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Celebrating Black Higher Education Leaders

Dr. Josie Ahlquist

In honor of Black History Month, I selected 30 inspiring Black Higher Education leaders (because, yes, they needed a full month’s worth) who come from all walks of life and serve in various roles, from Vice Presidents to Deans to Directors.

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Influential Women in Higher Education

Dr. Josie Ahlquist

It still kinda blows my mind that America may have been founded in 1776, but it wasn’t until (almost) 200 years later that women started to receive “equal” treatment. It was… And, unfortunately, the race is not over.

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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The conference theme this year is humanizing higher education, and hundreds of scholars from across the country gathered here to share their research, resources, and make connections. They’re there to provide access to higher education to their communities.”

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Higher Education Can Connect Diverse Students to Lucrative, Technical Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Todd said technical careers can get more students on the track toward social and economic mobility, and experts agree that higher education can also play a crucial role in diversifying fields that are overwhelmingly white and male.

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Influential Women in Higher Education

Dr. Josie Ahlquist

It still kinda blows my mind that America may have been founded in 1776, but it wasn’t until (almost) 200 years later that women started to receive “equal” treatment. It was… And, unfortunately, the race is not over.

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Higher Education DEI Efforts are in Trouble. Here’s How We Change That

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To identify and cut DEI in higher education. The research team at USC’s Pullias Center for Higher Education recently studied campuses that have made progress on eliminating equity gaps and advancing their DEI agendas.

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Supreme Court Ruling Could Produce Chilling Effect on Equity in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Thomas Saenz, president and general counsel of the nonprofit Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF). The proposition had what Saenz called a “chilling effect” that prevented other, equitizing steps from being taken in higher education in the state.

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Why Climate Action Is in Higher Education’s Best Interest

Higher Education Today

Read more » The post Why Climate Action Is in Higher Education’s Best Interest appeared first on Higher Education Today. Features leadership policy & research value of higher educationBy Philip P.

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State of Diversity Summit Highlights National and Emerging Issues in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) convened leading higher education thought leaders on campus earlier this week for its fourth annual State of Diversity summit.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. Her goal is to provide an elite education without elitist practices that exclude communities of color and low-income people. Dara N.

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Purdue Northwest Chancellor Thomas Keon's Mockery of an "Asian" Language is Emblematic of a Wider Problem in American Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

What makes this moment particularly jarring is that Purdue Northwest and similar campuses have gone to great lengths to recruit international students, primarily from Asian countries, in their bid to become world-class institutions of higher learning.

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2023 Trends in Higher Education

Hanover Research

Three years into the pandemic, colleges and universities continue to adapt while making strategic decisions that are reshaping higher education for the long term. Reports & Briefs Higher Education Identify Strategic Priorities Trends

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Indigenous Peoples in Higher Education: Inherited Histories and Pernicious Status Quos

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

and worldwide, have a complicated relationship with institutions of education. During this time, Euromericans used education as weapons against American Indians. Even outside of the land grant system — all institutions of higher education in the U.S.

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The best higher education and digital marketing conferences of 2023

Terminalfour

Want to know which are the most interesting higher education and digital marketing conferences taking place this year? We’ve compiled some of our favorites to get excited about, covering a broad list of highly relevant topics to higher education

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Looking ahead to 2023: Here’s what’s in store for higher education

University Business

Ask anyone and they’ll tell you it’s been a challenging year for both students and faculty in both higher education and K-12. “Educators exerted a lot of time and emotional energy over the previous two years working to ensure students’ needs were being met.

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Higher Education Financial Realities

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Leadership in Higher Education This is an extraordinarily challenging time in higher education. Declining Enrollment Higher education enrollment has been dropping for almost 15 years, and that will continue. percent, workers have plenty of options other than school, and the decline in confidence that higher education is a worthy investment is likely to continue, driven in part by messaging from political leaders.

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Where should freedom of speech responsibilities in higher education lie?

SRHE

by GR Evans Under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act higher education providers and students’ unions will be required to publish Codes of Practice on freedom of speech.

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Higher education’s sea change

University Business

Higher education in the U.S. The post Higher education’s sea change appeared first on University Business. is in the midst of a sea change, forcing schools to adapt with the times.

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Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Magazine Profiles Top “40 and Under” Scholars

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Contact : Maya Matthews Minter Phone : 703.385.2411 Email : Maya@DiverseEducation.com Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Magazine Profiles Top “40 and Under” Scholars FAIRFAX, VA — Diverse: Issues In Higher Education will kick off 2023 with its annual Emerging Scholars edition. Each scholar is selected based on research, educational background, publishing record, teaching record, competitiveness in field of study, and uniqueness of field of study.

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DeSantis ramps up ‘war on woke’ with new attacks on Florida higher education

The Guardian Higher Education

Ron DeSantis Florida Higher education Republicans US news

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4 Ways to Support Faculty-Led Higher Education Grants

Hanover Research

Many higher education institutions are interested in expanding their grantseeking capacity and are including grant-funded research in their strategic plans. ” The post 4 Ways to Support Faculty-Led Higher Education Grants appeared first on Hanover Research.

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Working-Class and working in higher education: possibilities and pedagogies

SRHE

It is now accepted that the ‘leaky pipeline’ of academia, whereby ‘non-traditional’ ( eg working-class, BAME) participants remain absent from professorial and higher managerial positions within UKHE is adversely affecting the diversity of scholarship and leadership.

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Higher Education’s Moment: Religious, Secular, and Spiritual Equity

Supporting Student Success

Throughout its history, higher education has sought to introduce students to the perspectives of a global citizenship. To effectively educate students through a global lens requires institutions confront issues of inequity. Cody Nielsen and Jenny L. Small.

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UK gender pay gap for higher-educated parents has grown since 1970s – study

The Guardian Higher Education

Research finds ‘motherhood penalty’ is greater than 40 years ago, with mothers making 69% of fathers’ wages The pay gap between mothers and fathers with post-school education has increased since the late 1970s in the UK, according to research. As the world marks International Women’s Day on Wednesday, research from the University of Kent has found that the gap in pay between higher-educated mothers and fathers – the “motherhood penalty” – is greater now than 40 years ago.

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Stress is a key deterrent to enrolling in higher education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Nearly two-thirds of people who have never enrolled in higher education cite emotional stress as a key deterrent, a new report from Gallup and the Lumina Foundation finds.

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Higher education regulator to make freedom of speech priority next year

The Guardian Higher Education

Susan Lapworth, the OfS’s chief regulator, said students’ experience of higher education in England was “not just measured through statistics,” and could be affected by the attitudes towards issues such as freedom of speech at the institutions they attend.

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Will ChatGPT Ruin or Improve Higher Education?

EAB

Podcast Will ChatGPT Ruin or Improve Higher Education? EAB’s Michael Fischer and Ron Yanosky discuss whether ChatGPT represents an existential threat to higher education. EAB · Will ChatGPT Ruin or Improve Higher Education?

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Mobilities and the ‘international academic’ in higher education

SRHE

It was an interesting week full of presentations and discussions around the theme of Mobilities in Higher Education. Never has the higher education sector been so mobile, particularly as internationalisation occupies a central position on the global agenda of policymakers.

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Closed labs, cancelled classes: inside the largest strike to hit US higher education

The Guardian Higher Education

The strike is groundbreaking – the largest in the history of US higher education and part of a wave of organizing at college campuses across the country. California US news Higher education US universities Students US student debt US student finance Student experience

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Immersive Learning’s Future in Higher Education

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way higher education approaches educational technology, accelerating adoption of equipment and methods that previously had been slowly gaining traction. EdTech Higher Ed (@EdTech_HigherEd) December 9, 2022 In a presentation at the 2022

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Arkansas Higher Education Director Ousted

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The director of the state Division of Higher Education in Arkansas was unexpectedly let go on Tuesday, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a Republican, took over as governor in January and has championed major K-12 education changes that include boosting entry-level teacher pay and a prohibition on ideological “indoctrination.”

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Can We Better Understand Supervisor Retention in Higher Education?

Higher Education Today

Read more » The post Can We Better Understand Supervisor Retention in Higher Education? appeared first on Higher Education Today.

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Black students have lowest completion rates in higher education, study finds

The Guardian Higher Education

US education Race Race in education Higher education US news

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The California academic strike is the most important in US higher education history | Nelson Lichtenstein

The Guardian Higher Education

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. US unions Higher education California Education

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My 2022 Higher Education Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

I am teaching a remote synchronous PhD class in higher education finance as my first course at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Instead, I use articles, working papers, and other online resources to provide a current look at the state of higher education finance. The higher education finance landscape and data sources. Eight economic facts on higher education. In Budgets and financial management in higher education (pp.

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Higher Education in Latin America: Lessons from an Innovative University in Mexico

The Art & Science of Learning

Inside Voices is an event series organized by Minerva Project that features candid conversations with education leaders who are transforming education, whether building new programs and institutions or radically changing existing ones.

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Benefits of Higher Education at PUC

PUC

At PUC, we know how Adventist higher education is even more important. We want to make sure you invest your time, energy, and money into the best education you can […]. Uncategorized college higher education homepage Pacific Union College PUC student life

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The 2023 State of Facilities in Higher Education

University Business

For ten years the State of Facilities in Higher Education has been recognizing trends and opportunities based on our database of information from schools around the U.S. The post The 2023 State of Facilities in Higher Education appeared first on University Business.

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Australian Higher Education Review

Higher Education Whisperer

Professor Mary O’KaneThe Australian government has tasked Professor Mary O’Kane, and a panel of six other eminent Australians to conduct a Higher Education Review, as part of the Australian Universities Accord. Australian Government Australian Universities Accord education policy

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17 predictions about higher education in 2023

University Business

The post 17 predictions about higher education in 2023 appeared first on University Business. As we prepare for a new year, we look back on the lessons learned, both good and bad, as the door closes 2022.

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Biden’s budget prioritizes higher education, despite pushback

University Business

trillion budget Thursday paying close attention to three areas: infrastructure, healthcare and education. The administration is poising the Department of Education to support students’ and alumni’s financial obligations, build more equitable access to college, and address the student mental health crisis. Despite the thoughtful strategies put forward by Biden’s administration to assist challenges in higher education, pushback to the proposal looms.

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The Impact of COVID-19 Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds

Higher Education Today

Title: Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund: 2021 Annual Performance Report Authors: U.S. Department of Education; Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development; and the Office of Postsecondary Education Source: U.S.

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Making higher education anti-racist

Regna Consulting

A discussion about antiracism in higher education with Ibram X. The post Making higher education anti-racist appeared first on Renga Consulting. Diversity Equity Higher Education Inclusion