Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Phylicia Rashad will become the inaugural Toni Morrison Endowed Chair in Arts and Humanities at Howard University. The chair was established in May 2021. Phylicia Rashad Rashad is currently dean of the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard. “Dean Rashad epitomizes the character, grace and creative genius that we want represented in an endowed chair as part of Toni Morrison’s legacy,” said Howard Provost Dr.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Image: Iranian academics face being forced out of their jobs as the regime clamps down on any remaining dissent in universities, researchers have warned. Reports of scholars being retired early or dismissed indicate that the Iranian government has ordered a cleansing of academia in the wake of protests that have gripped the country since September. Demonstrations were triggered by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, who was accused of wearing her hijab “improperly.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Frederick Shegog, former Delaware County Community College student, now motivational speaker. On last Friday, it was all about the students. At the closing plenary of the 2023 Dream Conference in Chicago, Achieving the Dream (ATD), a reform network of over 300 community colleges, handed the microphone to students who either currently attend or graduated from a community college.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Image: Internships remain important in a student’s career development, but equal access to opportunities remains a challenge. In 2021, only 21 percent of college students completed an internship, compared to pre-pandemic numbers—50 to 60 percent of students—according to the National Survey of College Internships from University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and NCAA Office of Inclusion have launched multiple programming initiatives for adaptive sports, sports for people with disabilities. The initiatives will be implemented across the Women’s Final Four, Drake Relays and ITA Fall National Championships. This comes as a result of the USOPC/NCAA Para-College Inclusion Project, a program to engage schools with adaptive sports and increase Paralympic sport understanding, awareness, and conn

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Image: Soaring inflation put a squeeze on college endowments in the 2021–22 fiscal year, driving returns down, according to the annual report from the National Association of College and University Business Officers The report , released today, is a marked change from the booming returns of fiscal year 2021 , when endowments soared. The average return for all college endowments in fiscal 2022 was negative 8 percent, falling far short of the 30.6 percent overall average return in 2021.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Dr. Linda G. Mills will become president of New York University (NYU), effective Jul. 1. She will be the first woman president of the university. Dr. Linda G. Mills Mills’s time at NYU has been extensive and spans 24 years, having taken on roles as vice chancellor and senior vice provost for global programs and university life; the Lisa Ellen Goldberg Professor of Social Work, Public Policy, and Law; executive director of the NYU Center on Violence and Recovery; and longtime member of the NYU’s

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

While still fighting for official provider status, pharmacists have proven to be crucial in delivering care and helping address healthcare disparities. COVID-19 has placed unprecedented demands on frontline healthcare workers. Over the past three years, pharmacists have demonstrated that they are vital to addressing pandemic-related issues and bringing care to their communities.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

University IT departments are working short-handed. The “great resignation” did not miss college campuses, and the budget-related hurdles that have long tested higher education IT certainly didn’t go away when we were met with a pandemic nearly three years ago. It’s hard to put a finger on just how understaffed departments are, but put a few other data points together and they paint a concerning picture.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The University of Michigan’s (UM) School of Education will be renamed the Marsal Family School of Education after a family’s $55 million in gift commitments, MLive reported. The Marsal Family The family of Kathleen and Bryan Marsal and their children, Megan Kirsch Marsal and Michael Marsal, gifted UM $50 million for initiatives to support a diverse population of teachers, build partnerships, and conduct research in collaboration with education professionals.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

When the University of Kentucky was hit by a crypto mining attack in 2020, the school was operating with a “federated” endpoint protection strategy, says Stephen Burr, associate CIO and enterprise CISO at UK. Individual departments and colleges were running their own anti-virus solutions, and the university lacked a centralized endpoint protection strategy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Kareem D. Kenney Kareem D. Kenney has been named assistant athletic director at Talladega College in Alabama. He served as director of intramural sports and summer camps at the college. Kenney earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from Carson-Newman University in Jefferson City, Tenn., and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

To help students prepare for jobs, we need to learn new skills, writes Rachel Toor. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Olena Kychygina/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?: Disable left side advertisement?: Trending: Live Updates: liveupdates0 Most Popular: 4 In-Article Advertisement High: 6 In-Article related stories: 9 In-Article Advertisement Low: 12 Include DNU?

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EAB

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Blogs Why two thirds of graduate enrollment leaders may leave their jobs Top takeaways about staffing from EAB’s latest survey with NAGAP When speaking with graduate enrollment leaders, stress is a frequent topic. I know from experience that being an enrollment manager is challenging, but now it's even harder than before. The pandemic changed the landscape for many industries, and higher education was no exception.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Image: Fostering student success takes institutional leadership and collaboration. Barrington Price, Dominican University’s vice president of student success and engagement, knows this well—because he was a struggling first-generation college student himself. Price spoke with Inside Higher Ed about his philosophy for student success, current initiatives at his Illinois-based institution and the lasting efforts of development work.

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Terminalfour

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This week, we look at ways to unify channels and amplify your university’s messaging for prospective students through various touchpoints and show three great examples of how universities are doing this. Read more to find out.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Image: After suspending its men’s basketball program last week and firing the team’s head coach amid allegations of repeated sexual hazing of a player by teammates, New Mexico State University’s top administrator said an internal investigation has started and an outside review will be launched. The university’s Office of Institutional Equity, which investigates Title IX violation complaints and reports of sexual misconduct, along with campus police, and the university&rsq

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University Business

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The pandemic brought abrupt changes to higher education on a global scale. Institutions either canceled courses completely or hurriedly restructured their classes to be taught entirely online. Although the industry experienced a chaotic onset of reactive online teaching amid a global emergency, it came with some positives, such as normalizing the utilization of educational technology, the growth of digital data to support learning, and more flexibility and scalability.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Blogs Why two thirds of graduate enrollment leaders may leave their jobs Top takeaways about staffing from EAB’s latest survey with NAGAP When speaking with graduate enrollment leaders, stress is a frequent topic. I know from experience that being an enrollment manager is challenging, but now it's even harder than before. The pandemic changed the landscape for many industries, and higher education was no exception.

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Proctor Academy

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Proctor Theater is proud to present the showing of Little Women, the musical, on Friday, February 17 and Saturday, February 18 at 7:00 pm in the Wilkins Meeting House.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Move follows agreement from employers on lowest-paid workers and review of salary grades Strikes by university support staff over the next two weeks have been called off after a breakthrough in negotiations over pay, Unison has announced. Five unions – Unison, UCU, GMB, Unite and EIS – issued a joint statement with the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA), confirming three days of strikes will be suspended after talks at conciliation service Acas, though discussions will contin

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

West Virginia University administrators have now abandoned their proposed changes to how faculty members are evaluated, promoted and terminated, following faculty members’ vote last month in opposition. The University Assembly, which includes all WVU faculty members, has approximately 2,700 members. Of those, 715 participated in the vote, with 494 voting against a resolution generally supporting the policy changes, and the remaining 221 backing the resolution.

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Hanover Research

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Hanover Research’s studies into executives’ thoughts on rebranding prove that ROI is clear: 81% believe rebranding generates a positive return on investment, while 78% say it had a positive impact on their company, such as helping to increase customer satisfaction, optimizing their brand messaging and improving market share. The post Forbes: 3 Common Questions CEOs Have On Rebranding, Answered appeared first on Hanover Research.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The University of Denver is investigating a spate of reported antisemitic incidents on campus over the last two weeks. Denver University Hillel, a Jewish student organization, said in an Instagram post that mezuzahs, Jewish ritual objects traditionally placed on doorposts, were “taken down and defiled” from the doorposts of three students living in campus housing, and one student had “pork products glued to their door.

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Hanover Research

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

As part of its efforts to create an implementation plan for the equity policy, the district released an online survey on Feb. 6 to staff, students, parents and the community, asking multiple-choice questions about hopes and concerns for the policy. The district contracted Hanover Research, an independent Virginia based research firm, paying them $75,000 to conduct the official survey.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

When a gunman killed three Michigan State University students and seriously injured five others on Monday night, the university announced that there would be no classes for the rest of this week. It turns out that many Michigan State students don’t think that’s enough. “Returning one week after a mass shooting has left many unsettled,” says a petition signed by nearly 15,000 as of Thursday afternoon.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

In light of the recent shooting at Michigan State University, student fear and anxiety can easily flare across the country. Mental health is already a growing concern on college campuses, but it’s all the more important to address in light of tragedy. Seli Fakorzi, director of mental health operations at TimelyMD, provides colleges with proactive measures they can take to ease student suffering in the wake of catastrophe.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Ohio State University announced a $110 million gift from the Timashev Family Foundation to establish the Center for Software Innovation. The center will bring together the College of Engineering, the Fisher College of Business and others in new ways, including through the creation of endowed professorships. Ad keywords: institutionalfinance Is this diversity newsletter?

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University Business

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Generative AI and ChatGPT automation allow for near-instant searches of massive datasets and the ability to spot inconsistencies that us users might have missed. While this can be a massive boon for scientists and researchers, issues arise with generative AI’s propensity for confidently presenting false information. For example, when asked to write that five-paragraph essay on Romeo and Juliet , if asked to show its sources, ChatGPT will simply make them up.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The law school of Yale University has been known—and this is rare in law schools—for giving out all aid based on need. On Thursday, it announced an expansion of a full-tuition scholarship to students from families who earn up to up to 200 percent of the federal poverty line. This year, the scholarship was awarded to 51 students. Next year it will go to 80 to 90 students.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

A long and lawyerly debate is underway at the American Bar Association over a question that could have lasting consequences for diversity in legal education: Should taking the LSAT be mandatory for people applying to law school? Today, law schools accredited by the bar association must require applicants to take a “valid and reliable” admission test — in most cases, students take the Law School Admission Test, or LSAT.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Every additional hour of average nightly sleep early in the semester is associated with an 0.07-point increase in end-of-term grade point average, according to study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study was of 600 college freshmen at three private universities. “Total nightly sleep is a potentially important and underappreciated behavior supporting academic achievement,” the study says.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Frustration is growing at the University of Connecticut following Governor Ned Lamont’s state budget address on Wednesday. The president of UConn is raising a red flag over how the budget will potentially slash funding for the university. Dr. Radenka Maric is concerned about what this will mean for the future of UConn. Maric said if the budget gets passed, it’ll leave the university with a $160 million shortfall next year alone.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Saint Leo University announced a series of cuts Thursday “to improve efficiencies and enhance its future offerings for students.” Among the cuts: 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.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Gov. Ned Lamont is challenging the state’s public colleges and universities to adjust as federal pandemic aid expires. Though his new biennial budget proposal technically increases “baseline” appropriations for the University of Connecticut, the regional state universities and community colleges, overall aid for all higher education units would shrink over the next two fiscal years.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean A new study out by Katharine Broton, Milad Mohebali, and Sara Goldrick-Rab (paywalled, ironically enough) finds that when community colleges provide meal cards and some proactive outreach to students, the students who get those meal cards graduate at higher rates than students who don’t. It’s the kind of small, targeted, common-sense intervention that many places could enact.

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PUC

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Meet one of our seniors, Ugonna Nathan. She’s from Fresno and majors in Pre-Med, B.S. in Biochemistry, and A.S. in Health Sciences.

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