Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Dr. Katherine Conway-Turner does her utmost to maximize the power and purpose of public higher education. Dr. Katherine Conway-Turner Her understanding of the impact of education comes from personal experience. Conway-Turner, who grew up in a small town in Missouri, said her journey mirrors that of many of the students at Buffalo State University (part of the State University of New York system).

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

The results of a 2022 IBM study on the mental health of incident response teams should have sent an unambiguous message to cybersecurity leaders around the country: Your employees are struggling. Among U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Recently, I was a finalist for a job opportunity and was asked “how do you plan on [re]engaging the college community”? My response included a statement that if offered the job, I would be willing to get into a dunk tank, sell tickets for student scholarships, and challenge my colleagues to join me in the activity. However, the question made me think further about collegewide [re]engagement.

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University Business

JUNE 23, 2023

Money Magazine has revamped its college ranking system into a star-tier list , and with it, it has named 34 colleges and universities to its five-star category. Money , an American personal finance website that writes about mortgages, loans, credit, investing and more, revamped its list due to the changing needs of lower- and middle-class Americans looking for the best investment based on what they personally value amid higher education’s inflated price tag.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Duke University will be offering full tuition grants to students from the Carolinas with family incomes below $150,000, effective Fall 2023. The program will also give those with family incomes of $65,000 or less financial assistance for housing, meals, and some course materials or other campus expenses. All qualifying current undergrad will be eligible, and qualifying first-year students, sophomores, juniors, and seniors will receive financial aid statements by Jul. 1 that reflect this change.

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College for Creative Study

JUNE 23, 2023

An academic partnership between CCS and Oakland University’s Augmented Reality Center (ARC) is showcasing the intersection of engineering, science and art through Augmented Reality. The ARC features an immersive lab where engineering and science students and industry professionals can explore new opportunities in Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Natasha Hutson Natasha Hutson has been appointed to serve as chief of staff to the president of Alcorn State University in Mississippi. Hutson holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, an MPA from Florida State University, and a doctorate in educational leadership from Valdosta State University in Georgia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Dr. Rodney D. Bennett will become chancellor of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, effective Jul. 1. Dr. Rodney D. Bennett Most recently, Bennett was president of the University of Southern Mississippi. He previously was vice president for student affairs at the University of Georgia. “I continue to be excited about the university’s ability to set a new standard of excellence among flagship and land-grant institutions across our country and beyond,” Bennett said. “ UNL is truly unique in build

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The Guardian Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Small number could attend graduation but later be told they have failed as pay dispute affects assessments at 145 universities Tens of thousands of university students are being left in limbo without their final degree results this summer, including some who could attend graduation ceremonies only to be told later that they have failed. About a third of the UK’s 500,000 final-year undergraduates are thought to have been affected by the marking and assessment boycott at 145 universities, part of

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is suing the Department of Education (ED), arguing that its higher ed accreditation process is being unfair to schools in his state, The Hill reported. Gov. Ron DeSantis Florida recently established a law requiring universities to switch accreditors but then ED issued three documents that made it near impossible for schools to follow said law, DeSantis, a 2024 presidential candidate, said.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

CDW expanded the digital velocity services it can offer higher education institutions with its acquisition earlier this month of Enquizit, an Amazon Web Services cloud solutions provider. The acquisition adds extensive experience designing, developing and managing mission-critical applications as well as SkyMap, an artificial intelligence–powered cloud migration accelerator, to CDW’s offerings.

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University Business

JUNE 23, 2023

The federal government has awarded Bergen Community College a five-year, $4.5 million grant to help contribute to the growth of future food, agriculture, natural resources and human sciences (FANH) professionals. The 2023 Feeding the Economy report commissioned by agriculture industry leaders shows that nearly 20% of all U.S. economic activity ($8.6 trillion) comes from the food and agriculture sector.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JUNE 23, 2023

In this post, we share with you the Collegiate Commentary from our latest Teaching Matters newsletter↗️: Five facets of the Student Voice that featured the Mar-April Student Voice series↗️ Simon Varwell, Senior Development Consultant from Student Partnerships in Quality Scotland (sparqs↗️), highlights the importance of ‘authentic and constructive dialogue’ in student partnership activities and gives […]

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University Business

JUNE 23, 2023

Seven members of Kappa Kappa Gamma at Wyoming’s only four-year state university sued in March, saying the sorority violated its own rules by admitting Artemis Langford last year. Six of the women refiled the lawsuit in May after a judge twice barred them from suing anonymously. The sorority sisters opposed to Langford’s induction could presumably change the policy if most sorority members shared their view, or they could resign if “a position of inclusion is too offensive to their personal value

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Hanover Research

JUNE 23, 2023

The post Case Western Reserve University School of Law Partners with Hanover in Order to Better Focus International Recruiting Efforts appeared first on Hanover Research.

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University Business

JUNE 23, 2023

An accomplished educator and administrator, Bernstein is provost emeritus at Stony Brook University, having previously served as that institution’s interim president from August 2019 through May 2020. During that time, he guided the university through unprecedented challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, including a move to fully remote instruction for a period in 2020.

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Ray Schroeder

JUNE 23, 2023

West Virginia University announced Wednesday a merger of its College of Creative Arts and the Reed College of Media, heralding it as a “creative and innovative collaboration.” But in the same breath it cast the consolidation as inventive, it acknowledged it was staring down “a challenging collegiate landscape,” which for the public flagship means an estimated $45 million budget deficit for the coming academic year.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

After struggling through degrees hindered by Covid, those affected by boycott now say they face missing job opportunities Ray, 21, recently missed out on a dream job at a charity after they were unable to present their degree classification. Due to the marking boycott, they have now been waiting for eight weeks for their dissertation result alongside another unmarked module.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Legislation in Wisconsin is threatening to cut the University of Wisconsin System's budget by $32 million despite a projected record-high $7 billion state budget surplus, Associated Press reported. Rep. Mark Born This move in the state’s Republican-controlled budget-writing committee was made along party lines Thursday, sending the budget bill to the Senate and Assembly.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

The cohort who left sixth form in 2020 have had an education plagued with setbacks, notes one reader While university staff have every right to take part in industrial action and fight for better pay and conditions, the current marking boycott affecting 145 universities seems a step too far in terms of its negative impact on the students involved and their mental health ( The pandemic ruined my A-levels – now the marking boycott casts a shadow over my degree, 12 June ).

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University Business

JUNE 23, 2023

The hearing came amid a flurry of federal and state government petitions to remove the bachelor’s degree as a barrier. The Biden administration has kept a Trump-era executive order that reduces degree requirements in federal job postings. Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx, R-NC., sponsored a bill to increase skills-based recruiting for federal jobs that passed 422-2.

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Ray Schroeder

JUNE 23, 2023

Gov. Tony Evers said he won’t sign the state budget if Republican lawmakers follow through on their plan to cut funding for the state university system’s diversity officers, escalating a bitter fight over dollars for the state campuses. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos told The Associated Press he wants to cut $32 million from the UW System in the state’s 2023-25 budget.

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