Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2023

Pinkard Pinkard, a veteran educator at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), will be retiring this spring as president of Wilberforce University in Ohio. Brown also aims to build infrastructure capacity at participating HBCUs and leadership in higher education and policy development. Dr. Elfred A. Pinkard holds an Ed.D.

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University Business

MARCH 26, 2024

Institutions leveraging out-of-state online learning may face deeper state regulation constraints due to a proposal from the Department of Education. As a result, federal officials believe SARA “prioritizes administrative convenience over student and taxpayer protection,” failing to protect them in the process.

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Robert Kelchen

APRIL 29, 2024

I have spent most of the last year digging into the topic of heightened cash monitoring (HCM), perhaps the federal government’s most important tool in its higher education accountability toolbox at this time. HCM places colleges’ federal financial aid disbursements under additional scrutiny in order to protect taxpayer dollars.

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University Business

JANUARY 5, 2024

Prior to his career in higher education, Sastry spent 18 years working in the federal government. The post Georgetown welcomes higher education financial leader, alumnus as new CFO appeared first on University Business. He served as the director of the Office of U.S. Read more from Georgetown University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Instead of succumbing to despair, leaders who value diversity and view it as a strength in our higher education institutions and corporations must step up. Charging tuition rates that are on average nearly 30% less than at comparable non-HBCUs, these schools are among the best return on our nation’s post-secondary education investments.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Department of Education has confirmed that Baylor University, the Baptist research institution in Waco, Texas, is immune from certain Title IX complaints “to the extent that they are inconsistent with the University’s religious tenets,” wrote Catherine E. Linda Livingstone. The confirmation follows other Title IX trouble for Baylor.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Simmons will deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the highest honor from the federal government for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. Dr. Ruth J. Simmons The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) lecture – “Facing History to Find a Better Future” – will take place 7 p.m. Lowe (Navajo).

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The Guardian Higher Education

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Speaking at the National Press Club on Tuesday, the minister for skills and training, Brendan O’Connor, will announce the establishment of an integrity unit within the regulator to identify and address threats to Vet.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

“This blatant discriminatory sentiment is contrary to all the principles held dear in America, and certainly not expected from an institution that receives hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from the federal government – including dollars to fund that office of Chief Diversity Officer,” he continued.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

Tina Smith The bills aim to make sure that students are informed and educated about college search and selection, loans, and financial aid. The federal government should be offering commonsense resources to better prepare borrowers,” Grassley said.

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Higher Education Whisperer

MAY 18, 2023

Yesterday I talked to Lish Fejer on ABC Radio Canberra, about federal government plans to contract in. They were interested to hear about my own experience as someone trained by the public service, who then became a contractor.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Census Bureau data and data from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Courtney Brown, vice president of strategic impact and planning at Lumina and director of the “Stronger Nation” project, said the increase in educational attainment is “really encouraging.” percent in 2019.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The federal government and national, regional, and local organizations have weighed in, too. This means that institutions, organizations, groups, and individuals must talk and walk simultaneously for the same principle, for a common purpose—intentionally diversifying the education landscape for America's greater good.

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University Business

JUNE 23, 2023

The federal government has awarded Bergen Community College a five-year, $4.5 to grow agriculture education appeared first on University Business. million grant to help contribute to the growth of future food, agriculture, natural resources and human sciences (FANH) professionals. economic activity ($8.6

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University Business

AUGUST 14, 2023

Department of Education reaffirms Baylor’s religious exemption in response to sexual harassment complaints appeared first on University Business. While she was a student at Baylor, Veronica Bonifacio Penales found sticky notes with homophobic slurs on her dorm room door. She said she received similar comments from peers on social media.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

However, she had worked at high levels of the federal government, as a former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the former U.S. Sylvia Burwell Burwell had an unusual background for a college president, never having been a professor, a dean, or a provost, and never having earned an advanced degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

However, she had worked at high levels of the federal government, as a former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the former U.S. Sylvia Burwell Burwell had an unusual background for a college president, never having been a professor, a dean, or a provost, and never having earned an advanced degree.

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The Guardian Higher Education

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It is by far the largest and most important strike in the history of American higher education, with the potential to transform both the status and income of those who work in an “industry” that now employs more workers than the federal government.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It’s vital that we build a strong talent pool to fill critical roles within the federal government and that reflect the future workforce of this nation.”

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A whistleblower lawsuit accusing Colorado Technical University of artificially inflating how much educational content it provides students will move forward after a federal judge denied a motion to dismiss the complaint earlier this month. The whistleblow’s attorneys plan to push further for Perdoceo’s inclusion.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Throughout the report, “Exploring the Educational Experiences of Black and Hispanic PhDs in STEM,” it is clear that Black, and to some extent Hispanic, students have very different experiences than their white and Asian counterparts. Those institutions don’t receive as much research funding from the federal government.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alex Red Corn Title: Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, Kansas State University College of Education. Age: 39 Education: B.S., education, University of Kansas; M.S., education, University of Kansas; and Ed.D., The history of Native education in the United States is fraught with dispossession.

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University Business

JANUARY 4, 2023

The federal government is investigating the more than 400 Native American boarding schools that once operated in the U.S. Boarding schools used education as a weapon to assimilate Native people in a strategy historians have called cultural genocide. JOSLYNN LEE: And it was really with my grandma, my nelly. Read more on WSIU.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Department of Education (ED) is delaying the sending out of student information relevant for financial aid calculations to institutions, higher ed scholars and officials have voiced concern and uncertainty over how this change will affect low-income and first-generation students in particular. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 3, 2023

On June 21, 2023, the State of Florida filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education, Florida vs Department of Education. This lawsuit has the potential to change how much influence state governments can have on both higher education accreditation and their institutions. This isn’t how it always was.

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University Business

JANUARY 11, 2024

Public and private colleges and universities have long enjoyed independence from federal governing bodies over the nature of their operations. In the last few months, however, higher education has become the center of controversy relating to several developments integral to national interest. “Ultimately, as the U.S.

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Ed.gov Blog

MAY 11, 2023

ED’s School Ambassador Fellowship Program supports national education initiatives with the expertise of school-based practitioners. The program fosters collaboration between education practitioners and the federal government, involves educators in education policy, and amplifies practitioners’ voices in the national dialogue.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Even when the federal government tries to streamline financial aid, things wind up becoming more complicated. But the complexity of enacting the changes for an underfunded, overburdened Department of Education means that the release date for the new form has been pushed to December 1 from the beginning of October.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 27, 2023

Saying it found “material weakness” in the Education Department’s financial statements for the last year, an outside auditor declined to issue an opinion on the documents. The auditor’s report was included in the Education Department’s annual financial report released this week.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 11, 2023

There’s little help on the way: The nation’s classrooms are projected to lose an average of 270,000 educators annually for the next several years, and enrollment in teacher preparation programs has plummeted. But there’s more the federal government can do. With a combined enrollment of 1.9

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

For research institutions that work with the federal government — and specifically the Department of Defense — the stakes are even higher. Those colleges and universities are entrusted with information few others are granted access to, and that reality was the impetus behind…

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The NSA is the lead agency in the federal government when it comes to any matters relating to cybersecurity,” Mac Namee said. Its relationship with the NSA goes further. MSU Denver is one of 11 U.S. MSU Denver’s effort to uplift underrepresented communities also extend to neurodivergent students, Mac Namee said.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

At Carlow University on Thursday afternoon, members of the Pittsburgh Promise, with community and higher education groups and representatives from the local, state, and federal governments, came together to address the issue of food insecurity on college campuses.

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The Guardian Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Over the coming days, Labor will announce a host of reforms in response to a review led by former Victoria police chief commissioner Christine Nixon into the exploitation of Australia’s visa system.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

Racial exclusion from this nation's institutions of higher education has been the norm throughout the vast history of the U.S., Racial exclusion from this nation's institutions of higher education has been the norm throughout the vast history of the U.S., Both educated the progeny of slaveholding families.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

“I wanted to throw the government’s own book right back at them,” said Webb. the involvement of the federal government in the assassinations of Black civil rights leaders, and more. She spent four years gathering evidence on police brutality, incarceration, the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa, Okla.,

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