Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2023

That's according to a new report from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)which provides data depicting the shift away from tenure to contingent faculty at most U.S. colleges and universities. colleges and universities were employed part-time. That puts institutions in a difficult place.”

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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. All these factors contribute to recent enrollment declines at institutions of higher education. Compton is an unabashedly proud Black-serving institution.

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University Business

JULY 6, 2023

Colleges and universities are discovering new technologies to capitalize on the significant influx of foreign-born students, but there might be no better tool than cold hard cash. Fifteen institutions offer financial aid packages—whether need- or merit-based—that are too enticing to pass up. News & World Report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

There have been many opinions flying across Twitter, Facebook, and even national news stations like CNN. We hate to be the ones to break the news, but you cannot give your way out of oppression. Resources were shifted so that HBCUs could not keep up with PWIs which followed Black college athletes being pillaged from HBCUs to PWIs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2023

Image: Since the Taliban suspended the rights of Afghan women to pursue higher education last month, many American higher education institutions and leaders have decried the ban. A few are going further, asking what they can do to help Afghan women regain control of their academic futures, whether through scholarships to U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

The president of Northern Seminary, an Illinois institution with Baptist roots, resigned after he was accused of bullying and retaliating against employees, particularly women, which resulted in some employee departures, Baptist News Global reported. He will continue to serve in the role until a new president is selected.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Most college leaders retiring in style will be recognized for their expansion, renovation and construction of campus facilities. Additionally, half of the six presidents to be hired or retired hail from an institution with strong religious ties. Frank Sánchez – Manhattanville College (N.Y.)

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University Business

MARCH 4, 2024

Administrators from Notre Dame College in Ohio have announced that the century-old Roman Catholic school in Ohio will be closing its doors at the end of the semester. The college has already coordinated Teach-Out agreements with several neighboring colleges and universities to ensure the closure does not hurt its students.

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University Business

JANUARY 10, 2023

President Meredith Woo has spearheaded Sweet Briar College’s triumphant revival over the past several years, and now she is making way for the institution’s next leader. Meredith Woo (Sweet Briar College). Sweet Briar is an important institution with a distinctive mission,” Woo said in a statement.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One civil rights group sued Harvard University, charging that legacy admissions “expand[s] privilege instead of opportunity,” AP News reports. Now, lawmakers are looking to end legacy admissions across several states, whether at their public universities, private colleges—or both. Vincent’s College in Pennsylvania.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Colleges and universities nationwide have incrementally ramped up initiatives around their campuses to help their LGBTQ+ students feel seen, heard and supported. Lesbian and bisexual women are also more prone to worse heart health, according to Medical News Today. And if that means working across institutions, then bring it on.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Birgit Puschner, dean of Michigan State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, announced her resignation Monday, effective March 31, citing institutional failures in sexual misconduct investigations and a lack of accountability for alleged perpetrators, according to The Detroit News. Samuel Stanley Jr.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This summer, the US Department of Education celebrated 50 years of Title IX while proposing new changes to its regulation. It gave educational institutions better guidance on how to provide students with equitable education free from harassment based on sexual orientation. Only 1 in 22,900 were expelled. Methodology. Arizona State.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 9, 2023

Image: Transfers between community colleges and four-year institutions continued to drop last fall, an ongoing trend since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Transfers by women decreased more than men, 3.5 percent relative to fall 2020.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

But institutions of higher learning are recreating what it means to be a publicly engaged research institution. Towson University recently announced the goal of increasing research activity and obtaining R-2 Carnegie status by 2027 (currently we are classified as M-1: master’s colleges and universities—larger programs).

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Angel Reece, Black woman, role model, and elite college athlete. We are two Black women higher education scholars, who love women's basketball and love Black women and care deeply about their well-being. Black women doing what they love at higher education institutions with deep histories of racial injustice.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite recent pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion among several states , a number of colleges have recently hired presidents based on their commitment to that principle. Safa Zaki, Bowdoin College (Williamstown, Mass.) Jenkins, Bates College (Lewiston, Maine) Garry W. She is also a first-generation student.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Certainly, K-12 education has the potential to play a key part in this work, but as a longtime college professor, I want to see colleges and universities take a more proactive role. Walmart in 2019, killing 23, were both recently enrolled college students. The perpetrator of the May 14 mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y. ,

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Knight Commission had CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) perform some projections that are featured in a new report that looks at the top 54 public institutions’ football programs, particularly in regard to the incoming revenue from college football playoffs and new lucrative conference media contracts.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2021

In this second post of our five-part series on Embracing a New Higher Education Governance Model , we discuss the updated board duties in higher ed and how boards can embrace their new roles and responsibilities as they work to meet the challenges facing colleges and universities today.

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Supporting Student Success

MAY 6, 2021

Below is an article originally shared in EdSurge , a higher education news publication, which shares a bit of my story — it reveals the core of my why for pursuing and persisting through higher education. My motivation for continuing my education beyond my bachelor’s comes from the inspiration of two women.

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Higher Ed Connects: Diversity

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

It is very costly to hire a great candidate and then have them leave – it is better to be proactive and make sure that institutional culture is positive and supportive. The students entering our colleges are only going to get more diverse, not only in terms of race and ethnicity, but also in their perspectives on the world. by Terri E.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

JULY 29, 2022

With this demographic’s strong market share and demand for online learning, institutions need to understand who they are and the most effective strategies to reach them. For starters, Reddit has a great reputation: 86% of users report that they trust Reddit when learning about new products and brands, according to Rise Interactive.

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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 7, 2023

News & World Report. He joins us today to talk about artificial intelligence and machine learning and how they can help and hurt higher ed institutions. First, we will go into that big, bad, ugly topic called artificial intelligence, which drives higher education institutions. Learn more at changinghighered.com. What is AI?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2023

Although the news cycle has been dominated by the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness program and its fate at the U.S. We believe that it’s due to the fact that women and minority borrowers are likely to have more debt, but also more likely to be underpaid than white men,” he said. Shaming lists do nothing,” said Collier.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: Wellesley College students have made their position clear: the majority of them want the women’s college to open admissions to all transgender people, including those who identify as trans men. "Wellesley College acknowledges the result of the non-binding student ballot initiative," the statement read.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It’s a safe bet that there are more women on your campus than men. With women peaking past men in college enrollment by the 1980s, this isn’t breaking news. For every six women on campus today, there are roughly four men. But what’s concerning is the fact that this trend isn’t slowing down.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Another is that administrators at some colleges are going to make decisions that are foolish or short-sighted, professors are going to get mad -- and Inside Higher Ed' s readers won't be able to get enough of it. Happy holidays and New Year. " The question still seems to captivate readers. "Academe, Hear Me.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

EAB’s Jarrell Anderson and Alexa Silverman explore proactive steps that colleges can take to help Black and Latino men build a stronger sense of connection with their campus community. We started taking a look at Black and Latino men in college because there was actually a lot of attention on men in college in general.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

” The lawsuit alleges “anti-male bias” and an “unfair and unjust” process under Title IX, the law prohibiting sex-based discrimination at educational institutions that receive federal funding. The institution’s Title IX director at the time, Vineeta Dhillon, is also a named defendant.

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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. Park tackles in her book, Race on Campus: Debunking Myths with Data.

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University Business

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Lawsuits from over 20 women over its handling of past sexual assault claims and urges from Congress helped spur the inquiry. Liberty regularly touted itself as the “safest college in Virginia,” the report found. And for the assault to occur in the first place, college administrators contended that it proved they had pre-marital sex.

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MAY 9, 2023

Julia Mongo | Office of Distinguished Fellowships Published by MIT News on May 9, 2023 MIT senior Pam Stark and alumni Bhav Jain and Sreya Vangara are recipients of this year’s Knight-Hennessy Scholarship awards. The fellowship funds graduate studies for up to three years in any field at Stanford University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Over the last two decades, our nation’s community colleges have received increasing recognition, and for good reason. Community college students are more likely to be Black, Hispanic, and from lower-income backgrounds than four-year students. Why should new reform efforts focus on leadership?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

The bumpy bus ride from Tougaloo College, Mississippi’s private Historically Black College or University that boasts the production of over 40% of the state’s Black physicians and dentists, is punctuated by a steady flow of thick, balmy air desperately trying to provide relief while obviously in need of a refrigerant top-off.

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