Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 8, 2024

Dr. Dwayne Lee Pinkney Dwayne Lee Pinkney has been appointed executive senior vice chancellor for administration and finance and chief financial officer at the University of Pittsburgh. He served as executive vice president for finance and administration at Indiana University. Pinkney holds a bachelor’s degree in English and journalism from North Carolina A&T State University, an MPA from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 8, 2024

Recent Student Voice data from Inside Higher Ed and Generation Lab finds two in five college students say stress or mental health is impacting their academics a great deal, and they want help from their institutions to take the pressure off. To be a college student in 2024 is to be surrounded by stressful events, ranging from personal matters—juggling work, family responsibilities and financial obligations—to unprecedented global phenomena, political turmoil and a constant stream of digital info

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Symplicity

AUGUST 8, 2024

In a recent study conducted by Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) , significant insights emerged about the future landscape of good jobs and the role of four-year degrees in securing them by 2031. For career services professionals, understanding these trends is crucial in guiding students towards successful career paths.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 8, 2024

Community colleges spent much of their federal COVID-19 relief funds on student supports, technology and infrastructure. Now those funds are drying up, and colleges are wondering what’s next. East Central College, a rural community college in Missouri, had HVAC units that were nearing two decades old, years past when they should have been replaced. Then the pandemic hit.

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University Business

AUGUST 8, 2024

The Department of Education announced Thursday that the Simplified FAFSA form for the 2025-26 academic year will be widely available on or before Dec. 1, foregoing its traditional October start for a second year in a row, according to a statement. A limited set of students and institutions will be granted entry beginning on Oct. 1 through a phased rollout, allowing the Office of Federal Student Aid to resolve any system errors that might arise before its official release.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 8, 2024

By pushing back the form’s mass release to Dec. 1, the department is hoping to avoid the technical issues that plagued this year’s application. The Education Department will release the 2025–26 Free Application for Federal Student Aid on Oct. 1 as planned, but only for a limited number of students and institutions, who will test the form and provide feedback.

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CIP

AUGUST 8, 2024

Having a roommate can be one of the best experiences for every young adult as they transition toward independence. With all of the fun and excitement that comes with living with someone else, there are always some additional challenges when two people live together, especially for those on the autism spectrum or with a learning difference.

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The Guardian Higher Education

AUGUST 8, 2024

Home Office figures show 15% fewer sponsored student visa applications were received in July The financial pressures facing universities continue to mount after the latest immigration figures showed a sharp fall in the number of international applicants wanting to study in the UK. The Home Office’s initial figures for July found that about 15% fewer sponsored student visa applications were received last month, continuing the downward trend seen since the start of the year and following the previ

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 8, 2024

Nearly 60 percent of college students in New Mexico experienced food insecurity in the 2022–23 academic year, while 62 percent were housing insecure, according to a statewide study that included nearly all of the state’s institutions of higher education.

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University Business

AUGUST 8, 2024

Tim Walz, current Minnesota governor and Kamala Harris’ running mate, took little time to praise those who have advanced access and affordability in higher ed. In his opening remarks to a packed crowd in Temple University’s basketball arena, he commended fellow Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who is working on a multifaceted initiative to rework the state’s higher education system and drive down costs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 8, 2024

Some universities are knocking down aging facilities and redesigning campuses for fewer students with different needs than past generations. As colleges across the nation grapple with declining enrollment, many are simultaneously dealing with aging infrastructure and costly maintenance issues that are often deferred for years. Some institutions, particularly those battered by enrollment losses, find themselves with more physical space than they need to teach and house a shrinking number of stude

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The Humphrey Group

AUGUST 8, 2024

As a coach with The Humphrey Group for a decade, storytelling has significantly shaped my life – and my understanding of leadership. My academic pursuits, travel, and even my current role in the non-profit sector have all been punctuated by the compelling stories of the people I’ve met and places I’ve explored.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 8, 2024

Pandemic-related caregiving burdens and health concerns have played a particularly large role, write Shuyin Liu, Dessie Clark, Laurel Smith-Doerr and Joya Misra. Teaching classes on Zoom while entertaining a toddler who loudly asks for a snack. Finishing a grant submission after preparing dinner for an aging parent while worrying about running out of masks.

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Higher Education Inquirer

AUGUST 8, 2024

Over the course of our tenure at the Higher Education Inquirer, we have discovered that the US political economy and the higher education system that serves it is in a state of dysfunction-that the situation is worsening--and that there is some resistance. This is not just a belief, but something that can be objectively measured, whether its child poverty, student loan debt, mental illness and suicide, union busting, social inequality, life expectancy, or global climate chaos.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 8, 2024

Jim Harbaugh would be suspended for a year and could have his duties severely limited for up to four years if he sought to return to coaching football in college, under penalties imposed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association on Wednesday.

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Roompact

AUGUST 8, 2024

August is here, and for most of us, that means it is RA training time! If you are a returning RA, hopefully coming back to campus and continuing your role excites you. However, for many returning RAs, the thought of sitting through training for a job you have already done is gruesome. You may be.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 8, 2024

It’s a political problem with a likely political solution. There are a number of recent stories about political acts that are direct attacks on how higher ed institutions operate that have me worried because they lack contemporary precedent.

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ISA Journal

AUGUST 8, 2024

As of today, I have spent nearly two months in Costa Rica. Reflecting on my time here, there have been many successes—some smaller than others, but successes nonetheless. I have faced challenges and achieved successes both during my first month taking classes at Universidad Veritas and with my service-learning organization, Parque La Libertad.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 8, 2024

How and why curiosity shifted from vice to virtue—and what colleges can do to drive it. Many of Western society’s urtexts treat curiosity as a sinful transgression and a threat to social order and divine authority.

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University Business

AUGUST 8, 2024

The role of sports agents was different when the Gophers hired Ben Johnson as men’s basketball coach in 2021 — just before name, image and likeness (NIL) rules were approved by the NCAA. Agents primarily inhabited the pro sports world then. Three years later, there’s a new, much more profitable landscape for college athletes. More money means more agents, specifically now dealing with NIL opportunities.

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Experiential Learning Depot

AUGUST 8, 2024

I have had many people reach out over the past few months asking about experiential learning in k-12 classrooms. What is experiential learning? What is an example of experiential learning? Where can I get experiential learning activities? How do you use experiential learning in the classroom? I have even had educators reach out that are in the process of starting experiential schools.

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University Business

AUGUST 8, 2024

A former college baseball player is suing the NCAA and power conferences, accusing the leagues of wage fixing through scholarship limits. The federal antitrust cases was filed in Colorado this week by former TCU baseball player Riley Cornelio and seeks class-action status for college baseball and hockey players. “Defendant and its members operate as a cartel, and the capping of scholarship money at artificially low levels in these sports results in wage fixing amongst horizontal competitors in a

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 8, 2024

The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee’s proposal to ax its entire College of General Studies has faculty members wondering: What precedent will be set by the university actually using the power Republicans gave it? Nearly a decade ago, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker and Republican legislators alarmed faculty members across the country when they removed tenure protections from state law.

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