Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

Having student loans is associated with worse health outcomes and practices, according to a new study published in the Journal of American College Health. Dr. Arielle Kuperberg “Student loans, physical and mental health, and health care use and delay in college” examined data collected from surveys in 2017 of 3,248 undergraduates at two public U.S. universities, looking to see whether there was a relationship between student loan presence and the health of students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 11, 2023

As Affirmative Action Ends, HBCUs Wait or Plan for the Fallout Featured Image at Top of Article Morehouse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

Pima Community College (PCC) received $1.7 million in state funding for its STEM workforce development programs, AZ Central reported. Some of the money helped build the school’s Automotive Technology and Innovation Center to train future automotive technicians. This year’s state budget also allocated $2 million for school operations. Arizona is a center of emerging technologies, such as semiconductors, electric vehicles, and aerospace, said Arizona Gov.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 11, 2023

Three private universities in California say they admitted students in recent years who didn’t meet the institutions’ academic requirements. When competitive colleges are asked about legacy admissions, they generally say that legacy applicants (those who are the children or relatives of alumni) meet the required academic qualifications for acceptance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

Brenda Murrell Brenda Murrell has been named associate vice chancellor for research in the Office of Sponsored Programs at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. Murrell holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Memphis, a bachelor’s degree in management from Lemoyne-Owen College in Memphis, and an MBA in finance from Christian Brothers University in Memphis.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 11, 2023

Enrollment in the state has plummeted, but it has one of the highest ratios of institutions to students in the country. The result is fierce competition over a dwindling pool of applicants. Pennsylvania has a numbers problem.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

John Mercer Langston was born free in 1829 in Louisa County, Virginia. He was active in the abolishment movement, helping slaves gain freedom along the Underground Railroad. Langston also served as a minister to Haiti and president of the Virginia Normal and Collegiate School, what is today Virginia State University in Petersburg, Virginia. Langston was elected to Congress from Virginia in 1888 — one of only five African Americans elected to Congress from the South during the post-Reconstruction

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

More than 20 inmates from the Utah Department of Corrections recently graduated from Salt Lake Community College (SLCC). They were commended with SLCC’s first graduation ceremony ever for the department of corrections, Fox 13 reported. The students – 23 received a certificate of completion or associate's degree – took classes through SLCC's Prison Education Program – which was founded in 2017 and offers job placement after their sentences end.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 11, 2023

The University of North Texas can continue to charge out-of-state students a higher tuition rate than undocumented students living in Texas, according to a Monday decision from the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision reversed a previous federal district court ruling and injunction that blocked the university from charging out-of-state tuition while the Texas Dream Act was in effect.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

Northwestern University football coach Pat Fitzgerald has been fired Jul. 10 due to a hazing scandal, The Chicago Tribune reported. Pat Fitzgerald Fitzgerald “was being relieved of his duties effective immediately” due to his “failure to know and prevent significant hazing” in the school’s football program, Northwestern President Michael Schill said in a public statement.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 11, 2023

Shakil Rabbi describes how an innovative class helped diverse students from various countries and backgrounds navigate cultural differences. International students are legion in the student bodies of colleges and universities in the United States; according to the Institute of International Education, their number now stands at more than a million. Such students are an important feature of American higher education institutions.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

When it comes to cybersecurity, it’s a bit of a good news/bad news situation for higher education institutions. The good news is that ransomware attacks — long a menace to college and university IT departments — dipped slightly overall last year, according to the 2023 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report. The bad news? Malware attacks are on the rise, with colleges and universities increasingly targeted by malicious actors.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 11, 2023

An experiment to encourage more women undergraduates to study economics produced mixed results but raised awareness of gender disparities in the field. An experiment to encourage more women undergraduates to study economics produced mixed results but succeeded in bringing awareness to the gender disparities in the field, according to a new working paper published by the National Board of Economic Research.

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University Business

JULY 11, 2023

About half of West Virginia University’s academic programs are up for review as a financial crunch has pushed the school to size up what it can and can’t afford. During a Campus Conversation this week, officials said 47 percent of academic programs have been identified for review. About the same number, 48 percent, of academic units are up for review.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 11, 2023

The former University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism director, who’s also a veteran New York Times editor, turned down Texas A&M University’s offer to revive its journalism school after A&M changed its tenure offer to an at-will contract, The Texas Tribune reported Tuesday.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

Exclusive: Cambridge academic’s study of surviving letters shows pay row with wealthy patron The Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer took revenge on his patron by placing his own self-portrait in a 1500s altarpiece he painted for him after a bitter row over pay, according to new research. The Nuremberg master was commissioned by a wealthy Frankfurt merchant, Jacob Heller, only to find himself fighting in vain for a decent fee.

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University Business

JULY 11, 2023

The Brown Daily Herald , Brown University’s independent student newspaper, recently discovered that nearly 38% of its student body identifies somewhere on the LGBTQ+ spectrum, which is over five times the national rate. Brown’s LGBTQ+ student cohort has more than doubled since fall 2010. Similarly, the Association of American Universities (AAU) found in 2020 that nearly a fifth of today’s undergraduates and graduates identify outside of the heterosexual spectrum.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

Diagnosed with autism as a child, Arday found his voice through speech therapy and his mother’s unflagging support. Now he is using it with the same tenacity that saw him run 30 marathons in 35 days Jason Arday believes in destiny. The University of Cambridge’s youngest Black professor, he joined its faculty of education in March 2023, at 37. Before then, he had been a professor at Glasgow and Durham universities; published three books of academic work, mainly focusing on race and education; and

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Roompact

JULY 11, 2023

Across the country a week or two before all students return to campus, we see housing student leaders come back early to prepare and train for the upcoming year. This often involves team building, crisis management, facetime with campus resource leaders, and hopefully some time carved out for hall preparations. After the whirlwind of the.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 11, 2023

Informing the voters. Last week I passed along an observation from a reader about the seeming absence of business acumen among academic leaders and the consequent gaps in shared governance. Karen Novick, an associate dean at Rutgers, offered the following response, which deserves to be quoted at length.

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AIFS Abroad

JULY 11, 2023

Last Updated on July 11, 2023 by Cat Rogliano Did you know? Sustainability is a key priority for AIFS Abroad in all facets of our organization. Whether we’re considering organizational, operational, or programming decisions, mitigating climate change and reducing our environmental impact is always top of mind. One of the major elements of our efforts is ensuring our participants worldwide are taking part in educational opportunities that focus on best practices in their host countries.

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Ray Schroeder

JULY 11, 2023

A budget deal between lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsmon includes $227 million more for the state’s Middle Class Scholarship, part of a commitment to eventually remove any reason for public university students to borrow loans. The revised program debuted last year, sending an average of nearly $2,000 to 300,000 students.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

Readers respond to Polly Toynbee’s analysis of Labour’s new education policy to break the ‘class ceiling’ In her depressing article, Polly Toynbee states that social mobility has gone into reverse ( Keir Starmer has finally used the C-word: acknowledging the barriers of class that still divide us, 6 July ). She refers to the progress made during the postwar years, and I experienced this directly; after leaving school without A-levels, I got into university as a mature student in the early 1970s.

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Ray Schroeder

JULY 11, 2023

Members of the Connecticut State Universities, American Association of University of Professors union, showed up to a Board of Regents meeting to say they don’t agree with the planned budget cuts to Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU). Professors and staff say the planned cuts could lead to more than 650 full-time faculty and staff layoffs, the elimination of 3,000 part-time positions, and a tuition increase by thousands of dollars.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 11, 2023

Three private universities in California universities acknowledged to the state that in recent years they admitted some legacy students who did not meet their minimum admissions requirements, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JULY 11, 2023

Since 1984, more than 19,000 campus and learning sites have been reported as closed. Night schools and satellite campuses have dwindled as online leaning has replaced them. Universities have also closed campuses in foreign countries. While online education may be more convenient, little is known about the effectiveness of online education in terms of learning outcomes, completion rates, and return on investment.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 11, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute: Ellen Meiser, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, explores how abusive behavior has become the norm in restaurant kitchens.

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PUC

JULY 11, 2023

For those of you who recently graduated high school, congratulations from all of us at PUC! With your last summer home, we’ve made a list of fun activities and some ideas for those of you who want to get a headstart into your major.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 11, 2023

Northwestern University fired its head football coach, Pat Fitzgerald, on Monday following the release of allegations of sexualized hazing in the program.

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Parchment

JULY 11, 2023

The traditional college credit transfer process can be a daunting experience for students, typically involving long wait times and a lot of confusing paperwork. As a result, organizations and professionals across the higher education landscape are pivoting to comprehensive digital solutions that can help them better support learners in this process.

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ISA Journal

JULY 11, 2023

My hand dives into my bag searching for my Lumix camera under a pile of souvenirs at the Pittsburgh airport. I wonder how my pictures turned out. Did I take enough? Did I take too many and did they all turn out well?

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Parchment

JULY 11, 2023

The higher education admissions process often involves cumbersome manual tasks and complex systems. Parchment, the industry leader in academic credentials management, recently partnered with SmartPanda , a provider of mission-critical software solutions for higher education, to revolutionize these processes. The result of this collaborative effort — Parchment Receive Premium + Data Automation — is a powerful and game-changing solution that combines Parchment’s widely adopted transcript collectio

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

Blogs How to Future-Proof Your Student List Strategy 2 Ways Cappex Candidates Are Evolving By Brandy Palmer Today’s enrollment leaders are facing an increasingly complex student list market. Ever since the pandemic accelerated the rise of test-optional admissions, many students have continued to gravitate toward colleges with flexible testing policies.

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University Business

JULY 11, 2023

The private college did not meet the criteria for its “resource base” due to unstable finances that include a lack of plans to balance the school’s budget and reduce debt, according to HLC, an accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. The college has until Oct. 1, 2024, to submit a filing confirming it has resolved the issues that led to its probation.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

JULY 11, 2023

Harness Your Unique Story to Increase Enrollment It’s never been harder to stand out in higher education. Thousands of institutions are competing for a dwindling number of students. With so many schools to choose from, and a generation of students who have become even more discerning , what used to help you stand out just doesn’t cut it anymore. Plenty of schools offer online programs, cost-effective degrees, individualized support, and expert faculty.

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University Business

JULY 11, 2023

Northwestern fired coach Pat Fitzgerald on Monday amid a hazing scandal that called into question his leadership of the program and damaged the university’s reputation after it mishandled its response to the allegations. “The hazing included forced participation, nudity and sexualized acts of a degrading nature, in clear violation of Northwestern policies and values,” Northwestern President Michael Schill wrote in an open letter to the university community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

The course of Carlos Galan’s academic career was changed by a single question from a high school student. It was 2021, and Galan was working in a summer bridge program, supporting teenagers who were applying to college. A Latino student researching a university department observed that hardly any of the faculty had backgrounds similar to his own. “I cannot believe everyone is white,” the student said.

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