Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2023

It’s taken months of collaboration across institutions, but east Tennessee’s only Historically Black College and University (HBCU) is on track to regain accreditation. The college is anticipating submitting its application for approval in April. Knoxville College (KC), a private institution, lost its accreditation in 1997. Since then, it has regained authorized status in Tennessee, which allows them to confer credentials.

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Dr. Josie Ahlquist

MARCH 3, 2023

It still kinda blows my mind that America may have been founded in 1776, but it wasn’t until (almost) 200 years later that women started to receive “equal” treatment. It was… And, unfortunately, the race is not over. We didn’t always have a month dedicated to celebrating women. The National Women’s History Project was founded in 1980 and lobbied congress to designate a month to celebrate women.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2023

Jacquez Gray Jacquez Gray has been named assistant director of diversity, equity and inclusion for the Michigan State University Department of Police and Public Safety. Gray earned a bachelor’s degree in law enforcement and justice administration from Western Illinois University and a master’s in leadership and student affairs from the University of St.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Image: Reskilling. Upskilling. Certificates. Certifications. Badges. Licenses. Microcredentials. Alternative credentials. Digital credentials. So many terms. So little agreement on what they mean, least of all in higher ed. “Employers say, ‘It’s great that this individual has these skills, but we’ll ask our own questions to verify the learner’s knowledge,’” Kyle Albert, assistant research professor at the George Washington University Institute of Public

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2023

San Diego State University (SDSU) is planning to rename two of its buildings, the West Commons and East Commons buildings, after SDSU notable figures, veteran astronaut Dr. Ellen Ochoa and mathematician Dr. Charles B. Bell Jr. Dr. Charles B. Bell Jr. and Dr. Ellen Ochoa Each building name is to stay for at least 15 years. Ochoa will be honored via the renaming of the West Commons into Ellen Ochoa Pavilion.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Image: The skill of boiling down ideas into concise, compelling communications is crucial to success in many careers and workplaces. That’s why professors should consider designing writing assignments that align with what students will face in the workplace. Martha Coven, author of Writing on the Job: Best Practices for Communicating in the Digital Age (Princeton University Press, 2022), spoke on this topic at the recent conference on general education, pedagogy and assessment organized by

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2023

The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning has placed Jackson State University (JSU) President Thomas Hudson on administrative leave with pay, effective immediately. President Thomas Hudson In January, Hudson received a “no confidence” vote after a committee determined Hudson and his leadership had exhibited “a continuous pattern of failing to respect shared governance, transparency, accountability, and have worked outside of professional norms that have broad implications fo

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2023

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is now discharging student loans of borrowers alleging they were defrauded by their colleges after a federal judge recently ruled that a $6 billion settlement could proceed, The Washington Post reported. The settlement stems from a 2018 class-action suit from people accusing ED of ignoring applications for loan forgiveness through a federal borrower defense program.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Image: For the Black community, the barbershop is more than just the place you get your hair cut or styled. “If you’ve ever been in a Black barbershop, like, in that cultural space, anything goes,” says Patrick Wallace, assistant director of the Student Success Center at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. “Within 10 minutes, you can have five different conversations,” ranging from politics to personal life to sports and everything in between.

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Terminalfour

MARCH 3, 2023

Want to know which are the most interesting higher education and digital marketing conferences taking place this year? We’ve compiled some of our favorites to get excited about, covering a broad list of highly relevant topics to higher education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Thomas Hudson, president of Jackson State University, was placed on administrative leave with pay Thursday by Mississippi's Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning. The announcement by the board gave no reason. The board named Elayne Hayes-Anthony as "temporary acting president " of the university. She is chair of journalism and media studies at Jackson State.

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CIP

MARCH 3, 2023

The Fall of 2022 saw us aspiring to be - and do - many great things from attending college classes, to finding meaningful employment, to supporting our communities.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

The Onondaga Community College Board of Trustees approved a $75,000 early-retirement incentive for senior faculty members on Tuesday in response to enrollment losses. The two-year college in Syracuse, part of the State University of New York system, experienced a steep enrollment decline over the last decade, from about 13,000 students in 2012 to slightly over 7,300 last year, WRVO reported.

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Modern Campus

MARCH 3, 2023

Nearly a fifth of college students report having a disability, and it’s likely that many more have one but choose not to report it. So, chances are good that you work with students with disabilities every day.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Stylus Publishing, a leading publisher of books about and for higher education, will be sold to Taylor & Francis and operate as part of its Routledge division, Stylus’s founder announced in an email to authors Thursday. Stylus has published hundreds of books on what it described as the business of higher education, in such realms as teaching, student affairs, assessment and leadership and administration.

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CAPD

MARCH 3, 2023

Landing a job in private equity is hard. Thousands of students apply for a few elite positions. Without experience in the industry, how do you stand out? The Grata Scholars Program is launching its first class this year to place the top students in private equity and M&A internships. The Grata Scholars Program is a 3 week training that begins March 20th.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Columbia University has become the first Ivy League institution to go test optional in admissions permanently for Columbia College and the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. A statement released this week said, “Our review is purposeful and nuanced—respecting varied backgrounds, voices and experiences—in order to best determine an applicant’s suitability for admission and ability to thrive in our curriculum and our community, and to advance access to

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EAB

MARCH 3, 2023

Blogs Communications Must-Do’s When a Flashpoint Impacts Your District Over the last year, one in three superintendents nationwide has addressed a divisive flashpoint that brought everyday work in their district to a screeching halt. Given the political climate in public education, these types of controversies are becoming constant and frequent issues district leaders must face.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Anyone remember the Stamp Act? In 1765, the British passed a law making it illegal to publish anything on paper that lacked a stamp from the government; naturally, the stamp had to be bought. It was meant to raise revenue and tamp down on those pesky pamphleteers who kept making trouble. It did not end well.

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University Business

MARCH 3, 2023

California’s community colleges do not employ enough full-time faculty and in some cases districts are misspending state funds allocated for those faculty instead on too many part-time adjuncts, according to a newly released report from California’s state auditor. The audit, ordered last year by state lawmakers, probed hiring practices for full-time faculty at four community college districts : Foothill-De Anza, Kern, Los Rios and San Diego.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Student prayer gatherings have recently cropped up at secular colleges and universities following the nonstop, two-week prayer service led by students at Asbury University. The Asbury revival drew tens of thousands of worshippers to the Christian college in Kentucky, The Christian Post reported. Students at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green who attended the spontaneous mass event at Asbury held a prayer service that drew several hundred people last Thursday on the National Collegiate

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University Business

MARCH 3, 2023

A recent study conducted by a non-partisan proponent of free speech concluded a record-high number of school faculty and staff reporting fear of reprimand for expressing their views, topping numbers recorded during the Red Scare more than 50 years ago. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) surveyed almost 1,500 faculty across four-year colleges and universities and found “more than half of faculty (52%) reported being worried about losing their jobs or reputation becau

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Birgit Puschner, dean of Michigan State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, announced her resignation Monday, effective March 31, citing institutional failures in sexual misconduct investigations and a lack of accountability for alleged perpetrators, according to The Detroit News. “After years of all-consuming work, I came to the conclusion that I cannot, in good conscience, continue in my current role as Dean,” Puschner wrote in an email to the veterinary college comm

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University Business

MARCH 3, 2023

A Washtenaw Community College program has saved students $10.1 million on textbooks since 2017. The Open Educational Resources program provides WCC students degrees or certificates that require zero cost in textbooks. Students use free OER textbooks adapted by WCC faculty or other textbook alternatives. The multi-million dollar savings for students makes college even more affordable for WCC students, WCC President Rose Bellanca said in a statement.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

A new survey of low-income and first-generation high school students and those who are people of color reveals that concerns about preparedness, the ability to meet their basic needs and academic costs are impacting their future education and career plans, making them less likely to believe more education is necessary. The new survey from ECMC Group collected responses from more than 1,000 students from underserved student populations in October 2022 and revealed that they do not feel prepared f

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 3, 2023

In this extra post, we share with you the Collegiate Commentary from the latest Teaching Matters newsletter: Five lessons from the 2022 Careers and Employability Series.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Jerry Balentine , executive vice president and interim provost at New York Institute of Technology, has been named provost and EVP there on a permanent basis. Marta Yera Cronin , president of Columbia Gorge Community College, in Oregon, has been chosen as president of Delaware County Community College, in Pennsylvania. Corey A. King , vice chancellor for inclusivity and student affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, has been selected as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at

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Ray Schroeder

MARCH 3, 2023

The university, which is based in Florida, will no longer offer courses in Charleston, S.C.; Joint Base Charleston–Naval Weapons Station, S.C.; Columbus, Miss.; Corpus Christi, Tex.; and Jacksonville, Lake City, Ocala and Mayport, Fla. Students currently taking classes at these centers will be able to move to the university’s online program to continue their coursework.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute : Anna Amirkhanyan, professor of public administration and policy at American University, explores how different populations around the world perceived their governments” responses to COVID. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Ray Schroeder

MARCH 3, 2023

Enrollment has declined dramatically at Whittier College. The president says she has a plan to fix it, but critics question the progress and her leadership amid change at the college. But detractors of Oubré and the board have questioned the authenticity of the concerns, alleging that the president and trustees are trying to stifle criticism of a leader they believe doesn’t have a plan to turn around slumping enrollment at the small liberal arts college.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Image: Individuals who own or run private colleges—for-profit and nonprofit—could be on the hook for the cost of unpaid debts owed to the Education Department if their institution fails to operate in a financially responsible way, according to new guidance from the Education Department. Department officials said the guidance , which requires those who “exert significant control” over private institutions to assume personal liability, is aimed at the riskiest institutions

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University Business

MARCH 3, 2023

In the midst of President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court defense of student loan relief, the Department of Education formally announced it would personally pursue leaders of for-profit institutions to pay unanswered debts their institution incurred from reckless spending and non-compliance with federally allocated financial aid dollars. The Department noted in its press release that students “cheated by for-profit colleges” motivated their vigilant direction, leveraging Section 498(e) of the Higher E

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Image: Europe’s premier university group has outlined a blueprint to drive up doctoral supervision standards across the continent, but the group has also acknowledged that some academics might be beyond help. In a paper published in February, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) says that researchers should have mandatory training in Ph.D. supervision and that the success of those they supervise should be a key factor in appraisals.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Stanford University has filed a lawsuit against Santa Clara County seeking a tax exemption for faculty homes located on its campus, Palo Alto Online reported. The lawsuit covers approximately 900 residences—both single-family homes and condominiums—in a 450-acre area on campus known as the Faculty Subdivision. Because the university owns the land and regulates ownership of the homes, the lawsuit contends that the property’s value should be assessed as a mix of “faculty in

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Image: An enrollment surge at Tennessee State University combined with a lack of student housing led to a scathing comptroller’s report calling for a change in the historically Black university’s leadership. But the university’s longtime president, Glenda Glover, alumni and other supporters of the Nashville institution have argued against a proposal that would place the institution under the oversight of the Tennessee Board of Regents, the governing board for 37 technical and c

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Massachusetts governor Maura Healey, a Democrat, has proposed to make community college free for all Massachusetts residents 25 and older who have not yet earned a college degree or industry credential, The Sun Chronicle reported. “We have an incredible opportunity before us to train the next generation of workers and increase opportunities for all,” said Healey, who described the program Wednesday during a visit to Bunker Hill Community College in Boston.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Lockdowns during COVID-19 have been handled differently by governments around the world. In today’s Academic Minute, American University’s Anna Amirkhanyan explores the effect on different populations. Amirkhanyan is a professor of public administration and policy at American and author of Citizen Participation in the Age of Contracting: When Service Delivery Trumps Democracy (Routledge, 2018).

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