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Parnell Named President of NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Amelia Parnell, vice president for research and policy at NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education was named the organization’s president. Parnell has been with the organization since 2015 and will bring deep industry and organizational knowledge to her new role.

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Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Describing her as “a national treasure,” the National Science Board selected Jackson as its 2007 recipient of the prestigious Vannevar Bush Award for “a lifetime of achievements in scientific research, education, and senior statesman-like contributions to public policy.”

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Four Big Questions on Carnegie Classifications Changes

Robert Kelchen

After multiple blue-ribbon panels and meetings across the higher education industry, ACE gave the public the first glimpse of what the Carnegie classifications may look like in 2025. There is still a lot of uncertainty about the final results, but the most concrete change is to the coveted Research I university criteria.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2005, the publication broadened its focus, becoming Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. Whatever institution receives the UARC, which will research tactical autonomy, will likely bring other HBCU institutions, not only other R2s, into the project, bringing about a positive impact for all involved. Dr. Jerlando F.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This leaves the door open for alternatives such as considerations of socioeconomic status in admissions, though research has indicated that cutting affirmative action in admissions leads to declines in underrepresented minorities at colleges. In response to the decision, the U.S. She is the 20th president of the Ivy League titan.

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Using Tentacular Pedagogy to change the HE culture

SRHE

Furthermore, research suggests CA-HE is elitist ( Annetts 2018 ; Starkey 2013 ), racist ( Orr 2021 ; Tan 2021a ), and failing neurodivergent students and staff by not paying enough attention to their mental wellbeing (who are over-represented in CA-HE at around 30% in the student population, in Bacon and Bennett 2013 ; RCA 2015 ).

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President moves: Hired, fired, retired and one unexpected loss after a 19-year tenure

University Business

After being promoted to professor seven years later, Lee’s first taste of leadership came in 2005, when he served as vice provost for academic programs for five years. We are a hands-on industrial school. Lee first joined Sacramento as an associate professor of marketing in 1990.