Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 16, 2023
In the early 20th century, Joe James, a Black man, was convicted and executed for the murder of a white man in Springfield, Illinois, after the 1908 Springfield Race Riot.
University Business
MARCH 16, 2023
It’s no secret applying to college is a stressful time in both the applicants’ and parents’ lives.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 16, 2023
The University of Richmond (UR) will receive $25 million for a student learning center. The money – from UR alums Carole and Marcus Weinstein – comprises the second largest single gift in UR history. Carole and Marcus Weinstein.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 16, 2023
Image: The King’s College has long relied on the generosity of billionaires. Richard DeVos—Amway co-founder and father-in-law of former education secretary Betsy DeVos—donated millions to the small evangelical institution before his death in 2018.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 16, 2023
Derrick Robertson Derrick Robertson has been named associate vice president and executive director of admissions and enrollment management services at Talladega College.
Roompact
MARCH 16, 2023
This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, “What is the future of the RA role?” ” Guest Post by Susan Robison, Professional Staff Member Our students have had the world flipped on its side in the last three years.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 16, 2023
Patrese Atine Patrese Atine has been named assistant vice president for Indigenous and Native American affairs at Colorado State University. Atine is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and earned a master’s in education, policy, planning, and administration from Boston University. On the Move
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 16, 2023
Joy Gaston Gayles Joy Gaston Gayles has been named head of the N.C. State College of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development. She has a bachelor’s degree in adapted physical ed and kinesiotherapy from Shaw University, a master’s in higher ed admin.
Higher Education Inquirer
MARCH 16, 2023
The Higher Education Inquirer has posted a number of articles about student loan debt. In 2023, the student loan mess has reached epic proportions. Not only has the US FSA debt portfolio reached more than $1.6 trillion, we learned that $674 Billion was estimated to be unrecoverable. In California, the US District Court in Sweet v Cardona agreed to a $6 Billion settlement between student debtors and the US Department of Education.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 16, 2023
Image: Two linked Minnesota Roman Catholic institutions are reducing language and other humanities offerings, including nixing all its ancient Greek and Chinese classes.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
MARCH 16, 2023
The manufacturing industry in Lake County, Illinois, just north of Chicago, employs nearly 100,000 of the county’s 700,000 residents and is responsible for nearly $50 billion of the county’s economy. It’s no stretch to say that the sector’s continued success is vital to the region’s future.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 16, 2023
Image: Last spring, when the institutional effectiveness team at Moorpark College conducted student surveys and focus groups as well as data analysis to evaluate the efficacy of student communication, an issue with volume became clear.
Hanover Research
MARCH 16, 2023
To support a member district in its efforts to create a positive school climate, Hanover Research presents this research brief describing key components of belonging as well as best practice strategies designed to increase community partners’ sense of belonging through pedagogy, communication, and relationship building.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 16, 2023
Image: The open-access Swiss publisher MDPI has rejected criticisms that its rapid expansion of journal “special issues” poses a threat to quality, despite having almost 56,000 such issues receiving submissions this year.
University Business
MARCH 16, 2023
Students expected to pull themselves up by their bootstraps by supporting themselves through college is becoming an antiquated notion. If state minimum wages remain at their current rate by 2030, that will prove impossible.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 16, 2023
We knew recovering from the learning loss of the pandemic would be hard. The reality is it might require us to rethink education altogether. We might all be better off for it.
College for Creative Study
MARCH 16, 2023
Graduate Color and Materials Design and Undergraduate Fashion Design students came together to discover design opportunities using materials from existing Carhartt designs in a sponsored studio course during the Fall 2022 semester.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 16, 2023
Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Several weeks ago, Taylor Lorenz, a Washington Post technology columnist blasted those academics, including Jean Twenge and Jonathan Haidt, who attribute increasing rates of teenage depression to the time teenage girls spend on social media.
University Business
MARCH 16, 2023
F amous for their tendency to buck tradition , many Gen Zers don’t think a successful career necessarily requires a college degree, or even a 9-to-5 job.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 16, 2023
Image: As part of a new $560,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation, humanities scholars at Wheaton College in Massachusetts are developing 10 curricular modules on the role of race, cultural backgrounds and global perspectives in health and medicine—and professors beyond Wheaton will be able to incorporate them into existing courses.
University Business
MARCH 16, 2023
Until this year, the University of Kentucky’s William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology had never returned any of the more than 4,500 Native American human remains in its collections. That is about to change.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 16, 2023
The Association of Community College Trustees and the National Head Start Association are partnering to bring more Head Start centers to community college campuses. Fewer than 100 of the more than 1,400 community and technical colleges in the country have Head Start centers on campus. Meanwhile, Head Start programs are struggling to enroll children, with up to 180,000 childcare and early learning slots unfilled, according to a press release from the partners.
Ray Schroeder
MARCH 16, 2023
AI tools have rapidly entered Language Arts classrooms. The proliferation of AI tools has outpaced efforts to understand how AI’s presence might change teaching practices or the role of the teacher. ChatGPT adds to the suite of AI tools that might be encountered in an ELA classroom, along with automated essay scoring, writing evaluation and feedback.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 16, 2023
Guy Geltner describes how scholars may increasingly have to balance dialogue with censorship when publishing their research in other countries.
Ray Schroeder
MARCH 16, 2023
When Shai Reshef started a free online university called University of the People nearly 15 years ago, skepticism was high. Online education was viewed as a poor substitute for in-person study, and anyway, how could something free be financially sustainable? Today, the college has won accreditation. It has grown to serve 126,000 students. And it has some 37,000 volunteers. Its student body comes from all around the world, though 51 percent are first-generation students living in the U.S.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 16, 2023
A Princeton University student was charged Tuesday with civil disorder, a felony, and related misdemeanor offenses in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. A Justice Department announcement of the arrest said Larry F. Giberson Jr. “was among rioters who repeatedly engaged in violence against law enforcement officers guarding the Capitol in the Lower West Terrace tunnel entrance. Giberson entered the tunnel at approximately 3:10 p.m.,
Parchment
MARCH 16, 2023
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Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 16, 2023
Citing declining revenue linked to dwindling enrollment, Bemidji State University announced this week that it will lay off 23 employees starting this summer, according to The Bemidji Pioneer. Officials noted a 20 percent decline in enrollment following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which they said equals $9 million in lost revenue.
Goucher DEI
MARCH 16, 2023
The Center for Race, Equity, and Identity (CREI) transforms lives through community building, education, engagement, and the exploration of identities. We strive to improve the institutional advancement of all marginalized students, specifically students of color, first-generation students, LGBTQIA+ students, and disabled students/students with disabilities. What Are Affinity Spaces? Historically, higher education was not designed for people who are marginalized.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 16, 2023
Lansing Community College closed for the rest of this week due to an “ongoing cybersecurity incident,” The Lansing State Journal reported. The college is suspending nearly all classes and activities and asking students and most employees not to work or log in to the college’s systems or come to campus.
CAPD
MARCH 16, 2023
by Zeno Toulon “We trawled forums – Glassdoor, Wall Street Oasis, and Reddit, among others – to find the most common questions you could expect at a HireVue interview at two banks – JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs. Some are specific to the bank, and some are more general.”
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 16, 2023
Blog: Beyond Transfer For many students, transferring between community colleges and 4-year institutions is sometimes the only path to a bachelor’s degree. Community colleges provide a valuable service to students due to lower costs, closer proximity to home communities, and more flexibility for non-traditional students. In the fall of 2020, 4.7 million students attended 2-year community colleges , approximately 25 percent of all undergraduates.
Parchment
MARCH 16, 2023
K-12 best practices cybercriminals information security IT IT tips k12 Technology
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 16, 2023
Jackson State University president Thomas Hudson has resigned after spending nearly two weeks on paid administrative leave for reasons that remain unclear, Mississippi Today reported.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 16, 2023
The statistics are impressive on the increased participation of women and girls in sports since Title IX became a federal civil rights law that bans sex-based discrimination at any educational entity receiving federal funds.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 16, 2023
The University of the Cumberlands has settled with the family of a member of the men’s wrestling team who died of heatstroke in 2020 following an on-campus workout, the institution announced Wednesday. The university will pay over $14 million to the family of the student, Grant Brace, in addition to promising to complete heat-illness training and promote the Brace family’s work raising awareness of heat-related injuries.
University Business
MARCH 16, 2023
The 1988 political science Colorado College graduate will speak at the college’s 149th commencement ceremony on May 28, according to a news release.
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