Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

Nearly 54% of working age adults in the U.S. have achieved some kind of postsecondary degree or credential, putting the country even closer to the Lumina Foundation’s goal of 60% attainment by 2025. Lumina, a private nonprofit working to increase learning opportunities for all after high school, has been tracking credential and degree attainment for adults from 25 to 64 years of age since 2008.

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Dr. Laura Pasquini

JANUARY 31, 2023

Based on the chatter and traffic on the OpenAI ChatGPT , I have no doubt folks are sourcing more than college essays or exam answers from this platform. There are probably professionals asking (or should be asking) questions to our robot friends. As a coach, I became curious to learn what information and advice was being offered about the field of coaching.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

The College of Education and Human Development and the School of Medicine at the University of Louisville are launching an online Master of Science degree in Health Professions Education (MSHPE) to fulfill the needs of a growing health care industry. "The goal of the MSHPE program is to magnify the impact of the health professions educator,” said Dr.

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Roompact

JANUARY 31, 2023

This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, “What is the future of the RA role?” Guest Post by Justin Mason, Professional, Georgetown University Do you remember waiting in the doctor’s office as a kid? Can you recall any of the toys they typically had out to keep us entertained? I fondly remember.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

Indiana University Northwest’s administration disregarded standards of academic due process when it dismissed tenured professor Dr. Mark McPhail, according to a report from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). McPhail, a professor of communication and previously IU Northwest’s chief academic officer, was notified on September 2021 by campus police that he had been dismissed and banned from campus, allegedly for racially charged threats of physical violence, including “words

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

A few months ago, I was let go from my side gig, writing content-driven advertising for a car services–related company. As a composition instructor and sometime creative writer, I admit to being stung by the email informing me “that we’re making some changes to our content priorities and production volume, and unfortunately, we won’t be able to offer you hours after this week.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

Tiffani Dawn Sykes Tiffani Dawn Sykes has been appointed vice president and director of intercollegiate athletics at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee. Sykes is a graduate of Virginia State University. She holds a master’s in sport administration from Grambling State University in Louisiana.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

Lauren Obersteadt Lauren Obersteadt has been appointed assistant vice chancellor for alumni engagement and annual giving at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. Obersteadt served as executive director of alumni relations. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Vanderbilt University.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

The growing numbers of women in the position confront a job with mushrooming demands and stresses yet relatively little institutional support, writes Nazli Kibria. Job Tags: Academic administration Department chairs Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Martinan/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

Recently, when I was asked to appear on a Diverse sponsored panel at the recent AAC&U annual meeting on the best practices of attracting, hiring and retaining diverse faculty and administrators, I approached it from a journalist’s perspective. I simply asked the most senior people I knew among my acquaintances around the country about the subject.

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University Business

JANUARY 31, 2023

It’s no surprise that college students have it rough. On top of their already burdensome course loads, they’re now battling rising inflation, enrollment costs, and one issue that affects all areas of an individual’s life: mental health. It’s become the number one priority among college students, according to a recent survey by TimelyMD.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

The University of Houston (UH) has retracted a policy requiring theater students to wear vests while rehearsing scenes outdoors, a move put in place after campus police drew a gun on a Black student while he was rehearsing, the Texas Tribune reported. Students had criticized the policy and argued that it put the burden of safety on them rather than on police.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

Image: James Madison University in Virginia held an event Thursday to mark the Holocaust—despite all the Jewish members of the planning committee resigning. “You would think that if you’re going to have a Holocaust program, that the community that the Holocaust most directly affected would be represented on that committee,” said Jeffrey Kurtz-Lendner, rabbi of the local Harrisonburg, Va., Beth El Congregation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

More women, as well as Black, Hispanic, American Indian, and Alaska Native people collectively, worked in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) jobs over the past decade and are earning more degrees in science and engineering fields at all levels compared to previous years, according to a recent report from The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES).

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College for Creative Study

JANUARY 31, 2023

The post CCS Alumna and GM Global Director of Color, Material & Finish Talks About Role in Cadillac Lyriq Design appeared first on College for Creative Studies.

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University Business

JANUARY 31, 2023

Walden University is offering an innovative new program for working adults who want another go at earning an accredited college degree: the Believe and Achieve Scholarship. The online school will be offering its Believe and Achieve Scholarship starting in February, offering undergraduate, graduate, and flex-learning students a chance at free college credits.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

The next-level artificial intelligence capabilities of ChatGPT, a chat bot released in late November by the research company OpenAI, have inspired many predictions, both drastic and ecstatic, for the end of essay writing, if not education as we know it. While some in higher education view ChatGPT as a learning tool to be leveraged and others consider it a threat to be addressed exclusively through prohibition and plagiarism detection, nearly all agree that the technology’s ability to simul

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Ed.gov Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

As a school counselor in the Livingston Union School District, I have seen firsthand the vital role that school counseling positions play in supporting academic achievement, social-emotional development, college and career readiness, and mental health and wellness in our students. My Superintendent, Andres Zamora, has been a leader in expanding and supporting school counseling positions, recognizing the Continue Reading The post California School Counselor Advocacy Tips appeared first on ED.gov

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JANUARY 31, 2023

Image: Student journalists at Laney College in Oakland, Calif., are suing the Peralta Community College District for failing to adequately respond to public records requests. The plaintiffs say the district’s lagging or partial responses stymie their efforts to do investigative work and hold the district accountable. District officials say they comply with the law and do their best to handle the administrative burden of repeated requests.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

Higher education IT departments have been confronting cloud storage dilemmas since Google established limits on the service last year. Google, which has long offered some of its services free to universities, is now capping the amount of free cloud storage available to institutions at 100 terabytes across Drive, Gmail, Photos and other apps that are part of the Google Workspace for Education suite.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean “I am a bill, I am only a bill …” —My first political science lesson, Saturday morning, 1970-something. This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Schoolhouse Rock series of cartoon shorts. For some of us of a certain age, that’s a big deal. For the uninitiated, you are in for a treat.

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Proctor Academy

JANUARY 31, 2023

After nearly two weeks in the backcountry with little to no service, Mountain Classroom checks in from Santa Fe, New Mexico where adjunct weekend allowed for a bit of down time and a check-in from Mountain Classroom Director Patty Pond and Academic Dean Derek Nussbaum Wagler. Maya ‘23 and Charlie ‘25 share a window into Mountain Classroom Winter 2023 in this week’s blog post.

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JANUARY 31, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Sarah R. Fitzgerald , an assessment and planning librarian at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, reached out to me after reading my piece “ How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? ” In her email, Sarah shared some fantastic insights on trends in academic library spending. She also had some interesting things to say about the changing structure of academic library careers.

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Paradigm IQ

JANUARY 31, 2023

In 2022, we had the opportunity to partner with 548 companies around the world, creating DEI strategies and equipping their employees with the skills they need to build more diverse, equitable, and inclusive organizations. While the types of organizations we worked with differed in size, industry, and where they were in thei.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

Katey Stone, for more than 25 years the head coach of the women’s hockey team at Harvard University, has created a “culture of complete fear” and lost 14 recruited players since 2016, including three this season, The Boston Globe reported. The article describes many incidents with Stone, including her interrupting for “an outburst that witnesses described as degrading and dispiriting, Stone accused the players she had recruited of showing her too little respect and devolv

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JANUARY 31, 2023

Eight years ago, in 2015, SAAL put out a call for volunteers to compile topical resources to aid student affairs assessment pros. Content was sorted into seven topics: assessment culture, assessment planning, consulting and critique, success criteria and targets, critical approaches and ethics, data to decisions, and theory-to-practice application.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

Blog: Just Explain It to Me! Ken Burnett’s classic 1992 fundraising text, Relationship Fundraising , taught and touted the value of developing relationships with donors based on the attributes of friendship, such as care, understanding, respect and mutual trust. The term “friendraising” is said to be coined from these concepts. Burnett and his disciples established the friendraising mind-set for successful fundraising over the last 30 years.

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Hanover Research

JANUARY 31, 2023

The latest edition of Hanover’s Superintendents Leadership Council, co-hosted with the Washington Association of School Administrators (WASA), Michigan Association of Superintendents and Administrators (MASA), and Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA) was held on Thursday, January 19th and structured in a Q&A format that focused primarily on Building Strong Lasting Relationships with Your Board.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

Nearly $3.6 billion in Pell Grants wasn’t claimed by eligible high school seniors last year, a new analysis from the National College Attainment Network found. That’s a slight drop from the Class of 2021, which left $3.75 billion in Pell Grants on the table. NCAN’s latest report is the second in a series tracking unclaimed Pell Grant dollars.

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College for Creative Study

JANUARY 31, 2023

The post Dean of Graduate Programs and Chair of Design for Climate Action Talks to Shinola about how Creativity can be a Solution for Pollution appeared first on College for Creative Studies.

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JANUARY 31, 2023

Differences can lead to fear and persecution. In today’s Academic Minute, Brandeis University’s Joel Christensen examines women’s stories from ancient Greece to the recent past. Christensen is a professor of classical studies and senior associate dean for faculty affairs at Brandeis and author of The Many-Minded Man: The Odyssey, Psychology, and the Therapy of Epic (Cornell University Press).

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Paradigm IQ

JANUARY 31, 2023

For many DEI practitioners in the U.S. and Canada, Black History Month is top of mind for February (and will be for DEI leaders in the UK in October, when Black History Month is celebrated). At Paradigm, we work with organizations all around the world, and folks in those organizations are often curious about Black History Month (and racial equity in the U.S. overall.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute : Joel Christensen, professor of classical studies and senior associate dean for faculty affairs at Brandeis University, examines the stories of women who were deemed “different,” from ancient Greece to the recent past. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?

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CAPD

JANUARY 31, 2023

March 3, in person: E14 This year’s MIT Sloan Retail Conference is honored to have Heidi Hackemer as our keynote speaker! Along with our opening keynote, we will be hosting panels of innovative leaders and industry experts to discuss how retail and consumer goods companies instill purpose beyond profits into their products, organizations and company ethos.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

Bradley Chamberlain , vice president for mission and communication at Luther College, has been appointed provost there. Ron Darbeau , vice president for faculty affairs and academic operations at Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania, has been chosen as chancellor of Pennsylvania State University’s Altoona campus. Francis J. Doyle III , dean of the John A.

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

Blogs Developing a budget forecasting model and budget dashboards at Buena Vista University January 31, 2023 Courtney Berg Director of Finance & Administration/Controller, Buena Vista University The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB. Problem: Buena Vista University currently does not forecast a budget for more than one year when it is time for the board of trustees to review a preliminary budget.

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University Business

JANUARY 31, 2023

West Virginia Senate’s Anti-Racism Act – commonly called the anti-CRT bill – cleared its first House of Delegates hurdle on Monday, winning approval in the Education Committee. It’s the same bill that narrowly missed passing both houses on the last day of last year’s session, when Senate President Craig Blair declared the House-amended version approved just two seconds after the closing bell, according to the clock on the Senate video.

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