Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The news has not been promising. While Hwang, a billionaire, made headlines over the years for his generous support of religious institutions, he’s in the news for altogether different reasons these days—namely a financial scandal that rocked Wall Street, which led to him being charged with racketeering and fraud in 2022.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2023

The early days of her presidency were not without bumpy moments and naysayers, including alumni who objected to a president not of the university’s founding faith and others who questioned having a woman president, but as she retires in August of this year after a remarkable 12 years, she leaves a legacy in terms of student support and diversity.

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University Business

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The university’s governing body voted this fall to add caste as a protected characteristic to its nondiscrimination policy , alongside categories such as race, religion, sex and gender identity. But we felt it was important to lift this up and explicitly express a position on caste equity.”. Read more on CNN.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Count on The New York Post to come up with the tabloids’ most incendiary headlines and news article leads. ’” Of course, most colleges and universities that I’m familiar with have a cultural diversity requirement. Is this diversity newsletter?: ” Woke University?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Even as we fixate on headline news, the true drivers of transformation occur out of sight. Hyperbolic and apocalyptic headlines to the contrary, the news isn’t all bad. The decline in the number of humanities majors—by half over the past decade—is old news. Don’t ignore the headline news.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

Race and higher education scholars are voicing criticism, concern, and cynicism after the University of Florida ended many of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, a move that the school cited it took to comply with a state law that was passed last year. We see that it wasn't as diverse.” Go look at a curriculum.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

Mark Berkson, chair of the Department of Religion at Hamline, tried to explain the situation in a letter to the editor of The Oracle , the student newspaper. Issues about religion and academic freedom are not new. Is this diversity newsletter?: ” The Student Paper. ” It’s Happened Before.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

” Adelphi is home to a fairly diverse student body that’s 9 percent Black, 21 percent Hispanic, 14 percent Asian and Pacific Islander, and 46 percent white. ” He expects when the students see news about antisemitism or anti-Black racism, they’ll now feel compelled to address it. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Those are just a few of the words that two Fox News critics used in 2007 to describe Rupert Murdock’s agenda-driven rightwing propaganda machine in their riotously funny, profanity-laced takedown, Fair and Balanced My Ass! Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Outrageous. Outlandish. Mendacious, malevolent, misleading. Skewed, slanted, shoddy.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Image: Governor Greg Abbott is cracking down on public institutions that use diversity, equity and inclusion practices in hiring, according to a memo from the governor’s office obtained by The Texas Tribune. Discrimination is antithetical to our core values.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The Trump administration, which issued the final rule in September 2020, said the rule would ensure that religious organizations as well as their student members fully retain their right to free exercise of religion. ” Editorial Tags: Federal policy Religion Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2024

The issue for us on campus is freedom of expression,” said Dr. Najam Haider, chair of religion at Barnard College, a private women's liberal arts college that is part of Columbia. Those who were arrested were peaceful and did not offer resistance , NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban told NBC News.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The office opened at least eight investigations last year into national origin discrimination involving religion on college campuses. via Getty Images Image Caption: Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Catherine Lhamon Is this diversity newsletter?: Editorial Tags: Federal policy Image Source: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call Inc.

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