Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2023

Department of Labor to address Alabama's nursing faculty shortage, The Tuscaloosa News reported. The National Academies of Medicine’s ‘Future of Nursing’ calls on nursing schools to address the nurse educator shortage from diverse populations to advance health equity,” Welch said.

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University Business

MARCH 12, 2024

The head of the NAACP is calling on Black student-athletes to reconsider their decisions to attend public colleges and universities in Florida, challenging a new state policy that bars those institutions from using government funds on diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Read more from NBC News.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

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.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The spring semester was a time of great adjustment for colleges and universities in Texas as state schools were forced to disband any office related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), thanks to a bill signed by Gov. In short, a diverse and inclusive campus better prepares our students to lead.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 28, 2023

In doing so, it will become the first two-year school in the state to offer such a degree, GBH News reported. Massasoit will begin offering the two-year program this fall – the goal being to enroll at least 15 students – with courses about Black history, literature, music, education, healthcare, and criminal justice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This is of course very welcome news, not just because [Gay] happens to be African American, but because she has had a very distinguished career and has been a leader in higher education for some time,” said Simmons, who is now the president of Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Prairie View A&M University in Texas.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 18, 2022

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. That is wonderful news.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

López is an educator whose purpose is not just to teach but to support students. For seven years, she helped serve the needs of senior faculty and intrepid students. As an undergrad at The University of Texas at Austin, she worked with fellow classmates and friends to mentor middle school and high school students throughout Texas.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2023

Numerous state legislatures are in the news recently, asking their campuses to report budgets and resources devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, and for a list of the programs, services and efforts focused on DEI. Their goal? To identify and cut DEI in higher education. Can SEL fully shield DEI from attacks?

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The Ohio State University College of Nursing uses its Summer Institute for Future Nurses as a recruiting tool for high school students. At the conclusion of the strike, Montefiore Medical Center released a statement noting that the new contract includes a wage increase and more than 170 new nursing positions.

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University Business

MARCH 4, 2024

The University of Florida has officially disbanded all activity related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a result, 13 full-time faculty members have been fired, the Office of the Chief Diversity Officer has been relinquished and all outside vendor contracts related to the initiative have been nullified.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It’s unfortunate, said some alumni and political leaders, who credit Thomas with boosting student enrollment, establishing an honors college, securing millions of dollars in grant funding, and overseeing the construction of three new facilities. He was very student-centered and challenged us all to be excellent.

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University Business

APRIL 8, 2024

Led by many first-generation college students and those receiving financial aid in the state with the fewest college graduates, members say they want to usher in a new era of student involvement in university political life. The movement is part of a wave of student organizing at U.S. Read more from ABC News.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Findings indicated that 83% of employers are confident that higher ed is successfully preparing students for the workforce, with 48% ‘strongly’ and 35% ‘somewhat’ agreeing. It's such good news for colleges and universities in how they're preparing students for the workforce,” Finley said. Amid a U.S.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

News of bell hooks’s death came as a shock to many. Malaklou hosts events like "Evening with an Activist" at the bell hooks center, where students can learn tangible ways to make a difference outside of academia. And then we have to choose between, ‘do I prioritize myself, or do I assure that these students of color don’t get harmed?’”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 8, 2023

With it comes our individual and collective hopes and concerns about the quality of life in schools for Black students. Simultaneously, we have hopes and concerns about the preparation of teachers – majority white (80%) and females (77%) -- and others -- to work in anti-racist, equitable, and culturally responsive ways with Black students.

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University Business

MARCH 20, 2024

They found that SAT scores were extremely effective at predicting whether students would succeed in college. Dartmouth, Yale and Brown found their applicant pools became less diverse, because low-income students and students of color were less likely to apply, thinking they hadn’t tested well enough.

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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. Further, U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

News advises students (as a group) about where to go to college, but this is a shift to more direct advising. News helps students make the best college decisions that are right for them,” said Eric Gertler, executive chairman and CEO of U.S. This relationship is a win-win for students everywhere.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

But shared governance means that the duty of ensuring that students graduate prepared for career, community and citizenship comes from the partnership of board, administration and the faculty. Existing faculty structures have done a poor job of maintaining intellectual diversity.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Jackson Bartlett describes how to make space for the humanity of students and instructors during troubling national events and crises. Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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University Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The University of Michigan said Thursday it has formalized how it will handle test scores during the admissions process with a test optional policy after a similar policy begun during the pandemic led to a more diverse campus. Read more from The Detroit News.

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University Business

MARCH 6, 2024

In all three cases, school administrators said their research found that the test-optional policy made their student bodies less diverse—not more. Yale is one of only a few elite colleges, along with Dartmouth University and MIT , to have reinstated its testing requirement. Read more from Yahoo!

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU) in Los Angeles, opened in early July with 60 students. Many African American medical students are interested in treating African Americans and in closing the disparities gap — and by opening this new M.D. and Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.

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The Student Affairs Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

The VCU Division of Student Affairs (DSA) was recently named one of the Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education and in collaboration with the American College Personnel Association (ACPA). Aaron Hart, Vice President of the Division of Student Affairs, and Brooke Berry, J.D.,

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Most Michigan State University students returned to classes Monday, following a break because of last week’s murder of three students, The Detroit News reported. The News reported that most faculty members devoted their classes to giving students an opportunity to talk about the tragedy. Hide by line?

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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. Over half a million – 579,000 to be exact – Black students have left the American higher education system since 2011. All employees see themselves as student success advocates.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

Syracuse University graduate student workers have successfully unionized. Syracuse Graduate Employees United, affiliated with the Service Employees International Union, said in a news release that the vote was 728 to 36, with 90 contested ballots. ” Ad keywords: administrators faculty Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Davis III An unidentified staff member—who was not directly involved in the incident according to news reports—called campus police in response to an argument between the student and her professor at the professor’s request. Dr. Charles H.F.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2023

West Texas A&M University’s president canceled a drag show that was scheduled to take place on the campus and criticized the event as being demeaning to women, according to ABC 7 News. No Such Thing” and was in response to the drag show scheduled for March 31, ABC7 news reported. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2023

ECA shut down in 2018 but has been embroiled in a legal battle, with plaintiffs claiming the company breached its fiduciary duties by not allowing students to finish their degree programs, ultimately leaving them in the lurch. In a news release, lawyers for the plaintiffs called the legal win a “tremendous result.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Multiple buildings were evacuated and closed on the University of Delaware campus Wednesday after researchers accidentally created “a small amount of a shock-sensitive explosive chemical” in a campus laboratory, according to the Delaware News Journal. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?:

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