Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 18, 2023
Dr. Nemat “Minouche” Shafik, an economist whose career has focused on public policy and academia, has been named as the next president of Columbia University in New York City. Dr. Nemat “Minouche” Shafik Shafik who is currently the president of the London School of Economics, will become the first woman to lead the Ivy League institution. She replaces Lee C.
Will Richardson
JANUARY 18, 2023
“Never,” was the answer. The question? “Do you ever have conversations in school that touch on the changes that are happening in the world that will affect your life outside of school?” Honestly? Not shocked. That student is a part of a diverse team we’re working with in a school that’s trying to figure out its path forward at a moment when every path feels pretty murky.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 18, 2023
Conservatives often pay lip service to diversity. Many like those in Indiana don’t really think racism is an issue. Not in the heartland. But nothing can be farther from the truth. Take a good look at 56-year-old Billie R. Davis from Indiana. She’d probably look at you a little differently if you’re Asian American Filipino. Davis has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery, and battery by means of a deadly weapon.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2023
Image: University of Illinois at Chicago faculty members began striking Tuesday after their union said 12 hours of negotiations with administrators on Martin Luther King Jr. Day didn’t produce an agreement. “We passed proposals back and forth with the management team from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m., when they passed us a counter that indicated that they had no interest in resolving our differences,” the union, UIC United Faculty, wrote on its website.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 18, 2023
Claudia F. Lucchinetti Claudia F. Lucchinetti has been named senior vice president for medical affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and dean of the Dell Medical School. She will hold the Frank and Charmaine Denius Distinguished Dean’s Chair in Medical Leadership. Lucchinetti has a bachelor’s degree in biology from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and an M.D. from Rush Medical College in Chicago.
University Business
JANUARY 18, 2023
As attention toward the field grows, so too does the demand. The need for STEM professionals, while it’s always been high, has only grown more prominent since the pandemic. According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, we should expect a substantial bump in STEM enrollment as they expect a 10.8% growth in the field by 2031. Additionally, the medium wage for STEM jobs far exceeds the average for non-STEM occupations at $95,420.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 18, 2023
Dana Murray Patterson Dana Murray Patterson has been appointed chief diversity officer at Wingate University in North Carolina. Patterson served as the director of intercultural affairs at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C. She has a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from Berea College in Kentucky, a master’s in higher education administration from Eastern Kentucky University, and a Ph.D. in educational leadership and administration from Washington State University.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 18, 2023
The Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) and Results for America (RFA) released recommendations for the Department of Education (ED) to set-aside 0.5% of funds from certain Higher Education Act (HEA) programs within ED and put it towards supporting equity-focused work. Eleanor Eckerson Peters The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022 – and the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 – gave the U.S.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2023
The U.S. academic job market has increasingly been characterized as a “ nightmare ”—an oversupply of doctoral graduates amid cratering numbers of tenure-track job postings. The most recent Academic Analytics database , however, reveals that demand for assistant professors is growing, but growth is uneven across disciplines. Our data set includes information on hiring at 391 Ph.D.
University Business
JANUARY 18, 2023
To cheat, or not to cheat: It depends on how you look at it. ChatGPT, an AI general-purpose chatbot, is taking the education world by storm. Many educators, however, worry that the software enables students to cruise through their coursework and let the AI seamlessly write their essays for them. For example, one columnist for The Wall Street Journal went back to high school for one day to test the chatbot’s ability to survive in a 12th-grade AP literature class.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2023
Image: Adrian College president Jeff Docking has some innovative ideas for higher education leaders battling enrollment pressures and market forces. Among them: Rize Education, a for-profit course-sharing company that Docking co-founded and incubated on Adrian’s campus outside Detroit, which develops and teaches online courses through its platform.
Proctor Academy
JANUARY 18, 2023
Proctor Academy's Mountain Classroom program enters its 52nd year of continuous operation as ten students and two instructors travel the American southwest. Following a two-week Winter Break, students reconvened in New Mexico and explored the Santa Elena Canyon and embarked on their first river trip of the term. Read Calvin '23 and Boo's '24 blog post below!
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2023
Instead, we should do a better job of assigning authentic tasks that genuinely reflect the kind of work students will have to do after graduation, writes Benjamin Rifkin. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty teachinglearning Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Teaching Teaching Today Show on Jobs site: Image Source: eyecrave productions/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?
SRHE
JANUARY 18, 2023
The year-long pantomime that was government in 2022 started trying to be managerial and serious, just as the true pantomime season got into full swing and TV started showing the usual repeats specials. Rather too much sherry and mince pies before the pantomime highlights compilation meant that I fell asleep during A Christmas Carol – so I’m not sure if this was just a dream (or a nightmare) ….
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2023
Presentation College, a small Roman Catholic institution in South Dakota, will close at the end of the summer 2023 term. "After careful evaluation of the sustainability of the college’s academic programs, and a thorough review of alternatives, the Board of Trustees and Presentation Sisters reluctantly decided to close the physical campus and implement teach-out programs as the most responsible way to steward students’ pathways to completing their degrees,” Sister Mary Thom
Paradigm IQ
JANUARY 18, 2023
Over the past 17 years as a DEI practitioner, I’ve worked across many industries — from professional sports with the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee to an engineering-focused Fortune 500 with FM Global — on their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. Most organizations know that training their team is critical to their DEI strategy, but wheth.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2023
Erika López Prater, the adjunct in art history who showed an image of Muhammad in class and then was not rehired by Hamline University, is suing the institution. “What has not been discussed, however, is how Hamline’s actions and statements may have constituted religious discrimination, defamation, and other violations of law,” said a statement from the law firm that is representing her.
CAPD
JANUARY 18, 2023
HST is looking for a TA for HST.500 this spring term. The class reviews research areas at the intersection of medicine and engineering and trains students in scientific proposal writing. If you’re interested in learning more, please review the course description below and contact Sangeeta Bhatia and Dan Anderson. HST.500 Frontiers in (Bio)Medical Engineering and Physics.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2023
As student mental health continues to worsen, college and university leaders seems to be increasing their focus—and spending—on mental health services, according to the results of a new survey from the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, which represents student affairs professionals, and Uwill, a teletherapy platform aimed at college students.
CAPD
JANUARY 18, 2023
On Monday January 23, 2023 at noon in E19-319 MITEI is hosting a unique opportunity for MIT women graduate students and postdocs to learn how they can participate in the C3E Women in Clean Energy Initiative. In addition, three C3E Ambassadors will share insights from their careers in energy: Martha Broad, Judy Chang and Ramya Swaminathan. Lunch will be served and networking will follow.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2023
Blog: Just Explain It to Me! As a current practicing artist and critic and a former art faculty member, art museum director and curator, I feel as if I’ve seen and heard it all when it comes to responses to art. In art history classes, more than one exasperated student has screamed at me, “It’s just a chair. A chair isn’t art!
EAB
JANUARY 18, 2023
Press Release. EAB Named One of the Most Transformational Ed Tech Companies in the World. EAB among firms named to the 2023 GSV EdTech150, chosen from over 4,000 education technology companies. January 17, 2023 • Read Time. Washington, DC, January 17, 2023 – EAB , the leading provider of education research, technology, and marketing and enrollment solutions, has been named to the GSV EdTech150 , a list that recognizes the world’s most transformational education technology companies.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2023
Three colleges are asking a federal judge to delay a settlement in a class action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education that argued the agency ignored borrower defense to repayment claims. The colleges—Lincoln Educational Services Corporation, Everglades College Inc. and American National University—said last week that they would appeal the settlement, which canceled $6 billion in student loans for about 200,000 borrowers who attended one of 153 institutions, including tho
University Business
JANUARY 18, 2023
Attorneys for an adjunct art professor said Tuesday she is suing the Minnesota university that dismissed her after a Muslim student objected to depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in a global art course, while the university admitted to a “misstep” and plans to hold public conversations about academic freedom. In her lawsuit, Erika López Prater alleges that Hamline University — a small, private school in St.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2023
Xavier University of Louisiana, a historically Black university, and Ochsner Health, a health-care system in the state, announced plans to jointly establish a new medical school. The goal is to help diversify the medical workforce in Louisiana and nationwide. “Representation among medical practitioners is critical for our communities, because representation means greater quality of care, improved access, and greater patient trust in the health providers and health-care system for the many
University Business
JANUARY 18, 2023
Amid a nursing shortage that is worsening poor health outcomes in Mississippi, nursing programs at the state’s public universities are turning away hundreds of potential students every year because of insufficient faculty sizes. Alfred Rankins Jr., Mississippi’s commissioner of higher education, said at a legislative hearing Tuesday that nursing programs have struggled to retain faculty members because of the state’s lower-than-average salaries for public university employees.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2023
The private, for-profit Bay State College in Boston will lose its accreditation unless an appeal is granted, the interim president of the financially troubled institution told students in a letter obtained by The Boston Globe. Interim president Jeff Mason said in the letter sent Monday that the decision made by the New England Commission of Higher Education was “not the outcome we expected and, frankly, we are heartbroken.
University Business
JANUARY 18, 2023
It’s more important than ever for institutions to provide the ROI for why today’s students should pursue a college degree. One of the signs of an ongoing crisis is that undergraduate enrollment across the U.S. dropped 4.7% this spring—that’s 662,000 students—compared to the previous year. Student loan debt continues to reach historical numbers —with the average student debt for federal loans stuck at $37,358.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2023
The Office of Federal Student Aid didn’t follow best practices in budgeting, planning and managing the modernization of its student loan system, the Education Department’s Office of Inspector General found in an audit published Tuesday. FSA staff didn’t complete budget requests for many components of the modernization until after the bid solicitations were issued.
Ray Schroeder
JANUARY 18, 2023
Work colleges are federally funded, accredited four-year, liberal arts colleges where students study academics as well as participate in experiential learning through work and service to reduce the cost of their education and gain work experience. Not surprisingly, the defining characteristics of Work Colleges are work and service to others. These activities are not optional.
PUC
JANUARY 18, 2023
The PUC athletics department is always looking for new athletes to join our Pioneers men’s and women’s basketball, cross country, soccer, and volleyball teams.
Ray Schroeder
JANUARY 18, 2023
The expectation is mounting up around OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4, which is scheduled for 2023, although there is no official confirmation on either the launch or beta testing of it. GPT-4 stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4. It’s basically an artificial intelligence system that can create human-like text. While the current ChatGPT-3 has 175 billion parameters, ChatGPT-4 might have 1 trillion, or even more, according to some reports.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2023
Kansas State University is starting an online certificate in digital engagement. University of California, Irvine , is starting two new certificates in public health informatics. Wittenberg University is starting a major in neuroscience. Yavapai College is starting a bachelor of science in business. Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: New academic programs Is this diversity newsletter?
University Business
JANUARY 18, 2023
Harvard University Medical School is withdrawing from U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of top medical schools in the country based on “philosophical” issues with the list. Dean George Daley said in a message to members of the medical school community on Tuesday that he recognizes the issues educational leaders have had with the methodology that the rankings use to evaluate schools, but the decision is based on the “principled belief that rankings cannot meaningfully reflect the h
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2023
Today on the Academic Minute : Filip Viskupič, assistant professor of political science at South Dakota State University, discusses how politics can drive vaccine hesitancy, even for nurses and children. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 18, 2023
When Dr. Sarita Cargas began studying basic needs insecurity at the University of New Mexico (UNM), she asked students to share stories about times they could not do their work because they were hungry. Dr. Sarita Cargas, associate professor of human rights at the University of New Mexico Honors College. “They talked about having headaches and trouble staying awake in class, feeling anxious that other people would hear their tummies grumbling,” said Cargas, an associate professor of human rights
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2023
Politics can drive vaccine hesitancy, even for nurses and children. In today’s Academic Minute, South Dakota State University’s Filip Viskupič examines why. Viskupič is an assistant professor of political science and a research associate at the SDSU Poll at South Dakota State. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. Section: Academic Minute File: 01-18-23 South Dakota - Politics drives parental COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among nurses.
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