Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 7, 2023

Though the Western Michigan University Broncos had a winning record (37-32) over the last six years under head coach Tim Lester, the team fell short of its goal to win the Mid-American Conference. The Division 1 football team fell out of contention the final week some seasons. “The results on the field didn’t reflect the investment in performance,” said athletic director Dan Bartholomae.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 7, 2023

Navajo Technical University will become the first tribal university to offer a Ph.D. program this fall. Tribal college and university leaders are celebrating the move. Navajo Technical University in New Mexico has come a long way since its founding about 40 years ago as a job skills training center with five signature vocational programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 7, 2023

A Florida judge has allowed a class-action lawsuit to proceed with accusations the state discriminates against a historically Black university while prioritizing its largest public university, a predominantly white, NBC News r eported. Six Florida A&M University students filed suit in September alleging, in part, that the University of Florida receives a larger state appropriation per student than Florida A&M.

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Clark Nesxen

JUNE 7, 2023

Higher education engineering programs span a diverse range of studies, each with unique requirements and activities in their lab spaces. In the following, Clark Nexsen mechanical engineer Adam McElhaney highlights how various laboratories in NC State’s Fitts-Woolard Hall required a complex web of engineering systems to support their functionality.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 7, 2023

The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) has welcomed six historically Black community colleges (HBCC) as new members, all from Alabama. The additions bring the organization’s membership to 53 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Dr. Harry L. Williams The schools include: Bishop State Community College, Drake State Community & Technical College, Gadsden State Community College, Lawson State Community College, Shelton State Community College, and Trenholm State Community Col

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University Business

JUNE 7, 2023

From student enrollment to instructional technologies, the pandemic’s reach was far greater than anyone anticipated. And while most areas of education have returned to what educators believe to be the new “normal,” its effects still linger. Now, students are thinking more critically about their lives post-graduation. This year’s high school graduating class was in ninth grade when the pandemic struck.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 7, 2023

Delaware State University has been awarded $217,000 to support two mental health initiatives. Delaware State University is one of four historically Black colleges and universities recently awarded grant funds supporting initiatives to establish mental health first aid education programs and campus mobile crisis response teams following campus bomb threats in 2022.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 7, 2023

Terryl Brown Terryl Brown has been named vice president and general counsel for Pace University in New York. She served as deputy commissioner of legal affairs and administration for the New York City Fire Department. Brown holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Pace University, a master’s from Villanova University in Pennsylvania, and a juris doctorate and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.

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University Business

JUNE 7, 2023

With the pandemic accelerating higher education into the online space , colleges and universities have been forced to keep up with rampant student demand. As a result, online program managers (OPMs) have become one of the hottest edtech assets a college and university can partner with, but few OPMs are big enough to stand toe-to-toe with 2U, Inc. 2U recently announced two new degree programs with Cabrini University, extended its contract with Southern Methodist University and signed an agreement

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 7, 2023

Dr. Pardis Mahdavi will become president of The University of La Verne, effective Aug. 15. Dr. Pardis Mahdavi Mahdavi served as provost and executive vice president at the University of Montana most recently. Previously, she was acting dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and director of the Pacific Basin Institute and dean of women at Pomona College.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 7, 2023

Lawmakers voted to not spend more money on domestic programs in order to avert default. That doesn’t leave much wiggle room for appropriators to increase the Pell Grant or give more money to Federal Student Aid. Although federal spending on domestic programs will be flat in the upcoming fiscal year, advocates and higher education lobbyists say there’s still a chance to secure more money to increase the maximum Pell Grant award and to fund the Office of Federal Student Aid, among other priorities

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 7, 2023

Dr. Carmen J. Walters will be stepping down as president of Tougaloo College, effective June 30. This comes after the Tougaloo Alumni Coalition – not directly associated with the Tougaloo Alumni Association – started a petition to remove Walters earlier this year, citing concerns such as declining student enrollment, loss of faculty and staff, vacant key positions, and questionable fiscal issues.

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Roompact

JUNE 7, 2023

Roompact’s “Quick Tips” series highlights ideas and suggestions you can put into your practice as either a professional staff or student staff member working in residence life and education. Click to read more from the series. Bed bugs are a common nuisance that can infest even the cleanest and well-maintained spaces, including residence halls.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 7, 2023

Researchers and other scholars need instead a shadow CV to highlight systemic inequalities, Cyrena Gawuga writes. As newly minted Ph.D.s across the country cycle through a discouraging job market, some will be advised to create for themselves a “failure CV” alongside their job-hunting CV in an attempt to remind them how much they’ve overcome.

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College for Creative Study

JUNE 7, 2023

The post Alumnus Mark Allen (TD ‘94) retires from Jeep as Vice President of Design appeared first on College for Creative Studies.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 7, 2023

The Long View on Transformative College Experiences: Key Podcast Featured Image at Top of Article rick miller.

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CAPD

JUNE 7, 2023

Our Asia offices are looking for students graduating between October 2024 and July 2025 from any degree / discipline (For Tokyo programs, we welcome all students graduating after October 2024), who are interested in exploring a career in the financial services industry to apply for our 2024 internship programs. Opportunities are open in business areas across our Institutional Securities Group, Company and Technology Divisions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 7, 2023

University of Washington postdoctoral researchers and research scientists/engineers began striking Wednesday over pay and other issues. Becca Bluett, a member of the postdoc bargaining committee for UAW 4121, said the university has 2,400 of these two types of employees—the research scientists/engineers are working on their first contract, and roughly half of the 900 postdocs are union members and are seeking a new contract.

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University Business

JUNE 7, 2023

Columbia University announced Tuesday that it will no longer submit data to U.S. News and World Report for its rankings of undergraduate schools. “We remain concerned with the role that rankings have assumed in the undergraduate application process, both in the outsized influence they may play with prospective students, and in how they distill a university’s profile into a composite of data categories,” according to a release shared by the school’s Office of the Provost, citing Provost Mary Bo

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 7, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute, part of University of California, Irvine, Week: Keri Hurley-Kim, associate clinical professor in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, explains why knowing who gets vaccinated more often can tell us whom to target in future vaccine efforts.

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University Business

JUNE 7, 2023

Climate change is here, now, lapping at the walls of higher education — quite literally. Higher ed is a massive, diverse sector with roughly 20 million students in the U.S. alone and a major physical and carbon footprint in all 50 states. Universities, for decades, have expanded society’s knowledge of climate impacts and climate solutions. But some leaders argue it’s time for these institutions to remake themselves wholesale for this rising tide of rapid change.

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SRHE

JUNE 7, 2023

by Brett Bligh, Sue Beckingham, Lesley Gourlay, and Julianne K Viola SRHE’s ‘Landscapes of Learning for Unknown Futures: prospects for space in higher education’ symposium series, delivered with Professor Sam Elkington and Dr Jill Dickinson, aims to foster continuous dialogue around learning spaces. Here the three presenters reflect on some of the ideas and issues raised during the first symposium on ‘Networks’.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 7, 2023

two people were killed and five were injured in a shooting just after a high school graduation at Virginia Commonwealth University, NBC News reported. One of those killed was an 18-year-old man who had just graduated. The other was a 36-year-old man who attended the ceremony.

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Ray Schroeder

JUNE 7, 2023

A new report reviewing California State University’s finances found the system is paying only about 85% of what it actually costs to meet student, staff and institution needs, creating a funding gap of almost $1.5 billion.The months-long review found a 14% disparity between what Cal State spent in its 2021-2022 year and what it actually costs to educate its students, pay faculty and staff salaries and keep its vast 23-campus network running, according to an almost 70-page report released this we

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 7, 2023

The University of Houston announced it will spend $38 million on new safety measures at Agnes Arnold Hall, a campus building closed since March following two student deaths by suicide in a matter of six weeks.

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Ray Schroeder

JUNE 7, 2023

Just a few weeks after St. Cloud State University announced that two dozen faculty jobs would be eliminated in the next year, it announced plans to eliminate another 100 faculty jobs within five years, The Star Tribune reported. Seventy programs and majors will also be eliminated. The university said it faces an $18 million budget deficit for fall 2023, and that will grow to $24.5 million the following year.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 7, 2023

Two people were killed and five were injured in a shooting just after a high school graduation at Virginia Commonwealth University, NBC News reported. One of those killed was an 18-year-old man who had just graduated. The other was a 36-year-old man who attended the ceremony. A suspect in the killings is a 19-year-old man who is in police custody.

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University Business

JUNE 7, 2023

The Alabama Legislature approved a bill Tuesday to create a loan program for universities in financial distress after Gov. Kay Ivey returned the original bill with an executive amendment. Senate Bill 278 (SB278), sponsored by State Sen. Jabo Waggoner (R-Vestavia Hills), also called the Distressed Institutions of Higher Education Revolving Loan Program, would create the loan program administered by the State Treasurer.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 7, 2023

Connecticut governor Ned Lamont and leaders of the state’s higher education institutions reached a deal Monday to shore up higher education funding in the budget for fiscal year 2024.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 7, 2023

7 June · Episode 158 Washington Update: Title IX, Student Debt, NC-SARA, and Debt Ceiling Negotiations 38 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton A lot has been happening up on The Hill that affects higher education. In this Washington Update podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton catches up on the latest news with Tom Netting, president of TEN Government Strategies, who advocates before Congress, federal agencies, and state governments on behalf of private institutions of higher education and post-secon

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 7, 2023

Free Higher Education News, Jobs, Career Advice and Events for college and university faculty, adjuncts, graduate students, and administrators.

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