Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2023

In response, college and university leaders nationwide made significant commitments to improve campus racial climates. Such divestments in DEI are not without consequences, as they threaten to exacerbate the very issues of campus racial climate that these initiatives aim to address. What we learned may not surprise you.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 4, 2022

How might colleges and universities grapple with the climate crisis? To start, let’s break down the different ways by which the climate emergency can hit academic institutions. There’s the direct, environmental way, as storms strike, desertification and aridification expand, fire rage, heat rises, and waters surge through a campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Crystal Eufemia Garcia’s research examines the mechanisms by which racially minoritized college students experience campus environments. Garcia co-chairs the Association for the Study of Higher Education’s Council on Ethnic Participation’s Mentor-Protégé Program, a leadership role among others in her professional organization memberships.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Predominantly white universities aren’t doing enough to make students of color feel like they belong, the Education Trust said in a recent report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2023

The Aspen Institute’s This Is Planet Ed initiative has launched its Higher Ed Climate Action, which will aim to accelerate higher education’s progress on climate action, create an overarching framework, and identify policies to scale climate action across the sector. King, Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

A recent 2022 Campus Climate Survey showed that over half of faculty, staff, and postdoctoral students said they considered leaving UI from 2021-22, with reasons including better salaries or compensation at another institution (62%); primary workplace climate/culture (59%); and campus climate/culture (26%); and bias at the university (75%).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

Royel Johnson Royel Johnson has been appointed director of the National Assessment of Collegiate Campus Climates. Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s in educational policy studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

Additionally, the board of higher education must contract with a third party to conduct a campus climate survey, and it must monitor and report on compliance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 22, 2023

Chris Harris Chris Harris has been appointed director of the Office for Multicultural Learning, Campus Climate & Belonging at Santa Clara University. Harris served as assistant director of career development at the university. He holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Michigan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

While SB17 will take full effect in January 2024, DEI offices and faculty alike in Texas are scrambling to figure out the next steps in saving DEI initiatives campus wide. With the new semester on the horizon, anti-DEI legislation is bound to impact campus life and future enrollment in institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 17, 2023

Lacretia Johnson Flash Lacretia Johnson Flash has been named senior vice president for DEI, community, campus culture, and climate at Berklee College of Music.

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AIFS Abroad

APRIL 22, 2024

AIFS Abroad is committed to sustainability, environmental responsibility, and climate action. This event should promote sustainability and climate education and awareness. As someone who is involved in sustainability on my home campus, I can use my experience here to better help my campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The tour itself is meant to focus on issues disproportionately impacting young people, such as reproductive freedom, gun safety, climate action, voting rights, LGBTQ+ equality, mental health, and book bans, according to a press release. Vice President Kamala Harris Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images The event will take place at 1 p.m.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Johnson, professor at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California (USC) and director of the National Assessment of Collegiate Campus Climates in the USC Race and Equity Center. Dr. Royel M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

NEW YORK On the last day of the Student Leadership Network’s (SLN) Whole Girl Education National Conference: Closing the Gap, CEO Yolonda Marshall reminded attendees why they must continue to elevate and educate young women and gender expansive students: because the political and societal climate is dire. said Robinson. They partner with us.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

The award highlights an individual who has demonstrated a sustained commitment to advancing women in higher education through initiatives enhancing leadership and career development, campus climate, and mentoring.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

Conditions for academic governance at IU Northwest are unsound and its racial climate is unwelcoming to faculty of color, the report said. Mark McPhail, according to a report from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The current political climate has been worrisome for Dr. Sayvon Foster, an assistant professor of sports management, who is a first-time ASHE attendee. Martínez-Alemán, president of ASHE said that this year’s conference is committed to interrogating purposes and practices within higher education.

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University Business

APRIL 23, 2024

In a message to the community, Dartmouth College President, Sian Leah Beilock announced the launch of the Dartmouth Climate Collaborative, a $500 million commitment to address climate change and sustainability on campus. The plan calls for the largest sustainability investment in Dartmouth history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2023

Areas of potential hiring include quantum information sciences, artificial intelligence, energy and climate science, and cancer studies. By attracting additional top-tier faculty members and retaining existing experts, the campus will be able to expand innovation and grow academic and research opportunities for more students.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In a rebuke to Governor Ron DeSantis’s denialism, the student body calls for campus-wide measures to tackle the climate crisis The University of Florida student senate voted in favour of a “green new deal” late on Tuesday, becoming the first public university to adopt such a resolution through student government.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

The report provides insights on closing “the gap between our aspirational and actual selves in the CSU” to realize the full potential of Black students on campus. strategies to cultivate a systemwide infrastructure and inclusive campus climates. strategies to cultivate a systemwide infrastructure and inclusive campus climates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 31, 2023

According to the report, CDOs with less than one year of experience tended to report better buy-in, alignment with other departments on campus; and having meaningful positions in leadership. “An overwhelming number of you find it ‘extremely challenging’ to make diversity, equity, and inclusion outcomes more visible on their campuses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

These bloated DEI staffs are wasteful, associated with worse campus climates, and are found at universities that promote radical ideologies. Washington also invited the report’s authors to campus to discuss the report’s methodologies and findings. “We We are happy to host them on our campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

But my longtime concerns for him as a parent have grown more severe in today’s anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion climate. The same campus that recruited, supported, and welcomed me as a first-generation college student in the 1990s would likely be ill-equipped to do the same today. Dr. Susan D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2023

President Thomas Hudson In January, Hudson received a “no confidence” vote after a committee determined Hudson and his leadership had exhibited “a continuous pattern of failing to respect shared governance, transparency, accountability, and have worked outside of professional norms that have broad implications for the campus climate, the reputation (..)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2023

If institutions continue this pattern, baseline criteria for "inclusive excellence" within all campus program content will also remain unacceptable. Harvey, a nationally recognized scholar and academic leader, ultimately posits that limiting students’ access to the truth about themselves and historical realities is unacceptable.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Cevallos holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez; a master’s from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and a doctorate also from UIUC.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Campus Compact supports higher education institutions to build the knowledge, skills, and capacity needed to be community and civically engaged. Community engagement requires a holistic and campus-wide approach. Missing in the narrative and discussion are the stories we see on our campuses and in our communities, in action every day.

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CAPD

APRIL 4, 2024

The MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium’s (MCSC) new Climate & Sustainability Scholars Program enables MIT undergraduates to have a unique, yearlong, interdisciplinary experience developing and implementing climate and sustainability research projects. Learn more.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

remembers the joyful opening of the LGBTQ+ Resource Office on the main campus of Prairie View A&M University. The center director had to be reassigned to a new role on campus. Things sprang from the film festival (including an official LGBTQ student group on campus) in the decade that followed,” says Dacey.

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Higher Education Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

DiStefano The University of Colorado Boulder is proud to be cohosting the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit with the United Nations Human Rights Office on campus December 1–4. This landmark summit is an opportunity for worldwide participants to learn more about climate change through the lens of human rights from.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and College Pulse have released their annual ranking on campus free speech , and one of the most prestigious universities in the nation received the lowest score possible: a fat zero. Rank School Overall Speech climate 1 Michigan Technological University 78.01

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Higher education professionals have long been concerned with how to raise public awareness about climate change. Confronted with the apocalyptic climate narrative dominating popular media, ignorance has been replaced by a gripping fear of the future, particularly among young people. Yet today we face a different problem.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 18, 2022

At the flagship campus in West Lafayette, for example, international students are the largest demographic after White domestic students. I found that universities often frame Asian students’ increasing presence on campus as a financial decision without regard for the climate or culture that awaits them upon arrival.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In these early days, I am acclimating myself to the institution, evaluating the campus climate, establishing relationships with faculty, staff and students, and becoming more connected with the local community,” says Jaamal. Inclusion has to be part of our campus’ campus culture and ethos.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Evidence suggests that many minoritized students already perceive campus environments as racist. Thus, removing mechanisms expressly intended to support the diversification of campus environments sends a strong signal to racially minoritized students that they do not belong in many collegiate spaces.

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