Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 1, 2024

In a few short weeks, fall term will be upon us and millions of students will flood classrooms. While their past transcripts, test scores, and applications indicate something about who they are and how they are doing, the truth is that we won’t know much about their lives without asking better questions. If one thing’s certain these days, it’s that we are constantly changing with the world around us.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 1, 2024

Preparing students for the future means thinking deeply about the questions new technologies raise. Writing here at Inside Higher Ed, Ray Schroeder argues that “it is our urgent responsibility to teach students how to use [AI] in their discipline.” I agree, but I also found the proposal for what we’re supposed to do following the opening call to arms rather murky and feel like some of the claims about the future of the workplace and higher education’s role in preparing students for those jobs co

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 1, 2024

Mel Tucker Mel Tucker, the former Michigan State University football coach, has filed a lawsuit alleging he was wrongfully terminated from the university last year. MSU's Interim President Dr. Teresa Woodruff, Athletic Director Alan Haller, the school’s eight trustees, and its general counsel, Brian Quinn were named as defendants. The lawsuit claims the university violated his constitutional rights after he was accused of sexual harassment.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 1, 2024

After months of discussion, St. Ambrose and Mount Mercy will join forces, hoping to capitalize on respective strengths. Eighteen months after a handful of Roman Catholic college presidents in Iowa gathered to talk about possible greater collaboration, two of those institutions—St. Ambrose University and Mount Mercy University—announced today that they will merge.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 1, 2024

University of California President Dr. Michael V. Drake plans to step down from university system leadership at the end of the 2024-25 academic year. Dr. Michael V. Drake Elena Zhukova/University of California “It has been the honor of a lifetime to serve as president of the University of California these past several years, and I am immensely proud of what the UC community has accomplished,” said Drake.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 1, 2024

Think the pandemic is well behind us? Survey data shows feelings of inclusion have continued dropping as a result of it, write Laurel Smith-Doerr, Joya Misra, Shuyin Liu and Dessie Clark. Remember the COVID-19 pandemic? It seems like a silly question, but as social scientists who study organizations, we know that organizational routines, including in higher education, are set up to forget crises and return to business as usual.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 1, 2024

Kelli Shuman Kelli Shuman has been named associate vice president and chief human resources officer at Carnegie Mellon University. She served as associate vice president for human resources and chief human resources officer at Elon University. Shuman holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and human resource management from Black Hills State University as well as a master’s in administration and human resource management from the University of South Dakota.

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University Business

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many of the most direct predictions about higher education appear poised to become reality as we enter the second half of the decade: the looming demographic cliff, the shrinking pool of first-time students, waning public confidence in higher education and growing skepticism about the value of attending college. The percentage of high school students matriculating immediately to college has fallen to a 10-year low, and the nation’s colleges—now closing at a rate of one per week —may well be faci

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 1, 2024

A student-founded and -led initiative at Gonzaga University creates pro bono work opportunities for future business professionals to work with pro sports teams. For many students, working for their dream company after graduation can feel like a distant goal. One sophomore at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., decided to bring experiential learning in sports management to campus and founded the Gonzaga Sport Consulting Group.

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University Business

AUGUST 1, 2024

By 2031, we’ll see the number of good jobs grow by 15.2 million, and 85% of them will require some postsecondary education. A college degree may not be the only postsecondary option for high school graduates, but it may be preferred among those who value earnings potential. A “good job” pays at least $43,000, with a median of $74,000 for workers between the ages of 25 and 44, according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce in a new report, The Future of Good Jobs: P

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Roompact

AUGUST 1, 2024

In this episode of Roompact’s ResEdChat, Crystal is joined by Dr. Andy Johnson, Director for Operations & Outreach at the University of South Florida. Andy shares insights on common questions students and families have as they prepare for campus move-in and highlights the numerous campus partners involved in this major production. Additionally, Andy and Crystal.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 1, 2024

Why engaging in public scholarship has never been more necessary. At a time marked by increasing media polarization, with left- and right-leaning news agencies using their pulpits to advance partisan agendas and social media amplifying this fragmentation by providing a platform for unvetted opinions, it is increasingly challenging for the public to navigate the cacophony of misinformation.

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University Business

AUGUST 1, 2024

Two months after the University of the Arts in Philadelphia closed, the school’s dance program will be revived at Bennington College in Vermont, which will absorb the dance school, three staff members and nearly 50 students, the college announced on Thursday. “What they are doing is the future of dance,” said Laura Walker, the president of Bennington College, who helped raise nearly $1.3 million from philanthropists to make it happen.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 1, 2024

A federal judge ruled yesterday that the Education Department cannot enforce new Title IX regulations in Oklahoma, just one day before the rules were set to take effect. Judge Jodi Dishman from the Western District of Oklahoma granted a preliminary injunction, finding that the state was likely to succeed on the merits of its case based on “Title IX’s unambiguous and clear text.

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ISA Journal

AUGUST 1, 2024

A reminder that it's okay too slow down and take a moment. When studying abroad, it seems that there is always something on the schedule. Which, of course, makes sense when you have a limited time in the city and want to make the most of your trip.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 1, 2024

The Education Department will send emails to borrowers about the potential for debt relief today, signaling that the agency is close to finalizing a plan to discharge millions of Americans’ student loan debts. The emails will not say who will receive relief or how much but will inform borrowers that if they want to opt out they must do so by Aug. 30.

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University Business

AUGUST 1, 2024

Some students may be unable to receive their financial aid money in time to pay their bills, with classes only a few weeks away, after the Education Department announced Tuesday that colleges will not be able to submit corrections to financial aid records in bulk this year. The announcement is yet another obstacle for students during what has been a turbulent rollout in the overhaul of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 1, 2024

The University of California system president, Dr. Michael V. Drake, will step down at the end of the 2024–25 academic year after five years on the job, UC officials announced Wednesday. Drake, age 74, has had a 50-year career in higher education, a UC press release noted.

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University Business

AUGUST 1, 2024

Maine Community College students are now guaranteed admission to at least one of the state’s public universities after they finish their associate degree. In a new partnership announced Wednesday by the Maine Community College and University of Maine systems, Maine’s community colleges will proactively notify their students about transfer opportunities to public universities after they finish 30 credits—or approximately, their first year—at the community college.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 1, 2024

Busting down barriers to transfer-of-credit policies. In overhauling our Transfer of Credit, Prior Learning and Articulation Agreements Policy and Procedures in 2022, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) busted through barriers that historically had hindered students from transferring their credits to a new institution.

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The Guardian Higher Education

AUGUST 1, 2024

Stella Maris criticises decision to remove her from two roles after she accused Israel of genocide and apartheid The rector of St Andrews University has been dismissed from the institution’s governing body and her position as a trustee after she accused Israel of genocide and apartheid. Stella Maris criticised the decision to remove her from the two roles, which came after the university commissioned an investigation into an email she sent in November to all St Andrews students calling for an im

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 1, 2024

The Christian Reformed Church called on Calvin University to make changes to a process used by faculty who disagree with some church teachings. The move has LGBTQ-friendly faculty worried. Calvin University is under pressure from its owner, the Christian Reformed Church of North America, to re-examine a process by which professors can formally disagree with aspects of church doctrine.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 1, 2024

There has been a surge of controversy related to Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance’s 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson, in which he targeted the now-presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party Kamala Harris, and others by describing them as a “bunch of childless cat ladies with miserable lives” who have “no direct stake in the country.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 1, 2024

Conservatives have partly stymied the administration’s efforts to overhaul Title IX, getting the new regulations temporarily blocked in 26 states over objections to expanded rights for LGBTQ+ students. Here’s how the last 100 days have unfolded.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 1, 2024

A spate of lawsuits and court injunctions has complicated colleges’ efforts to comply with the Biden administration’s overhaul of the 52-year-old law, leaving Title IX coordinators frustrated and uncertain about how to move forward. The Biden administration’s new Title IX regulations, which strengthen protections for LGBTQ+ students and change how colleges respond to reports of sexual harassment, take effect today nationwide.

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