Great College Advice

AUGUST 1, 2023

At these private, elite universities, alumni represent a huge chunk of the donors who regularly and generously give to the college. Legacy admission is not just for white people anymore At most of the Ivy League schools and at many other elite, private colleges, white people are now in the minority.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Image: Facing financial pressures, the King’s College made a recent appeal to donors for $2.6 million to meet immediate needs, warning that the small evangelical institution located in the heart of Wall Street is at risk of closure if it can’t quickly fundraise its way out of a dire situation. The deadline to raise the $2.6

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University Business

MAY 12, 2023

After what was once considered “ a win-win for both institutions ,” Trocaire College’s planned acquisition of Medaille University has been terminated. Trocaire College President Bassam Deeb cited the “extreme” challenges higher education, in general, is facing for the two colleges’ split.

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EAB

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Blogs The Power of a Diverse Donor Portfolio in Your Annual Giving Program 3 Non-Alumni Audiences You Should Be Engaging Today’s advancement leaders will need to access the untapped potential of key audiences beyond alumni stakeholders if they’re going to meet their constantly growing institutional goals.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

These days it is becoming more common for academic institutions to request diversity statements with job application materials. Today’s college students are demographically, ideologically, neurologically and culturally diverse, and diversity statements are seen as a way to recruit faculty and staff who will serve these students well.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

With their mammoth lectures, terrible student-to-adviser ratios, heavy reliance on teaching assistants and postdocs, and priority placed on research and grant-getting, many would say that the answer is an unequivocal no, except for the small minority of students who are in honors colleges. Nor was I the first in my family to go to college.

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Higher Ed Connects: Diversity

JUNE 15, 2019

Park, an associate professor at the University of Maryland College Park, puts a broader conversation on the public discourse about race and diversity on higher education campuses in this book, and challenges pervasive myths on how race works in higher education. Sororities, fraternities, and religious groups.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2023

Devorah Lieberman became president of University of La Verne in 2011, a private institution of approximately 8,000 students about 35 miles east of Los Angeles, she was in many ways seeing life come full circle. When a culture changes, you have to stay focused on the goodness in the institution and not a few negative voices,” said Lieberman.

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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. We all recall “Headless Body in Topless Bar.”

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Creatrix Campus

MARCH 15, 2022

Like all other parts of higher education, it experienced a dip with prospective students could no more complete their usual campus visits, and stereotyped testing became the option for students applying at several institutions. Institutions should have clear-cut enrolment strategies to handle the post-pandemic now chaos.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

Earlier this month, officials at Lewis-Clark State College, a public institution in Idaho, removed half a dozen artworks from an exhibition due to concerns that display of the works, which related to abortion and reproductive health, violated the state’s No Public Funds for Abortion Act.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

Nor was it obvious that it would produce many of the world’s most highly regarded colleges and universities. A highly competitive higher educational marketplace encourages institutions to compete aggressively for prestige, resources, faculty, and students. As Professor Labaree makes clear, this history is highly distinctive.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 23, 2023

The cultural domain consists of the arts and religious and sports institutions because they are all part of the public arena. He lives in pre-Civil War houses that he renovated in New York and West Tisbury, MA. I felt like I was losing my grip on what journalism and news were and needed to look at it in a new direction.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

It has been a year of navigating the new normal on many fronts. Enrollment remained down at every level from community colleges to graduate schools, but much of academia showed its persistence and resilience. Some good news came in late summer as U.S. Supreme Court News U.S. Biden Administration U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 14, 2023

Most obviously, the choice was likely related to Fisk University, the oldest institution of higher learning in Nashville, being Jones' alma mater. Her forthcoming book “The Greatest Good: Nashville’s Black Colleges, Their Students, and the Fight for Freedom, Justice, and Equality” is under contract with Vanderbilt University Press.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

Image: Republicans on the House higher education subcommittee painted a bleak picture of the state of free speech on college campuses during a hearing Wednesday. ” Democrats, meanwhile, focused on the recent rise in state laws and proposed bills that would limit what topics can be taught on college campuses.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Image: The Education Department wants to roll back part of the so-called free inquiry rule, which required public colleges and universities to uphold the First Amendment, among other provisions. However, the department says it isn’t changing the actual requirements of the First Amendment in higher education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

OCR resolved at least two other similar investigations in 2022 at Salt Lake Community College and Bryant & Stratton College. Axelrod said students are more likely to raise concerns about an institution’s denial of an accommodation request. This also includes complaints about the accessibility of education technology.

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