows the resignation of Dr.

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Roompact

JULY 23, 2024

~ Blog Posts Written By RAs for RAs ~ The thought of a looming crisis can be daunting for any RA or student staff member. We all know that all-too-familiar sinking feeling as the duty phone starts ringing. No matter how confident one might be before an incident, in an emergency, having a clear-cut plan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

Ruben Puente Ruben Puente has been appointed chief of public safety and security at Dallas College in Texas. He served as assistant director of police for the University of Texas System. Puente, a certified court mediator, holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from the University of Texas at Arlington, a Master of Liberal Arts from Southern Methodist University, and a Master of Professional Development in criminal justice from Dallas Baptist University.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 23, 2024

Erin Marie Furtak has found that asking herself three questions has helped her transition not just out of the academic year but also back into the fall term. I began the summer after my first year as an assistant professor having written almost nothing. As the constraints of the semester fell away, a wide expanse of time stretched before me to catch up on everything I hadn’t done in the past months.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

Seventy-three percent of graduates now believe their education is worth the cost, according to a survey in the 2024 Cengage Group Employability Report. This compares to 52% in 2023, 68% in 2022, and 56% in 2021. Michael Hansen “Our 2024 Employability Report reveals post-secondary education is experiencing a pivotal moment,” said Cengage Group CEO Michael Hansen.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 23, 2024

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has replaced its student-run honor court with a staff “conduct board” that will now rule on student conduct violations, The News and Observer reported Monday.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

Dr. Tangelia Kelly Tangelia Kelly has been named interim executive director of university communications at Jackson State University. She served as the director of marketing. Kelly holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Jackson State, an MBA from Belhaven University, and a Ph.D. in educational administration and supervision, also from Jackson State.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 23, 2024

An arbitration committee restored Saint Augustine’s University’s accreditation on Monday, reversing an earlier decision by its accreditor, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges—a development that the university called “a triumph.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

The City University of New York (CUNY) is responding to allegations it failed to honor an agreement to build a new community college facility with monies donated by The Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation. The New York-based foundation has filed a lawsuit claiming CUNY did not fulfill its part of an agreement to use the charity’s $25 million donation from 2013 to build a new community college campus, reports the Gothamist.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 23, 2024

North Dakota’s Dickinson State University has reached a collaborative agreement with Mayville State University to help save its troubled nursing program, The Dickinson Press reported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

Former University of Florida President Dr. Kent Fuchs has agreed to serve as its interim president while the university’s board of trustees launches its national search for President Ben Sasse’s successor. Sasse resigned July 18 to focus on taking care of his family after his wife was diagnosed with epilepsy. Dr. Kent Fuchs “My wish is only to be of service to the university.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 23, 2024

In this episode of Changing Higher Ed, Dr. Drumm McNaughton welcomes Stephanie Craig, President of Kith crisis preparation, response, and recovery firm, to discuss essential strategies for crisis management and communication in higher education. Podcast Overview: • Insights into the unique challenges facing higher education institutions in crisis management, including complex stakeholder environments and rapid information spread. • Strategies for building crisis management muscle using the PIP2

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

A reader who was a university programme director responds to the news that personal statements are to be scrapped Re your article ( Farewell, Ucas personal statements: I won’t miss your hackneyed, cliche-ridden prose, 20 July ), while I was the director of an interdisciplinary (combined honours) programme at a Russell Group university, the most common question I received at pre-application open days was: “How should I write my personal statement if I am applying for both single- and joint-honour

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 23, 2024

An apprenticeship initiative at West Virginia University has shown success at retaining learners of all backgrounds. Undergraduate research opportunities can help students identify their passions and see themselves as academics and researchers while enrolled in their bachelor’s degree programs.

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Higher Education Whisperer

JULY 23, 2024

Greetings from Tech in Government 2024 in Canberra. The most interesting product on the exhibition floor is a folding LED screen on wheels being demonstrated by Mark Lazare from Viewsonic. This is designed to fit through an ordinary doorway and then he unfolded. The joins don't show at all when unfolded.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 23, 2024

Are you running a search at the intersection of learning, technology and institutional change? The Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation at the University System of Maryland is searching for a new associate director. See the position description here—and note the July 31 deadline for best consideration of applications.

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University Business

JULY 23, 2024

Register Now Date & Time: Thursday, August 1 at 12 pm ET A transformation is happening on campuses across the nation, as students, faculty and staff are interacting with their institutions in very different ways than in the past. Institutions can take advantage of new modern access control and digital ID technologies to enable all stakeholders to work, live and play across campus seamlessly and conveniently.

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ISA Journal

JULY 23, 2024

So many of the foods from my study abroad in Sevilla have come to hold such sweet memories for me this summer, whether it was getting fed endless tapas by local Spanish friends, eating a grilled cuttlefish in Cadíz, or trying the incredible pastéis de nata on the Portuguese coast.

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University Business

JULY 23, 2024

Global rankings authority U.S. News & World Report on Tuesday published its list of the 2024 Best Medical Schools , but you won’t find where your institution ranks anywhere on the report. Instead, the news organization organized institutions into tiers because of insufficient data. Nearly 20% of the top 100 medical schools in both research and primary care declined to participate in the statistical survey or submitted a survey that lacked key data, according to U.S.

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Campus Sonar

JULY 23, 2024

This spring, we hosted virtual roundtables that brought more than 300 higher ed professionals together to discuss the value of a college degree, innovative strategic planning, and growing graduate enrollment. No matter the topic, the common thread was rebuilding trust in higher education. Here's what we heard. Lead with Transparency Building transparency and trust with your audiences is done by actively addressing your campus pain points, perceived weaknesses, and barriers.

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University Business

JULY 23, 2024

Aaron Kuecker has witnessed a palpable shift in how students have changed during his 16 years at Trinity Christian College. Since becoming the permanent president last year, the former dean, professor and provost of the Illinois-based liberal arts school has been talking about some of the pain points that everyone involved in higher education—from policymakers to students—is currently concerned with: affordability, student well-being and career preparation. “So much feels different, from t

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

To mark the end of the personal statement for university applications in Britain, we would like to see your old ones The Ucas personal statement has long been a dreaded stage in the university application process for teenagers. But from next year, the 4,000 character statement will be replaced by a set of questions on why students want to study their chosen subject and how they are prepared.

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University Business

JULY 23, 2024

Markese Trèjion Seaborn is set to begin classes at Minnesota North College in Hibbing next month, and he’s still waiting to find out how much he’ll have to pay. “I’m sort of just wandering in the dark, just waiting, checking my email every day,” said Seaborn, 18, of Minneapolis. Like thousands of other students in Minnesota and across the country, Seaborn is caught in the middle of an especially chaotic college admissions cycle.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 23, 2024

She could become the first HBCU graduate in the Oval Office—and would likely build on the Biden administration’s ambitious higher ed agenda. President Biden’s decision Sunday to drop his re-election bid cleared the way for Vice President Kamala Harris to take his place at the top of the ticket.

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University Business

JULY 23, 2024

As Republican lawmakers target college diversity efforts and Democrats bemoan high tuition costs and advocate for student loan forgiveness, higher education has become increasingly politicized. These issues matter to young voters, which makes their opinions about them important to both parties. I went to the Republican National Convention last week on a mission to talk to students and young voters about how their experiences in higher education have shaped their political beliefs, and vice versa

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University Business

JULY 23, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris quickly emerged as the most likely Democratic nominee for president, securing dozens of endorsements within hours of President Joe Biden announcing he would end his reelection campaign. If Harris becomes the nominee, she’ll face a Republican opponent in former President Donald Trump who has promised to cut federal funding for schools that teach “inappropriate” lessons on race, gender, and politics, and to roll back protections for gay and transgender students.

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