Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Philander Smith College (PSC) will become a graduate degree-granting school after its Master of Business Administration (MBA) program was approved by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) in November 2022. Dr. Roderick L. Smothers "On the heels of the 145th anniversary of Philander Smith College, we are elated about this milestone announcement," said Dr.

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Will Richardson

JANUARY 4, 2023

(1/4 Newsletter Repost). First, Happy New Year! May 2023 bring us all good health, deeper relationships, and as much joy as we can handle! With those aspirations in mind, we want to tee up some of the themes that will be most on our minds here at BQI over the coming year. We see the year ahead as a complex mixture of reckoning and opportunity, of deceptively fast change, and of increasingly urgent, fundamental questions and conversations about the future of education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Molly Corbett Broad Molly Corbett Broad, former University of North Carolina (UNC) System president, has died on Jan. 2, 2023, at age 81. Broad was system president 1997-2005 and was also the first woman to lead the American Council on Education (ACE). “Molly Corbett Broad was a trailblazer and a visionary,” said UNC System President Peter Hans. “She came to North Carolina at a pivotal moment for our public universities, laying the groundwork for growth and progress across our state.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Image: Community colleges across the country are struggling to recruit and hire new people after losing faculty and staff members in droves during the pandemic. The institutions lost 13 percent of their employees nationally from January 2020 to April 2022, according to an estimate from EAB, a higher education consulting firm. A recent data analysis from EAB shows that four-year colleges mostly recouped their losses after also experiencing sharp declines in staff, unlike community colleges, which

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Dr. Theresa A. Powell, Temple University’s Vice President for Student Affairs, has died unexpectedly on Jan. 2. Her death occurred while visiting family in her native state of Texas. Dr. Theresa A. Powell Renowned nationally in the student affairs profession, Powell was one of the leaders of Temple’s Division of Student Affairs, where she worked to reimagine student affairs and created programs to produce a more vibrant and active Temple campus.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Franklin University is starting an M.S. in professional sales leadership. Manhattan College is introducing a B.A. in criminology major. Muhlenberg College has launched a graduate certificate in diversity, equity and inclusion. Paul Smith’s College is starting a certificate program in clean energy. Rider University has started a bachelor of arts in social media strategies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

With President Biden’s signature on Dec. 29, the new federal spending plan is set to increase the Pell Grant in 2023, allowing low-income students a chance to access up to $7,395 each year. The new total is a record high for the program, first created in 1972. Coupled with the $400 increase in the 2022 fiscal year, this is the largest two-year increase ever in the history of the grant.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Bard College has received a $399,000 from the Mellon Foundation to support a three-year research project on voting rights. Bard will work together with North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T), Tuskegee University, Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), and The Andrew Goodman Foundation for this project. The applied learning research curricular project will examine the 26th Amendment, the history of voting and disenfranchisement in the U.S., and the role of colle

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UMSL Diversity

JANUARY 4, 2023

The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is proud to host the annual observance of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL). Since the university’s inaugural Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Observance on January 18, 1988, the campus community has celebrated the life and legacy of Dr. King with prolific speakers, inspiring music, and a scholarship presentation to our outstanding UMSL students. .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Brandon Harris Brandon Harris has been appointed associate dean for the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Harris earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and religion from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and a master of divinity degree from Emory University in Atlanta.

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College for Creative Study

JANUARY 4, 2023

The post CCS alumnus Ndubisi Okoye Named on Hour Magazine’s List of 2023 Most Influential People from Southeast Michigan. appeared first on College for Creative Studies.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Molly Corbett Broad, who became the first woman to lead the American Council on Education after breaking a similar glass ceiling as president of the University of North Carolina system, died Monday, her family announced. She was 81. Broad’s decades-long career in higher education administration began at Syracuse University and resulted in leadership positions as chief executive officer of Arizona’s university system and executive vice chancellor of the California State University sys

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Symplicity

JANUARY 4, 2023

Each and every day, our client managers across the globe help make our clients' day-to-day just a little bit easier so that they can better support their students. With a client support team that comes from across the student success spectrum, clients continuously speak to the dedication of our client support team, and we at Symplicity want to give them the attention they deserve.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Teaching Today Infusing practicable skills into academic classes can give students a greater sense of self-efficacy in managing challenging thoughts and feelings, writes Rachel Goldsmith Turow. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty teachinglearning Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Mental Health Teaching Show on Jobs site: Image Source: zuperia/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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Ray Schroeder

JANUARY 4, 2023

For 150 years, dating back to the 1800s, college enrollment in the U.S. experienced annual growth, with only a handful of short-term drops during wars and other major societal events. That record of steady increases was disrupted a dozen years ago, by the recession of 2007 to 2009, and has never recovered. Of course, the pandemic triggered a drop, but the predictions said following that drop in 2020 and 2021, enrollments would once again be on the rise in 2022.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

“ Adaptation Across the Higher Ed Landscape ” is a new special report from Inside Higher Ed. The free report explores how colleges and universities are responding to the financial, enrollment and other pressures swirling around them, with a focus on distinctive strategies that institutions are embracing to ensure their long-term sustainability.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Rick Singer, 62, was handed the longest sentence in the sprawling scandal that shone a spotlight on the secretive system The mastermind of the nationwide college admissions bribery scheme that ensnared celebrities, prominent businesspeople and other parents who used their wealth and privilege to buy their kids’ way into top-tier schools was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison Wednesday.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Jackson State University students were asked to delay moving into the dorms Monday because of low water pressure due to broken pipes near campus, Mississippi Today reported. Water lines broke throughout the capital city as freezing temperatures taxed its dilapidated water system over the Christmas holiday. “As an update, the City of Jackson continues to make repairs to broken water pipes near campus,” read an email to students.

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Paradigm IQ

JANUARY 4, 2023

Are you interested in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training for your organization, but are unsure of what your options are, how to start, or how to expand your learning? Starting with a strategic plan around your DEI training will help it feel relevant, applicable, and motivating to your team. Here are three steps to help you start identifying your organiz.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

A committee charged with envisioning a “transformation” of big-time college sports appears to have opted for an evolutionary rather than revolutionary approach, recommending more benefits for athletes and more control for conferences and institutions over some of the more dramatic proposals it was purportedly considering. The final report of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I Transformation Committee, published Tuesday, proposes a raft of new benefits for

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AIFS Abroad

JANUARY 4, 2023

Last Updated on January 4, 2023 by Cat Rogliano. Internships can be both exciting and challenging. By developing the right habits and attitudes from day one, you can ensure that your time as an intern is both meaningful and rewarding. Get ready to make your mark – we’ve compiled some of the best advice on how to succeed as an intern. Here are some tips for turning your internship into a success story: 1.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Just because someone shares something online doesn’t mean they’re educated on it. In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Texas at Austin’s Susan M. Broniarczyk explores this conundrum in the social sharing economy. Broniarczyk is associate dean for research, Susie and John L. Adams Endowed Chair in Business, and a professor in the marketing department at UT Austin’s McCombs School of Business.

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Hope College Network

JANUARY 4, 2023

When I was applying for college, financial aid was probably one of the things that stressed me out the most. All the new information I was receiving was overwhelming. I barely knew where to begin! Now that I’m in college, there’s a lot that I’d like to go back in time and tell myself. Here are the things that I wish I could explain to past me about financial aid at Hope College.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute : Susan M. Broniarczyk, associate dean for research and professor of marketing at the University of Texas at Austin, examines why, just because someone shares something online, that doesn’t mean they’re educated on it. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?

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University Business

JANUARY 4, 2023

The federal government is investigating the more than 400 Native American boarding schools that once operated in the U.S. And as that investigation continues, some Indigenous people are pushing to reclaim a system that once persecuted them. Boarding schools used education as a weapon to assimilate Native people in a strategy historians have called cultural genocide.

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Ray Schroeder

JANUARY 4, 2023

Officials at Cazenovia College this summer came to a devastating realization: They could not refinance a $25 million debt when it came due in full Sept. 1. Thus began a desperate scramble to save the private liberal arts college that has been an integral part of this idyllic Upstate New York village for nearly 200 years. The college tried everything it could: Asking lenders for more time to pay up.

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University Business

JANUARY 4, 2023

After some of the nation’s most prestigious institutions dropped out of its best law schools rankings, U.S. News is making changes to its 2023-2024 list. Within just a week this past fall, Yale, Harvard, UC Berkeley, Columbia, Georgetown and Stanford all opted out of U.S. News & World Report’s best law schools. Yale University, which regularly lands at the top of the list, kicked off the exodus when law school Dean Heather K.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Rick Singer was sentenced today to 3.5 years in prison for his role as the mastermind of the Varsity Blues admissions scandal. “Singer was the architect of a massive, decade-long scheme to use fraud and bribery to secure the admission of high school students to elite colleges and universities across the country,” said a federal brief on Singer.

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University Business

JANUARY 4, 2023

The mastermind of the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal, Rick Singer, is set to be sentenced Wednesday in Boston for a scheme that federal prosecutors say is “staggering in its scope and breathtaking in its audacity.” Prosecutors want him sentenced to six years in prison, while Singer is asking the judge to let him off with little or no prison time.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Image: Students who enroll in William Altman’s psychology classes at the State University of New York’s Broome Community College sometimes find themselves hooked up to an electroencephalograph—a device that measures electrical activity of the brain—while driving simulated cars either with or without texting. Others in the class participate by monitoring the device’s output or the number of accidents or driving errors both for drivers who text and those who refrain.

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University Business

JANUARY 4, 2023

As college kids prepare to head back to school, we look into a topic that is on a lot of parents’ minds. It’s a worst-case scenario, but one we have seen happen across the country: a shooting on college campuses. Thomas Forcum is the SGA President at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His drive to advocate for better student life pushed him to the job. “You know, there’s always that question like what will happen if one day I come to class and all of a sudden you

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Blog: Just Visiting As I wrote previously at my Substack newsletter , regarding the widespread awareness of the ChatGPT large language model (LLM) algorithm, it’s been a somewhat exciting time for me as an issue that I happen to know something about becomes so prominent in a broader national conversation. When you’re a writer who makes his living offering his ideas to the world (as I do), and your sphere is usually pretty niche (as it is), it feels imperative to take grab some share

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Technology use has not only become ubiquitous among university students, faculty and staff, but it’s also expanded with the rapid adoption of mobile devices, cloud computing and Internet of Things devices. As cybersecurity grows even more challenging in this accelerating environment, having a unified security strategy for protecting all university resources is more important than ever.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Image: Ithaca College in New York has long been considered a safe and welcoming place for LGBTQ+ students, and its residence halls are no exception. For years, the institution has offered gender-neutral housing, allowing students to live with roommates of any gender; transgender students are invited to contact Residential Life if they need help meeting any additional needs.

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University Business

JANUARY 4, 2023

Amid security and privacy concerns, Louisiana’s education chief on Tuesday urged public schools to remove the popular social media platform TikTok from public devices. Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley is the latest of several state officials calling for restrictions on the app. Skeptics, including Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, who recently signed an executive order prohibiting the use of the app on all state-owned networks and devices, argue that there’s a growing security risk

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma If you read the higher education press, you’d probably conclude that the top issues facing higher education are (in no particular order): college affordability, unmanageable student debt, spiraling costs, broken business models, enrollment declines, equity, threats to tenure, meddling politicians, academic freedom, campus free speech, students’ mental health, labor strife, toxic fraternities, career preparation, students struggling with food and housing insecuri

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

The 118 th Congress has commenced with chaos, as Republicans have failed to choose a candidate for speaker of the house after five ballots over two days. It’s the first time since 1923 that a speaker has not been chosen on the first ballot. The lack of a speaker has paralyzed the lower chamber and delayed choices about who will lead committees, including the House Committee for Education and Labor, which Republicans are expected to rename Education and the Workforce, as has been their custom whe

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