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. Now, 115 years after his death, lawyers and law students from Northwestern and Northeastern Universities are seeking a posthumous pardon. on his behalf. Margaret A. Burnham A petition filed from the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Center on Wrongful Convictions (CWC) and Northeastern University School of Law’s Civil Righ

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

Image: More than 100 employees in the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Advancement Office may soon not technically be working for the university at all. UMass officials announced last month that the vast majority of advancement positions would be transferred to the University of Massachusetts Amherst Foundation, a private nonprofit affiliated with the university.

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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. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a master’s in higher education administration from Sam Houston State University, and a juris doctorate from the Southern University Law Center.

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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. The College of Lake County had this fact in mind when mapping out its strategic plan in 2019.

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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.

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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. The provost of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University has cited overall enrollment decreases and specifically low enrollments in these courses. In its fall newsletter, the Modern Language Association noted combined undergraduate and graduate course enrollments in languages other than English declined 15.

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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. from Auburn University, and a Ph.D. in ed administration from The Ohio State University.

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University Business

MARCH 16, 2023

It’s no secret applying to college is a stressful time in both the applicants’ and parents’ lives. A recent report by The Princeton Review considered the perspectives of 12,225 people—with a 72/28% split between student and parent respondents—to understand what colleges they’re interested in and why they’re motivated to apply.

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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. “Our students were overwhelmed by the number of emails they received each week and were eager to connect more with counselors, instructors and student support professionals in a one-on-one capacity,” says Jamie Whittington-Studer, a communication resea

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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. Extrapolating research from the Education Data Initiative, the student-focused news service Intelligent forecasted what it would take for students to support themselves while earning a degree working unskilled jobs in the next decade.

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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. Ready-to-use format: The modules will help professors across fields better understand inequities in health and medicine and facilitate class discussions about

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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. They went from being able to see their friends every day at school to.

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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. To help our students move forward, America’s schools and colleges need to turn away from constant drilling for tests and a fixation on “coverage,” the notion that skimming across vast swaths of curriculum somehow makes for a good education.

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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.

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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. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Editorial Tags: Career Advice Publishing Research Show on Jobs site: Image Source: JUN LI/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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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. The post Research Brief and Discussion Guide – Building a Sense of Belonging appeared first on Hanover Research.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. Over 12 weeks, students were challenged to focus on innovative approaches in sustainable fashion design. Using materials that would have otherwise been discarded, students were tasked with creating one to three items for a different category of workforce.

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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.

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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. Forty percent believe college degrees aren’t necessary, finds a global study of more than 7,000 Gen Z workers conducted by freelancing job platform Fiverr in partnership with Censuswide. And 70% said they consider freelancing to be just as viable a career option as a traditional 9-to-5.

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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. While enrollment was strong between 2012 and 2019, outperforming peers in the Minnesota State System of Colleges and Universities, Bemidji State’s fortune

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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. Weeks after ProPublica published the “ Repatriation Project ,” the university told federal officials that 138 ancestral remains in its collection could be repatriated to three Shawnee tribes in Oklahoma and Missouri.

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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. The college said it has no evidence that employee or student information has been compromised but acknowledged that “we do not know everything yet, and communication is goi

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

The former president of Mesalands Community College in New Mexico formally resigned last week, KAMR reported. Gregory Busch and the Board of Trustees received a vote of no confidence from faculty and staff members in February due to concerns about the financial health of the college. James P. Streetman, chairman of the Board of Trustees and secretary/treasurer of the College Foundation Board, also resigned, according to KAMR.

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Parchment

MARCH 16, 2023

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean The Education Department is planning to deploy “secret shoppers ” to colleges around the country to suss out deceptive and predatory practices, particularly around financial aid. At the risk of incurring the wrath of colleagues everywhere, I have to admit that it’s a great idea. The merit of secret shoppers is that they provide the view from what a professor of mine called “the other side of the desk.

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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. The Carole and Marcus Weinstein Learning Center – in the Boatwright Memorial Library – will integrate and expand student academic services, including effective speaking, writing, and peer tutoring.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation How many paid vacation days do you get each year? How many do you take? When adding up the number of paid public holidays and other paid (nonvacation days), how many paid days off do you have? How many of those did you use? According to the Visual Capitalist , the U.S. is not the most stingy country in the world when it comes to paid holidays.

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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.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

Coastlines are a battleground in the face of sea level rise. In today’s Academic Minute, part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Week, Marcus Carter explains why design matters. Carter is an assistant professor in the school of architecture at RPI. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. Section: Academic Minute File: 03-16-23 RPI - Intertidal Objects - A Design Solution for Coastal Erosion.

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Ed.gov Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

The Department of Education’s Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education seeks innovative ideas to expand work-based learning opportunities. That is why they launched the Career Z Challenge, a $2.5 million multi-phase federal prize competition.  The Career Z Challenge supports the Biden-Harris Administration’s Raise the Bar: Unlocking Career Success initiative championed by the U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute , part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Week: Marcus Carter, assistant professor in the school of architecture, explains why design matters in battling coastline erosion. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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