Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 8, 2023

Land-grant universities (LGUs) that are historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) are significantly underfunded compared to predominantly white LGUs, according to a new report by the Center for American Progress (CAP). Dr. Sara Partridge LGUs categorized as 1890 and 1994 institutions – those recognized as HBCUs and TCUs – serve students from predominantly low- and low-middle-income backgrounds but are given far less resources, the report sta

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2023

8 August · Episode 167 Drive Enrollment Growth with First-Gen Pathways to Success 43 Min · By Drumm McNaughton As higher ed faces enrollment challenges, fostering diverse pathways for first-gen students creates new opportunities for driving enrollment growth. As higher ed nears the looming enrollment cliff , colleges and universities looking to drive enrollment growth must identify more pathways for students to obtain a college degree, especially in the case of first-generation student

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 8, 2023

Award-winning actress Phylicia Rashad, is planning to step down as dean of the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard University at the end of the 2023-2024 academic year when her three-year contract expires. Phylicia Rashad is currently the dean of the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard University. Even while serving as dean and professor at her alma mater, Rashad has continued her acting career.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 8, 2023

A mandated curriculum long sought by Virginia Commonwealth students and faculty members was set to take effect this fall. The university delayed it late last month, and advocates don’t buy its reasoning for doing so. In 2019, the chair of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of African American Studies asked a panel of four Virginia college and university presidents whether their institutions required a course on race and racism.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 8, 2023

By Drs. Donna Y. Ford, Erik M. Hines, Edward C. Fletcher Jr, Tanya J. Middleton & Renae D. Mayes The new school year is upon us. With it comes our individual and collective hopes and concerns about the quality of life in schools for Black students. Simultaneously, we have hopes and concerns about the preparation of teachers – majority white (80%) and females (77%) -- and others -- to work in anti-racist, equitable, and culturally responsive ways with Black students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 8, 2023

Susan Resneck Pierce explores this growing threat to higher education and how presidential searches must change in response. In a letter to the late William G. Bowen, the former president of Princeton University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Brian Rosenberg, then president of Macalester College, wrote, “I think organizations with a culture of suspicion make decisions to avoid the worst, while those with a culture of trust make decisions to aspire to the best.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 8, 2023

A joint effort between The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University focused on male students of color will host a two-day convening for the 10th annual Texas Male Student Leadership Summit. The event – hosted by UT Austin’s Project MALES and the UT Austin-Texas A&M collaboration Texas Education Consortium for Male Students of Color – will take place at UT Austin Aug. 10-11.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 8, 2023

New Mexico's Higher Education Department has announced that it is accepting applications for a program that will provide up to 100 percent student loan forgiveness for New Mexico residents who graduated from one of the 23 out-of-state professional and graduate programs. Stephanie Rodriguez is the higher education secretary for the New Mexico's Higher Education Department.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 8, 2023

A former University of Michigan music professor who was fired in 2020 after being accused of multiple instances of sexual assault pleaded guilty Monday to sexually assaulting an adult, a second-degree felony,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 8, 2023

Julie M. Aultman Julie M. Aultman has been appointed dean of the College of Graduate Studies for Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown, Ohio. Aultman earned a master’s degree in bioethics from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and a Ph.D. in medical ethics and cognitive science from Michigan State University.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 8, 2023

Florida’s LGBTQ+ College Students Face a Tough Choice: Stay or Go? Featured Image at Top of Article IMG_8166.

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Ray Schroeder

AUGUST 8, 2023

The average data breach in the higher education and training sector cost $3.7 million in 2023, according to an annual report from IBM. This marks a decline from 2022, when the average cost of a data breach for the higher education sector reached $3.9 million. IBM includes public and private colleges, as well as training and development companies in its count.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 8, 2023

Asian American students are much less likely than white applicants to be accepted to highly selective colleges and universities, according to a new working paper released by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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CU Work-Life Balance

AUGUST 8, 2023

The University of Colorado welcomes international students, faculty, researchers and staff from around the globe each year. The International Tax Office is proud to serve CU’s international community and provides a vital touchpoint for international visitors navigating U.S. tax obligations. Incoming international employees and students who receive payments through CU payroll are required to schedule a new employee appointment with the International Tax Office at their earliest convenience in ord

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 8, 2023

The saga between Oberlin College and Gibson’s Bakery has spilled over into another lawsuit. This time it’s Oberlin suing four insurance companies to compel them to cover a multimillion-dollar judgment won by Gibson’s Bakery in 2019, The Chronicle-Telegram of Ohio reported.

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Clark Nesxen

AUGUST 8, 2023

Finding the right materials is a key process in many of our projects. New sustainability commitments, however, have placed a greater focus on how our firm sources and selects materials. In the following, Clark Nexsen sustainability student Erisa Harris shares details in her report on how to source popular materials, such as steel and concrete, that have lower embodied carbon and meet susta inability goals.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 8, 2023

A legal nonprofit has filed a civil rights complaint against the University of Nebraska at Lincoln over a residency program offered there for Black filmmakers, alleging it is “race-exclusive” and therefore illegal in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling striking down race-based affirmative action in admissions.

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University Business

AUGUST 8, 2023

Research by UCLA psychologists shows that, astonishingly, the artificial intelligence language model GPT-3 performs about as well as college undergraduates when asked to solve the sort of reasoning problems that typically appear on intelligence tests and standardized tests such as the SAT. The study is published in Nature Human Behaviour. Without access to GPT-3’s inner workings — which are guarded by OpenAI, the company that created it — the UCLA scientists can’t say for sure how its reasonin

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EAB

AUGUST 8, 2023

Podcast How Fly-Ins Impact Diversity in the Michigan Ross BBA Program Episode 161. August 8, 2023. Welcome to the Office Hours with EAB podcast. You can join the conversation on social media using #EABOfficeHours. Follow the podcast on Spotify , Google Podcasts , Apple Podcasts , SoundCloud and Stitcher or visit our podcast homepage for additional episodes.

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University Business

AUGUST 8, 2023

Idaho’s four college and university presidents spent about $150,000 traveling, over a 12-month span. Boise State University President Marlene Tromp and University of Idaho President C. Scott Green both outspent Gov. Brad Little’s travels. The state’s chief executive ran up $48,216.72 in bills. Tromp had spent four days in Hiroshima, Japan, for the G7 global summit.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 8, 2023

Community college enrollments decline in response to state-level minimum wage increases, according to a new working paper released by the National Bureau of Economic Research Monday. However, minimum wage changes had little effect on degree attainment, the paper said.

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University Business

AUGUST 8, 2023

Treatment for the illness requires “daily treatment” for the next “few months” at the University of Kansas Cancer Center in Kansas City. Linton said he plans to “stay engaged” with K-State by continuing to work remotely. He’s appointed Marshall Stewart, senior vice president and chief of staff, to represent him at meetings and events.

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AUGUST 8, 2023

A spokesperson for the Illinois Board of Higher Education said Friday that there have been no applications by an entity seeking to reinitiate postsecondary educational operations at the former Lincoln College site. The spokesman he said remains unaware of any plans to do so. This statement comes after Lincoln’s mayor, recently announced on a radio show that the college would be reopening.

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University Business

AUGUST 8, 2023

A month ago, the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles announced their departure from the Pac-12 Conference. As of today, only four colleges remain: California State University, Oregon State University, Stanford University and Washington State University. With college football beginning less than a month away, five schools announced last Friday their departures, just one week after the University of Colorado Boulder jumped ship to the Big 12 Conference.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 8, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute, part of Florida International University Week, Chen Min, Endowed SunTrust Bank Professorship Holder and associate professor in the department of information systems and business analytics, explores how this might be the case.

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University Business

AUGUST 8, 2023

The threat of a data breach is always imminent in higher education, and a new analysis by IBM illustrates just how expensive one can be. “The Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023” found that the average cost of a cybersecurity breach was $3.7 million at colleges or universities and related training and development companies between March 2022 and March 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 8, 2023

Student borrowers who were defrauded by their colleges will have to continue waiting for debt relief after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit blocked rules aimed at making it easier for them to get loan forgiveness. The Department of Education is now barred from implementing the policies, which took effect last month, while the three-person panel of conservative appointees hears a lawsuit from Career Colleges and Schools of Texas (CCST), an association of nearly 100 for-profit insti

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 8, 2023

Biden administration has already used the new rules to forgive $130 million in student loans for 7,400 borrowers from a for-profit Colorado college. Additional loan discharges will be on hold until a court weighs the rule’s legality. A federal appeals court has blocked the latest version of U.S. Education Department rules that allow borrowers to apply for relief from their student debt if their college or university misled them or violated certain state laws.

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