Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Inflation and geopolitical disruptions caused endowment returns to fall by 8% in fiscal year 2022, according to an annual study released last week by the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) and the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA). The decline comes after a spectacular performance in fiscal year 2021, when endowment returns increased by 30.6% on average.

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Roompact

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, “What is the future of the RA role?” Guest Post by DJ Stroud, Professional Staff Member Resident Assistant. Resident Advisor. Community Mentor. Just like the entry-level professional roles in our field, the job titles for our live-in student staff members vary from institution to institution.

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Proctor Academy

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Proctor Academy's Ocean Classroom program departed Key West and made the transit up the gulf coast of Florida to St. Petersburg, and on to Panama City where the student crew was interviewed by the local news station. Read more below from Molly '24 and Winter Ocean Classroom and the once in a lifetime experience students from both Proctor and the MET School (Providence, RI) are having during their 65 day voyage.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

University of Nebraska President Ted Carter Jr. warned regents Friday of strong "headwinds" as the University faces the perfect storm of declining enrollment, higher expenses and a possible $38 million budget gap. "The business as usual, even over the last couple of years, is probably not sustainable. We're going to have to rethink ourselves," Carter said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation The Guest Lecture by Martin Riker Published in January of 2023. In August 2020, during some of the darkest days when we were all navigating the pandemic, I published a piece called Academic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren. In that piece, I riffed on John Maynard Keynes's 1930 essay, Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is fuelling his White House ambitions by launching a blitzkrieg of measures aimed at derailing the on-campus fight against racism, sexism and anti-LGBTQ actions, and whitewashing United States history. In his budget speech on 31 January, on the eve of Black History Month, Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis announced that the state would ban its publicly funded universities and colleges from spending money on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices and

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