Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Whitney McDowell-Robison Whitney McDowell-Robison has been appointed vice president for student development and engagement at Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia. McDowell-Robinson has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Tougaloo and a master’s in clinical mental health counseling and a Ph.D. in urban higher education, both from Jackson State University in Mississippi.
The Guardian Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Open letter backs student-led campaign for vegan catering to fight climate crisis More than 650 academics have called on British universities to commit to 100% plant-based catering to fight the climate crisis, saying that the institutions have “for centuries, been shining lights of intellectual, moral, and scientific progress”. The open letter, organised by the student-led Plant-Based Universities campaign , likened the move to meat-free food to the fossil fuel divestment to which 101 UK univers
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Higher Education Whisperer
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Briefing in the ANU Moot Court. Tom Worthington CC-BY 2023Greetings from the Australian Crisis Simulation Summit at in the Moot Court at the Australian National University in Canberra.
The Guardian Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
The nomination for Adi, the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK, is a vindication for the academic who was made redundant a week ago Hakim Adi, the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK, has been shortlisted for a prestigious history writing prize. This comes after Adi was made redundant by the University of Chichester when it cut a course he founded.
Higher Education Whisperer
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
James Weatherman interviewing Tom Worthington on SBC. CC-BY Greetings from the Australian Crisis Simulation Summit at in the Moot Court at the Australian National University in Canberra. A scripted simulated cyber attack has just happened, and the pretend company representative is being interviewed on the fictional SBC (Summit Broadcasting Corporation).
eLiterate
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
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Ray Schroeder
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Months after what critics have decried as a conservative takeover at New College of Florida, students and professors say a sense of confusion and anxiety looms over the start of fall semester in Sarasota, Florida. Amy Reid, a member of the school’s Board of Trustees, said course options have dwindled after nearly 40% of faculty members have resigned.
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Ray Schroeder
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Hodges University, a small, private nonprofit college on the southwest Florida coast, announced Friday it will close by August 2024. University officials said in a statement that their efforts to boost enrollment failed, despite the college offering “innovative programs.” The student decline at Hodges, coupled with ongoing financial problems, forced it to close, the statement said.
The Guardian Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
My father, Tom Markus, who has died aged 95 , was the first professor of building science at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he established a thriving research base and, inspired by his socialist politics and Catholic faith, made huge efforts to address housing problems in the city. In 1971 he helped set up the Assist project in Govan to rehabilitate old tenement buildings.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Over four million student borrowers have enrolled in the Biden administration’s new Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) income-driven repayment plans, the Department of Education (ED) announced. The total includes those who were moved over from the previous Revised Pay-As-You-Earn plan. U.S. President Joe Biden "Millions of borrowers are already benefitting from enrollment in the SAVE plan, and I'm thrilled to see so many Americans submitting applications every day so that they, too, can take
Robert Kelchen
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
I have been around higher education long enough that relatively few things would jolt me fully awake at 4:45 in the morning, which is typically when I read the news before getting out of bed for my daily workout. The news in last Friday’s Inside Higher Ed about the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities approving applications from two colleges to offer bachelor’s degree programs of between 90 and 94 credits instead of the typical 120 is exactly that.
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