Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
The live chat function in Zoom classes helped students feel more comfortable, according to a recent University of Nevada, Las Vegas study. Dr. Rachael D. Robnett The study – published in the journal PLOS ONE – looked at anonymous chat summaries from Fall 2020 of 230 students in two introductory biology lecture courses with synchronous remote video instruction.
eLiterate
OCTOBER 20, 2022
As I outlined recently in my “ e-Literate’s Changing Themes for Changing Times ” post, I am shifting my coverage somewhat. I’ll be developing and calling out tags I use for these themes so that you can go to an archive page on each one. This one will be listed under the “ changing-enrollment ” and “ future-of-academic-work ” tags.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
College Board has opened international registration for the new digital format of its SAT Suite of Assessments, a new step in the testing organization’s plans to turn the SAT into a digital assessment. Priscilla Rodriguez Starting 2023, all SAT exams outside of the U.S. will use the digital format, with the U.S. itself following suit in 2024. The company had announced its goal to move the SAT to digital in January 2022, aiming to increase ease of use.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
An incident response plan is a critical part of any cybersecurity portfolio, but plans need to be tested and practiced to be executed successfully. Cybersecurity incidents are dynamic situations, and finding out that your plan is incomplete or inflexible as an incident unfolds is not ideal. What Are Tabletop Exercises? Tabletop exercises are an opportunity to put an incident response plan through its paces and identify what works and what doesn’t.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
The latest data for fall 2022 enrollment shows the declines characteristic of the pandemic have begun to level off, but overall postsecondary enrollment is still on the decline, dropping by 1.1% since last fall. These are the latest numbers from 62% of institutions that report to the National Student Clearinghouse, an educational nonprofit organization which collects data and offers insights from 97% of all postsecondary institutions in the U.S.
Modern Campus
OCTOBER 20, 2022
I was browsing through the Student Affairs Professionals Facebook group the other day and stumbled upon a post that essentially asked, “How can we re-energize our spaces to draw students back to our offices again?
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
California College of the Arts (CCA) will receive $4.7 million from four organizations to support diversity, equity, and innovation in the arts and design fields. Almost half of the total will come from architecture firm Gensler and the Gensler family. They have pledged $1 million each. That money will go toward creating the M. Arthur Gensler Jr. Center for Design Excellence at CCA.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
The Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) has received a three-year, $1.56 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS). Jee Hang Lee For this FY 2022 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Employment & Training (E&T) National Partnership Grant , Seattle Jobs Initiative (SJI) and American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) will assist as partners.
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 20, 2022
This past Saturday, Hope hosted its 88th annual Nykerk competition. Freshman and sophomore (a.k.a. even and odd year) girls competed in song, play, and oration, to take home the coveted Nykerk Cup. Those with keen eyes may have spotted me in the even year play as the totally tubular Jennifer Nicole-Heather Johnson, a student trapped in the Kruizenga Museum since 1986.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching , is the winner of the Frederic W. Ness Book Award from The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). The annual award is given to a book that best illuminates the goals and practices of a contemporary liberal education. Dr. Jarvis R. Givens Author Dr. Jarvis R. Givens will be presented the award at AAC&U’s annual meeting Jan. 19, 2023.
The Humphrey Group
OCTOBER 20, 2022
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, business leaders sent virtually all their white-collar employees home to work remotely. People hunkered down and waited as they prepared to return to the office… in two weeks… in two months… in six months… in a year….
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Virginia Tech has launched an initiative to improve access and affordability to the school for Virginia students. “A Virginia Tech education can be life-changing for graduates and their families and have a positive impact on their communities and the commonwealth,” said Dr. Tim Sands, president of Virginia Tech. “Making this experience more accessible and affordable, especially for those who are underrepresented and underserved, is a foundational part of our land-grant mission to provide a quali
Teaching Matters Student Employment
OCTOBER 20, 2022
In this post, Helen Stringer, Assistant Director of the Careers Service at The University of Edinburgh, summarises key themes from the latest Advance HE review of employability literature, such as work-integrated learning and employment inequalities. This post is part of the Learning & Teaching Enhancement Series: Careers and Employability. Last year, Advance HE conducted a thorough […].
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Title: President California State University, Fullerton Accustomed to breaking new ground, Dr. Mildred García was appointed as the seventh president of California State University, Fullerton last June. Previously, García served as president of CSU Dominguez Hills beginning in 2007, where she was the eleventh female president — and first Latina president — in the California State University system.
Credo Higher Ed
OCTOBER 20, 2022
The central purpose of today’s boards doesn’t differ much from what it’s been in the past. Board members are stewards of an organization’s mission and vision, tasked with ensuring that the college, university, or nonprofit’s current leaders and employees are successful in advancing each.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has launched a nationwide get-out-the-vote bus tour in support of election candidates standing for lower costs, affordable healthcare, and public schools investments. Randi Weingarten As part of the “#AFTvotes—What Kids and Communities Need” tour, union members will rally at community events, such as book giveaways, roundtables, canvassing, and door knocking.
University Business
OCTOBER 20, 2022
As college students have come back to campus, most have returned to the conventional pursuit of the long-lauded bachelor’s degree, the prerequisite qualification since time immemorial to apply to nearly every job with a decent wage and reliable career path. But in 2022—at a time of record-high inflation and widespread labor shortages—what exactly does a bachelor’s degree, in and of itself, signify?
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
When campus crisis and opportunity find their way to Arlethia Perry-Johnson’s office at Kennesaw State University or greets her on the other end of the telephone on any given day, there is little that this veteran communicator hasn’t heard or done. That, says Perry-Johnson, vice president of external affairs, has come with amassing nearly three decades of communications and public affairs experience, with most in higher education.
SRHE
OCTOBER 20, 2022
by Rob Cuthbert. SRHE News is now 50 issues old, covering a momentous 12 years for higher education worldwide, but especially in the UK, and even more especially in England – an opportunity to reflect on what we thought and how we felt as it happened, and whether things seem different now. Since 2010 the UK has seen four general elections, four prime ministers, and in England nine Secretaries of State for Education, and seven ministers for higher education (two appointed twice).
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Telling the story of Dr. Renu Khator’s noted place in American higher education is about diversity and begins with the numbers. Khator, a scholar in the field of global environmental policy, is the eighth chancellor of the University of Houston System and the 13 th president of the University of Houston , dual titles she’s held since January 2008. She is the first foreign-born president of the university and the second woman to hold the position.
University Business
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Sally A. Kornbluth, a cell biologist whose eight-year tenure as Duke University’s provost has earned her a reputation as a brilliant administrator, a creative problem-solver, and a leading advocate of academic excellence, was selected as MIT’s 18th president on Thursday. Kornbluth, 61, was elected to the post by a vote of the MIT Corporation. She will assume the MIT presidency on Jan. 1, 2023, succeeding L.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
For Kimberly Ford, work in the NCAA has been about giving back. Just 12 years ago, a yearlong NCAA internship aimed at opening doors for women and minorities interested in professional jobs in sports administration, helped catapult Ford to a place at the top of her field. As the NCAA’s director of minority inclusion since 2010, Ford has been on a mission to create a culture of inclusion and equity for student-athletes, coaches and administrators from diverse backgrounds.
Gray Associates
OCTOBER 20, 2022
According to the National Student Clearinghouse data, enrollment in master's programs has grown year-over-year, but on closer examination, the data is a bit more nuanced. Enrollment trends vary across programs, so it is important to look beyond national trends and dig into data specific to your market. The post Do You Know Your Markets for Master’s Programs?
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson is the 18th President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the oldest technological university in the U.S. Describing her as “a national treasure,” the National Science Board selected Jackson as its 2007 recipient of the prestigious Vannevar Bush Award for “a lifetime of achievements in scientific research, education, and senior statesman-like contributions to public policy.
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 20, 2022
For an international student from Nigeria who moved six thousand miles to study at Hope College, the idea of leaving Michigan to go off campus might seem puzzling. However, once you understand the drive that propelled me across the Atlantic, you can appreciate why I wanted to experience more parts of the United States during my undergraduate education.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
For DuPont’s Phyllis Buchanan, “promoting science literacy for all” has been her motivator. Buchanan, who manages the company’s Office of Education, a division of DuPont’s Center for Collaborative Research and Education, considers “today’s students” to be “tomorrow’s scientists.” To help get those students there, Buchanan works with educators, universities and other businesses to ensure that young people are prepared for tomorrow’s world.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
In May 2011, Dr. Cheryl Davenport Dozier stepped in as Savannah State University’s interim president. Dozier, who was widely known among Georgia’s education leaders for her work on the state’s systemwide diversity initiative, left her post as associate provost and chief diversity officer at the University of Georgia, where she was also a tenured professor in the School of Social Work.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
At the end of the day, when new doors open up to make college access and opportunity possible, especially for underrepresented and underserved students, Lenora M. Green feels “fortunate and blessed” that her work at the Educational Testing Service (ETS), is helping to turn their dreams of higher education into reality. Today, Green, who began her career at ETS in Princeton, N.J., nearly 30 years ago, is living her dream and pursuing her passion.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
As president of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), one of the nation’s premiere education research and policy centers, Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper has a vision. Since taking the helm of IHEP in 2008, Cooper’s been out front influencing national education policy. The dynamic education leader, who also made Diverse ’s “25 To Watch” list in 2009, has Washington insiders tuned into the issues that impact college access, minority students, and success in postseconda
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
In 2004, when Deborah Santiago co-founded the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit ¡Excelencia! ¡Excelencia! Excelencia in Education, the time for talking about Latinos in higher education was over. Launching Excelencia signaled an opportunity for Santiago and her team to accelerate a comprehensive plan for supporting Latino student success in higher education while engaging the rest of higher education.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Title: Head Coach, Women’s Basketball Stanford University Tara VanDerveer became the most winning women’s college basketball coach on December 15, 2020 with her 1,099th victory, passing the late Pat Summitt as No. 1, when Stanford University defeated the University of the Pacific 104-61. VanDerveer has established herself as one of the top coaches in the history of collegiate and international women’s basketball and has been inducted into both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (2011)
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Dr. Barbee Oakes, assistant provost for diversity and inclusion at Wake Forest University, knows that “formulating strategies to decrease attrition among underrepresented students can be an elusive target.” But as the architect of Wake Forest University’s first strategic plan for diversity and inclusion, Oakes has made the work of fostering and maintaining cultural competence on campus, a shared experience among faculty, staff and students.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
When Myrna Adams retired in 2003 as Duke University’s first vice president of institutional equity, she was hailed for “her commitment and passion to issues of equal opportunity, respect for individuals and trying to make Duke a better place for everybody.” Hallmarks of Adams’ efforts at Duke included making the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration a university-wide commemoration, leading a committee that worked to resolve the challenges faced by Latino workers and training employees to serv
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