Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In “Black Thriving in America: 2023,” data is presented detailing the experiences of Black Americans when shopping, dining out, in healthcare settings, at work, with schools, with police and more. The findings are presented in a dashboard, which will serve as a benchmark. The Payne Center for Social Justice, which is part of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, has committed to conducting the survey with the same questions and publishing the data annually for the next 100 years.

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University Business

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Birmingham-Southern College is suing the state treasurer after denying it a loan program that lawmakers promised would help save the university from going under, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey in June signed into law the Distressed Institutions of Higher Learning Revolving Loan Fund Act, which would set struggling public and private universities into a loan program to rebound from their financial struggles.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 19, 2023

There needs to be more, not fewer opportunities to assist students of color on campuses, according to a new report from The Education Trust. Jessie Hernández-Reyes The report, Creating Positive College Campus Racial Climates for Students of Color , highlights the perspectives of students of color with regard to their experiences on campus and campus racial climates, and also provide suggestions on measuring and improving these climates.

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Roompact

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This week, Dustin chats with current Roompact blogger Jennifer about her experience as a higher ed graduate student balancing working on campus and her studies. She shares reflections on her journey so far, what she is looking forward to, and some advice on how best to support grad students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Brian Benn Brian Benn has been appointed vice president and chief information officer at Clark Atlanta University. He served as chief information officer and senior vice president of the Atlanta Housing Authority. Benn holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematics at the University of Alabama at Huntsville and an MBA from Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi.

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College Forward

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Dr. Siva Kumari, College Possible’s new national CEO , visited the Minnesota office during the week of October 9. Dr. Kumari visited partner school Como High School to observe an AmeriCorps coaching session, presented to donors at two events, and met with all staff departments. Dr. Kumari’s visit shed light on the day-to-day work that goes into supporting students, while allowing the opportunity for her to share her vision for the future of College Possible.

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Ray Schroeder

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Between fall 2022 and fall 2023, the college lost 27 percent of its student body—or about 186 students—according to a letter sent from NCF’s interim provost to faculty members and obtained by The Sarasota Herald-Tribune. That figure compares to 13 percent and 14 percent drops in the prior two years, the letter said. The newspaper also reported that NCF experienced the lowest retention rate in its history: from fall 2022 to fall 2023, just 64.9 percent of students returned.

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EAB

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Blogs Here’s how to engage your alumni and facilitate lifelong learning 8 tactics to benefit your alumni—and recruit more adult leaners Professional, continuing, and online leaders too often overlook one of the most fruitful recruitment pools: alumni, many of whom are excellent candidates as adult learners. According to research by Sunil Gupta, Donal Lehmann, and Jennifer Ames , your current customers (in this case, students) are your best prospects as they have a great impact on organizational

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CU Work-Life Balance

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Save yourself a trip to the pharmacy by enrolling in mail order delivery for your long-term medications. Employees and their families enrolled in an Anthem-administered health plan (CU Health Plans Exclusive, Extended or High Deductible) have the option to receive 90-day supplies of maintenance drugs through the CVS Caremark Mail Order Pharmacy. Many plan members have already taken the necessary steps to move their long-term prescriptions to a designated CVS pharmacy as a result of new pharmacy

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ISA Journal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Kira Cordova is an ISA Bilbao alumna and current ISA/TEAN Global Ambassador at Western Colorado University whose experience abroad in academic year 2021-2022 led them to volunteer in several countries around the world shortly after their program concluded.

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CU Work-Life Balance

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The announcement of CU’s forthcoming Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) plan has sparked inquiries regarding how this insurance will interact with CU’s existing paid leave benefits, with particular focus on the Paid Parental Leave (PPL) plan. While FAMLI coverage can be requested for many eligible medical leave instances for employees or family members they need to care for, when FAMLI is taken for parental leave, including birth, foster placement or adoption, it will interact with CU’s

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Community colleges and baccalaureate institutions have experienced a topsy-turvy ride over the last decade, which included the Great Recession and its enrollment impacts, significant social unrest generated from both sides of the political aisle, and the global COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. Against this backdrop, colleges and universities are engaged in significant work to improve outcomes for their students – and to make them more equitable for under-represented students of color.

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Ray Schroeder

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Four of Pennsylvania’s universities are plugging budget gaps while they await hundreds of millions of dollars in aid that has been snarled in a partisan dispute among lawmakers in a state that has one of the nation’s most abysmal records for funding higher education. The University of Pittsburgh, Penn State, Temple and Lincoln are in line to receive about $623 million, a 7% increase proposed by Democratic Gov.

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University Business

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Commuters, shop customers and dorm students all stopped what they were doing and peered out the window or crawled on the street to see one particular truck strolling around Harvard campus. One by one, the digital billboards plastered on the truck’s body displayed the names and headshots of students affiliated with the 30+ student groups that condoned the Harvard public letter blaming Israel for the Hamas attack on Oct. 7.

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