Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 24, 2024
Dr. Daniel Black’s 15-minute speech, which he delivered to Clark Atlanta University (CAU) graduates last weekend quickly spread like a wildfire across social media. Black, a CAU graduate who has taught English and African American Studies at the historically Black institution for the past 30 years, was surprised when he was asked to deliver the address.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MAY 24, 2024
Five Takeaways From the UCLA, Northwestern, Rutgers Antisemitism Hearing Katherine Knott Fri, 05/24/2024 - 03:00 AM Republicans sharply criticized Northwestern, but didn’t land any knock-out blows. UCLA avoided tough scrutiny. And this time, Democrats and faculty members went on the offensive.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 24, 2024
UNC System President Peter Hans Diversity programs at several universities in North Carolina will be subject to critique of their institutional neutrality this fall. That is according to the May 23 vote by the Board of Governors for the University of North Carolina System to repeal and replace its existing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policy , likely effecting diversity programs at the system’s 17 institutions.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MAY 24, 2024
Lawmakers Sought to Mandate Class on Founding Documents. What Were Professors to Do? Ryan Quinn Fri, 05/24/2024 - 03:00 AM Conservative groups are pushing civics requirements in higher education, not just K-12. In North Carolina, undergraduates now must study the founding documents. Will other states follow?
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 24, 2024
Charlie Baker The NCAA joined five conferences in a nearly $2.8 billion settlement proposed to cover damages to former and current student-athletes who claimed now-defunct NCAA rules prevented them from earning endorsement money. The move could create an avenue for college athletes to seek compensation more like professionals, whereby college and university athletics programs would compete in a marketplace for talent.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MAY 24, 2024
The University of North Carolina System Board of Governors voted on Thursday morning to eliminate a policy requiring diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices, and to ask individual campus chancellors to cut positions and spending on DEI.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 24, 2024
Dr. Padonda B. Webb Padonda B. Webb has been appointed assistant vice chancellor of Health and Wellness in North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s Division of Student Affairs. She served as executive director of the Dr. Alvin V. Blount Jr. Student Health Center. Webb holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from A&T, a master’s in nursing from Winston-Salem State University, and a DNP from the University of South Alabama-Mobile.
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University Business
MAY 24, 2024
A three-year bachelor’s degree program may have never looked more plausible than in 2024. Several colleges are concluding their first official term this spring or launching this fall and many more are in the middle of small-cohort pilot programs. The catalyst? College leaders are slowly gaining confidence to challenge the centuries-old maxim of a 120-credit baccalaureate program. “It’s the fear of the unknown,” says Sonny Ramaswamy, president of the Northwest Commission o
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MAY 24, 2024
More than three-quarters of researchers use some form of artificial intelligence (AI) tool in their research, despite having concerns about data security, intellectual property rights and AI’s effectiveness, a new report finds. An Oxford University Press (OUP) survey released Thursday found that 76 percent of the 2,345 respondents use an AI tool when conducting their own research.
University Business
MAY 24, 2024
Operating as a smaller marketing team in higher education doesn’t mean expectations or responsibilities are scaled down. If anything, a small marketing team often faces greater challenges when it comes to keeping pace, whether that means budgets, staffing or technology resources. For this reason, it’s imperative that the team’s time and energy stay laser-focused on the things that will provide the largest return on investment and drive the institution forward.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MAY 24, 2024
Campus Leaders Stand Their Ground Before Congress Josh Moody Fri, 05/24/2024 - 03:00 AM In previous hearings, presidents equivocated on moral questions or were accused of throwing faculty under the bus. This time, leaders pushed back against lawmakers.
The Guardian Higher Education
MAY 24, 2024
Labour leader says ‘we can’t have both’ given state of economy but system of university funding must change UK politics live – latest updates Keir Starmer has said he abandoned his pledge to abolish tuition fees in order to prioritise tackling NHS waiting lists. The Labour leader said he still believes the system of university tuition has “got to change”, but insisted the party could not fulfil both pledges given the state of the British economy.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MAY 24, 2024
Tutor.com Faces Scrutiny Over Data Privacy Concerns Lauren.Coffey@… Fri, 05/24/2024 - 03:00 AM A Senate committee is investigating the Chinese-owned company.
College Forward
MAY 24, 2024
On Saturday, May 18, 2024, the College Possible Minnesota team gathered together on the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus to celebrate high school juniors and graduating high school seniors participating in our program. Our Launch! event is an important opportunity for our College Possible Minnesota students, coaches, and staff to come together as a community and celebrate their accomplishments from the academic year.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MAY 24, 2024
The California State University System recently indicated that it has no direct ownership of stocks or bonds in companies based in Israel but has minimal indirect holdings there through mutual funds, EdSource reported. System administrators do not plan to alter these investments, despite calls from pro-Palestinian faculty members and students to do so.
University Business
MAY 24, 2024
Delaware College of Art and Design announced it will be “winding down operations in the coming weeks” — then closing permanently. DCAD shared the announcement in a press release Thursday, confirming it will not be offering any classes or awarding degrees for the 2024-25 academic year. The college’s announcement came just over a week after the Class of 2024 commencement, following nearly 30 years of operation in Wilmington.
Higher Education Whisperer
MAY 24, 2024
Greetings from the Australian Computer Society (ACS), Canberra Branch Hub, where I am taking part in an ACS Professional Standards Board meeting. ACS sets the standards for the education of computer professionals in Australia, and in conjunction with sister societies, world wide. In the usual bureaucratic processes of being on any committee, it is easy to forget how important the work is.
University Business
MAY 24, 2024
The meme was an image of a head with “I need to get rich” slapped across it. “Freshmen after spending 0.02 seconds on campus,” read the caption, posted in 2023 to the anonymous messaging app Sidechat. The campus in question was Harvard, where, at a wood-paneled dining hall last year, two juniors explained how to assess a fellow undergraduate’s earning potential.
The Guardian Higher Education
MAY 24, 2024
The real purpose of this nasty political farce is to pressure US universities to crack down on criticism of Israel If you didn’t know what was really going on at US college campuses, the congressional hearing on Thursday – in which the presidents of Northwestern and Rutger’s and the chancellor of UCLA were called to testify before a Republican-controlled House committee – would do little to inform you.
University Business
MAY 24, 2024
Transformative financial donations don’t come along often in higher education. So when a donor promised a $237.75 million gift to Florida A&M University, school officials were understandably excited. The donor was Gregory Gerami, a 30-year-old businessman from Texas who said he wanted to make sure the historically Black school’s windfall would help students who needed the money most.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MAY 24, 2024
The amateur era in big-time collegiate athletics, long in decline and increasingly dated, is officially dead. Or at least it will be if a federal judge, as expected, approves a multi-billion-dollar agreement to resolve antitrust lawsuits challenging limitations on compensation for athletes in the country’s most powerful sports leagues.
Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)
MAY 24, 2024
Hello SAAL Blog readers! Here is the next installment of our conversation series getting to know the individuals 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 role as the Director of Assessment, Data Analytics, and Research at the University of Delaware.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MAY 24, 2024
Members of the American Sociological Association (ASA) have passed a resolution calling “for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza” and supporting “members’ academic freedom, including but not limited to defending scholars’ right to speak out against Zionist occupation.
The Guardian Higher Education
MAY 24, 2024
Shruthi Kumar gives unscripted condemnation of university after 13 students barred from graduation over involvement in protests A graduating Harvard University student went off script and upbraided Harvard over the university’s treatment of students protesting against what they say is a genocide being carried out by Israel in Gaza. “As I stand here today, I must take a moment to recognize my peers – the 13 undergraduates in the class of 2024 that will not graduate today,” said student Shruthi Ku
University Business
MAY 24, 2024
The looming athlete pay system that will upend the traditional college sports model and still-to-be-determined details about how millions of dollars will be distributed are certain to bring questions about gender equity. Of special interest will be whether schools must comply with Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in any school or education program that receives federal funds.
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