Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Dr. Donovan Livingston, award-winning educator, spoken word poet, and public speaker, has spent his career in education bridging the gap between his artistic sensibility and commitment to college access, and social justice. “A lot of my work is grounded in how Hip Hop informs student experiences in college,” Livingston said. Before attending the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill for undergrad, the Fayetteville, North Carolina, native had a budding interest in Hip Hop and spoken wo

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 15, 2024

Harvard Has No University-Wide Senate—Professors Are Proposing One Ryan Quinn Wed, 05/15/2024 - 03:00 AM Amid attacks in multiple states on shared governance, faculty members seek to strengthen their role at America’s oldest higher education institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Dr. Mark Becker plans to leave his role as president of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) at the end of the year. “I am in good health, and at the same time recent life events have led me to the conclusion that I need to devote more time to my health and family,” said Becker. Dr. Mark Becker Becker came into the leadership post in September 2022, previously serving as a member of its Board of Directors and as chair of the board for the Coalition of Urban Serving Univer

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 15, 2024

Defense Department Cuts 13 of its Language Flagship Programs kathryn.palmer… Wed, 05/15/2024 - 03:00 AM Linguists are concerned about the implications the elimination of these programs may have on foreign relations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Sarah Emerson Sarah Emerson has been appointed vice president of advancement at Oglethorpe University. She serves as executive director for foundation relations at Georgia State University. Emerson holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, and a master’s in education from the University of Georgia.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 15, 2024

Students Pitted Against ChatGPT to Improve Writing Lauren.Coffey@… Wed, 05/15/2024 - 03:00 AM New University of Nevada online courses aim to teach future educators about AI limitations through competition.

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The Humphrey Group

MAY 15, 2024

Today’s high performing workers are not just looking for a job – they're seeking roles that provide meaning and opportunity for growth. As the boomer generation approaches retirement age, organizations are facing pressure to plan for the future of their leadership.

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Ray Schroeder

MAY 15, 2024

While declining enrollment and financial challenges are the driving force behind most job and program cuts announced last month, in Texas, politics also played a role. Politics, not economics, accounted for the deepest cuts across higher education in April, with the University of Texas at Austin laying off more than 40 workers in its Division of Campus and Community Engagement (formerly the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement) and another 20 employees in other divisions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 15, 2024

Three Ways to Create a Culture of Help-Seeking Behavior on Campus Melissa Ezarik Wed, 05/15/2024 - 03:00 AM The act of asking for help is something that doesn’t come naturally to all students, and higher ed has a responsibility to invest in efforts to improve help-seeking, write student success professionals Cecilia Santiago-González and Zoe Lance at Cal Poly Pomona.

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Ray Schroeder

MAY 15, 2024

Dear Readers — Thank you for your loyal support of this curated reading blog. This is to let you know that this site will remain online for research in the archives, but will not be updated after May 15, 2024. The GOOD NEWS is that I will continue to curate and publish the daily postings that you are accustomed to reading on my other blogs, which are continuing free of charge: Professional, Continuing and Online Education Update blog by UPCEA [link] NEW!

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 15, 2024

When Trustees Run for Public Office Josh Moody Wed, 05/15/2024 - 03:00 AM A handful of trustees are running for state and federal office this fall in an election cycle where recent higher education controversies will likely be on voters’ minds.

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College for Creative Study

MAY 15, 2024

Automotive news for industry leaders. Covering electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles, manufacturing, tech, supply chain, regulations & safety, labor, and more.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 15, 2024

California Polytechnic State University’s Noyce School of Applied Computing has received a $60 million gift to establish an endowment that will fund the school’s operations for decades to come, the university announced May 8.

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University Business

MAY 15, 2024

Colleges and universities nationwide continue to grapple with demographic shifts, fiscal challenges and the lasting impacts of the pandemic. Against these larger societal forces, many higher education institutions have focused considerable attention and resources on improving access and affordability for their students. Many institutions are providing new opportunities for adult learners, veterans, international students and other previously underserved populations.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 15, 2024

The average discount rate at private colleges topped 50 percent this past academic year, according to a new study from the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO).

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

The always-daunting task of managing thousands of student, staff and faculty devices in higher education became even more difficult as colleges embraced hybrid learning and remote work, introducing personal devices into the mix and allowing work across multiple time zones and platforms. For IT departments, this presented a multitude of challenges and security concerns, not to mention a drain on workforce.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 15, 2024

Immediate Conversations Required Sarah Bray Wed, 05/15/2024 - 03:00 AM Peter Eckel and Rob Farrell advise presidents on how best to engage boards during the campus upheavals over the Middle East conflict.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Wi-Fi 6E, an extension of Wi-Fi 6, comes with a lot of benefits. Faster speeds, lower latency and more network security are just a few of its features. That’s partly why higher education institutions are adopting it, especially considering the explosion of remote learning and the influx of connected devices now on college campuses. In fact, 1 in 3 Wi-Fi 6 device shipments is expected to be compatible with the new standard by 2025.

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University Business

MAY 15, 2024

Financial aid offices were already struggling with staff shortages, a lack of representation and other personnel challenges when the FAFSA fiasco struck higher ed. The ongoing disruptions are now adding up to fresh warnings of heavy turnover within the profession. A desire for better pay and more flexible workplaces may drive more than half of higher ed’s financial aid professionals to look for new employment in the next 12 months, according to a survey of more than 6,000 financial aid emp

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ISA Journal

MAY 15, 2024

Xena Clarke is an ISA Barcelona alumna and current ISA/TEAN Global Ambassador at Seattle University. In the following blog, Xena provides a packing guide, along with some Spanish fashion insights and observations. I have never been a chronic over packer, but when I studied abroad in Barcelona I took my whole closet.

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University Business

MAY 15, 2024

Chalk it up to California dreaming: Not even three years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom promised California’s public universities five years of annual growth in state support totalling more than $2 billion. But the governor’s updated budget plan for next year instead aims to cut the University of California and California State University by a combined $200 million in response to the state’s project multi-billion-dollar budget deficit.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Dorothy Jean Tillman II, whose grandmother was a civil rights activist, is now the youngest Arizona State University student to get a doctorate in her field A Chicago teenager walked in her university’s commencement program after making history for earning a doctorate degree at the age of 17. Dorothy Jean Tillman II celebrated the rare accomplishment, describing commencement week as “surreal” and “full of reflection and inspiration”, in a post to Instagram.

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University Business

MAY 15, 2024

A Louisiana bill seeing outcry from college officials and students aims to redefine what is considered “protected speech” for protests on college campuses. Under current law, “expressive activities” is considered as, “any lawful verbal or written means by which individuals or groups communicate ideas to one another.” The law’s definition applies to all forms of peaceful protest, assembly and petition circulation.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Keep Campus Connected

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Seven decades ago, U.S. civil rights history was made with the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Dr. Ivory A. Toldson When the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in May 1954 that separate educational facilities between Black students and white students was “inherently unequal," dismissing the concept of “separate but equal” in public education, the nation began the task of desegregating its schools.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 15, 2024

Iowa governor Kim Reynolds, a Republican, signed into law an education-funding bill with anti-DEI provisions.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

My friend Chris Williams, who has died of a heart attack aged 61, was a historian of Wales and its radical traditions who rose to be head of the school of history, archaeology and religion at Cardiff University and then head of Celtic studies and social sciences at University College Cork. He also wrote about Welsh history, including in his book Democratic Rhondda (1996), but was perhaps best known for his editing of the posthumous diaries of the Welsh actor Richard Burton.

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University Business

MAY 15, 2024

Texas lawmakers got an update Tuesday on the steps higher education leaders are taking to implement a state law that bans diversity, equity and inclusion offices at public universities and colleges. The Republican-backed Senate Bill 17 took effect in January. The Texas Senate Subcommittee on Higher Education also heard testimony on free speech and concerns about antisemitism on college campuses. “The topics we’re covering today are timely and get to the fundamentals of what we expect

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Emil Guillermo On Monday of last week, when Harvard Interim President Alan Garber sent out his letter to alumni, I shook my head. After other universities — most notably MIT and George Washington University were resorting to police violence to end encampments — Garber was standing firm but going a different route. He told students they were free to protest but not free to disrupt the academic life at Harvard, which included graduation.

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