Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2023

This appointment makes her NWTC’s first female president, Fox 11 News reported. Dr. Kristen Raney Raney is currently vice chancellor for academic affairs at Eastern Iowa Community College (EICC). NWTC’s focus on serving its students and preparing a strong workforce is truly impressive. Raney holds an Ed.D. in English from St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2023

“SUNY Old Westbury is proud to be recognized formally as a university, a recognition that is reflective of our rigorous, high-quality academic offerings at both the undergraduate and graduate levels,” Sams said in a news release. This new designation rightly represents the type of institution that we are today.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

31, after a plan for acquisition by Trocaire College fell through, Buffalo News reported. In Fall 2012, it had 2,600 students. The school will work to help students transfer and help faculty and staff find new employment. Students on track to complete required credit hours and graduate on or before Aug.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

News of the closing – announced Sep. 22 – came as a surprise to students and faculty alike, a little over a week before the new school term was set to start on Oct. Student Justice Perez Sanders, 16, was only able to retrieve some of her art portfolio because she was not able to access the school’s servers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 27, 2023

Savannah State University President Dr. Kimberly Ballard-Washington will step down from her role at the end of the fiscal year, after four years at SSU’s helm, Savannah Morning News reported. I will seek every opportunity to support our students. Kimberly Ballard-Washington In an Apr. I am optimistic for the future of SSU.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) offer more upward mobility for their students when compared to Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs), despite having fewer resources. Institutions should really take a look at the strategies that HSIs are using to support low-income, high-needs student groups,” said Gasman.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

Gordon Gee and to oppose his proposed cuts to the university’s academic programs, which will affect roughly 2% of the student body. Gee responded in a news release. “I What is factual is that we have majors that have low student enrollment and are not cost effective to operate. That is simply not factual.”

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University Business

APRIL 23, 2024

Morehouse College is set to announce that President Joe Biden will deliver its commencement address on May 19, but some faculty members have raised concerns about the decision, according to two people familiar with the matter and an email to faculty members reviewed by NBC News. Read more from NBC News.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2023

A bill proposed in the Missouri legislature may prohibit Missouri public colleges and universities from requiring diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) statements when hiring, the News Tribune reported. Your ability to understand students, your ability to empathize with students, that's caught up in your views on DEI," Mann said.

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Robert Kelchen

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

News and World Report. News usually puts together a really helpful list of metrics and weights, and this year is no exception. Fully seventy percent of these rankings are tied to metrics of social mobility, with a massive survey of students and alumni (20%) and diversity metrics (10%) making up the remainder.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2024

I remember seeing copies of Black Issues in Higher Education in various administrators’ offices at Albany State, the historically Black university where I was an undergraduate student journalist in the mid-1990s. Dr. Shaun Harper I was editor-in-chief of The Student Voice , ASU’s official undergraduate student newspaper for two years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. Come this August, students will be able to declare either a major or a minor in cannabis studies. We need to be better preparing the students of our charge for the real world.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 15, 2023

News Best Rankings? News & World Report released its first list of annual college rankings in 1983. Since then, prospective students (and their parents) have used the rankings as a guide for where to consider going to school. News in the hopes of generating more interest from prospective students. Value of U.S.

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University Business

APRIL 11, 2024

Undergraduate credentials awarded in the 2022–23 academic year have fallen for the second year in a row. The rate of bachelor’s degree earners fell to 2015-16 levels and associate degree earnings are a decade-low, according to a recent report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. over the past two years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

The recent announcement of Dr. Claudine Gay’s resignation as president of Harvard University swiftly spread through the news and has been an ongoing conversation, particularly among those within higher education academic communities. The failure to see Gay as a possibility rather than a liability is not a win. It is a loss.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

The pandemic hit when they were freshmen and many students endured over a year of remote learning, with limited access to school counseling services and extracurricular activities. One third of students changed their thoughts about two or more choices. The pandemic really unmotivated me with being successful,” said one student.

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Great College Advice

JULY 24, 2023

Everyone knows the importance of a high school student’s grade point average or GPA. Those students who are proud of their GPA practically have it tattooed on their foreheads, while others skulk about in fear that someone might discover what ignoramuses they truly are. But they do not constitute the academic core of high school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

While most colleges are producing graduates who go on to earn incomes higher than your typical high school graduate, a sizable portion of them are not, according to a new report from the HEA Group. For almost all of the studied colleges (3,869 or 99%), their students went on to make earnings above the U.S. higher ed institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Denise McCory, assistant dean of counseling Dr. Terry Webb, associate dean of sciences Dr. Courtney Clarke, dean of academic affairs Dr. Amy Parks, executive vice president of administration and finance David Kuntz and manager of employee relations Shari Brazile.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

is not just about learning, reading, or writing Navajo, it’s really preparing [its students] with tools so that they will be efficient in designing their research studies, conducting research, and finding solutions to some of the challenges that we have,” says Guy. Those same students are talented, creative. Elmer Guy “The Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2023

academic employment has dramatically shifted from mostly full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty to mostly contingent positions. 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.

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University Business

JANUARY 26, 2024

Joining in 2005, she had previously served as the dean of Husson’s School of Education and is currently the senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, a position she’s held for the past 15 years. Her strategic plan mainly focuses on expanding Husson’s current academic offerings to attract new students.

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University Business

JULY 6, 2023

International student enrollment has largely recouped to pre-pandemic numbers , including at the graduate level , with students from India, China, Sub-Saharan Africa and Iran helping drive the way. News & World Report. News evaluated was around $22,000. News—offered $34,000 to 117 students. 78,432 82 2.

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Symplicity

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

News & World Report unveiled its highly anticipated 2024 Best Colleges Rankings , a comprehensive list that evaluates colleges and universities across the United States based on a variety of factors, including academic reputation, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources, and alumni giving.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2023

Dawn Bishop McLin, also adding, “The Jackson State University faculty senate executive committee and the faculty senate are calling for a restoration of shared governance, transparency, accountability, and academic democracy at Jackson State University.” I deeply respect President Hudson.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 18, 2022

He did so while dressed in his university’s academic regalia, formalwear that symbolizes the honor and prestige bestowed upon the individual wearing it. I can only imagine how the Asian graduates and their parents very likely in attendance must have felt during what should have been a celebratory moment of academic achievement.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

State and nationwide efforts to tackle student equity and close the gap on access and affordability for all students have cost millions of dollars and have required mass coordination between higher ed stakeholders. Transfer rate of previously stopped out students, regardless of race/ethnic background: Up 3.7%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

McNairy served as the chief executive officer with oversight of a $100 million budget, 1,000 employees, and 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students. News and World Report and among Kiplinger Magazine’s 100 Best Values in Public Colleges. McNairy holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology, a master's degree in social work, and a Ph.D.

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University Business

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Last Friday, The College of Saint Rose officials announced to a jam-packed auditorium that it would be closing at the end of this academic year. Local news stations broke the news the day of the Board’s decision, beating official correspondence from the private New York state school. She was angry.

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University Business

APRIL 9, 2024

Hispanic students accounted for the vast majority, 79%, of the 4% overall increase in degree attainment over the last five years, according to an analysis by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit focused on improving ways to boost Latino college completion. Read more from NBC News.

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Great College Advice

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This higher acceptance rate certainly makes Early Decision seem like a more favorable path for a student to take. The college knows that it can count on you to be part of their student body. The more students they know are coming based on the Early Decision option, the more sure they are that the incoming class will be full.

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Great College Advice

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Deciding to study in the US is an exciting decision most students would want to make. Research and Shortlisting An ample amount of research is necessary before applying, especially while shortlisting colleges that suit your academic goals. They help you learn about the academic offerings and campus culture in detail.

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Parchment

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Blog Parchment News Parchment + Quottly: How We are Turning Credentials Into Opportunities, Together Podcast International The Challenges of International Credential Evaluation Blog Higher Ed Congrats to the 2023 CPN Seal of Prevention Recipients! appeared first on Parchment.

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University Business

JANUARY 3, 2024

But at the end of the day, cash is king, and institutions are always ready to accept monetary gifts that can potentially help increase the student experience. News & World Report found with the highest number of alumni opting to donate, the average donation rate tripled the national average. Among the 15 colleges in the nation U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

News & World Report. News ’ flawed methodology still equates academic quality with institutional wealth and continues to rely heavily on the infamous questionnaire asking institutions to rank each other’s reputation, a non-objective process subject to gaming. News & World Report rankings.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Serving a nearly 1,000 student body, her focus as president of SVY will be on fundraising and investment opportunities, Deseret News reports. Manhattanville, a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) with a nearly 40% Hispanic student body, has garnered recognition for its commitment to social mobility, earning the top spot in U.S.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2023

Ruby Partland, a masters student in social work at RMIT, is required to complete 1,000 hours of unpaid internships to complete her degree – equating to around six months of full-time work. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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