Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 12, 2024

The gift is the largest unrestricted private grant in UNCF’s history, according to a press release from the organization. The United Negro College Fund, which represents private historically Black colleges and universities, received $100 million from the Lilly Endowment Inc.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2023

So, a press release last week from the University of California (UC) system may have felt like a ray of hope. Drake, president of the UC system, in the press release. UC announced that it had admitted its largest-ever freshman class of underrepresented minorities, almost 39,000 students. “The

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

The students at the New College of Florida have achieved amazing academic success in the face of abhorrent challenges,” Wiley said in a press release. The graduates will celebrate in a private gathering at an undisclosed location in downtown Sarasota. They endured COVID and the politicization of their education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

We are thrilled to be expanding Vermont Public's Classical service to more of the Northeast Kingdom,” Helen Lyons, Vermont Public’s music manager, said in a press release. “We The price would be no more than $80,000, but a final deal is contingent on approval by the Federal Communications Commission. “We

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Ray Schroeder

APRIL 9, 2024

“The affiliation between our schools will strengthen both institutions and allow us both to continue to broaden the range of academic opportunities and creative collaborations available to artists,” Ravi Rajan, president of the California art institute, said in a press release Tuesday.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 12, 2023

Student workers at Western Washington University have voted to unionize by a margin of 98 percent, according to a press release by the union, known as Western Academic Workers United–UAW. The union will be the first majority-undergraduate union in the state, the press release said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 15, 2023

Average annual spending on college course materials fell to a decade low of $285 in the 2022–23 academic year, Student Watch found, according to a press release from the Associatio

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 31, 2023

And three quarters of Ashford’s bachelor’s programs were found to result in negative value for students, making them, as ED put it in a press release, “essentially worthless.” Only one in four students graduated from Ashford within eight years.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 13, 2023

Binghamton University, part of the State University of New York system, and six historically Black colleges and universities have launched a research alliance in collaboration with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, a membership organization representing public HBCUs, according to a press release from Binghamton.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In addition to this, 13 currently vacant roles will not be filled, according to a press release. MC President Dr. Margaret Drugovich shared details of the cuts with faculty and staff at an open session, the release said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

What is more frustrating to me is that in this day and age, I am still doing things that are first,” Gilliam said in a BU press release. There she oversees all aspects of academic affairs, ranging from education to diversity and inclusion. That’s a bigger concern, that there’s any trailblazing aspect to what I do.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 5, 2023

The jury concluded that the district violated the Americans With Disabilities Act in 14 different ways, according to a press release from Brown, Goldstein & Levy, the law firm representing the students. A jury has awarded $240,000 in damages to two blind students who sued the Los Angeles Community College District.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The governing body of the American Association of University Professors voted to sanction New College of Florida for “substantial non-compliance” with academic governance standards, the organization announced in a press release Monday morning.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

. “Rural Americans often feel deeply connected to their communities, but they are increasingly faced with the hard choice of moving to urban areas or staying in rural areas where they have fewer professional and educational opportunities,” Anthony Carnevale, director of CEW, said in a press release.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 21, 2023

"The institute will provide an important interdisciplinary foundation for the entire community on race and Black culture that will be a model for the Ivy League," said Dr. David Kotz, Dartmouth’s provost, in a press release. Culture and research are at the center of the institute.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 19, 2023

City College of San Francisco recently issued a press release apologizing for the contentious delay of a Cantonese certificate program.

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University Business

JANUARY 12, 2023

There are any number of reasons why students may be hesitant to seek professional support,” said TimelyMD Chief Care Officer Bob Booth in a Business Wire press release. Hispanic/Latinx and Middle Eastern students are the least likely to seek professional help (44%).

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JANUARY 6, 2023

Two of those projects are already underway, according to a university press release. The Zoom Innovation Lab promises to give ASU students the opportunity to work with Zoom professionals and partners, gaining hands-on experience tackling major projects. campus that the developers are calling the ASUniverse…

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University Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

The partnership will allow ASU faculty and staff to utilize the “advanced capabilities” of ChatGPT Enterprise to enhance teaching and learning, the university said in a press release. ASU will ask professors to submit ideas for the new technology beginning in February. Read more from Axios.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 28, 2023

NACAC will use the collaborative’s resources and membership to launch a new “Character Focus” initiative to “support college admission counseling professionals as they advance their practice of elevating non-academic factors and character-related attributes in the admission process,” according to a press release from the association.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

“Unfortunately, the confidentiality of the search process was compromised when this candidate issued a press release regarding their decision to withdraw. “Having closely examined this opportunity, I quickly discovered that the best fit for my leadership was to remain in my current role,” Davis said in the release.

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University Business

MARCH 12, 2024

While students in the past could easily log back in and make corrections, current applicants will have to wait until the Department processes the completed form, which should be coming out any day now, according to an official release. Colleges can use these points to create more intentional, streamlined student support.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A Georgia Senate committee released a new report on the needs of the state’s 10 historically Black colleges and universities and shared recommendations to better support the institutions at a press conference at the state capitol on Thursday.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Since 2020, we’ve seen an upswing in campus censorship unlike anything I've encountered in my 22-year career,” said FIRE President and CEO Greg Lukianoff in a press release. Although the tone of FIRE’s list was often darkly humorous, it expressed serious concern about recent incursions into the free speech of students and professors.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In a press release sent after the vote, the system said the board decided to reevaluate the university’s presence in Qatar this fall “due to the heightened instability in the Middle East.” ” Read more from The Texas Tribune.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 14, 2023

Based on the results, the Vincent Commission will “offer a new model for higher education institutions on the prevention of gender-based violence and bring awareness to bystander intervention,” according to the press release.

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University Business

MARCH 23, 2023

footwear factories — according to a press release. The opening of JEMS by PENSOLE is under Designer Brands’ $2 million investment to help recruit and develop careers for underrepresented designers, the press release details. Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design has joined Designer Brands Inc.,

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University Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

According to a news release from Ball State, the revitalization plan calls for the creation of a “best-in-class, multigenerational district” driven by arts and culture, entertainment and innovation with a new select service hotel, new dining, retail, service, living and gathering options. Read more from the Star Press.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

Reinvestments from the venture funds are expected to continue funding the center in perpetuity, according to a press release. Ryan Christiansen, former senior vice president of data access partnerships at Mastercard, will lead the center as its inaugural executive director.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Colleges and universities can commit their land or endowment funds to kick-start local affordable-housing efforts, according to a report released today by the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area. Students and employees of colleges in the Washington, D.C., Is this diversity newsletter?

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University Business

JANUARY 25, 2024

In a press release , the university said that the initiative will focus on three areas: Research on poverty; Student programming focused on forming graduates dedicated to anti-poverty efforts; Turning research into action “with partners in government and the nonprofit and corporate sectors to replicate proven programs.”

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Ray Schroeder

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Ozark Christian plans to name the seminary school “Lincoln Seminary” and pair each of its degree programs with online-only options, according to a joint press release Wednesday. Ozark Christian would also receive Lincoln Christian’s $3.8 million student scholarship endowment.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Martha Coven, author of Writing on the Job: Best Practices for Communicating in the Digital Age (Princeton University Press, 2022), spoke on this topic at the recent conference on general education, pedagogy and assessment organized by the American Association of Colleges and Universities. This is another potential assignment add-on.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

National University announced the new campus this spring via press release, saying some of its more than 40,000 students will have access to the virtual environment as early as this year.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Jessup University, located across state lines in California, calls the move a “merger of missions,” due to their “remarkably similar histories of equipping students to make positive impacts in their local communities and the world,” according to a press release.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

The Greenville News reported that a press release said, “Late this afternoon, I was notified that Bob Jones University Board of Trustees Chairman Dr. John Lewis has resigned effective immediately.” In the letter, Pettit said Lewis allegedly kept information away from Pettit and obstructed a Title IX investigation.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

Meanwhile, Head Start programs are struggling to enroll children, with up to 180,000 childcare and early learning slots unfilled, according to a press release from the partners. Fewer than 100 of the more than 1,400 community and technical colleges in the country have Head Start centers on campus. Hide by line?:

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