Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

There are fewer surgeries on Black, Latino, and Asian children than on white children in the U.S., according to a University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) study. Dr. Ethan Sanford The study’s findings, published in the “ Journal of Pediatric Surgery ,” may indicate inequities in access to surgical care, but causes for the gap are not identified nor listed.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

With Thanksgiving break under wraps, school districts and higher education institutions have their final holiday to look forward to as 2022 comes to a close: Christmas break. Unfortunately, administrators must understand that while they’re on break, criminal actors simply aren’t. The education sector is especially vulnerable to cyberattacks over the holidays—that’s the conclusion of a global survey of 1.203 cybersecurity professionals by Cybereason, a cybersecurity technology c

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Karen Wright Karen Wright has been appointed interim vice president for advancement at Fort Valley State University in Georgia. She was vice president for institutional advancement at St. Thomas Aquinas College in Orangeburg, N.Y. Wright holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Fisk University and an MSW from New York University.

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Robert Kelchen

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It’s safe to say that leaders in higher education typically have a love/hate relationship with college rankings. Traditionally, they love them when they do well and hate them when they move down a few pegs. Yet, outside of a small number of liberal arts colleges , few institutions have made the choice not to cooperate with the 800-pound gorilla in the college rankings industry– U.S.

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Biola

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It’s the home stretch of the fall semester! You only have a few more weeks before Christmas break and should be feeling proud of all you have accomplished so far. As you wrap up your final projects, papers and exams, we want to be sure you feel.

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Higher Education Whisperer

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

View from ACS HQGreetings from the Australian Computer Society head office, halfway up a very tall building in Sydney, overlooking the harbour. I am here for a meeting of the ACS Professional Standards Board (PSB). But beforehand I am sitting in on the ACS Accreditation Committee. This committee decides on which university degrees are suitable for those applying for ACS membership.

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Roompact

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It’s the time of year when I begin to think about the importance of stories and traditions. Do you have stories or moments that stick with you? Do you have traditions that you have passed onto others in your family or friendship groups? What about in your workplace? Stories are “a description, either true or.

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Residence Life 62

University Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Industry leaders say their number-one challenge is a shrinking talent pool, but making college and career decisions intimidates many high school graduates, according to a poll released Monday. A startling three-quarters of high school grads say they do not feel prepared to make these important choices about their futures, according to a survey of 500 students from the classes of 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 conducted by YouScience, an integrated college and career readiness platform.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Florida A&M University’s (FAMU) School of Journalism & Graphic Communication will receive a $1 million multi-year grant from Disney to support journalism students, the Tallahassee Democrat reported. ABC News President and FAMU alum Kimberly Godwin announced the grant at FAMU’s Homecoming Convocation in October. “Florida A&M University changed my life,” Godwin said in a statement.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

On a recent weekday morning, Daniel Jean stood on a stage in a conference room at Montclair State University and asked the crowd to stand. Before him were dozens of rows of young Black and Hispanic boys bused in from high schools in nearby Paterson, Jersey City and Newark. “They believe one out of three of us will go to jail,” Jean’s voice boomed from the microphone, reciting an often-repeated, decades-old statistic about Black men.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

A coalition of organizations have filed five amicus curiae briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the Biden administration’s student loan debt forgiveness program, which aims to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt for most borrowers. Republican-led states and conservative-leaning groups have launched legal challenges against the program, which has been temporarily blocked by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals while it considers legal challenges to the program.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The parents of Katie Meyer have filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Stanford University months after the 22-year-old soccer captain was found dead in her dorm room. The complaint, filed Wednesday in Santa Clara County Superior Court, names several university administrators and alleges that a disciplinary letter sent to Meyers on Feb. 28 was a form of “institutional bullying” and caused distress that “impulsively led her to suicide” that night.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

As the lame duck session of Congress continues, educational organizations are lobbying for legislation to protect undocumented Americans who arrived in the country at young ages, known as Dreamers. Last week, a phalanx of nearly 70 higher ed groups, including the American Association of Colleges and Universities and the American Council on Education, sent a letter to Congressional leaders calling for a bipartisan agreement including a path to citizenship.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

A Stanford psychiatry professor found herself in a strange position at the start of 2017. The Trump administration had just banned travel to the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries, and Stanford’s Muslim community was in despair. Realizing that extra help was needed, the university asked Dr. Rania Awaad to hold therapy-like office hours with Muslim students.

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