Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

The Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation has launched a scholarship program in partnership with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) to provide educational advancement opportunities to descendants of Jesuit and Catholic slaveholding in the United States. The Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation was born out of the 2016 discovery that in 1838, the Society of Jesus sold more than 272 enslaved men, women, and children from their plantations in Maryland to plantation o

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

Exascale computing has arrived, offering a new way to help solve some of the world’s most complex problems. The lightning-fast performance of an exascale computer (one quintillion operations per second; “exa” refers to the number’s 18 zeros) has potential in research spaces that require incredibly large amounts of computer processing power. The country’s first exascale computers include Frontier at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Aurora at Argonne National Laboratory and El Capitan at Lawrenc

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

There is considerable research generated about African Americans in higher education, specifically faculty. In fact, most studies concerning African Americans have focused on the retention of students or faculty (Wolfe & Dilworth, 2015). Yet there is little research on the underrepresentation of African American community college trustees. While much of the existing research suggests that increasing the number of faculty and administrators of color clearly has a positive effect on educationa

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Roompact

JULY 7, 2023

What does the future of AI-based technology hold? We’re doing a little experiment, specifically with the AI chat-bot, ChatGPT. This post is part of a series where we ask ChatGPT interesting, unusual, or just plain fun questions related to residence life and college student housing. All answers were generated by the AI. At the end.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

Although the U.S. Supreme Court struck down race-conscious admissions programs last week, it did not eliminate the consideration of race entirely. “Nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise,” wrote Chief Justice John G.

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Parchment

JULY 7, 2023

The challenges with transfer are well-documented and well-publicized across higher education. From lost credits to manual institutional processes to confusing admissions requirements, it’s not easy for students to move from one institution to another. And even if they are able to transfer institutions, it’s likely that they’ll lose some of their hard-earned credits – up to 13 units or 43% of their credits, according to the National Center for Education Studies (NCES).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

Leah P. Hollis Leah P. Hollis has been named associate dean for access, equity, and inclusion in the Penn State College of Education. Hollis holds a bachelor’s degree in English and Africana studies from Rutgers University, a master’s in English literature from the University of Pittsburgh, and a doctorate in administration training and policy from Boston University.

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Ray Schroeder

JULY 7, 2023

Villanova said it has no definitive plans for the campus. Cabrini, a 66-year-old Catholic institution, will continue to operate through June 2024. A final agreement is expected later this summer.

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Ray Schroeder

JULY 7, 2023

Republican lawmakers voted to cut the University of Wisconsin (UW) System’s budget by $32 million on Thursday despite a projected record-high $7 billion state budget surplus, leaving the university nearly half a billion dollars short of what it requested. The cut comes in reaction to Republican anger over diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs on the system’s 13 universities.

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