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Formerly Incarcerated Students Are Humans First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There was free pizza from an award-winning shop , music, and even entertainment for kids. That is largely because these justice-impacted students are often invisible to educators, their identities simply erased. Higher education post-incarceration also expands individuals social networks and promotes their health and well-being.

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Report: Almost Half of High School Students Use AI for Schoolwork

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jeff Schiel ACT For the report, " High School Students’ Use and Impressions of AI Tools ", ACT researchers asked 4,006 10th to 12th-grade students nationally about their AI usage and their views on such tools. Students hold uncertainty about the tools, said Dr. Becky Bobek, principal research scientist at ACT and a co-author of the report.

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Report Suggests Audiences Appreciate Diverse Casts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

University of California Los Angeles University of California Los Angeles Minority groups experienced gains relative to their white counterparts in all key Hollywood employment arenas examined in the streaming film sector, according to a new report from the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UCLA.

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Professor Examines Asian American Representation Across Media, Diaspora

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“I think perhaps … it’s taken a while for the second and the third generation to come of age and to join the entertainment industries in ways in which they can make a difference,” Oh said. And stereotypical views that Asian Americans are often discouraged by their families from pursuing entertainment careers are dubious, said Oh. “I

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A 40th Anniversary Love Story: About My Favorite Magazine

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I remember seeing copies of Black Issues in Higher Education in various administrators’ offices at Albany State, the historically Black university where I was an undergraduate student journalist in the mid-1990s. The IU Higher Education and Student Affairs Program allowed Ph.D. Many of them now work in higher education.

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Stress is a key deterrent to enrolling in higher education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Nearly two-thirds of people who have never enrolled in higher education cite emotional stress as a key deterrent, a new report from Gallup and the Lumina Foundation finds. It is the fourth most commonly cited reason after the cost of higher education (81 percent), inflation (77 percent) and work conflicts (69 percent).

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Shall we all pretend we didn't see it coming, again?: higher education, climate change, climate refugees, and climate denial by elites

Higher Education Inquirer

Can US higher education do much to reduce climate change, either as a leader or as a teacher? That's not to say that there aren't universities doing climate change research. But that research is outweighed by those who control higher education, trustees and endowment managers, and their financial interests.