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Demotion of USC Administrator Leads to Accusations of Racism

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The University of Southern California Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy trumpets its dedication to diversity on its website. The school is “committed to preparing diverse leaders” and pledges “accountability and transparency, as well as consistent engagement to ensure that we create and maintain an inclusive environment.

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Grad students need career mentors as well as academic ones (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Category: Carpe Careers Your thesis adviser may be the best person to guide your research, but conversations about your career may need to happen outside your department, Daniel J. Moglen advises. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Graduate students Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Nuthawut Somsuk/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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Report: Applications for UC System Fall 2023 Saw General Declines

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The number of applications for the Fall 2023 admissions cycle generally declined across the University of California (UC) system, particularly among nonresident applicants, The UC San Diego (UCSD) Guardian reported. The finding comes from a UC Office of the President report, which showed that there was a 2.2% decline in total applications from the previous year’s admissions cycle.

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An Unrecognized Bias Contributing to the Gender Gap in the College Presidency

Higher Education Today

By Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar and Laura H. Jack This blog post is part of the American College President Study body of work generously supported by the TIAA Institute. ACE will release The American College President: 2023 Edition on April 14. Since the founding of American higher education, college and university presidents have generally been White men—even.

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Judge Orders North Idaho College to Reinstate NIC President Placed on Leave Without Cause

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

North Idaho College (NIC) has been court-ordered to reinstate NIC President Dr. Nick Swayne, who was placed on administrative leave without cause late last year, The Spokesman-Review reported. President Nick Swayne Judge Cynthia Meyer of Kootenai County District Court gave the order Mar. 3 for the public community college to take Swayne off leave for the duration of his lawsuit.

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Monthlong Temple strike enters possibly pressing week

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: The Temple University graduate student workers’ strike for better pay and benefits has entered its second month, but this coming week could increase pressure on both sides to settle. The university has already eliminated the strikers’ pay and health coverage. As of Thursday, Temple said only about 30 percent of the Temple University Graduate Students’ Association union members are actually striking.

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Dr. John W. Miller Jr. Appointed Dean of the Raymond A. Kent School of Social Work and Family Science at the University of Louisville

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. John W. Miller Jr. will become dean of The University of Louisville’s Raymond A. Kent School of Social Work and Family Science, effective Jul. 1, pending approval by the Board of Trustees. Dr. John W. Miller Jr. Miller is dean of curriculum and senior diversity officer at St. Norbert College. “The Kent School has a rich tradition of producing exceptional research and dedicated practice and teaching,” Miller said.

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Onondaga Community College to Engage in $32 Million School of Health Expansion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Onondaga Community College will spend $32 million to strengthen and expand its school of health, Syracuse.com reported. The school aims to train more nurses, surgical technicians, and other health workers amid a severe labor shortage currently hindering Central New York hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare providers. The significant expansion will increase the number of degree, certificate, and short-term training programs at Onondaga’s school of health by more than double.

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Toward a more inclusive peer-review process (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

When asked what surprised her most about publishing after a summer spent working as an intern at one of our presses, a history graduate student replied, “In graduate school, we focus on tearing books apart. But I was impressed by how much you do in publishing to build up a book.” Whether or not it reflects a common experience of graduate school, this observation speaks to the labor and expertise that goes into the creation of a university press book.

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MARÍA CARLA CHICUÉN

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

María Carla Chicuén María Carla Chicuén has been appointed executive director of cultural affairs at Miami Dade College in Florida. Chicuén served as executive director of CasaCuba at Florida International University. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard University and a master’s in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Four elements of quality campus-based eating disorder treatment

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Health professionals often direct students with severe eating disorder symptoms to inpatient treatment facilities. But students with less severe symptoms often find their on-campus treatment options lacking. In many cases, these options don’t extend beyond meeting with a mental health counselor who may or may not have experience in eating disorders.

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Dr. Altheia Richardson Appointed First CDO and VP for DEI and Belonging at Newberry College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Altheia Richardson will become the first chief diversity officer and vice president for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging at Newberry College, effective mid-May, The Newberry Observer reported. Dr. Altheia Richardson Richardson has previously been associate vice president for strategic diversity leadership at Clemson University. She is a member of the National Association for Diversity Officers in Higher Education, president of the association’s Carolinas chapter, and a founder of

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U of California abandons progress and preserves convention (letter)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Column: Letters to the Editor To the Editor: The shift toward online learning is making higher education more flexible and personalized such that it meets all learners, regardless of their circumstances, where they are. Particularly for those students for whom existing pathways to opportunities have been inaccessible, the ability to receive an education from anywhere in the world, on their own schedule, can be transformative.

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TONI ST. JOHN

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Toni St. John Toni St. John has been named executive director of Baltimore Collegetown Network, a consortium of 13 colleges and 120,000 students. St. John received her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and her juris doctor degree from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.

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Success coaching retains first-year students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Recognizing that making connections is vital in a student’s first year, Kansas Wesleyan University’s student success center matches its new faces to seasoned staff to create a recipe for success. KWU’s student success coaching program gives students a personal connection to library resources and its personnel, which in turn boosts retention, says student success center director JD Koons.

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New Report Looks at How HBCUs Can Support Student Mental Health

Higher Education Today

Title: Lessons from Black Colleges on Mental Health and Wellbeing: Practical Approaches for Historically Black Colleges and Universities to Support Student Belonging and Mental Health Source: UNCF’s Institute for Capacity Building (ICP) and Active Minds While mental health concerns are rising across the U.S. college student population, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the sociopolitical.

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Colleges award tenure

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Muhlenberg College Andrew Ardizzoia, music Giancarlo Cuadra, biology Matthieu de Wit, neuroscience Tineke D’Haeseleer, history Alexandra Frazer, psychology Worcester Polytechnic Institute Jeannine Coburn, biomedical engineering Daniel DiMassa, humanities and arts Ulkuhan Guler, electrical and computer engineering Tian Guo, computer science Nikhil Karanjgaokar, aerospace engineering Elizabeth Long Lingo, business Carlo Pinciroli, robotics engineering Sarah Riddick, humanities and arts Andre

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[UPDATED] Employer Guide to Internship Laws 2023

Symplicity

With internship season around the corner, leading employers are starting to gear up for the summer, when roughly 60% of students who are about to graduate from college and recent graduates, will join an internship program in the hopes of becoming young professionals with full-time positions post-graduation. While internship opportunities add valuable work experience for students, for employers, an internship program is more than a preview of future full-time employees.

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Judge Orders North Idaho to Reinstate President

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A judge on Friday ordered North Idaho College to reinstate its president, Nick Swayne, who was placed on administrative leave without cause in December, The Spokesman-Review reported. “The board’s majority has wrongfully locked its captain in the brig while steering NIC toward an iceberg,” State Judge Cynthia Meyer wrote in granting a preliminary injunction to Swayne.

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33. Dr. Elizabeth True

StudentAffairs.com

We chat with Dr. Elizabeth True, Vice President for Student Affairs at Eastern Maine Community College. Background info on our guest plus a full transcript is available at studentaffairspodcast.

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Fossil Fuel Industry Gave Hundreds of Millions to Higher Ed

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Fossil fuel companies gave over $700 million in research funding to 27 colleges and universities from 2010 to 2020, according to a new study from the left-leaning think tank Data for Progress. The top recipients of fossil fuel research money included the University of California, Berkeley ($154 million); the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ($108 million); Stanford University ($56 million); and the University of Texas at Austin ($40 million).

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Submissions on The Future of Australian Universities

Higher Education Whisperer

Submissions Report, Universities Accord, Nous Group, 21 February 2023The Australian Universities Accord Panel, chaired by Professor Mary O’Kane, has released a 118 page report of Submissions on priorities for the Australian Universities Accord (Nous Group, 21 February 2023). There is also the full text of most of the 185 submissions available.

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Jackson State U President Placed on Leave

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Thomas Hudson, president of Jackson State University, was placed on administrative leave with pay Thursday by Mississippi’s Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning. The announcement by the board gave no reason. The board named Elayne Hayes-Anthony “temporary acting president” of the university. She is chair of journalism and media studies at Jackson State.

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Working-Class and working in higher education: possibilities and pedagogies

SRHE

by Carli Rowell This blog reports on presentations and discussion at an SRHE event on 1 February 2023. Doctoral study, despite its expansion, continues to operate as a classed pathway, a problem exacerbated by the surplus of doctoral graduates and an increasingly congested precarious global academic labour market. Although a prerequisite for academic careers, the doctorate no longer operates as a passport into the ivory tower.

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Valencia College Strips ‘Equity’ From Strategic Plan

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Board of Trustees at Valencia College stripped the word “equity” from the college’s strategic plan at a meeting last week, amid claims it is too politically charged, according to Florida Politics. Valencia College president Kathleen Plinske said that the college would change the phrase “advance equity” to “creating the right conditions” to help students succeed, Florida Politics reported.

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Female university graduates have bigger Hecs debts but earning less than men, research reveals

The Guardian Higher Education

Average student debt balance has risen 10% and taking longer to pay off, affecting major life events such as starting a family Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Female university graduates in Australia are earning less than men while racking up more debt from their degrees, new research reveals. The Futurity Investment Group’s university debt report, which surveyed more than 1,000 Australian graduates, found 70% of males earned more than $60,000, compared

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FIRE Asks Bluefield State President to Retract ‘Retaliatory’ Statement

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A free speech organization is excoriating Bluefield State University’s president, who on his blog discussed possibly firing faculty members who complained to his university’s accrediting agency. In a Feb. 7 post titled “Bullet Proof” on his “The Campus Maverick” blog, Robin Capehart wrote that “there is no problem with faculty questioning, challenging or disagreeing with proposed policies … However, when faculty members file an official complaint

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The Importance of AACSB Accreditation for International Business Schools

Creatrix Campus

The Importance of AACSB Accreditation for International Business Schools editor Mon, 03/06/2023 - 06:52 Accreditation Management Header Menu White 1NoneFooter base 1Blog Style 1Right Mary Clotilda SuvinOff Overview of AACSB Welcome to our blog on AACSB Accreditation for International Business Schools. In today's globalized economy, business schools need to prepare students for the challenges and opportunities of an interconnected world.

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16 AGs Call Out DeSantis for Seeking Trans Students’ Data

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A group of 16 attorneys general sent a letter to Florida governor Ron DeSantis Friday, raising concerns about a state plan to collect data on transgender and gender-nonconforming students , specifically seeking details on how those students have interacted with campus health centers. “This information request may be intended to intimidate, and will actually intimidate, university administrators and health care providers and chill vulnerable students, including the students or staff in Flor

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4 Digital Marketing Channels to Harness for Student Recruitment in 2023

EAB

Blogs 4 Digital Marketing Channels to Harness for Student Recruitment in 2023 When it comes to recruiting Gen Z and optimizing student lead generation, the question isn’t the degree to which you should lean on digital channels; rather, it’s which digital channels you should prioritize at any given time. Today’s tech-savvy generation has long utilized the internet as a means for researching their college options and they’re using a wide array of channels to do so.

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Man Set on Fire at Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A man who set himself ablaze on the University of California, Berkeley, campus last week received aid from bystanders who sustained minor burns, the news site Berkeleyside reported. The Berkeleyside report described fire officials as saying the man had second- and third-degree burns and was taken to an Oakland hospital Wednesday afternoon. A sandwich shop manager was among those rushing to douse the flames, Berkeleyside reported.

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Illinois leads nation in applications for student debt relief

University Business

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in a case that could impact more than 1.5 million people in Illinois with student debt. At issue is the legal standing of President Joe Biden’s loan forgiveness program, which would cancel up to $20,000 in debt for borrowers earning less than $125,000 a year. Before the program got held up in court in November, Illinois residents applied in droves.

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Report: Undocumented Students Struggle With Financial Aid

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A new report by the California Student Aid Commission outlines the difficulties undocumented students experience trying to access financial aid. While nearly 100,000 undocumented students reside in California, only 29 percent of them who applied for financial aid through the California Dream Act Application during the 2021–22 academic year enrolled in college and received aid, the report said, and only 14 percent of the estimated undocumented student population in postsecondary education r

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PROOF POINTS: How much does it cost to produce a community college graduate?

University Business

Community colleges say they can’t help the neediest students get through college successfully without more funding. But these institutions, which educate 10 million students a year or 44 percent of all undergraduates , have a terrible track record; fewer than half their students end up earning degrees. Obviously, all those college dropouts aren’t improving local work forces.

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San Diego District Rolls Back Discipline for Unvaccinated Workers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The San Diego Community College District Board of Trustees announced Friday that employees no longer risk termination for not complying with the district’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, ABC 10 News reported. The announcement comes after four employees lost their jobs for not getting vaccinated, an issue discussed at a heated Thursday board meeting.

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The College Presidential Search and Equity-Minded Principles

Higher Education Today

Title: Equity-Minded Principles for Presidential Searches in Higher Education Author(s): Jorge Burmicky, Kevin R. McClure, Jordan Gonzales, Cameron J. McCoy Source: American Council on Education (ACE) & TIAA Institute ACE has partnered with the TIAA Institute through the American College President Study on a new report that identifies five equity-minded principles for conducting presidential.

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Spider Goats: Academic Minute

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Today on the Academic Minute , part of SUNY Distinguished Professor Week: Lisa Jean Moore, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at SUNY Purchase, looks for a more sustainable source of silk. 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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