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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The consequence: the richest institutions can fully fund the education of lower-income students, while the vast majority of working-class and lower-middle-class undergraduates must take out loans to pay for their education. Swensen, taking advantage of alternate assets, including hedge funds, private equity and natural resources.

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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. Faculty and student relations with the former president, the Rev.

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How Higher Ed Can Fight Racism: Q&A with Terri Givens

Higher Ed Connects: Diversity

Givens is the CEO and founder of the Center for Higher Education Leadership and is currently working on a book titled Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides. Leadership is critical for developing a climate that is supportive of black students and faculty.

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"We Know More Than What Those Damn Tests Claim to Measure”: How Tests are Inequitable for Black and Other Minoritized Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Years later, as higher education faculty in gifted and talented education, school counseling, mental health, and college and career readiness, we have the same and more concerns. This experience served as the fundamental reason I focused my dissertation and first book on gifted and talented Black students who became underachievers.

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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions (Assemblages Symposium)

SRHE

Here, two of our presenters Dr Karen Gravett and Tim Fawns , reflect on some of the ideas and issues raised during the third symposium on ‘Assemblages’. I think we are then less likely to develop practices that attune to wider contexts and possibilities. Her latest books are: Gravett, K. Personal website: [link].

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Why Quality & Rigor Matter In Dual Enrollment

Parchment

And so they need to be at the table for federal and state policy conversations as the folks that are often tasked to implement those policies to kind of ground truth and make sure that what is developed makes sense, moves objectives forward in a way that is thoughtful and manageable for the field. How do I do this to ensure that rigor?

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Perhaps the following conversation between Anita Casavantes Bradford and Steven Mintz about how R-1s can support their faculty to find fulfillment in meaningful research and as transformative teachers and mentors can suggest some answers. ” However, our campuses and our faculty roles have changed dramatically in the last few decades.