Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. Dr. DB Poli This will make Roanoke College the first college in Virginia to offer a four-year degree in the field of cannabis studies, according to the school. Come this August, students will be able to declare either a major or a minor in cannabis studies.

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Great College Advice

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Deciding to study in the US is an exciting decision most students would want to make. Perhaps, it’s due to the plethora of opportunities that the American Education system offers. Today, in this guide, we’ll help you fully understand the college application in the US in 2024. We’ll be taking the help of crisp and sequential points to elucidate our findings better.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Dr. Lamont O. Repollet Kean University opened Black History Month announcing the creation of a new Center for Africana Studies. “This new center epitomizes the University’s commitment to equity and to serving our state, particularly our urban communities,” said Kean President Dr. Lamont O. Repollet. “All young people deserve to know their past. We are dedicated to establishing the best, most effective curriculum and programming to ensure they have a full understanding of history to help them sha

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

What’s Really at Stake When Colleges Lose Faculty of Color? Sarah Bray Fri, 02/02/2024 - 03:00 AM Top administrators must respond to increasingly pervasive legislation that hinders the recruitment, retention and vital work of those faculty members, writes Jackie Pedota.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The University of Texas System (UT System) has approved the creation of the Regents’ Research Excellence Program across its four Emerging Research Universities, including UT Arlington, UT Dallas, UT El Paso, and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). The UT System has allocated $55 million across the ERUs to fund the recruitment of research-active faculty to increase its national research prominence and federal funding opportunities.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Counseling Centers See a Rise in Traumatized Students Johanna Alonso Fri, 02/02/2024 - 03:00 AM Nearly half of all students who visit counseling centers report trauma. In response, colleges are changing the treatments and supports they offer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Wendy Pearson Wendy Pearson has been appointed vice president for strategic initiatives at Stony Brook University in New York. She served as the senior advisor to the provost at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Pearson holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Michigan State University and a master’s in Asian studies from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Drexel University, Jointly Appointed, History and Africana Studies, Drexel University Tenured: No Age: 42 Education: B.A., political science, University of California at Irvine; B.A., Asian American studies, University of California at Irvine; M.A., American studies and ethnicity, University of Southern California; and Ph.D., American studies and ethnicity, University of Southern California Career mentors: Dr.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The University of Kentucky is sitting on a cash cow. In October, the flagship land-grant university reached its colossal $2.1 billion fundraising goal , aided by contributions from over 162,000 donors across all 50 states and 50 countries. This past November, contractors began constructing a $380 million health education building approved by the Kentucky General Assembly.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Dr. Patrick Davis Sr. Patrick Davis Sr. has been appointed vice president of the Tennessee College of Applied Technology Jackson (Blue Oval City). Davis holds master’s degrees in instruction and curriculum design and in business administration-technology management from the University of Phoenix and a doctorate in educational leadership and policy analysis from East Tennessee State.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Learning Room: Building Trust in One-on-One Student Appointments Melissa Ezarik Fri, 02/02/2024 - 03:00 AM Effective campus support—academic or otherwise—involves the student trusting the staff member, the staff member trusting the student and the student having self-trust.

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Terminalfour

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

By practicing privacy-first marketing and capturing and using data ethically, you can create more personalized experiences and bolster your university’s brand and recruitment efforts. Here’s a brief update about the data privacy landscape and 3 tips for higher education marketing.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Temple University announced Thursday that it will cover tuition and fees for incoming full-time students from Philadelphia whose family income is $65,000 or less.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Move comes after accusations of lowering entry standards to foreign applicants who pay far higher tuition fees Vice-chancellors are to review international student admissions by British universities, including how to identify “bad practice” among agents employed to attract people from overseas, after controversy over recruitment. Universities UK, which represents university leaders, announced a series of reviews into the use of recruitment agents and international foundation programmes, as well

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The California State University Board of Trustees voted Wednesday to expand the system’s grant offerings to go beyond the cost of tuition and help students with the overall cost of attendance, EdSource reported.

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Roompact

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

What does the future of AI-based technology hold? We’re doing a little experiment, specifically with the AI chat-bot, ChatGPT. This post is part of a series where we ask ChatGPT interesting, unusual, or just plain fun questions related to residence life and college student housing. All answers were generated by the AI. At the end.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Colleges employed 3.9 million people in 2022, up 1.75 percent from 2020 but still down from more than four million in 2019. Community college employee rolls have continued to shrink. And the gains have come despite the fact that community college workforces have continued to shrink, dropping by more than 4 percent over all since 2020 and by nearly 6 percent among instructors.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

An Oregon university announced they will abandon failing letter grades, citing a “GPA fixation” that negatively impacts students. Western Oregon University issued a news release earlier this month that revealed the school would be replacing “D-” and “F” grades with “no credit” to discourage undergrads from dropping out.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

When struggling Bloomfield College was absorbed by Montclair State University in 2022, officials announced Bloomfield would keep its Division II athletics programs, at least temporarily.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

"It’s been busier and there’s been a lot more adults coming," Rodriguez said. That's due, in part, to a new state program called MassReconnect, which covers community college tuition and fees for residents 25 and older who don't have a college degree and enroll in at least six credits per semester in an approved program of study. The program, which launched last August as part of a state initiative to make college more affordable, has boosted interest in the state's 15 community colleges, accord

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PUC

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Sophomore pre-nursing student Cindy Roy is from Stockton, CA, who grew up in an Adventist family and community. She moved to California three years ago with her family and was looking for an Adventist college to attend and found PUC. After visiting the campus last year, she liked everything about the college- especially its beauty.

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Missouri State

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Hello Bears! I hope you had a wonderful first couple weeks of classes for the Spring 2024 semester. On behalf of the Office of Student Conduct, happy February! There are a lot of fun things happening this month, and we are excited to share them with you and hope you can utilize this blog as a guide to tackle February and the rest of the semester. You have now finished the first three weeks of the semester, and I’m sure you’re getting into the hang of things.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Clayton Justice said he answered a job listing that appeared to have been posted by a Drexel University professor in October. It offered a paid internship as a research assistant. The internship offer was supposedly being run by Drexel University Economics Professor Dr. Marco Airaudo. The Federal Trade Commissioner offered these tips when accepting offers to work from home, but the biggest item is: never send money supposedly given to you as an overpayment back unless it was from a proven and tr

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The Student Affairs Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Dear Students, As you get settled into the fall semester, we want to share some information regarding expressive activity on campus. VCU is a very diverse community with a host of differing viewpoints reflecting each of our personal lenses through which we see, and experience, the world. This diversity of viewpoint and opinion is a tremendous asset to our community.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Students applying to Indiana University, the state’s flagship school , don’t have to submit standardized test scores to be considered for admission. But they still have to take the SAT in high school. That is because Indiana started using the College Board’s SAT in spring 2022 as its way of measuring school quality under federal education law. Among its reasons: The SAT is nationally recognized, fairly short and—until recently—widely used in college admissions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Today on the Academic Minute: Deogratias Eustace, professor and director of graduate studies at the University of Dayton, examines how traffic circles can make a big difference for drivers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Dr. Timothy K. Eatman Six new directors and board officers were elected during the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) in Washington, D.C. Dr. Timothy K. Eatman was elected chair of AAC&U’s board of directors, where Dr. Mary Ann Villarreal will serve as past chair. Villarreal is vice president for equity, diversity, and inclusion at the University of Utah, and Eatman is the inaugural dean of the Honors Living-Learning Community and Profess

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This week’s episode of the Syllabus podcast, from the Office of Open Learning at American Jewish University and Inside Higher Ed, features a conversation with Neil H. Buchanan, an economist and legal scholar who decided to leave his job at the University of Florida.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

by Kai Syng Tan It’s nearly Valentine’s, and I’m looking for love. Don’t be silly, you scoff. Love doesn’t exist. Silly Lovers Silly, then, for one Paulo Freire (1921-1997) to claim education as an act of love. Evoking the four-letter word no fewer than fifty times in the English translation of his Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970) the Brazilian educator and philosopher links love with solidarity, humanisation and liberation, to clarify education’s mission as building a world where it is easier t

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

‘Excuse After Excuse’: Republicans Slam Biden for FAFSA Launch Katherine Knott Fri, 02/02/2024 - 03:00 AM GOP senators say officials prioritized debt relief over rollout of the new aid application. The GAO will investigate what went wrong.

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