Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Born in Grinnell, Iowa, Edith Renfrow Smith graduated from Grinnell College in 1937 and was the only Black student on campus during the 4.5 years that she attended the small, private liberal arts college. At 110 years old, she is the college’s first Black alumna and the oldest living graduate of the institution. This week, Grinnell will dedicate and name its newest residence hall in honor of Renfrow Smith, recognizing her legacy, life, and commitment to community, education, and equity.

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Great College Advice

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

How will you write your Common App essay about a belief or idea? The Common Application prompts give you a chance to answer an interesting question, tell an important or revealing anecdote, and reflect on the ways in which the anecdote reveals something about your character, your beliefs, your values, or your personal priorities. Prompt #3, especially, focuses on the beliefs that are fundamental to who you are.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Graduate degrees can offer a chance at high-income careers, but the rising costs of attendance have increasingly led to unequal outcomes, with many, particularly minoritized populations, swimming in debt years after graduation. That’s why researchers at the Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) at Georgetown University have released a new report, " Graduate Degrees: Risky and Unequal Paths to the Top.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Students are turning to YouTube, podcasts and ChatGPT-crafted summaries rather than actually reading their assignments for class. Professors are unsure how to adapt. Ava Wherley likes to read—especially thrillers. She rarely reads nonfiction, but when she does, she prefers suspenseful tales of true crime. Reading for school is another matter. Wherley, a sophomore biology major at the University of Florida, is assigned about 100 pages of reading a week for three classes—most of which she skips in

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The Leadership Conference Education Fund has released a policy that offers recommendations at the federal, state, and institutional levels to ensure equal opportunity in higher education. “ We Shall Not be Moved: A Policy Agenda to Achieve the National Imperative of Racial Equity and Diversity in Higher Education ” has been endorsed by a number of civil rights organizations including the NAACP, National Urban League, National Women’s Law Center, and the Center for Law and Social Policy.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

While the IT needs of college campuses are always changing, it seems that the number of different requirements that students, faculty and researchers have has increased exponentially over the past five years. One of the major changes to how universities use data is artificial intelligence. AI-based tools used by researchers and students require large pools of data to analyze, as well as processing power and storage for the resulting data.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

A new study indicates that nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of public high school counselors say that fewer of their students plan to attend college now compared to four years ago. Only 13 percent of counselors at private high schools noted a similar change in their students’ plans. Could there be a correlation between the workload of counselors and the students they serve?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

A federal district judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by Daymon Johnson, a Bakersfield College history professor, against his college and community college district in which he alleged systemwide rules to ensure employees uphold diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility values chilled his free speech.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Moderate and severe depressive symptoms among college have declined, and the share of students showing signs of positive mental health has increased for two consecutive years. That’s according to the newest study from The Healthy Minds Network , an interdisciplinary team of scholars associated with the University of Michigan and Boston University who surveyed over 100,000 students at nearly 200 colleges last academic year.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The state of the art of generative artificial intelligence is changing at lightning speed. Advances come by the hour, not just by the day. How might this play out in higher ed? As senior fellow at UPCEA, the online and professional education association, and professor emeritus from the University of Illinois Springfield, I am fortunate to devote recent efforts to track, analyze and project the impact of technologies in higher education.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Fifteen years ago, the Obama administration and philanthropic foundations encouraged more Americans to get a college degree. Remedial classes were a big barrier. Two-thirds of community college students and 40% of four-year college students weren’t academically prepared for college-level work and were forced to take prerequisite “developmental” courses that didn’t earn them college credits.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

They can be used for promoting communication, collaboration and growth within research groups, write Jacob J. Ryder, C. K. Gunsalus, Elizabeth A. Luckman, Jacob A. Brown, Nicholas C. Burbules and Julia Briskin. Earlier this year, the National Science Foundation expanded its mentoring requirements so they apply not only to the postdocs it funds but also graduate students, specifically requiring that they each create an individual development plan (IDP).

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Paradigm IQ

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

When we feel confident that we belong at work, we perform better. And research shows that with a few key practices, we can significantly increase our colleagues' certainty that they belong at work, which in turn improves performance. Why does confidence that we belong at work matter s.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The Washington governor’s office wants to claw back $28.5 million from community colleges during next year’s legislative session—a move that colleges warn could lead to layoffs.

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Higher Education Inquirer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In Wealth and Want Part 1 we briefly mentioned the origins of university wealth, including land theft and the use of forced labor. The origins of elite universities and large flagship universities in the 17th through 19th centuries came largely from the exploitation of others and of the environment. This exploitation continued, and continues today, not just through their endowments, but in the land that universities continue to take for their advantage, often at the expense of their neighbors.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

A crisis communications expert discusses the state of higher ed, last spring’s protests and what administrators can do to prepare for potential unrest ahead. Classes are back in session on most college campuses, and many administrators are steeling themselves for what could be another tumultuous term.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

A flood of college rankings has hit higher ed over the last several months, with varying degrees of acceptance or rejection. It’s more of the latter emotion for one sector of higher ed—admissions officers, according to a survey by educational services provider Kaplan. On the heels of the release of U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 Best College, Kaplan’s survey of about 240 admissions officers from highly-ranked institutions found that 75% believe such listings have “lost so

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The Howard Community College board is pushing back against calls to remove President Daria J. Willis in response to anonymous online message board comments criticizing her, The Baltimore Banner reported.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Many students start community college with the hope of getting an associate degree and then transferring to a four-year institution, such as a California State University or University of California campus. But a state audit, released today , found that the vast majority of these students never accomplish their goal. “Only about 1 in 5 students who began community college from 2017 to 2019 and intended to transfer did so within four years,” the audit states.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Now, I try to be amused, but it’s not working.

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Terminalfour

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This week, we run through our top 10 how-to guides over the last decade in digital marketing in higher education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The Universities of Wisconsin system released enrollment numbers for its branch campuses Monday, reversing officials’ initial decision to release only university-level enrollment data.

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NACADA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Volunteering at the 2024 NACADA Annual Conference is a great way to get involved in the association, meet new people, and serve our academic advising community. If you are looking for a way to learn more about NACADA, this is it – whether you are attending for the first time or have been to many events in the past – we need YOU! You can choose to be involved in the way that fits your interests, time availability, and comfort level.

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The Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Becky Tugman , Clemson University Keywords: Accessibility, Inclusion, Zoom Key Statement: Daily Zoom usage in an in-person class benefits both students and the professor by increasing student accessibility and creating a reference of the course material. Introduction During the pandemic, many instructors were forced to use Zoom to allow for social distancing and remote learning.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

A British Cornell University grad student says he’s been suspended a second time for his activism and told by a university official he may need to “depart the U.S.” As the anniversary of the Oct. 7 breakout of war nears, pro-Palestine demonstrations—and crackdowns on them—have continued on U.S. campuses. All along, the student protesters who aren’t U.S. citizens have had an additional threat hanging over them: For those on F-1 student visas, university suspensions can lead to deportation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Former President Barack Obama said it at the Democratic Convention in August. Vice President Kamala Harris has been saying it in her recent speeches. And in a speech to the Economic Club of Washington last Thursday, while extolling his initiatives to bring chip manufacturing back to the United States, President Joe Biden described building new massive factories (“fabs”) “bigger than football fields” employing thousands of workers in jobs paying “over $100,000”, and he said with passion and e

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