Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Dr. Anjalé Welton has been appointed the Rupple-Bascom Professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison (UWM). The professorship gives Welton funds over five years for research- and scholarly-related activities. Dr. Anjalé Welton “School leaders need help cultivating school communities that are racially equitable and just,” Welton said. “The resources provided by the Rupple-Bascom Professorship will help further my existing research-practice partnerships with school leaders engaged in anti-racist ch

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University Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

More than 948,000 international students attended U.S. colleges and universities in 2021-22, a 4% increase from the previous school year, according to the annual “ Open Doors 2022 Report on International Educational Exchange ,” released Monday by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the Institute of International Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Dr. David E. Jones will become the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s (NJIT) first chief diversity officer, effective Dec. 1. Dr. David E. Jones Jones is currently chief diversity officer at William Paterson University and teaches diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) modules to senior leaders through The Equity Institute, a remote program at the University of Southern California Race and Equity Center.

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Terminalfour

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This week, we’re lifting the veil on split testing, commonly called A/B testing, and when and where you could be using it to optimize your university or college websites, emails, and more.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Dr. Cheryl L. Nixon will become the 10th president of Berea College, effective Jul. 1, 2023, making her the first woman to serve as the school’s president. Dr. Cheryl Nixon Nixon is currently provost and vice president for academic affairs at Fort Lewis College. She has also served as associate provost, English department chair, and graduate program director at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

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Via's

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

From a Virtual Tour of Germany to Making Gnocchi, Via Observes IEW . Like many of our colleagues in the International Education field, Via will be celebrating International Education Week (IEW) 2022 with a wide range of events and activities from November 14-18. . IEW is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education aimed at celebrating the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Between June 2004 and June 2020, almost 12,000 institutions of higher education closed their doors. Some of those institutions closed in an orderly fashion—students, faculty and staff were given ample warning, and arrangements for continuing a student’s education at another institution, teach-out plans, are made. But sometimes institutions experience an abrupt closure, where students, faculty and staff receive little to no warning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Ella Kiselyuk Ella Kiselyuk has been named associate vice president for finance and administration/chief human resources & diversity officer at Florida A&M University. Kiselyuk earned a bachelor’s degree in human resources management and a master’s degree in public administration from Bernard Baruch College, City University of New York.

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Hope College Network

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Growing Up. I am from Zeeland, MI. A town only 20 minutes away from Hope College. I go home every other weekend to do my laundry for free and can call my parents whenever I need help with anything. In conversations with friends I have been informed that, “I do not have the right to talk about missing home.” While I don’t argue with their points, I do miss home.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

On January 7, 2021, my Mom, Vanessa Bright, suffered a stroke in the kitchen of her home while my Dad and I were there. She was taken to the hospital by the paramedics, and we weren’t allowed to go with her as it was still during one of the heights of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Marcus Bright With no family or friends allowed in she was completely reliant on the personnel in the hospital for anything that she needed.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In this extra post, Dr James Lamb describes how he piloted an online, asynchronous tutorial activity, which supports a teaching model that is not bound to a fixed class time. James is co-programme director for MSc in Education Futures, and teaches on the MSc in Digital Education. This semester, I’m teaching two courses: Learning Spaces […].

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A Nov. 13 shooting at the University of Virginia (UVA) has resulted in three people dead and two injured. The suspect, student Christopher Darnell Jones , 22, is in custody as of Monday, NBC News reported. UVA Chief of Police Timothy Longo said that the police department secured an arrest warrant charging Jones with three counts of second-degree murder and three counts of using a handgun in the commission of a felony.

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Biola

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

How much do you know about Native American people? How well do you understand their culture and their history or the triumphs and challenges that they face today? Native American Heritage Month, celebrated each November, reminds us of the.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Nearly 48,000 unionized academic workers at all 10 University of California campuses walked off the job Monday, calling for better pay and benefits. The strike by researchers, postdoctoral scholars, tutors, teaching assistants and graders threatens to disrupt classroom and laboratory instruction across the statewide university system just weeks ahead of final exams in December.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Blogs. Struggling to set graduate enrollment goals? Here’s our step-by-step guide. Like my enrollment management colleagues, I have spent many sleepless nights turning over enrollment numbers in my head. Will we meet our class? What will melt look like? What will our class composition look like? While my outlook on these questions has certainly changed year-to-year (hello, demographic cliffs, recessions, and global pandemics), one challenge I faced every year is setting enrollment goals that are

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Higher Education Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Title: The Growing Gap: Public Higher Education’s Declining Affordability for Pell Grant Recipients Source: National College Attainment Network (NCAN) Students who receive Pell Grants regularly turn to public two- and four-year colleges and universities for affordable and accessible higher education. However, a new report from the National College Attainment Network (NCAN) found Pell Grant students.

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Higher Education Whisperer

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The new Australian Government is going ahead with a modest micro-credential initiative of the previous government. But we also need some reforms to conventional degrees. Recently I have been helping assess applications from students for course credit. One thing about these is the wide range of institutions people have studied at. Another is the impressive depth of work experience some students.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The LSU Student Senate unanimously passed a resolution to ‘strongly condemn’ LSU president William Tate for what they see as inaction by the university in renaming buildings on campus that students have deemed offensive. The resolution came on the heels of an article in the university’s student newspaper, The Reveille, last month that revealed the LSU Building Name Evaluation Committee disbanded in December 2021.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) will be launching an initiative to improve access to high-quality training programs. Education Secretary Dr. Miguel Cardona The initiative, “ Raise the Bar: Unlocking Career Success,” – supported by the Departments of Commerce and Labor – involves a program to expand work-based learning opportunities for students, using $5.6 million dollars in Perkins funding.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Police have in custody a University of Virginia student and ex-UVA football player suspected of fatally shooting three current players and wounding two other people late Sunday at the school’s main campus in Charlottesville as a bus returned from a class field trip, school officials said. The suspect, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., faces three charges of second-degree murder and three counts of using a handgun in the commission of a felony, UVA Police Chief Timothy Longo Sr. told reporters Mon

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Experiential Learning Depot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Authentic presentations are vital components of student-led project-based learning. The idea is for students to share their final products, new skills, and/or knowledge with an authentic audience with the purpose of making an impact. But how? What are some ways of sharing PBL outcomes with a public and relevant audience? Let's talk about that. ​ "Authentic learning" is an important phrase in the project-based learning world.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

After a steep pandemic decline, the number of international students studying in the U.S. began to rebound in 2021-22 , according to the Open Doors 2022 report released Monday. The total number of international students increased 4% to almost 950,000, and the number of new international students soared 80% to nearly pre-pandemic levels. Despite the increases, t he number of international students studying in the U.S. is still 13% lower than the pre-pandemic high of almost 1.1 million, achieved

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