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White House HBCU Initiative Announces Ninth Cohort of Scholars

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Miguel Cardona The cohort recognizes and commends the 102 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students from 29 different states for academics, leadership, and civic engagement. This year’s cohort is the largest since the program’s start in 2014 and its HBCU participation rate is now over 70%.

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A State of Affairs, the Underrepresentation of Minority Community College Trustees

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Smalls In a perfect world, governing boards and leadership demographics would mirror the student population (Higgs, 2014). Trustees need to intentionally develop policies supporting DEI and receive updates reviewing academic and administrative goals/actions on DEI efforts.

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Changing the Face of Nursing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the summer of 2014, Crystal Jackson was working as a manager of nurse education in Ferguson, Missouri. Jackson, now the senior director of nursing education and professional development for the adult ambulatory clinics at VUMC, will be among the inaugural class of 20 fellows. “It Boston-Leary will be speaking at the academy.

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Faculty-Student Partnerships in Curriculum Design and Review

The Scholarly Teacher

One of the foundational studies in this field is Healey, Flint, and Harrington's (2014), offering a conceptual model that outlines student engagement through partnership with faculty through four pathways: assessment projects, curriculum consultation, subject-based research, and SoTL (see Figure 1). Flint, A., & & Harrington, K.

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Dean Hoke Appointed President and CEO of the American Association of University Administrators

Edu Alliance Journal

Hoke first affiliated with the Higher Colleges of Technology in the United Arab Emirates in 2009 as Head of Marketing and Institutional Development; that experience was followed by four years at Khalifa University with the UAE Advanced Network for Research and Education.

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Benefits of Integrating Service-Learning With Other High-Impact Practices

The Scholarly Teacher

The impact of science field courses in The Bahamas on the personal and professional development of U.S. college students, 1977–2014. Proceedings of the Second International Electronic Conference on Environmental Health Sciences, 44 (1), 10. , [link] Ford, D. Eshbaugh, W. & Branson, R. & O'Donnell, K.

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NEWS Story: Application Opens for $40,000 Kresge Artist Fellowships

College for Creative Study

Kresge Artist Fellowships are $40,000 no strings attached awards which include professional development offerings and a short film highlighting the artist’s work. The online application allows artists to opt to be automatically considered for Gilda Awards if they do not receive a Fellowship.