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My 2024 Higher Education Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

This spring, I get to teach my PhD class in higher education finance again—the eighth time that I have taught it in my eleven-year faculty career. I use articles, working papers, news coverage, and other online resources to provide a current look at the state of higher education finance. Friedman, J. link ) Ward, J. Clayton, A.

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Calls for Change at Penn State

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That quote, inspired by famed civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, comes from an open letter sent on April 16, 2024 to Dr. Neeli Bendapudi, president of The Pennsylvania State University. “We Proportionately, the percentage of Black faculty fell from 4% to 3%. “We protest. We are sick. We are tired. Still, we protest.”

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Dr. Winnifred R. Brown-Glaude, The College of New Jersey

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As an author and co-author, she has written several articles and books including Higglers in Kingston: Women’s Informal Work in Jamaica , The Toni Morrison Book Club , and Doing Diversity in Higher Education: Faculty Leaders Share Challenges and Strategies , and she is working on a new book, Neoliberalism in a Small Place: The Case of Jamaica.

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Turnitin's solution to AI cheating raises faculty concerns

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Some faculty members and institutional technology specialists are concerned about the speed of Turnitin’s rollout, as well as aspects of AI-detector technology more broadly. Chief among them were the inability of faculty and institutions to opt out of the service and the speed at which Originality would be introduced. ​He

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Belmont plans to hire Jewish faculty for the first time

Confessions of a Community College Dean

plans to break a long-standing tradition of only hiring Christian instructors by opening some faculty positions to Jewish candidates. University leaders recently announced they’re specifically recruiting Jewish faculty members to teach in three of its graduate programs, hopefully as early as this spring.

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A Culturally Responsive Counselor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title: Associate Professor of Counseling, Department of Disability & Psychoeducational Studies, University of Arizona, Affiliate Faculty, Education Policy Center, University of Arizona Tenured: Yes Age: 37 Education: B.S., As an example, she authored a 2018 article on the experiences of a gifted Black male with a traumatic brain injury.

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An Equity and Access Champion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In addition to her published peer-reviewed journal articles, Dueñas has been a guest on a podcast discussing her academic journey, and she has several works under review and in progress that she is authoring or co-authoring focused on the well-being of Latinx and other students of color. affect the day-to-day lives of students.”