Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The College Board's decision to revise its African American Studies curriculum has come under fire from many who argue that the changes are motivated by political pressure rather than pedagogical considerations. The new curriculum, which is stripped of much of the subject matter that the DeSantis administration opposed, has been criticized for erasing the experiences of Black writers and scholars associated with critical race theory, reparations, the queer experience, and Black feminism.

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Great College Advice

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Consider your audience as you craft the perfect college essay How do you write the perfect college essay? This is a complicated question. In this post, we will focus on your audience. No matter what kind of writing you are doing, you must consider for whom you are writing it. Who’s your audience? This is a good question to ask even as you write your high school papers.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Image: Leading international scientists who discovered articles written by artificial intelligence that have been published in their names have backed plans for legal action. In recent months, academics at leading universities in Australia, Europe and North America have been alerted to low-quality scholarly articles—often little more than a page long, probably written by a language-scraping algorithm—appearing under their names in titles published by Prime Scholars, an open-access pu

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Sign up for the People's Rally for Student Debt Cancellation to be held outside the US Supreme Court, February 28, 2022. The link is at [link] Stay tuned to this post for more information.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I (Ford) was reading a commentary on the top number of “issues” facing education/ educators and became even more outraged and indignant on terminology used to describe children who live in poverty, Blacks, and other minoritized students. My colleagues and I believe this framing and mislabeling are the real ‘issues’, which we use interchangeably with ‘problems’.

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Great College Advice

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Disclose Learning Differences on College Application…or Not? Nearly every week a student or two will ask me if they should disclose learning differences on the college application. Generally speaking, students don’t want to give a college any reason to generate any preconceived notions about them. Even though colleges have come a long way in terms of understanding and accommodating learning differences, most people don’t understand the varied range of learning disabilities, such as dyslexia, pro

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University Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Temple’s ongoing graduate student strike catching national headlines did not happen in a vacuum. Across the country, many graduate programs at prolific higher ed institutions have gone on strike or unionized since fall 2022. Grad student labor organizing has spiked in recent years , according to William A. Herbert, executive director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Danielle Ren Holley, president-elect of Mount Holyoke College. Danielle Ren Holley is breaking ground. The Howard University law professor and dean has been named Mount Holyoke College’s first permanent Black female president in the institution’s 186-year history. She will step into her role on July 1, 2023. “I’m just really excited to lead such a dynamic and important institution like Mount Holyoke,” said Holley in an interview with Diverse.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Since opening in 1977, the University of Arizona’s Main Library in Tuscon has served as a central hub for students to study and conduct research, but it hadn’t changed much in four decades. Despite small renovations that included improved computer access and special collections areas, it still looked and felt like an old-fashioned library, with rows of bookshelves, stationary wooden tables and study carrels that didn’t meet students’ needs.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

From 2023 through 2028, ten community colleges across the nation will have the opportunity to participate in a program that will boost their reputations in a big way. Unlocking Opportunity: The Post-Graduation Success and Equity Network will be working with schools across Texas, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and more to re-tool their programs conducive to valuable degrees.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Fulfilling the first milestone of a commitme n t made early in 2021, the University of Michigan’s Center for Academic Innovation and Coursera today announced the release of the first three of 10 planned open online courses featuring extended reality. The courses feature interactive 360 video components, which can be accessed via headsets or simply on a laptop or phone.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

With state support, Georgia’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) could be made into even stronger centers of education and economic opportunity, according to a recent report. Sen. Sonya Halpern The report – from the Georgia Senate Study Committee on Excellence, Innovation, and Technology at HBCUs – included recommendations for lawmakers on how to help HBCUs drive workforce diversity, innovation, and community and economic development.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Security information and event management tools have become must-haves for security teams looking to make sense of millions or even hundreds of millions of events each day. While the underlying SIEM concept hasn’t changed much in the past decade, many of the technologies in leading SIEM products have. Let’s review some of the major changes in top SIEM products and see how they affect higher education InfoSec teams.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

From “devious licks” to vandalizing school property, more districts are becoming aware of the dangerous TikTok trends that students can’t get enough of. But there’s more to be worried about than simply social media trends. TikTok can be a massive cybersecurity issue. Several school districts and universities have pulled the plug and banned the use of the app amidst data privacy concerns.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

I, along with faculty colleagues from many different types of institutions, am finding that students are just not as engaged as they have been in the past. In the fall of 2022, more students than I have ever encountered during my 25 years of teaching were tardy or missed classes. Some disappeared altogether. There were students who did not seem to understand the need to take notes, read for class or otherwise engage in the course material.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Pomona College will be preserving the archival collection of alumna and civil rights leader Myrlie Evers-Williams. The collection will be handled by The Claremont Colleges Library. Myrlie and Medgar Evers “I don't want to get too emotional,” said Evers-Williams, who graduated with a sociology degree in 1968. “But it was Pomona College, it was the teachers here who helped me move ahead and come out of this feeling of drowning … And it was my being here at Pomona with the instructors here and the

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Artificial intelligence has been a blazingly hot topic in higher education since ChatGPT burst onto the scene in late 2022, stoking early fears that comprehensive, AI-written essays would “blow up” the entire education system. Much of the early panic over ChatGPT has subsided as instructors have realized the limitations of the AI, tools have been developed to detect its use and thought leaders have encouraged colleges to embrace tools like ChatGPT.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Technology is rapidly becoming an invaluable resource for higher education professionals who want to create inclusive classrooms in the age of digital transformation. More than ever, universities are looking for ways to create an inclusive learning environment for all students, regardless of their backgrounds. Technology is uniquely designed to support educators in fostering a sense of belonging in the inclusive classrooms.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Image: China’s Ministry of Education will no longer recognize online degrees from overseas colleges, per a Jan. 28 statement from the Service Center for Scholarly Exchange in Beijing. The announcement, which arrived without notice and was effective immediately, impacts Chinese students enrolled at foreign colleges who had been studying online in their home country.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Over the past decade, some historically Black institutions have developed women’s and gender studies programs and embedded courses within general education curriculum. When Dr. Adele Newson-Horst was developing a grant proposal, she quoted a 2015 article published in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education that noted HBCU institutions had been slow to introduce gender-related programs.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Oxford and Cambridge universities, once given more than £130m a year in total by European research programmes, are now getting £1m annually between them One of the UK’s most prestigious universities has seen its funding from a large European research programme plummet from £62m a year to nothing since Brexit, new figures show. The latest statistics from the European Commission reveal that Cambridge University, which netted €483m (£433m) over the seven years of the last European research funding

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University Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Freedom (FIRE) distinguished the colleges who most egregiously botched a faculty or student organization’s right to tenants that align with free speech in 2022. FIRE ranks the top 10 colleges across the nation in no particular order, and institutions were selected based on some of their head-scratching decisions such as circumventing a teacher’s academic freedom, removing funding from an LGBTQ+ event, instating policies that would streamline f

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Image: Keeping students engaged in class is an age-old struggle. While professors have employed a variety of strategies—creating pop quizzes, offering participation points, facilitating classroom discussions, assigning group work—some have chosen a creative alternative: music. An assistant professor at Yale University who recently tweeted to ask other professors if they're playing music before class, and what students think, got more than 1,000 replies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The College of Law at St. Thomas University will be renamed the Benjamin L. Crump College of Law, making the law school the U.S.’s first to be named after a practicing Black attorney. Benjamin L. Crump The name was formally announced earlier this week. "The naming of the Benjamin L. Crump College of Law at St. Thomas University is the latest step in an effort to encourage bridge-building among the legal profession, law enforcement, and our communities," said David A.

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Via's

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Via’s Ease Helps Director Be More Efficient, Feel More Confident By her own admission, Inés Maxit isn’t tech savvy so the study abroad coordinator for Stephen F. Austin State University in East Texas says it was a big step when her office moved from paper to a software system. “It was difficult for me to be really efficient generating reports,” she recalls.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Seemingly everyone must file a statement outlining their understanding of diversity, their past contributions to it and their plans “for advancing equity and inclusion” if hired. Not long ago, such statements were exotic and of marginal importance. Now they are de rigueur across most of the University of California system for hiring and tenure decisions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As she approaches that milestone herself, Susan M. Shaw offers 14 recommendations to help other faculty members leave on their own terms. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: olm26250/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School (AJMLS) and Morris Brown College are partnering for a law school pipeline. “We are ecstatic to partner with Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School,” said Morris Brown President Dr. Kevin James. “Morris Brown students now have an official pathway and opportunity to earn a Juris Doctorate degree once they earn their degree from Atlanta’s most affordable accredited HBCU.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In this podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with Dr. Steve Katsouros of Come to Believe Foundation and Network, which works with colleges and universities to replicate a successful DEI, enrollment, and graduation model. Dr. Katsouros was the founder of Arrupe College, a two-year institution that is part of Loyola University Chicago. In this podcast, learn how the Dr.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is the latest entity to dismiss standardized testing as a core requirement for student-athletic scholarships. Last month, both Division I (DI) and Division II (DII) councils voted in their respective meetings to eliminate it altogether. The NCAA Eligibility Center once required students to earn a specific score on either their ACT or SAT to be qualified to compete, that score dependent on how strong their GPA was.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Image: More institutions are installing professional head-shot booths in their career centers to assist students on the job or internship hunt. These machines allow students to experiment with multiple poses and then will deliver high-quality, editable digital images within minutes. The booths are getting students in career center doors while leveling the playing field between those who might otherwise be able to obtain a professional head shot and those who might not.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has announced its list of America’s 10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech, targeting institutions large and small that the civil liberties non-profit says have violated First Amendment principles. The list serves as a highlight reel of 2022’s campus free speech controversies, starting with Hamline University, where an art professor sparked a dispute by showing a 14 th century painting of the prophet Muhammad, which some Muslims believe is of

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Experiential Learning Depot

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

If you’ve been following along with my self-directed learning series, you know how fantastic it can be for both students and teachers. The desire is there to get students out of their seats and engaged in activities and learning experiences that they care about. How nice would it be to have a student come to you and say that they want to learn more about this or that?

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EAB

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Podcast Will Your School Start Recruiting Incarcerated Students? Episode 137. February 7, 2023. Welcome to the Office Hours with EAB podcast. You can join the conversation on social media using #EABOfficeHours. Follow the podcast on Spotify , Google Podcasts , Apple Podcasts , SoundCloud and Stitcher or visit our podcast homepage for additional episodes.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

At our nation’s colleges and universities, faculty members have become one part caretaker and one part educator. If you are anything like us, more office hours are spent helping students emotionally cope with the world around them than they are advancing learning. Colleagues often will ask how we toe the line between being compassionate with students while maintaining rigor and accountability in their work.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and Temple University have released a guide for higher ed institutions on how to implement completion grants for their students. Dr. Christel Perkins Completion grants are funds given to students who need them to finish out their degree or academic journey. The APLU and its sister organization, the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities, partnered with Temple University’s Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice for a five-year

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

University leaders urge ministers to provide bridging finance to keep projects running when EU support ends this year Universities in Wales face more than 1,000 skilled jobs being lost because of the withdrawal of EU structural funds, with leaders saying that the replacement finance promised by ministers will not match the lost support. Since 2014 Welsh universities have received about £370m in research projects from EU structural funds but, after the UK’s withdrawal, its support for 60 ongoing

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