Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 17, 2023
Soraya M. Coley, president of Cal Poly Pomona, will receive the American Council on Education's (ACE) Donna Shavlik Award for her efforts in support of the success of women. Coley will be given the award Apr. 13 at the Women’s Leadership Dinner during ACE’s annual meeting in Washington, DC.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 17, 2023
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 17, 2023
As the world awaits the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the constitutionality of affirmative action, the Mellon Foundation, a nonprofit that makes grants related to higher learning, among other areas, recently convened a panel to discuss how America got to this moment and what might come after.
College for Creative Study
MARCH 17, 2023
The post Alumnus Mario Moore ’09 Speaks to WDET about Kicking off CCS Woodward Lecture Series appeared first on College for Creative Studies. Alumni Fine Arts CCS Detroit Mario Moore Painting WDET
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 17, 2023
Kelsi Schagunn Kelsi Schagunn has been appointed assistant director for study abroad in the Center for International Education at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.
College for Creative Study
MARCH 17, 2023
The post Fashion Design Associate Professor Featured in Hour Magazine appeared first on College for Creative Studies. Fashion Design CCS Detroit Fashion Accessories Design Hour Magazine Rey Pador
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 17, 2023
Lacretia Johnson Flash Lacretia Johnson Flash has been named senior vice president for DEI, community, campus culture, and climate at Berklee College of Music.
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Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 17, 2023
Image: The Stop WOKE Act continues to be blocked at Florida public colleges and universities, and it will likely stay that way at least through the end of this academic year. A three-judge panel of the U.S.
PUC
MARCH 17, 2023
Meet one of our newest Pioneers, Daniel Randall. He’s a freshman from Berrien Springs, Michigan, studying environmental science. Daniel loves being outdoors, which is why he decided to attend PUC, because of the college’s location and being “a great starting point for many outdoor adventures.”
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 17, 2023
Image: At Wake Forest University’s Center for Learning, Access and Student Success (CLASS), academic coaches help students get organized by translating syllabus deadlines into a comprehensive spreadsheet.
University Business
MARCH 17, 2023
Following Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker’s preliminary injunction on Gov.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 17, 2023
How, Deborah J. Cohan asks, can academe make it more productive, meaningful and streamlined for everyone—including the candidate, the reviewers and the institution?
University Business
MARCH 17, 2023
A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCR) demonstrates that undergraduate completion rates have fallen to numbers not seen in four years.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 17, 2023
Image: The number of students who earned undergraduate degrees fell by 1.6 percent last year, reversing nearly a decade of steady growth, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
University Business
MARCH 17, 2023
WICHITA, Kan. KSNW) — Wichita’s aviation success and the need for more trained aviation workers got some attention on Capitol Hill Thursday morning. The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held a hearing about strengthening the aviation workforce.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 17, 2023
Image: The Biden administration’s $90 billion plan to provide free community college likely won’t make it through Congress, but supporters of the effort say the request shows it’s a priority for the administration and helps to continue the national conversation about the policy.
University Business
MARCH 17, 2023
To give themselves more breathing room, colleges have tried instead to spread out the process with multiple submission deadlines over several months.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 17, 2023
Image: Oregon State University, Cascades, is placing career-readiness competencies in the classroom and at the forefront of campus activities with its new initiative, Cascades Edge.
University Business
MARCH 17, 2023
The gift is second only to the $50-million contribution made in 1969 by 1931 alumnus E. Claiborne Robins, which fundamentally altered the course of the university by elevating it in a number of ways.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 17, 2023
Hampshire College on Thursday offered admission to all New College of Florida students in good standing. The offer also includes a match of their costs on tuition, which is much greater for Hampshire students than Florida students.
Ray Schroeder
MARCH 17, 2023
Many of today’s workplace-based issues arise from a failure to view postsecondary education from a holistic standpoint, says Amrit Ahluwalia, senior director of content and strategic insights at Modern Campus. These gaps exist because different education providers tend to focus strongly on specific learning outcomes, instead of thinking holistically about a learner’s journey,” Ahluwalia said. Individuals typically enroll in education programs to get the skills they need to be successful at work.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 17, 2023
Image: The City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees held an emergency meeting Tuesday to approve funds for much-needed fixes to the heating systems on several campuses.
Ray Schroeder
MARCH 17, 2023
“HBCUs have a unique perspective and a unique learning model that could be scaled to the world,” one leader says. It’s an undertaking from the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), a philanthropy that supports HBCUs through scholarships to students, grants to higher ed institutions and advocacy for educating African Americans. Called HBCUv, the project aims to roll out a pilot product this fall.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 17, 2023
The president of Northern Seminary, an Illinois institution with Baptist roots, resigned after he was accused of bullying and retaliating against employees, particularly women, which resulted in some employee departures, Baptist News Global reported. The seminary put him on leave last month and launched an internal investigation into his behavior. William Shiell, the former president, reportedly defended himself in his resignation letter.
CAPD
MARCH 17, 2023
Apply to be a Teaching Fellow by 4/23 Experiential Learning at MIT (ELO) is hiring graduate students from across all disciplines to serve as Graduate Teaching Fellows for Experiential Ethics , a discussion-based summer course that introduces MIT undergraduate students to the ethics of science and technology.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 17, 2023
A group of CEOs, community college leaders and state and federal officials is forming a network to develop new strategies to boost Black student enrollment and college completion rates, according to a press release from the group Thursday. The release noted that U.S. colleges and universities have lost more than 600,000 Black students over the last decade, and over half of those losses were at community colleges.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 17, 2023
Cinnamon Piñon Carlarne , associate dean for faculty and intellectual life at Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law, has been named president and dean of Albany Law School, in New York.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 17, 2023
College students are experiencing all-time high rates of depression, anxiety and suicidality, according to the latest Healthy Minds survey. In the annual survey, which received responses from 96,000 U.S. students across 133 campuses during the 2021–22 academic year, 44 percent reported symptoms of depression, 37 percent said they experienced anxiety and 15 percent said they have seriously considered suicide—the highest rates in the survey’s 15-year history.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 17, 2023
Pennsylvania State University is bracing for layoffs, Spotlight PA reported. A top administrator asked leaders of virtually all university departments to, by the end of June, identify the employees they would lay off, according to documents obtained and shared by Spotlight PA. Penn State president Neeli Bendapudi is trying to balance the system’s budget by 2025; last fiscal year it operated with a structural budget deficit of more than $125 million.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 17, 2023
A full recording has emerged of students at Stanford University law school disrupting a talk by Judge Kyle Duncan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The audio recording was reproduced by David Lat for the legal blog Original Jurisdiction. On the recording, the students interrupt and clap (for fellow students) throughout the talk. Duncan was a target because he has a history of anti-LGBT activism.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 17, 2023
Lansing Community College closed for the rest of this week due to an “ongoing cybersecurity incident,” The Lansing State Journal reported. The college is suspending nearly all classes and activities and asking students and most employees not to work or log in to the college’s systems or come to campus.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 17, 2023
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is warning loan servicers to stop collecting private student loans that were discharged by bankruptcy courts, the agency announced Thursday. The agency found that some servicers were continuing to collect payments on loans after bankruptcy proceedings had concluded, in violation of federal laws, and many borrowers ended up paying thousands of dollars they did not owe. The agency directed those servicers to return the money.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 17, 2023
Knowing how you learn best can be crucial for your education. In today’s Academic Minute, part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Shayla Sawyer explains why. Sawyer is a professor in the electrical, computer and systems engineering department at RPI. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. Section: Academic Minute File: 03-17-23 RPI - Pushing the future of tech education.mp3 Event's date: Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 5:15pm Insider only
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 17, 2023
Today on the Academic Minute, part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Shayla Sawyer, professor of electrical, computer and systems engineering, explains why knowing how you learn best can be crucial for your education. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?: Trending: Live Updates: liveupdates0
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 17, 2023
Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Some great responses from readers came in this week! In response to the post about the book collection, one reader asked plaintively, “How is it possible that with an entire boomer generation retiring in droves, there are no old books’ homes where they can send their banished collections?” ” The idea of an “old books’ home” made me smile.
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