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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5%

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Research ethics committees should rethink risk

SRHE

There are good reasons why institutional human research ethics committees (RECs) or research ethics boards (REBs) are needed in higher education institutions – namely, to ensure research participants are treated in accordance with a set of agreed standards and principles. by Jacqueline Stevenson, Tom Power and Alison Fox.

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A Guide to the Accreditation Process with the National Commission for Academic Accreditation and Assessment (NCAAA)

Creatrix Campus

A Guide to the Accreditation Process with the National Commission for Academic Accreditation and Assessment (NCAAA) editor Thu, 02/16/2023 - 04:07 Overview of NCAAA Saudi Arabia The 2030 vision for Saudi Arabia is causing a rapid change in the country's higher education standards.

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How to Attract and Inspire Underrepresented Students: Lessons from Lucy Cavendish College: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 152 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Madeleine Atkins

The Change Leader, Inc.

Following various senior positions at Newcastle University, including Pro-Vice-Chancellor, she was Vice-Chancellor of Coventry University between 2004 and 2013. Madeleine then joined the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) as its Chief Executive in January 2014, retaining that post until March 2018.

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Legal Expert Art Coleman Examines the Affirmative Action Ruling

EAB

Art Coleman, one of the nation’s foremost legal experts on affirmative action in higher education, joins EAB’s Tom Cakuls to unpack the recent Supreme Court ruling. Today I have the great privilege of bringing you a conversation with Art Coleman, one of the nation's foremost legal experts on affirmative action in higher education.

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Sustainability actions students take and want their colleges to take

Confessions of a Community College Dean

But the one-quarter finding matches up with how Julian Dautremont of AASHE, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, describes higher ed’s commitment. When he co-founded the organization in 2004, it had 35 member campuses—which grew quickly to 200 and peaked in 2012 at about 1,200.

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Foxx, back in charge, pledges oversight, stronger accountability

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Representative Virginia Foxx is planning to leverage the decline in public perception of higher education to usher in a new era of stronger accountability for the nation’s colleges and universities in her role as chairwoman of the House education committee.