Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Dr. Safa Zaki will become president of Bowdoin College, effective Jul. 1. She will be the first woman to lead the school. Dr. Safa Zaki Zaki is currently dean of the faculty and the John B. McCoy and John T. McCoy Professor of Psychology at Williams College. A psychologist and cognitive scientist, her research centers on the human mind and how people divide the world into categories.

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 9, 2023

Tanden Brekke , University of St. Thomas Robin R. Bell , University of Northwestern St. Paul Vivian Johnson , Hamline University Key Statement: This article reports on a relationship between two social justice professors who shared stories of battle fatigue and, in doing so, supported each other in avoiding burnout. Keywords: social justice education, communities of learners, teaching fatigue Introduction Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Laura A. Rosenbury will become the next president of Barnard College, effective Jul. 1. Laura Rosenbury Rosenbury, the first woman to serve as dean at University of Florida’s Levin College of Law, is a women and gender legal theorist with experience and expertise on topics such as reproductive rights, children’s rights, and sexual harassment and abuse.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 9, 2023

As the planet warms, the humanities grow cold, writes William Major. The only remaining question: What to do now? Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Editorial Tags: Liberal arts Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Pawel Piotr/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Dr. Lakshmi Balachandra, associate professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College, is suing the business school, alleging racial and gender discrimination, The Boston Globe reported. Dr. Lakshmi Balachandra Balachandra, who is of Indian descent, is claiming lost career opportunities, economic losses, emotional distress, and harm to her reputation due to alleged mistreatment and administrators’ failure to investigate concerns.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 9, 2023

Image: Transfers between community colleges and four-year institutions continued to drop last fall, an ongoing trend since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. But the report also contains some good news, including that six-year college completion rates among transfer students improved, despite the disruptive nature of the pandemic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Dr. Aparna Dileep-Nageswaran Palmer will become the next chancellor of the University of Alaska Southeast, effective Jul. 1, KINY reported. Dr. Aparna Dileep-Nageswaran Palmer Palmer is currently a vice president at Front Range Community College (FRCC), chief executive of the Boulder County Campus, and interim chief executive of the Larimer County Campus of FRCC.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Fall transfer enrollment remains in decline in 2022, albeit at a slower rate than before, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Dr. Doug Shapiro The Transfer and Progress Fall 2022 Report – released on Thursday– serves as a redesign of the research center’s two primary transfer reports, COVID 19 Transfer, Mobility, and Progress and Tracking Transfer, to provide data regarding matters such as postsecondary participation and transfers and disparities in

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

As short-staffed higher ed IT departments continue to feel overburdened, colleges and universities could face challenges when deploying and managing devices among faculty and staff. In some cases, the COVID-19 pandemic reduced the size of IT departments as employees took other jobs for a variety of reasons — including, in some cases, to work remotely.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Mary George Opperman Mary George Opperman has been named the senior vice president and secretary to the board of trustees at Syracuse University in New York. Opperman earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the State University of New York at Oneonta and holds a master’s in organizational behavior from Cornell University.

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University Business

MARCH 9, 2023

An unexpected 2% decline in K12 enrollment is putting a kink in the higher education pipeline, spreading the ramifications from kindergarten up into the halls of academia. About 833,000 fewer students enrolled in public schools in fall 2021 than had been predicted, with the most surprising drops occurring in middle school, according to the “ Knocking on the College Door ” report just released by WICHE, the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.

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EAB

MARCH 9, 2023

Blogs 4 takeaways on combatting faculty burnout from our gathering of academic leaders EAB recently launched the first two-part event series for our partners focused on combatting faculty burnout and integrating a culture of well-being in academic affairs. More than twenty academic leaders from across North America participated in session one: Faculty Burnout–A Workplace Problem, Not a Worker Problem.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 9, 2023

Image: Finding the perfect place to take a break, eat a snack or study up before the next class can be a challenge for all students, but especially for commuter students without an on-campus residence to retreat to. Montclair University’s Pit Stop Map provides commuter students locations of places to recharge and stay engaged on campus and has encouraged positive change on campus.

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Experiential Learning Depot

MARCH 9, 2023

Spring is the perfect time of year for citizen science! It's warming up outside, students are getting antsy and exhausted, testing is underway, and breaks are badly needed. ​On top of that, things start to get active in the world of wildlife, especially in temperate regions like Minnesota. Animals emerge from hibernation, migrating species begin their long journeys to their summer sanctuaries, and it's breeding season for many organisms. ​ Citizen science is when citizens, like your

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 9, 2023

Katherine Baicker , Emmett Dedmon Professor and dean of the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, in Illinois, has been appointed provost there. Jodi Feikema , senior vice president for learning products and services at Zovio Education, in California, has been chosen as chief academic officer and provost at American College of Education, in Indiana.

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Roompact

MARCH 9, 2023

In this episode of Roompact's ResEdChat, Erin shares with Dustin how she discovered design thinking, what it is, and how she implements into her work in Residential Education. If you have a topic idea or want to engage in the community discussion, use the hashtag #ResEdChat.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 9, 2023

Temple University announced Tuesday that it has restored the health insurance benefit it cut for striking members of the graduate student workers’ union. But the university didn’t say anything about restoring tuition remission for the strikers, who have been asked to pay up by today. Temple’s cutting of their health and tuition benefits drew national media attention.

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ISA Journal

MARCH 9, 2023

Even though studying abroad can be an exciting opportunity to learn and make great memories,…

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 9, 2023

The faculty committee that criticized the University of Arizona in the wake of professor Thomas Meixner’s murder won’t continue its inquiry. This comes after Pam Scott, a university spokeswoman, said the committee’s January interim report “reached sweeping conclusions based in large part on misleading characterizations and the selective use of facts and quotations.

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University Business

MARCH 9, 2023

WASHINGTON, March 9 (Reuters) – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Thursday called for regulation of artificial intelligence technology to ensure it does not hurt growth or become a national security risk, a departure from the business lobbying group’s typical anti-regulatory stance. While there is little in terms of proposed legislation for AI, the fast-growing artificial intelligence program ChatGPT that has drawn praise for its ability to write answers quickly to a wide range of qu

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 9, 2023

Two Brown University basketball players have sued the Ivy League over its prohibition on athletic scholarships, alleging the policy amounts to price fixing and denies athletes proper compensation for their services, the Associated Press reported. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Connecticut by lawyers representing Grace Kirk, a member of the Brown women’s basketball team, and Tamenang Choh, who played on the men’s team from 2017 to 2022.

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Proctor Academy

MARCH 9, 2023

Dear Future Hornet, You just received an email from our Admissions Office sharing that you were accepted to Proctor for the 2023-2024 school. You will make up an incoming class that is one of the most talented, diverse, curious, and fun groups of students we could imagine. You found Proctor because you and your family believe that there is more to high school than a traditional classroom, and you see Proctor as the place where you want to “do” school differently.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 9, 2023

The faculty of Connecticut College voted that it had no confidence in the performance of President Katherine Bergeron, The Day reported. The vote was 149 in favor, 11 against and eight abstaining. Bergeron has been under fire for weeks at the college over a planned fundraiser that was set to be held at the Everglades Club, one of the oldest and most exclusive country clubs in Palm Beach, Fla.

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CAPD

MARCH 9, 2023

Wednesday March 15 5-7pm in 32-124 This workshop will examine recent research on graduating university students’ career choices and on the changing landscape of engineering recruiting in industry. We will review evidence from a career preferences experiment and will discuss preference themes that emerge among contemporary graduates as they contemplate choosing engineering and engineering-related jobs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 9, 2023

A student pilot at Polk State College and his flight instructor were killed Tuesday when their plane collided with another small plane. Killed were Zachary Mace, the student, and Faith Irene Baker, his instructor. Baker worked for Sunrise Aviation, which provided planes and instructors to Polk State. “Our Polk State College family is devastated by this tragedy,” Polk State president Angela Garcia Falconetti said.

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University Business

MARCH 9, 2023

With political tension across the United States soaring, no institution may feel its effects more acutely than college and university campuses. As the gatekeepers maintaining open and thoughtful campuses, higher education leaders must know how to best navigate these rough waters by identifying what contributes to unhealthy dialogue and what principles leaders can follow to promote a healthy atmosphere for debate.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 9, 2023

Is the United States a republic or a democracy, and why does it matter? In today’s Academic Minute, part of SUNY Distinguished Professor Week, Empire State College’s Ian Reifowitz breaks this question down. Reifowitz is a SUNY Distinguished Professor of History at SUNY Empire State. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. Section: Academic Minute File: 03-09-23 SUNY Empire State - Republic or Democracy.

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Gray Associates

MARCH 9, 2023

Discover how benchmarking can help your school's athletic department make strategic resource decisions. Learn about the importance of using both internal and external data to evaluate sports teams and conferences. Using women's ice hockey in the Hockey East Association as an example, explore how benchmarking can be applied to assess the cost per participant, cost per sport, and more.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 9, 2023

A new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability finds that the top 20 law schools in the U.S. News & World Report rankings have produced fossil fuel lawyers at over three times the rate of the average U.S. law school. Nearly half of U.S. fossil fuel lawyers attended a top-20 law school. The report finds that, among the top 20 law schools, the top producers of fossil fuel lawyers are (1) the University of Texas Law School, (2) the University of Virginia School of Law, (3) Yale Law S

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Creatrix Campus

MARCH 9, 2023

The QAA Approach to Higher Education Quality Assurance editor Thu, 03/09/2023 - 07:32 Accreditation Management Header Menu White 1NoneFooter base 1Blog Style 1Right Mary Clotilda SuvinOff An Overview of the QAA Higher education is a critical component of any society's development, serving as a platform for the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary for personal growth, innovation, and economic growth.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 9, 2023

Join this webcast for an in-depth discussion with Howard University’s Provost, Dr. Anthony K. Wutoh, and Kaplan’s Kim Canning and Petros Minasi on creating a sustainable culture of student success featuring one of our nation’s leading HBCUs. Hear how Howard is building on its legacy of top alumni and instituting new initiatives to continue to propel the university forward.

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University Business

MARCH 9, 2023

What first looked like a pandemic blip has turned into a crisis. Nationwide, undergraduate college enrollment dropped 8% from 2019 to 2022, with declines even after returning to in-person classes , according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse. The slide in the college-going rate since 2018 is the steepest on record, according to the U.S.

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Ray Schroeder

MARCH 9, 2023

The University of Nebraska is in the process of defining the system budget for the next two school years. Due to a mix of inflation and gaps in enrollment, the university is facing a $23.2 million budget deficit, which comes with possibilities for tuition increases, according to a university spokesperson. A lthough the past years have been financially positive for NU, Carter said during the February NU Board of Regents meeting, the current business is “probably not sustainable.

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MARCH 9, 2023

“I won a scholarship from the Taco Bell Foundation. And when I submitted the check to my university, they decreased my institutional scholarship by half, they increased my federal loans, and eliminated my work study,” Lewis said. “I had to pay over $15,000 out of pocket and it gave me two choices, whether to drop out of college or get a private loan.

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Ray Schroeder

MARCH 9, 2023

The Baylor Board of Regents approved a 6% tuition increase and new initiatives including new benefits program to help financially disadvantaged students, a plan to address rising student demand and institutional costs and a new masters degree program. The Board of Regents, in the face of post-pandemic inflationary pressures and rising costs, approved a 6% increase in its tuition “sticker price,” which is now $54,844 for the 2023-2024 school year.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 9, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute , part of SUNY Distinguished Professor Week: Ian Reifowitz, Distinguished Professor of History at SUNY Empire State College, explores whether the U.S. is a republic or a democracy, and why it matters. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

“It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten” saying in the Twi language spoken in Ghana. Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida and other right-wing conservative legislators would like us to believe that the field of African American studies is “woke’ indoctrination and has no value in K-12 classrooms or college and university curricula.

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