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. The participants were not optimistic. “To be very clear, the court is overruling affirmative action,” said Melissa Murray, the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes professor at New York University Law School.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

The Internet Archive, a nonprofit library in San Francisco, has grown into one of the most important cultural institutions of the modern age. What began in 1996 as an audacious attempt to archive and preserve the World Wide Web has grown into a vast library of books, musical recordings and television shows, all digitized and available online, with a mission to provide “universal access to all knowledge.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 17, 2023

Dr. 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. Dr. Soraya M. Coley “Throughout her decades-long career, President Coley has demonstrated a sustained and continuing commitment to the advancement of women through actions or initiatives enhancing women'

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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. The problem: CLASS staff realized that many students have difficulty managing deadlines for multiple classes, shares Jean Anne Semke, one of the coaches.

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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. Schagunn holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of Montana and a master’s in international affairs from American University in Washington, D.C.

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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? Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Topic: Seeking Tenure Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: rzarek/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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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. Flash holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Maryland, a Master of Education from the University of Maryland, and doctorate in educational leadership and policy studies from the University of Vermont.

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Via's

MARCH 17, 2023

Switching to Via a “No Brainer” for Luther “On every level, Via sounded better,” says Director Victoria Christman When Victoria Christman, a longtime professor at Luther College in Iowa, took over as Director of the Center for Global Learning in November 2021, she knew immediately she wanted to get rid of the Center’s complicated software system. “It was like a foreign language to me,” she says.

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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. “All the people that I’ve worked with at career services, they’re always trying to figure out, ‘How can we get more students to come see us? … How do we engage more students?

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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.

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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. The meeting came after months—and some say years—of complaints from students, faculty and staff members about overly chilly classrooms caused by aging or broken heating systems.

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College for Creative Study

MARCH 17, 2023

The post Fashion Design Associate Professor Featured in Hour Magazine appeared first on College for Creative Studies.

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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. Danielle Ren Holley , dean and professor of law at the Howard University School of Law, in Washington, D.C., has been appointed president of Mount Holyoke College, in Massachusetts.

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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.” What is your dream job?

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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.

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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. The course provides students with the tools and concepts they need to explore the ethical, social, and political dimensions of their summer experiences and can be taken alongside popular exp

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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.

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University Business

MARCH 17, 2023

Following Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker’s preliminary injunction on Gov. Ron DeSantis’ proposed “Stop WOKE Act” bill in November, a federal appeals court on Thursday denied his administration’s request for a stay that would allow the bill’s enforcement while under review. “The Stop Woke Act requires discriminatory censorship of ideas in Florida’s classrooms and workplaces,” ACLU senior staff attorney Leah Watson said, according to NBC

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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.

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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. It’s also the first time in ten years the number of students earning bachelor’s degrees has declined on a year-to-year basis. First-time undergraduate earners made up 86% of the 58,800 drop in total credential earners, which “marks the largest decline in first-time graduates since 2012-13,” according to

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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.

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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. Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas is on the committee. In her testimony, Utash told the senators that the industry needs the government’s help.

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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.

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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. While some colleges like the University of Virginia published their deferral numbers right after decisions went out (it pushed 21 percent, or 7,707 early applicants, to regular), most don’t, leaving applicants in the dark about what a deferral really means.

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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. The college said it has no evidence that employee or student information has been compromised but acknowledged that “we do not know everything yet, and communication is goi

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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. The Weinsteins’ gift will enable the university to create a collaborative, state-of-the-art center that co-locates, integrates, and expands services that support academic achievement for students, including effective speaking, writing, and peer tutoring.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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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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. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit released a ruling Thursday that a lower court’s injunction stopping the law’s enforcement in public higher education will remain in effect while appeals of the injunction continue.

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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. “This opportunity is in response to the continuing attacks on New College of Florida intended to limit intellectual exploration, turn back progress toward inclusion, and curtail open discussion of race, injustice, and histories of oppression,” Hampshire sa

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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. The plan, which calls for the $90 billion to be spread out over 10 years, was part of the administration’s fiscal year 2024 budget proposal to Congress released last week.

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