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General Assembly Vacates TSU Board of Trustees, Governor Makes Appointments

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I’m pleased to appoint these highly qualified individuals who will work alongside administrators and students to further secure TSU’s place as a leading institution,” said Lee.

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The College of Saint Rose to Close Permanently at the End of School Year

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The school’s various properties in the city of Albany will become empty, though most of them are zoned to allow several kinds of uses, from residential to retail. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the school had 118 full-time faculty and 107 part-time faculty in Fall 2022.

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AFT Prez Sends Letter to WVU Board Over Proposed Cuts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These effects will be felt not by just the families of the WVU faculty and staff facing layoffs, but also by the local businesses and retailers who serve the community and who depend on WVU employees spending money in their shops.” Layoffs on campus will significantly affect families and the local economy,” the letter reads.

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Unapologetic Leadership for Black Learner Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. I am not going to beat jobs in the retail and food industry at providing Black learners with a steady wage and health benefits, so I need to offer a different value proposition.

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Roanoke College to Launch Cannabis Studies Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Historically, in the realm of scientific literature and research, government funding around the substance was mostly given to look at the plant’s potential negative consequences, she said. You're changing that narrative to a true historical perspective." But that’s not the only bias that surrounds cannabis, Poli said.

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Goodbye, Landlines. Hello, Cloud Collaboration

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

An overwhelming majority of Americans no longer pay for a landline phone connection nearly 72%, according to a Chamber of Commerce report and organizations from retail businesses to governments and higher education institutions arent as attached to their desk phones as they once were.

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Why higher education must be reinvented to suit the new generation of students

University Business

“The business reinvention that is taking down giants in media, retail and energy is coming for higher education—and it is coming fast,” wrote the report’s authors. “This will threaten the very existence of those universities that cannot adapt to the sector’s new realities.”