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Creating Safe Spaces: Future Teachers of Color Summit

The Scholarly Teacher

Research shows that having BIPOC teachers benefits BIPOC students, providing numerous positive protective factors (Burciaga & Kohli, 2018; Easton-Brooks, 2019; Morales et al., Although nationwide efforts are necessary, we must establish local initiatives directly supporting our BIPOC teacher candidates (Kohli, 2018; Valenzuela, 2017).

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President moves: 2 decade-plus leaders step back after a job well done

University Business

He helped double the university’s endowment, raise external research funding by more than 92% in the past four year, earn an R2 Carnegie Classification to R2 and transitioned its athletics program to the FBS as a Division 1 program. to lead American University. Alger leaves JMU in great shape.

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Institutions are blending K12 and higher ed to improve student equity. Here’s how

University Business

Preparing the new generation of superintendents The job of the K12 school district superintendency is mired in political, logistical and administrative challenges that can often strain and overwhelm. It also intends to raise state funding for education by $3.8 “Our workforce is not equally catching up to that change.”

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bevlee Watford, who earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Virginia Tech, CEED has raised awareness about engineering and other technical fields and fueled diversity in the professions. The Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity raises awareness for diversity in engineering and other technical fields.

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University autonomy in Europe "eroded by political meddling"

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The 2022 edition of the European University Association’s Autonomy Scorecard offers a snapshot of the changing relationships between public universities and the governments that fund and regulate them.

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How can America Encourage College Dropouts to Complete their Degrees

Edu Alliance Journal

American higher education overall has 39 million people with Some College, No Credential (SCNC) as of July 2020 according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The most recent study dated 2017 shows the following: 30% of first-year students drop out before their second year of college. In-house training seminars (61%).