Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Philander Smith College (PSC) will become a graduate degree-granting school after its Master of Business Administration (MBA) program was approved by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) in November 2022. Dr. Roderick L. Smothers "On the heels of the 145th anniversary of Philander Smith College, we are elated about this milestone announcement," said Dr.

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Great College Advice

JANUARY 2, 2023

College campus visits are a ritual. A rite of passage. A requirement. And they also are mostly a waste of time and money. As the summer winds down, my team and I have been busy debriefing our students and their parents about whatever summertime college campus visits they have done in the past month or two. While my colleagues and I have done hundreds of campus visits as a way to research colleges, our families are embarking on these adventures for the first time.

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Will Richardson

JANUARY 4, 2023

(1/4 Newsletter Repost). First, Happy New Year! May 2023 bring us all good health, deeper relationships, and as much joy as we can handle! With those aspirations in mind, we want to tee up some of the themes that will be most on our minds here at BQI over the coming year. We see the year ahead as a complex mixture of reckoning and opportunity, of deceptively fast change, and of increasingly urgent, fundamental questions and conversations about the future of education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image: Tabitha Edson always knew she wanted to work in health sciences. She earned a nursing assistant certification in high school but decided not to pursue the field at Westminster College, a small private institution in Salt Lake City; she worried that it would limit her job opportunities when she graduated. Instead, she found herself drawn to public health, inspired by an introductory course in the subject required for both public health and nursing majors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

As an undergraduate student at the University of Southern California, the Reverend Dr. Joseph Cheah said that he would spend hours at the bookstore, reading about Asian American studies. Dr. Joseph Cheah “The whole notion of Asian American things like that, I've been interested in that for a long time,” Cheah said. “I would just stand there for hours, reading one book after another in Asian American studies.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JANUARY 6, 2023

Arizona State University and Zoom have announced a new five-year partnership that will create a student-led development program at the tier-one research university. The Zoom Innovation Lab promises to give ASU students the opportunity to work with Zoom professionals and partners, gaining hands-on experience tackling major projects. Two of those projects are already underway, according to a university press release.

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UMSL Diversity

JANUARY 4, 2023

The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is proud to host the annual observance of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL). Since the university’s inaugural Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Observance on January 18, 1988, the campus community has celebrated the life and legacy of Dr. King with prolific speakers, inspiring music, and a scholarship presentation to our outstanding UMSL students. .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

The legacy of mistreatment that American Indians and Alaska Natives have endured is evident in the educational statistics. Only 16.1% of AIAN people over 25 have a bachelor’s degree or higher, less than half the rate of Americans overall, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In an attempt to address this disparity, the Lilly Endowment, has announced a five-year, $38,775,000 grant to the American Indian College Fund, the nation’s largest charity for Native higher education.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Technology use has not only become ubiquitous among university students, faculty and staff, but it’s also expanded with the rapid adoption of mobile devices, cloud computing and Internet of Things devices. As cybersecurity grows even more challenging in this accelerating environment, having a unified security strategy for protecting all university resources is more important than ever.

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University Business

JANUARY 6, 2023

Innovation is alive and well on campus as R&D on campus is seeing increased investment by college and university leaders. Academic institutions spent $89.9 billion on research and development in math, science, engineering and other major fields during FY 2021, an increase of $3.4 billion from 2020, according to the latest data from the National Science Foundation.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 5, 2023

Imagine two postdoctoral researchers in an academic lab. Both have similar duties, such as conducting experiments, mentoring junior lab members, analyzing data and publishing and presenting their work. However, if one of them were awarded a prestigious training fellowship from the National Institutes of Health, that same postdoc may lose their employment status with their institution, causing a loss of critical employee benefits in their overall compensation package.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Dr. Theresa A. Powell, Temple University’s Vice President for Student Affairs, has died unexpectedly on Jan. 2. Her death occurred while visiting family in her native state of Texas. Dr. Theresa A. Powell Renowned nationally in the student affairs profession, Powell was one of the leaders of Temple’s Division of Student Affairs, where she worked to reimagine student affairs and created programs to produce a more vibrant and active Temple campus.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

1. What Network Capacity is Needed? Classrooms are high-density environments, and you should estimate one to two devices per user on the Wi-Fi network. As a starting point, you’ll likely need one access point for every 50 devices. If your calculations call for more than four APs, have a specialist help with placement and product selection. Invest in the newest technologies; Wi-Fi 6 is specifically designed for high-density deployments.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 6, 2023

Kennedy School allegedly bowed to donors unhappy with organisation accusing Israel of apartheid in occupied territories The dean of one the US’s leading schools of government blocked a position for the former head of Human Rights Watch (HRW) over his organisation’s criticism of Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians. The Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy offered Kenneth Roth a position as a senior fellow shortly after he retired as director of HRW in April after 29 ye

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Image: Community colleges across the country are struggling to recruit and hire new people after losing faculty and staff members in droves during the pandemic. The institutions lost 13 percent of their employees nationally from January 2020 to April 2022, according to an estimate from EAB, a higher education consulting firm. A recent data analysis from EAB shows that four-year colleges mostly recouped their losses after also experiencing sharp declines in staff, unlike community colleges, which

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

Dr. LaVar Charleston had a crush on Dr. Sherri Charleston from the moment he met her in ninth grade. Dr. LaVar Charleston is the deputy vice chancellor for diversity & inclusion, vice provost and chief diversity officer at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. “She was Claire Huxtable—beauty, brains, and personality,” said LaVar Charleston. While the two were friendly, they had opposite interests at the time.

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eLiterate

JANUARY 6, 2023

As with much of the venture capital world, EdTech venture funding has slowed to a trickle overall and is almost completely frozen in some areas, such as early-stage investments. Conventional wisdom seems to be that this state of affairs won’t last forever. Since the proximate causes of the situation are falling stock prices and high inflation, the investing environment should improve significantly during 2023 as inflation falls and the stock market begins to recover.

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College for Creative Study

JANUARY 4, 2023

The post CCS alumnus Ndubisi Okoye Named on Hour Magazine’s List of 2023 Most Influential People from Southeast Michigan. appeared first on College for Creative Studies.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Image: Students who enroll in William Altman’s psychology classes at the State University of New York’s Broome Community College sometimes find themselves hooked up to an electroencephalograph—a device that measures electrical activity of the brain—while driving simulated cars either with or without texting. Others in the class participate by monitoring the device’s output or the number of accidents or driving errors both for drivers who text and those who refrain.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Dr. Keona Lewis will become assistant provost for academic diversity and inclusion at the University of Notre Dame, effective Feb. 1. In this role, she will report to the vice president and associate provost for faculty affairs. Dr. Keona Lewis Lewis will also serve as an assistant professor of the practice in Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns.

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Symplicity

JANUARY 4, 2023

Each and every day, our client managers across the globe help make our clients' day-to-day just a little bit easier so that they can better support their students. With a client support team that comes from across the student success spectrum, clients continuously speak to the dedication of our client support team, and we at Symplicity want to give them the attention they deserve.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 3, 2023

During the past two years, administrators at storied Manhattanville College have removed 46 full-time faculty--by paying then to retire or laying them off. Last month, for the first time in Manhattanville's history, tenured faculty in the arts and humanities were pushed away. Since the 1840s, Manhattanville College was famous for its caring faculty.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image: The University of Houston suddenly removed its dean of social work last month. The university has said it did so to better align the Graduate College of Social Work with broader institutional priorities. The former dean, Alan Dettlaff—who is returning to the social work faculty, for now—says his views on racial justice got him fired.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Some universities are scrutinizing or blocking usage of the social media platform TikTok on school devices and networks amid cybersecurity concerns surrounding the video-sharing app and its parent company, ByteDance. Dr. Richard Forno TikTok and Chinese company ByteDance has been gaining attention for connections with Chinese state media and potential influence from the Chinese government.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JANUARY 6, 2023

There’s a common misconception that increased security often comes at the expense of productivity. This can seem especially true in higher education, where students can easily forget passwords for multiple applications, bringing learning to a halt and turning faculty into help desk technicians. While this may have been true in the past, Okta’s single sign-on software solution shatters the notion.

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Roompact

JANUARY 2, 2023

This post is one in a five part series on securing a summer internship in college housing and residence life through the ACUHO-I’s Housing Internship Program. It is written from the perspective of a former ACUHO-I Intern. The series will walk you through the process from beginning to end providing tips and tricks along the.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

Image: December was a whirlwind month for members of the North Idaho College Board of Trustees. They held four meetings, admitted three violations of open meetings laws, faced two lawsuits and named a new interim president after abruptly placing President Nick Swayne on administrative leave. The board’s rapid-fire actions did not go unnoticed by North Idaho’s accreditor.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

With President Biden’s signature on Dec. 29, the new federal spending plan is set to increase the Pell Grant in 2023, allowing low-income students a chance to access up to $7,395 each year. The new total is a record high for the program, first created in 1972. Coupled with the $400 increase in the 2022 fiscal year, this is the largest two-year increase ever in the history of the grant.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

Bank says changing minimum qualification policy opens scheme to 64,000 more candidates each year Santander UK will no longer require graduates applying to work there to achieve a 2:1 degree or higher, as part of efforts to boost the socioeconomic diversity of its recruits. The bank said the change would lead to an extra 64,000 more applicants being eligible for its annual graduate scheme and reflected the fact that university performance did not guarantee success in the workplace.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JANUARY 2, 2023

What is self-directed learning and what does that look like in a classroom or homeschool? This phrase and other variations of the phrase (child-led learning, self-directed learning, student-led learning, etc. etc. etc. ) imply that learning experiences are designed, coordinated, and led by students. Your students are self-directed learners, not passive receivers of information.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 5, 2023

Image: At the start of 2022, leaders and faculty attached to a brand-new American university in Ukraine were bullish about the future. American University Kyiv, the result of a partnership with Arizona State University and Cintana Education —a private subsidiary of ASU that helps manage international campuses—would be the first institution in Ukraine developed in line with U.S. higher education accreditation standards.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

Illinois State University will be launching an online seminar series to help teach faculty how to create inclusive and equitable classes. Dr. Deneca Winfrey Avant The seminar series – through the school’s Center for Integrated Professional Development – will include five seminars over 2023, starting with three in the spring: “Equitable and Inclusive Course Materials;” “Equitable and Inclusive Student Interaction and Participation;” and “Equitable and Inclusive Assessment, Learning Activities, an

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Terminalfour

JANUARY 6, 2023

For higher education professionals, there’s usually a cost associated with every aspect of a creative marketing campaign. But you have millions of free creative assets right at your fingertips. Here’s how to find them.

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Symplicity

JANUARY 5, 2023

Each and every day, our client managers across the globe help make our clients' day-to-day just a little bit easier so that they can better support their students. With a client support team that comes from across the student success spectrum, clients continuously speak to the dedication of our client support team, and we at Symplicity want to give them the attention they deserve.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Molly Corbett Broad, who became the first woman to lead the American Council on Education after breaking a similar glass ceiling as president of the University of North Carolina system, died Monday, her family announced. She was 81. Broad’s decades-long career in higher education administration began at Syracuse University and resulted in leadership positions as chief executive officer of Arizona’s university system and executive vice chancellor of the California State University sys

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Florida state colleges and universities must report spending on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and projects and initiatives related to critical race theory (CRT), per orders from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ’s administration, the National Review reported. Gov. Ron DeSantis In a Dec. 28 memo , Chris Spencer, director of the office of policy and budget in the DeSantis administration, asked the Department of Education and the state university system to disclose staff, programs, and campus ac

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Credo Higher Ed

JANUARY 3, 2023

The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and Credo are thrilled to announce the expansion of the long-running Credo Women in Leadership Initiative (CWLI) to leaders across the AAC&U network. In November 2023, AAC&U and Credo will host in-person programs for cabinet leaders and for college and university presidents. Centered on the theme “Leading with Longevity: Sustaining Self & Profession,” participants will engage in learning, reflection, and community buil

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