Fri.Jan 27, 2023

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CVS Health to Partner with Higher Ed Institutions to Help Address Barriers to Care in Underserved Communities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

CVS Health has announced an initiative to help address barriers to care in underserved U.S. communities, and some higher ed institutions are taking part. Joining the CVS Health Community Equity Alliance are Meharry Medical College , Sinai Chicago, and Wayne State University, to which CVS Health will give funding to for initiatives. CVS will be working with Sinai Chicago to bring health resources to underserved communities; with Meharry to expand the community health worker workforce; and with Wa

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Finding Purpose as Praxis

Dr. Laura Pasquini

It’s been a while since I’ve been here. Sorry blog. It’s me, not you. I have been regularly blogging on here since 2008 (according to my #tbt Blog Survey ). I’m not sure why I dropped off from posting last year, but know you’re not the only digital practice (e.g. launching podcast episodes, posting photos, or even tweeting much — if that’s even a thing anymore) that was ignored in 2022.

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Educational Institutions Play Vital Role in Teaching American Public

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

On Thursday evening, the president of the philanthropic Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dr. Elizabeth Alexander and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Dr. Lonnie G. Bunch III came together to discuss the increasingly vital role public institutions play in teaching American citizens their country’s history, particularly the history of Black people.

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Addressing Failures of Implementation

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Beyond Transfer In 2021 and 2022, AACRAO staff (American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers) joined the growing national conversation on re-envisioning transfer, sharing research and recommendations in addition to highlighting the infrastructure deficiencies and need for a more global perspective in the “Beyond Transfer” blog.

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MassBay Community College to Offer Free Tech Education and Training to Unemployed and Underemployed Workers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MassBay Community College will be offering free education and training in the areas of computers and technology to unemployed and underemployed workers. This endeavor – funded by a three-year, $300,000 grant from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development – will allow students to take classes such as: Computers & Technology, offered in Spring 2023; CompTIA A+ certification, offered in Fall 2023; and Microsoft Office, offered every semester through MassBay’s Corpor

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Q&A: Sergio Brack’s Rapid Rise Leads to University of Maryland Esports

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

As an undergraduate, Sergio Brack made a name for himself as co-founder of College CoD — the College Call of Duty league — and president of the University of Mississippi’s esports organization. After graduating in 2020, he became director of esports at Ottawa University in Kansas. Today, he directs the esports program at the University of Maryland. He spoke with EdTech: Focus on Higher Education about his path to success, college-to-career pathways and the need to improve diversity within the sp

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Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Announces Resolution of Pregnancy Discrimination Investigation of Troy University in Alabama

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has concluded that Troy University did not make reasonable and responsive adjustments responsive to a student’s pregnancy-related adjustment requests during the 2020-21 school year. OCR had been investigating Troy regarding whether the school had responded to the student’s requests in a manner that complied with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

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SUNY Cortland to Host Inaugural Abraham Lincoln DeMond 1889 Day In Honor of First African American Alum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In time for Black History month, SUNY Cortland will be formally having its inaugural Abraham Lincoln DeMond 1889 Day , in honor of the school’s first African American alum – in 1889 – amid prejudicial policies and segregation. Abraham Lincoln DeMond The annual event will begin at 6 p.m. on Feb. 1, in the Corey Union Function Room. Speakers will include Pittman; Ernest Logan, president emeritus of the American Federation of School Administrators; and Cortland President Dr.

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Syracuse hires an Indigenous healer to meet student demand

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: For years, Indigenous students at Syracuse University have been urging administrators to increase campus supports for them, including in the counseling center. Now, in addition to pet therapy, meditation and roommate mediation, Syracuse students can seek treatment from Diane Schenandoah, a faith keeper of the Oneida Nation who uses traditional practices—including hands-on energy work and ceremonial rituals—to bring about healing.

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At Princeton, a Contained Debate About a Contested Statue

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Although the COVID-19 pandemic intensified racial divides in America, it did have one tempering effect. As students moved off campus and learned from home, the battles that had raged over building names statues, and memorials of figures associated with slavery, segregation, and eugenics cooled. Now, with campus life having returned to some version of normal, debates over landscape fairness are back.

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Spain's universities debate ban on taking political views

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Campaigners want to stop Spanish universities from obtaining the right to take positions on nonacademic issues guaranteed by law, which they claim will muzzle minority views. Tensions between individual and institutional politics are particularly pronounced in Catalonia, where university statements supporting pro-independence leaders have attracted legal penalties.

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ANITA B. WALTON

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Anita B. Walton Anita B. Walton has been named vice president for institutional advancement at Hollins University in Roanoke, Va. Walton holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s in higher education administration from North Carolina State University.

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Switching to Google Analytics 4 All you need to know

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Should you switch to GA4? This week we have a quick overview of the changes and top tips for transitioning across ahead of Universal Analytics ending in July.

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How minority faculty can best navigate campus job visits (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Category: Conditionally Accepted Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt offers advice about how underrepresented faculty members can best navigate campus visits at predominantly white institutions. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: diversity faculty Section: Diversity Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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How the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s backup power solution protects ocean research

University Business

Established in 1988, the mission of the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) is to make the center a leading institute in ocean and earth science and technology. SOEST scientists and engineers work to understand the interrelationships of the sea, atmosphere and Earth to learn how to sustainably enhance the quality of lives, as well as bring an enrichment of intellect, culture and technological advances to Hawaii.

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UAW Accuses UCSD Professors of Giving TAs Poor Grades for Striking

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Union members are accusing three University of California, San Diego, professors of giving “unsatisfactory” grades to 21 teaching assistants and a graduate student researcher for participating in the recent strike. In a Wednesday news release, the United Auto Workers said it violates California’s Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act to “retaliate against people on strike in any way, including by docking their grades.

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How Higher Ed Can Keep Up With Evolving Data Environments

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

One of the few things more complex than a cloud network is an enterprise network. The diversity of applications and the burden of legacy technology place ridiculous requirements on enterprise networks, and the price of those requirements is paid with the individual efforts required to keep things up and running. What’s more complex than an enterprise network?

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The Puertoricanization of U.S. Higher Ed

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Should Spanish be a domestic language in higher education? In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez’s Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera discusses this question. Herlihy-Mera is a professor of humanities at UPR–Mayagüez and author of Decolonizing American Spanish (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022). A transcript of this podcast can be found here.

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Writing and Communication Center’s IAP Finale!

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Writing and Communication Center IAP Workshops During the week of IAP (January 30-February 3), the WCC offers an excellent collection of workshops for graduate students: The Nuts and Bolts of Writing a Master’s Thesis : Mon, Jan 30th, 10-11:30am; via Zoom ( pre-registration required for the link) Writing a master’s thesis requires advanced planning and cutting down the writing process into manageable parts.

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Report: White House Considering Debt-Relief Contingency Plans

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Lawmakers and student debt advocacy groups are pushing the Biden administration to develop backup plans in case the U.S. Supreme Court rules against the administration’s one-time student loan forgiveness plan, Bloomberg reported. The report was based on two sources familiar with the informal discussions. One possible option is for the administration to change the legal justification for the plan.

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College enrollment decline leads to funding changes for underperforming Cal State schools

University Business

The California State University system is putting campuses on notice: Enroll more students or lose money. It’s a stunning reversal of fortune for the 23 campuses of the country’s largest public university system, which have collectively lost 27,000 students in two years — part of a national wave of declining college enrollment. In fall 2020, Cal State posted its highest-ever enrollment, a capstone to almost ceaseless growth in its six decades as a unified system.

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Auditor: Unable to Verify Education Dept.’s Debt-Relief Estimate

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Saying it found “material weakness” in the Education Department’s financial statements for the last year, an outside auditor declined to issue an opinion on the documents. KPMG, the independent auditor hired by the department’s inspector general, said the department wasn’t able to provide the necessary evidence to support its estimate of how much student loan forgiveness will cost, which was based in a large part on how many people would apply for debt relief.

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Why the college rankings are getting less and less relevant

University Business

Since 1983, U.S. News & World Report ’s annual ranking of colleges and universities has been a driving force in American higher education. But recently, the ground behind the rankings has begun to shift. In November, Yale and Harvard jolted the academic world when they announced that they would yank their law schools from the list altogether — a decision that has had a domino effect on other prestigious law and medical programs.

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Education Dept. Settles Pregnancy Issues at Troy U

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has resolved a complaint about the way Troy University, in Alabama, handled a student’s pregnancy. The student complained that when she “became unable to fit into a classroom desk due to her pregnancy, she requested a table for one of her classes, but never received one. She also was penalized in a class for poor attendance and received a failing grade in another class because she was denied the ability to make up work.

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Nearly 2 in 5 recent graduates said their colleges didn’t prepare them mentally to transition to a workplace - Laura Spitalniak, Higher Ed Dive

Ray Schroeder

Over one-third of young professionals, 39%, said their colleges didn’t help prepare them for the mental health challenges that can come with transitioning to the workplace, according to a new report from the Mary Christie Institute, a think tank focused on young adults’ mental health. Just over half of respondents reported experiencing burnout at least once a week.

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Teachers Strike at UCLA Lab School

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Teachers went on strike for two days, starting Wednesday, at the University of California Lab School, which the Los Angeles Times described as “an elite pre-K-through-sixth-grade school nestled in a quiet corner of the UCLA campus,” which “has offered a nurturing environment for students whose parents won a coveted spot for their child.

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Education Department Plans to Publish List of Low-Performing Programs - Katherine Knott, Inside Higher Ed

Ray Schroeder

Nearly a decade after the Obama administration broached the idea of rating colleges and universities, the Biden administration is ready to take another crack at the historically fraught concept. This time around, the administration is planning to publish a list of programs that are considered to have a low financial value to students and taxpayers. But first the department must decide how to determine which programs have low financial value—a question that’s been the subject of much research but

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More Quit ‘U.S. News’ Rankings of Medical, Law Schools

Confessions of a Community College Dean

More medical and law schools have announced that they are leaving the U.S. News & World Report rankings of those institutions. The medical schools of Cornell University and the University of Chicago are the latest to join the movement. Harvard University kicked off the effort this month, and it was quickly joined by the medical schools of Columbia and Stanford Universities and the University of Pennsylvania and the Icahn medical school of Mount Sinai.

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Florida nursing schools sold 7,600 fake diplomas worth more than $100 million, feds say

University Business

Three Florida nursing schools sold thousands of fake nursing diplomas worth millions in a scheme that allowed aspiring nurses to bypass the required training to become licensed in the profession, federal prosecutors alleged Thursday. Siena College, Palm Beach School of Nursing and Sacred Heart International Institute – all based in south Florida – combined to distribute more than 7,600 fraudulent diplomas worth over $100 million or roughly $15,000 per diploma, federal prosecutors said.

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Updates on capital campaigns

Confessions of a Community College Dean

University of Florida raised $4.6 billion in a campaign that started in in 2014. The campaign’s original goal was $3 billion. York College of Pennsylvania has raised $92 million in a campaign that started in 2020. The original goal was $50 million, which was increased to $70 million. Editorial Tags: Fund-Raising Is this diversity newsletter?: Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?

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The Four Most Important Customer Satisfaction Metrics

Hanover Research

Exceed customers ’ growing expectations by evaluating and adjusting to these four core customer satisfaction metrics. Good Isn’t Good Enough Customers today have increased expectations for companies. Businesses that fail to satisfy customers risk losing them, possibly for good. Consider these stats: Only 23% of customers today are “very satisfied” with their experience 44% of customers are open to trying new brands, even if they generally like the ones they currently use 86% of consumers will le

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Spanish as a Domestic Language in Higher Ed: Academic Minute

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Today on the Academic Minute : Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, professor of humanities at the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez, explores problems with English-only policies in education. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Guillermo Elizondo of Territorium: Pulse Podcast

Confessions of a Community College Dean

This month’s episode of the Pulse podcast features an interview with Guillermo Elizondo of Territorium. In a conversation with Rodney B. Murray, host of The Pulse, Elizondo explains how the company’s digital competency records can benefit learners and employers. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?

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Guillermo Elizondo of Territorium

Confessions of a Community College Dean

This month’s episode of the Pulse podcast features an interview with Guillermo Elizondo of Territorium. In a conversation with Rodney B. Murray, host of The Pulse, Elizondo explains how the company’s digital competency records can benefit learners and employers. Find out more at Rod’s Pulse Podcast. Your browser does not support the audio element.

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University of Kentucky trains teachers in Holocaust education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: University of Kentucky faculty members are working to train hundreds of K-12 teachers in the state to teach about the Holocaust. The Holocaust Education Initiative, run by UK professors and funded by a grant from the Jewish Heritage Fund, aims to prepare teachers to meet state standards of a 2018 law requiring Holocaust education at Kentucky public schools.

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Seeking fiscal transparency for public colleges

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Months after revelations of financial turmoil spurred a state investigation at New Jersey City University, legislators want to make sure they’re not caught by surprise the next time a public institution faces a crisis. To that end, they’ve introduced three pieces of legislation designed to beef up financial oversight of the state’s colleges and universities.

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Unveiling a New AP African American Studies Framework

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Facing pressure from the governors of Florida and Illinois, the College Board is preparing to unveil a new framework Wednesday for its Advanced Placement African American Studies course. “To develop this official course framework, the AP Program consulted with more than 300 professors of African American Studies from more than 200 colleges nationwide, including dozens of Historically Black Colleges and Universities,” read a letter from the College Board to its members and obtained by