Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
New faculty unions at Howard Community College and Frederick Community College have been certified and recognized, with full-time faculty recognized as AFT-Maryland members, Maryland Matters reported. The organizations were formed under a new law that recognizes unions if more than half the members sign authorization cards saying they’d like to join.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
As higher education institutions ramp up for a new school year, many are seeing fewer students on campus than in years past. Since the pandemic, enrollment at public four-year universities has continued to drop due to a number of factors including economic challenges, a decline in youth population and fewer international students studying in the U.S.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
California community college professors are suing state officials, alleging that new diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) rules put in place violated their First Amendment rights, The Hill reported. Reedley College The lawsuit – from six professors – argued that the DEI rules “mandate viewpoint conformity” and “force professors to endorse the government’s view on politically charged questions regarding diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
University Business
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
What earns a campus a spot on a list of the most LGBTQ-friendly colleges and universities? It starts with LGBTQ-friendly policies, programs and practices such as gender-affirming healthcare and non-discrimination statements inclusive of sexual orientation and gender identity/expression, according to the most recent Campus Pride Index , in which more than 240 colleges and universities now participate.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Two Morehouse University juniors were killed in a car crash on Labor Day, the school confirmed. Hugh Douglas and Christion Files Jr., friends and sophomore-year roommates, were driving when their car left the road after passing another car on a curve. The car hit a utility pole, rotated, hit another utility pole, and overturned, according to the Georgia State Patrol.
PUC
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Pastor Garrison Chaffee has been working at PUC for three months but is no stranger to the campus. He graduated from PUC in 1999 with a bachelor’s in fitness management and a religion minor. Afterwards, he received his masters in pastoral studies and earned his teaching credential.
Teaching Matters Student Engagement
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Welcome to the September, October and November Hot Topic: Student Partnership Agreement 2023↗️ The Student Partnership Agreement is an engaging and enriching experience for students and staff to come together to work in partnership to enhance the student experience.
Student Affairs Connection brings together the best content for student affair professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
The Change Leader, Inc.
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
5 September · Episode 171 $16B College Sports Revenue and Regulations: Knight Commission Insights 34 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton With an estimated $16 Billion in additional annual College Sports revenue, leaders need to prioritize financial solutions to fulfill the recently adopted NCAA holistic model and to more fully support college athletes’ education, health, safety, well-being, and equity.
University Business
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
For the staff of the Michigan State University dining halls, serving roughly 27,000 students each semester has never been a picnic. But these days, the job involves an even bigger challenge: One in six of those students has an allergy or other dietary restriction. Just five years ago, it was one in eight. In the lead-up to this fall term, Kelsey Patterson, the school’s registered dietitian, responded to messages from 300 parents and students about dietary strictures that included life-threatenin
Ray Schroeder
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Yale University and a student group announced Friday that they've reached a settlement in a federal lawsuit that accused the Ivy League school of discriminating against students with mental health disabilities, including pressuring them to withdraw. Under the agreement, Yale will modify its policies regarding medical leaves of absence, including streamlining the reinstatement process for students who return to campus.
University Business
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Katie Luck was sitting in her yard under a magnolia tree one afternoon in April when a school bus passed by. A white elementary school student shouted at her from a window, “You don’t belong here.” The 81-year-old grandmother and retired teacher, who is Black, was so distressed that she called James and Barbara Johnson, who live down the road from her on Shoe Lane in Newport News, Virginia.
Ray Schroeder
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Montana State University had the right to protect the health of students during the COVID-19 emergency by shifting to remote education — and it didn’t break a contract in doing so. So said Lewis and Clark District Court Judge Michael McMahon in an order granting summary judgment to the Bozeman flagship against plaintiff Anthony Cordero, an MSU graduate.
University Business
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
It took just one semester for Rushil Srivastava to realize that college was not what he had hoped. “As a kid, you always imagine college will be a life-changing experience, and that your freshman year is where you’ll get a chance to discover yourself,” he said. Instead, he was forced to take classes online in the wake of COVID and faced a campus social scene that remained fractured.
CAPD
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
If you’ve got your sights set on a consulting gig, then you already know which one of the types of interviews to expect: a case. The case interview is a format in which you, the interviewee, are given a business problem (“How can BigCoal Co. double its growth?”) or a brain teaser (“How many tennis balls fit in a 747?”) to solve. Cases have gotten quite the reputation for being intense, quant-heavy, and just downright scary.
The Guardian Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
The odds are stacked against this generation of students, but 20 years in education have taught me a few things that might help It’s that time of year again: freshers’ week is fast approaching and soon a new generation of students will pack up their duvets and newly purchased kettles to begin a fresh chapter of life. For those who remember their own journey, the nostalgia is difficult to suppress: the fear, the adrenaline, the strange single bed waiting at the end of a motorway.
CAPD
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
CAPD has compiled the following ways that alumni, parents, and employers can partner with campus organizations and programs at MIT to help support undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs, and recent alumni. Post Opportunities in Handshake: If your organization has a job, internship, project, or temporary work that can be handled remotely, please post them to Handshake.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court decision rejecting race conscious admissions at colleges and universities includes an exemption for military service academies. Although a challenge to the exemption is expected, the justices who struck down affirmative action in admissions noted that military academies have “potentially distinct interests” when it comes to promoting racial diversity.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
West Virginia governor Jim Justice is confident in the future of education in his state. “We’ve had tough times — there will be more tough times — but absolutely we are rising from the ashes,” he said on August 22 nd. Jordan’s comments came as he signed a bill allocating $45 million to Marshall University to create a new cybersecurity center. That project was approved in a special legislative session that was more notable for what it did not do—send funds to West Virginia University (WVU), which
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