Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Dr. Melissa L. Gilliam, a physician and higher education leader, will take on the mantle of president of Boston University, effective Jul. 1, 2024. In doing so, she will become BU’s first woman and first Black president. Dr. Melissa Gilliam Boston University Photography Gilliam, 58, is no stranger to firsts. She is currently executive vice president and provost at The Ohio State University, the first Black to hold that role in the school’s history.

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The Scholarly Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Todd Zakrajsek , Director, Lilly Conferences and Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Key Statement: As higher education faculty, our role is to facilitate learning, not merely teach. Keywords: Facilitating Learning, Self-Efficacy, Student Success ​ Teaching without learning is just talking (Angelo, 1993, p. 3). From Teaching to Learning I recently had an email exchange with an outstanding faculty/educational developer, David Sacks, University of Kentucky.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Guilford College has apologized to Virginia State University after racial slurs were yelled at players during a Sep. 26 women’s soccer game between the two schools. Guilford College Guilford fans reportedly yelled the N-word and made monkey noises aimed at VSU players, according to VSU officials. “While there have been direct apologies to our administration, VSU says that our student-athletes also deserve a personal apology,” VSU said in an Oct. 3 statement.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Liberty Flouted Federal Law on Crime Reporting Josh Moody Wed, 10/04/2023 - 03:00 AM Preliminary findings from a Department of Education investigation of the evangelical university indicate years of missteps on issues of sexual misconduct.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

A 21-year-old New York City college student who was sentenced to prison in the United Arab Emirates has been freed, ABC News reported. De Los Santos had been detained in Dubai since July. Elizabeth Polanco De Los Santos Detained in Dubai Lehman College student Elizabeth Polanco De Los Santos had been sentenced to a year in prison after allegedly "assaulting and insulting" Dubai International Airport customs officials, according to Detained in Dubai, an advocacy organization that supports foreign

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University Business

OCTOBER 4, 2023

If you were to look at the top 10 list on Times Higher Education’s international university ranking in a vacuum, you’d be welcomed by another year of U.S. universities setting the world standard. However, a more troubling insight emerges once you measure the broader competency of U.S. higher education as a whole. THE’s world ranking of 1,900+ universities across 108 countries found that the average rank among U.S. universities has fallen 52 spots to 348.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Kate Garry Kate Garry has been appointed executive director of academic communications at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Garry holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Richmond and a master’s in public affairs reporting from the University of Illinois.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Nichols College President Glenn Sulmasy has resigned, following reports that he allegedly engaged in sexual misconduct with several students during his time teaching at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, CNN reported. Glenn M. Sulmasy Nichols had opened an investigation into the retired US Coast Guard captain after news of the allegations broke. Sulmasy had been on voluntary leave and was banned from the Coast Guard Academy campus.

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The Guardian Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Course exploring impact of magic and witchcraft on society comes amid growing interest in folklore If you’ve been getting into crystals, manifesting your dream board or exploring feminist readings of witchcraft, you can now take your hobby to the next level – with the UK’s first postgraduate degree in magic and the occult. The University of Exeter is seeking to harness growing interest in the subjects with a course that will explore the history and impact of witchcraft and magic around the world

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Dr. Norris Allen Edney III Norris Allen Edney III has been named vice president and deputy chief of staff at Talladega College in Alabama. He served as the assistant vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion at the University of Mississippi. Edney earned a bachelor’s degree in biology, a master’s in higher education, and a doctorate in higher education, all from the University of Mississippi.

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The Guardian Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Study estimates cats and dogs consume about 9% of all land animals killed for food If all the world’s dogs went vegan it would save more greenhouse gas emissions than those produced by the UK, according to research advocating the environmental benefits of plant-based pets. The study estimated cats and dogs consume about 9% of all land animals killed for food – about 7 billion animals annually – as well as billions of fish and aquatic animals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Rebecca Teague Rebecca Teague has been appointed vice president of student services at Mt. San Jacinto College in California. She served as interim vice president of student services. Teague holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a master’s in public administration from California State University, Dominguez Hills.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, two University of Pennsylvania researchers, won the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for their research on mRNA technology, which was eventually used to create the leading COVID-19 vaccines.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

A shooting at Morgan State University Tuesday night left five people wounded. Morgan State University Campus police on patrol heard gunfire around 9:25 p.m. and found multiple victims shot. Four men and one woman – ages 18-22 – were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, four being Morgan State students, police said. The shooting took place outdoors.

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College for Creative Study

OCTOBER 4, 2023

For Rachel and Sam Conant, move-in day at College for Creative Studies is especially memorable because it marks both the beginning of their art careers and the story of them. “We had seen each other a couple times, just doing all the things you have to do on the first day of college,” said Sam (Illustration ’05). The two finally met when he helped a fellow student move some items into her dorm room, and she happened to be Rachel’s roommate.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Another 125,000 people will have their student loans forgiven, the Biden administration announced Wednesday, just days after payments resumed following a more than three-year pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Guardian Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

FoI requests show Shell and BP among firms giving funds to institutions which have pledged to divest Major fossil fuel companies have committed tens of millions of pounds in funding to UK universities since 2022, it can be revealed, despite many of these institutions having actively pledged to divest from oil and gas. According to freedom of information requests submitted by the climate journalism site DeSmog, more than £40.9m in research agreements, tuition fees, scholarships, grants and consul

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

A new report from the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at Temple University explores how students’ college experiences during the pandemic varied by race and ethnicity. The findings show that basic needs insecurities were highest among Indigenous, Native American and Black students at over 70 percent. The rate among white students was 54 percent.

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College for Creative Study

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The post MotorTrend shares 1996 Article about Alumnus Mark Allen’s (TD ’94) Sidewinder appeared first on College for Creative Studies.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The Broward College Board of Trustees named Henry Mack, Florida’s former senior education chancellor and a close ally of Governor Ron DeSantis, as interim president of the college, a week after the abrupt departure of former president Gregory Haile. Elsewhere in the state, New College of Florida elevated DeSantis ally Richard Corcoran from interim president to president after a six-month search that produced two other finalists.

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EAB

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Blogs Americans’ trust in higher ed has reached a new low. Here’s how to navigate the ongoing confidence crisis. Gallup’s most recent poll revealed a concerning trend: only 36 percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education. This decline is not a new development, with trust steadily eroding over the past eight years.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Stanford University has agreed to pay the U.S. government nearly $2 million to resolve allegations that it failed to report financial support from foreign sources in applications for federal research grants, the U.S.

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Ray Schroeder

OCTOBER 4, 2023

West Virginia University will reduce its libraries’ personnel budget by up to $800,000 following recommendations from the provost’s office. The dean of libraries must submit a plan for the cuts by Dec. 1, and staff will be notified if they have been terminated between Dec. 8 and 15. The provost’s office also recommended the university’s Teaching and Learning Commons — which provides teaching support and resources for faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students — reduce its operations and

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Glenn Sulmasy resigned as president of Nichols College Tuesday, two months after CNN first reported on his alleged role in a sexual

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Parchment

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Parchment’s belief in the importance of education is embodied in the words of two powerful world icons, Nelson Mandela and Kofi Annan. Building on that deep conviction and our mission to turn credentials into opportunities, Parchment awarded its Pathway to College Scholarships for the second year in a row. Applications, Applications Everywhere The almost 1,000 applications Parchment received for its scholarships demonstrate that early college planning — ideally starting during a student’s high s

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

An emeritus professor at Ohio State University was one of three researchers awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics Tuesday. Pierre Agostini, who has been a member of OSU’s physics faculty since 2005; Ferenc Krausz, who is affiliated with two German institutions; and Anne L’Huillier, of Lund University in Sweden, received the honor for developing new strategies to understand the rapid movements of electrons.

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College for Creative Study

OCTOBER 4, 2023

DETROIT, MI – The College for Creative Studies is pleased to announce that Lesley Mason (‘08, Photography) has joined the department of Institutional Advancement as the Director of Alumni Relations. In this role, Lesley will be responsible for developing and executing strategies to engage alumni in meaningful ways with the College and each other, enhancing their involvement and support for the College’s vision.

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CAPD

OCTOBER 4, 2023

By Kara Baskin, Slice of MIT Executive coach, strategy leader, and author Jessica (Begen) Galica MBA ’16 is redefining workplace success for women. Her new book, Leap: Why It’s Time to Let Go to Get Ahead in Your Career , reframes hard-charging burnout culture: purpose and intention are more important than ambition at all costs. The book profiles women who’ve shed workplace norms to find greater fulfillment and satisfaction.

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University Business

OCTOBER 4, 2023

A group of professors at Vassar, the historic US women’s college in New York, tried for years to internally resolve an issue of being paid less than their male counterparts but now they have finally resorted to legal action, a lawyer for the group said. Vassar has been hit with a federal lawsuit brought by five senior female professors who allege their employer has “knowingly” and “systematically” been paying them and other female professors less than the men for nearly 20 years.

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CAPD

OCTOBER 4, 2023

FTI Consulting is a gold sponsor of the MIT virtual Fall Career Fair. In a constantly evolving environment in the financial industries and other industries with a data and quantitative focus, FTI Consulting’s Securities, Commodities & Derivatives practice helps clients by providing expertise-led and technology-enabled solutions to their most complex challenges.

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University Business

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Four students and another person were wounded when gunfire erupted outside a crowded homecoming event at Morgan State University in Baltimore, police said, sending students on a dash for cover and a SWAT team into a dorm to hunt for suspects as the nation’s gun violence epidemic struck yet another American campus. Read more from CNN. The post 5 wounded as mass shooting at Morgan State University prompts hourslong shelter-in-place during homecoming week appeared first on University Business.

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Higher Education Inquirer

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Ambow Education, the principal shareholder of the New School of Architecture and Design in San Diego has been cited by the New York Stock Exchange as a Non Compliant Issuer and risks imminent delisting from the exchange. The warning was delivered on September 21, but the company has yet to notify its shareholders. The Higher Education Inquirer reported on Ambow's financial problems in May 2022.

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University Business

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Your faculty may be made up of world-renowned professors, but that doesn’t mean students are grasping the material. Unless those educators are naturally talented, you may want to consider enrolling them in a faculty development course if they are student-facing. One new report proves the efficacy of doing just that. A new study by the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) , funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, found that faculty who enrolled in developmental

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute, part of SUNY Polytechnic Institute Week: Ryan Lizardi, associate professor of digital media and humanities, says the nostalgia window is now wide-open for millennials. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.

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University Business

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Liberty has faced increasing public pressure in recent years over policies that survivors say allow sexual violence to run unchecked. The preliminary report says overlooked allegations of violence reached all the way to the top, including accusations involving a former university president and a senior administrator. Read more from USA Today. The post Feds say Liberty University created ‘fear of reprisal’ for sexual violence survivors appeared first on University Business.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When I first left home at age 17, I had little interest in pursuing higher education. That changed when, while working as a live-in caregiver to help support myself through high school graduation, I discovered I had a passion for being a professional caretaker. My interest led me to pursue a career — and an education — in nursing. I am now a junior in college, have earned my CNA and MA certifications, and I am preparing to start nursing school.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

‘Let’s Talk About Sex,’ or ‘Let’s Platform Transphobia’? Association Cancels a Panel Ryan Quinn Wed, 10/04/2023 - 03:00 AM Five controversial female scholars were set to speak on sex and gender at next month’s big anthropology conference. Other academics alleged they were pushing harmful views conflicting with “settled science.

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