Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Family, it is time for a chat! Pull up a seat or make whatever adjustments that you need to make so that my brothers and I can rap with you. Over the last few days, we have seen countless opinions internal and external to the HBCU community regarding the exit of Coach Prime [Deion Sanders] from Jackson State University. There have been many opinions flying across Twitter, Facebook, and even national news stations like CNN.

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

DECEMBER 18, 2022

During the Empower Learners for the Age of AI (ELAI) conference earlier in December 2022, it became apparent to me personally that not only does Artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to revolutionize the field of education, but that it already is. But beyond the hype and enthusiasm there are enormous strategic policy decisions to be made, by governments, institutions, faculty and individual students.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The cybersecurity threat landscape in higher education is constantly evolving. According to VMware’s “Global Incident Response Threat Report,” emerging threats against APIs and containers have gained traction during the past year, as have attacks using deepfakes. Supply chain threats also have become a significant concern, and all signs say that they will get worse in the near future.

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Great College Advice

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Your Application is Deferred. Now What? As early admissions decisions have come over the last few weeks, many students are not being admitted or denied admission. Many are being deferred. Welcome to the purgatory of college admissions. You can’t reveal in the elation of being admitted and you can’t sulk and get over being rejected. You are somewhere in the middle.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II has been appointed founding director of Yale Divinity School’s (YDS) new Center for Public Theology and Public Policy. He will also serve as professor in the practice of public theology and public policy. The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II Barber – a moral movement leader with experience of 30 years of pastoral ministry and in multiple public leadership roles – led the Moral Mondays protests and movement in North Carolina; established Repairers of the Breach to t

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Category: Carpe Careers When mental health topics are taboo, grad students suffer in silence, write Christiann Gaines and Rebekah Layton, who explore ways the academic community can support trainees. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Graduate students Mental Health Show on Jobs site: Image Source: CreativeDesignArt/digitalvision vectors/getty images Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Multiple Authors: Christiann Gaines Rebekah Layton Is this diversity newsletter?

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Robert Kelchen

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It’s definitely the holiday season here at Kelchen on Education HQ (my home office in beautiful east Tennessee). My Christmas tree is brightly lit and I’m certainly enjoying my share of homemade cookies right now. But as a researcher, I got an early gift this week when the U.S. Department of Education released the latest round of data for the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System ( IPEDS ).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The events of 2020 are still resonating. A life-threatening pandemic, disproportionately impacting communities of color and low-income families, and the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd became catalysts for a summer of protests, crystallizing the renewed call for racial justice in America. Dr. Brooke Vick, chief diversity officer, associate provost for equity and inclusion, and coordinator of the new DEI certificate program at Muhlenberg College.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The past two-and-a-half years have seen higher education embrace the boundless potential of technology in the classroom like never before. Digital collaboration is an invaluable part of most college courses, powerful networks connect students from every corner of campus and beyond, and once futuristic tools like virtual reality are enabling students and faculty to see the world in a whole new way.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Bitter controversy has recently swirled around California’s revised Mathematics Framework, a set of recommendations about how math should be taught in the state’s K-12 schools. At stake are hot-button issues involving equity, privilege, socioeconomic class and gender, ethnicity and race. There’s no disagreement about the need to improve math fluency and reduce performance gaps.

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College for Creative Study

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The post Transportation Design Student Daniel Shapiro Announced as Magna 2022 Global Bold Perspective Award Winner for North America appeared first on College for Creative Studies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A growing body of research has shown that race-matched instruction—when teachers and learners come from the same background—is beneficial for students. College students have been shown to be likelier to pass courses with race-matched instructors, likelier to receive higher grades in those courses, and likelier to persist in school. Race-matched students were also more likely to take an additional class in that subject and to major in it.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way higher education approaches educational technology, accelerating adoption of equipment and methods that previously had been slowly gaining traction. The use of immersive learning technology, like virtual, augmented and extended reality, is also on the rise. In an EdTech Twitter poll, 19 percent of respondents said immersive learning is most relevant to their 2023 technology plans.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The past’s meaning only becomes clear in hindsight. Who would have guessed during the 1970s, a decade when it seemed like nothing happened, that a series of developments were underway that would transform the future: the politicization of evangelical religion, accelerating deindustrialization, the deregulation and financialization of the American economy, a profound shift in the nation’s demographics.

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Clark Nesxen

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Computational design has the power to transform the way we approach problems and design solutions. It involves codifying information and interactions between elements for a specific process, enabling professionals in fields like architecture and engineering to design and engineer buildings more efficiently, accurately, and effectively. But computational design isn't limited to these traditional applications.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Almost every Asian person has encountered racial mockery by someone aping an Asian language. I first experienced it on an elementary school playground. Never did I imagine that I would witness it by a prominent university leader during a commencement ceremony. Yet Purdue Northwest Chancellor Thomas Keon did exactly that when he opened his remarks to his university’s commencement ceremony last week with incoherent “Asian” gibberish.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Time and technology share one common trait: Both are constantly advancing, never staying in one place. With this in mind, EdTech: Focus on Higher Education invited leaders from across higher education to weigh in on emerging tech trends for the coming year.

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PUC

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Winter break is finally here! As you enjoy taking a much-needed break from school, we made a list of random and not-so-random winter break activities you might be interested in doing. Chill out – You deserve to chill out this break!

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The Guardian Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Taliban prohibit female higher education indefinitely amid international condemnation It was late evening in Kabul, and Sabra*, a fourth-year medical student, saw a WhatsApp message appear on her phone. In a university chat group for 38 classmates, a friend had shared a news report suggesting the Taliban had banned women from higher education. “Girls, what’s going on here?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The Taliban government has suspended university education for all female students in Afghanistan , CNN reported. This represents part of the increasing oppression on Afghan women’s rights. Girls were barred from secondary schools in March , after the Taliban ordered schools for girls to shut hours after they were to reopen following closures after the August 2021 Taliban takeover.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 23, 2022

As the tech industry addresses a skills shortage, it also needs to boost its talent pipeline to bring tech jobs to underrepresented communities. With Black students earning just 7 percent of STEM degrees as of 2018 (the most recent year available), historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) face the challenge of creating more opportunities in the tech workforce for underrepresented students.

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University Business

DECEMBER 20, 2022

For the past two years, Santa Clara University has won a DEI award from the publication INSIGHT Into Higher Education magazine. The Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) award recognizes universities with an outstanding commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)—especially those that have made DEI part of the holistic fabric of their campus.

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Higher Education Whisperer

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Tom Worthington at ANU Coffee Grounds Cafe. Photo by Tom Worthington CC-BY 2022Greetings from the Coffee Grounds Cafe, at the Australian National University. in Canberra. I just met with a PhD student who is researching an ancient dead language, and working on a commercial spinoff, while employed part time by the government. Someone who talks to university donors happened past with a project.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Cabrini University has laid off six full-time faculty – three of them were tenured – this month as part of budget cuts to help remedy its financial deficit, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The six – 8.7% of the school’s 69 full-time faculty – included faculty in writing and narrative arts, science, math, and visual and performing arts, a Cabrini spokesperson said.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 19, 2022

by Finley Lawson. I have been using a design-based implementation approach to co-creating educational research since 2019 at Canterbury Christ Church University, where a cross-institutional team of teachers, researchers, and school senior leaders grapples with where and how to provide opportunities for students to become ‘epistemically insightful’ (equipped with an understanding of the nature of knowledge within disciplines and across disciplinary boundaries).

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AIFS Abroad

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Last Updated on December 20, 2022 by Cat Rogliano. If you’re looking for travel inspiration for the new year, your zodiac sign is a solid place to start. From natural wonders to bustling metropolitan cities, discover where the stars say you should go in 2023. . Meet the perfect travel destination for your zodiac sign: Capricorn (December 22 – January 19) | Travel to Prague, Czech Republic.

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University Business

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A lot of of students are gambling in college, and what’s more troubling is that some are using financial aid funds. But these students are not all acting alone—about a quarter of them said their colleges are promoting sports betting, according to a survey. Some 1 in 6 college students report gambling with financial aid and student loan money to place bets, according to a poll of approximately 1,000 students by Intelligent.com, a college planning and online degree rankings website.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Buffalo State College has applied to become a university, Buffalo Business First reported. " University status helps recruitment both in the United States and on the international stage,” BSC – which is still waiting on state approval for the move – said in a statement. “Once effective, the change at Buffalo State will also reflect its comprehensive academic offerings, including 79 competitive undergraduate programs and 64 rigorous graduate programs, and its outreach to traditional, nontradition

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Image: When New York University announced last month that it would suspend admissions to its undergraduate music education program, students were shocked. They weren't worried about whether they would still be able to graduate; the email sent Nov. 1 by Marilyn Nonken, who chairs the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions, which includes music education, specified that the pause would not affect current students' ability to complete their studies.

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Roompact

DECEMBER 19, 2022

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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The Guardian Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Justine Greening argues against move to restrict number of international students at British universities Justine Greening, the former Conservative education secretary, has attacked Rishi Sunak’s proposals to limit the number of international students at British universities, arguing that the move could have a “severe negative impact” on the country.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Facing a national shortage of early childhood educators , the Community College of Vermont (CCV) and the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) have teamed up for an innovative solution: paying students to reduce their hours at their jobs in favor of taking more classes. The goal is to make students, many of whom work while attending school part-time, more likely to complete a credential while putting new workers into the pipeline more quickly.

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Proctor Academy

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This past few months has had me reflecting on the past six months, particularly our good news and successes. That is what you might expect when you are at Proctor Academy where our hard work and effort does come with positive outcomes. Of course, we are not about just curating Instagram highlights. To be sure, our work comes with challenges, pitfalls, and even a few pratfalls.

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Roompact

DECEMBER 22, 2022

I was 18 when I moved into my freshman residence hall, and had you told me at the time that I wouldn’t be moving out of a residence hall until I was 26, I wouldn’t have been able to fathom what that meant. However, by my first year of grad school, my live-on status felt.

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Via's

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Via Makes Gathering Data “Simple and Straightforward,” Director Says. Jane Bjerklie-Barry “inherited a terrible platform” when she arrived at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH, to become Director of the Office of International Programs in September 2018. . “It was archaic and antiquated and awful,” she recalls. “I realized pretty quickly that it was going to be extremely burdensome.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Vermont Public is buying Northern Vermont University’s (NVU) radio station and turning it into a 24-hour classical music station, VTDigger reported. The station – which broadcasts at WWLR 91.5 – was run by student club WWLR and broadcasted “freeform community radio” to Caledonia County in Vermont and much of Coos County in New Hampshire, according to its website.

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Proctor Academy

DECEMBER 21, 2022

For those of us residing in the northern hemisphere, today marks the darkest day of the year. The sun rose today at 7:13 AM and will set at 4:12 PM, affording us less than 9 hours of daylight. December is a month of anticipation as we await the Winter Solstice and its paradox of light and darkness. Over the past month, the deep blue and purple of late-afternoons transition almost immediately to pitch black skies before dinner is even served.

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