Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

The legacy of mistreatment that American Indians and Alaska Natives have endured is evident in the educational statistics. Only 16.1% of AIAN people over 25 have a bachelor’s degree or higher, less than half the rate of Americans overall, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In an attempt to address this disparity, the Lilly Endowment, has announced a five-year, $38,775,000 grant to the American Indian College Fund, the nation’s largest charity for Native higher education.

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Great College Advice

JANUARY 2, 2023

College campus visits are a ritual. A rite of passage. A requirement. And they also are mostly a waste of time and money. As the summer winds down, my team and I have been busy debriefing our students and their parents about whatever summertime college campus visits they have done in the past month or two. While my colleagues and I have done hundreds of campus visits as a way to research colleges, our families are embarking on these adventures for the first time.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

Wayne State University has received $6 million for a cluster hire program to recruit and hire 30 new humanities faculty and create a Black Studies center. Dr. M. Roy Wilson The multi-million dollar grant – from The Mellon Foundation – will allow the school to recruit 10 tenure-track faculty; 10 tenured associate or full professor-level faculty; and 10 early career scholars for the Pathway to Faculty program, an initiative to prepare people for tenure-track roles.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 2, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation For a few years, I’ve used my last blog post of the calendar year to aggregate the book reviews I’ve published over the past year. This post always generates several emails in which readers share what they’ve read over the past year. It is always rewarding to see an overlap in the reading habits of our Inside Higher Ed community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

New Orleans, Louisiana will be the newest location for nonprofit Generation Hope's Scholar Program , which aims to support and give young parents wrap-around services to help them attain college degrees. Nicole Lynn Lewis Program participants will get resources and services, such as tuition assistance, crisis assistance, emergency funding, mentoring, mental health, and career support.

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Roompact

JANUARY 2, 2023

This post is one in a five part series on securing a summer internship in college housing and residence life through the ACUHO-I’s Housing Internship Program. It is written from the perspective of a former ACUHO-I Intern. The series will walk you through the process from beginning to end providing tips and tricks along the.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

In December, the US General Accountability Office (GAO) published a report indicating variation in how colleges show cost and aid information in financial aid offers, which makes it harder for students to compare offers. Approximately 91% of colleges understate or don't include net price in college offers, according to the report. Steve Colón Steve Colón, CEO of college admission nonprofit Bottom Line said that more needs to be done in the wake of the report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

Ivana Rich Ivana Rich has been appointed associate vice president and director of intercollegiate athletics at Edward Waters University in Jacksonville, Fla. She holds a master’s in sports management from VSU, a master’s in human services counseling from Liberty University, and a doctoral degree in curriculum and instruction/educational technology from the University of South Carolina.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 2, 2023

Who is your favorite poet’s favorite poet? In today's Academic Minute, a Commissioner’s Choice Award segment as part of University of Dayton Week, Minnita Daniel-Cox looks into one such person. Daniel-Cox is an associate professor of voice and coordinator of the voice area at Dayton. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. Section: Academic Minute File: 01-02-23 Dayton - Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Artist Legacy.

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Dr. Al Solano

JANUARY 2, 2023

LISTEN TO THE EPISODE: Learn about inquiry and action teams and how they help college educators continually improve their craft. In this episode, I interview Margaret Prothero, English Faculty and Guided Pathways Coordinator at Santa Barbara City College. (Scroll down to access the transcript.). Focus of the episode: Inquiry & Action Teams (fully explained in this video , which shows the contrast between this type of team and a case management team).

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Ray Schroeder

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Student Association Senate’s finance committee Monday reported a record-low fulfillment of student organization funding requests due to budget cuts. Nathan Nguyen, the director of the Legislative Budget Office and an ad hoc member of the committee, said student organizations requested about $2.2 million for the spring semester, but the SA’s budget consists of about $343,000, only 16.75 percent of the amount requested.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 2, 2023

Historian of education Jonathan Zimmerman’s superficial commentary on “affirmative action and anti-Asian bias” (Dec. 12) demands a response. Without checking any evidence, Zimmerman parrots opinion essays in The New York Times and elsewhere that repeat the undocumented, ideologically fueled court filings— not initiated by either Asian-Americans or other American—by a well-funded right-wing campaign of assault on the proven (if never 100 percent perfect) record of af

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Experiential Learning Depot

JANUARY 2, 2023

What is self-directed learning and what does that look like in a classroom or homeschool? This phrase and other variations of the phrase (child-led learning, self-directed learning, student-led learning, etc. etc. etc. ) imply that learning experiences are designed, coordinated, and led by students. Your students are self-directed learners, not passive receivers of information.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 2, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A Gallup and Purdue poll of 30,000 college grads from 2014 found that students who had a rich, robust relationship with a faculty member were twice as likely as peer graduates to report high levels of well-being. But only 14 percent of graduates said they had experienced such a relationship. Two books that appeared in 2020 – which were mainly written pre-pandemic -- speak to an issue that campuses need to take more seriously: The centrality of interpersonal relationsh

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