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Howard University Takes Affirmative Step, All HBCUs Need More Support

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The nation’s oldest private and public universities respectively, both were financed by profits from the enslavement of African-descended people. And despite chronic and discriminatory under-funding, HBCUs have stood as the greatest driver of social and economic mobility of Black Americans in the country.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

With many providers offering ‘Professional’ doctorates, leading for example to a Doctorate in Business, a Doctorate in Education, a Doctorate in Engineering, the thesis may be replaced partly or wholly by professional experience and study may take place in conjunction with paid work as a required element. Funding for them may be uncertain.

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Hard Truths That Higher Education Has Evaded for Too Long

Confessions of a Community College Dean

That despite a quarter century of intensive efforts to raise college graduation rates, rates remain distressingly low for Black and Hispanic students, older students, part-time students, and community college students. Accreditors could, for example, require institutions to undergo professional development training in teaching.

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Regulatory Changes and Their Implications for Higher Education Mergers: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 190 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Mike Goldstein

The Change Leader, Inc.

A significant bill under consideration aims to make short-term training programs (8 to 15 weeks) eligible for full Pell Grant funding at accredited institutions. Mike is a pioneer in the development of the legal environment in higher education and a counselor at the highest levels of legislation in higher education. [00:31:24]

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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions

SRHE

Here the three presenters reflect on some of the ideas and issues raised during the first symposium on ‘Networks’. That vocabulary must be challenging, so that it provokes new thinking, but it must not be overly technical or oriented towards engineering or architectural concerns. What might this look like?

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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

I’ll be developing and calling out tags I use for these themes so that you can go to an archive page on each one. J-WEL is one of many funded centers at MIT. The group started its work with some funding from J-WEL and continued on a volunteer basis afterward because they all cared about the project. The context of the paper.

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Sustainability actions students take and want their colleges to take

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“Students across many non–sustainability and environmental science majors are thinking about environmental and sustainability issues,” says Ken Lindeman, a professor of ocean engineering and marine sciences as well as the sustainability manager at Florida Institute of Technology.

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