Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Guy-Sheftall is the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies and the founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center at Spelman College. Both through courses and research, faculty investigate cultural, social, economic and psychological issues important to the lived experiences of women, especially women of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Our improved analytics capabilities have helped us identify three specific student populations, in particular, who could benefit the most from additional support and targeted interventions: readmitted students, learners admitted through UTSA’s test-optional admissions program and historically underrepresented male students.

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Missouri State

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

We know that 55% of college students involved in clubs, teams, and student organizations experience hazing (Allan and Madden, 2008). National research has shown that hazing is most likely to happen within sorority and fraternity life organizations, athletic teams, and other student organizations.

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Missouri State

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

We know that 55% of college students involved in clubs, teams, and student organizations experience hazing (Allan and Madden, 2008). National research has shown that hazing is most likely to happen within sorority and fraternity life organizations, athletic teams, and other student organizations.

Student Conduct 40

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 31, 2023

“In a democracy, restricting students from appearing in exams is an unlawful [and] a condemnable act,” tweeted the students’ union, which is among the country’s largest student organizations, with 521,000 followers on Twitter. Apoorvanand, a Hindi professor at the University of Delhi, agreed.

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Experiential Learning Depot

MARCH 4, 2023

Have students browse notable historical photographs associated with women’s rights movements, choose one photo, and recreate that photo with their own set, props, costumes, and models. Compile the photos and descriptions into a gallery and invite community members to view student work. But what about those less infamous women?

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EAB

AUGUST 21, 2023

Their advocacy extends to parenting college students of any age, highlighting the transformational impact of a degree on their lives and their families. Rather than viewing the challenges faced by student-parents as obstacles, universities and colleges should recognize them as opportunities.

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Hope College Network

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

So when clubs reached out to connect with the student body I jumped into the catalog and did some reading. I am now part of five different clubs and student organizations as well as running a club myself and have never been more satisfied with myself. I had only one friend, my roommate, and that was it.

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EAB

JULY 17, 2023

Being first-generation leads students to drastically overestimate college cost and assume four-year schools are out of reach, despite substantial available aid.” Support Basic Needs Security, a Sense of Belonging, and Student Engagement 2. Emphasize the breadth and depth of support services that promote student success and well-being.

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Experiential Learning Depot

MARCH 18, 2023

My students choose one invasive species in the community to focus on. They then research the invasive species and explore solutions to the problem from a variety of perspectives. ” My students research local wildlife and their needs for survival and reproduction.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Now, schools must work harder to prioritize closing equity gaps and bringing these students back to campus. In this post, I’ll share five ways your community college can strengthen recruitment and enrollment efforts among Latine/x students sourced from EAB research and best practices from our 850+ Navigate partners.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

They donate their time to create age-appropriate, hands-on activities for these students that come to our camps,” says Watford. Faculty do it as part of their research and part of their service to the university and to the state.” His dissertation research was on the CEED summer programs. After completing his Ph.D.

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EAB

APRIL 25, 2023

As part of that research, we do an annual survey of facilities and estate leaders around North America, Europe, and Australia, and New Zealand, trying to understand what are the most pressing issues and how they might impact our campuses today. And we at EAB have looked at facilities management topics for a number of years now.

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College for Creative Study

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Before I looked at dorm options, I was researching work-study jobs on campus. To get some community-building experience, I co-ran a student organization on campus as well. Halfway through my senior year of college, I learned that a friend was planning to do research about first-generation college students.

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Experiential Learning Depot

APRIL 29, 2023

Several of my students organized a holiday pie fundraiser at the time when the Syrian refugee crisis was front and center. They not only learned about the Syrian conflict but also how to organize an effective fundraiser. Our students have participated in the Science March, March for Immigration, and Women's March.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 20, 2023

In fact, one privacy researcher indicates TikTok can monitor a user’s keystrokes, potentially exposing user information like credit card numbers and passwords.” Stuart Madnick, a professor of information technology at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a longtime cybersecurity researcher, concurred.

Government 109

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Campus Groups

AUGUST 2, 2022

Therefore, it is important to direct students to key resources within the platform, including the Student Organization Directory and Centralized Campus Calendar of events. Outside of a dedicated community platform, students should be directed to other resources used to learn about campus engagement opportunities.

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Higher Ed Connects: Diversity

JUNE 15, 2019

To the contrary — numerous studies show that students of color interact more across race and have more interracial friendships than White students do. Ethnic student organizations also get a look here, where research shows that such organizations actually foster diverse interactions and engagement amongst students.

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AIFS Abroad

JUNE 5, 2023

Research the LGBTQIA+ history of your host location to familiarize yourself with the region’s perceptions of the identities that you hold. Research international student organizations on your host campus, as well as clubs and organizations in your host community. 

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Experiential Learning Depot

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Let's say a teacher assigns students to research invasive species. Students create a poster board with information on that species and present final products to their classmates. A project-based educator, on the other hand, might have students research a specific community invasive species.

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CAPD

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

You will probably send your resume to a recruiter or hiring manager, a professor for a research opportunity, or the president of a student organization you wish to join. Depending on whom you send it to will determine several aspects of your resume. Relevance is my short-hand for “consider your reader.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Lafayette College, a small, private institution in Pennsylvania, took applications from LLCs to take over a decommissioned sorority house, and the winning proposal came from OUT, the college’s relatively new LGBTQ+ student organization. The college also features a gender-neutral floor for first-year students.

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Experiential Learning Depot

MAY 14, 2023

Student Exchange: Connect with another school, student organization, homeschool co-op, etc. to arrange for your students to experience a day in the life of a local student. Or produce it as a campaign that encourages parents, educators, and students to embrace travel as a learning tool.

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University Business

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Specifically, what kind of research or academic pursuits may be shunned due to the language of this regulation? Additionally, student organizations funded explicitly via student fees and without state and federal dollars are immunized. It has a ripple effect on the entire state university system.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

In order to counter these experiences, Black students often form social groups and organizations that bolster their sense of community. At HBCUs, Black students do not deal with the same sort of racist stereotypes and race-based social isolation on campus.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

Students can now spend their first year at City Colleges to take post-secondary courses at community college prices while living on the Illinois Tech campus. They can also join student organizations and participate in activities at Illinois Tech. Second, we want to be a research-inspired, relevance-inspired research university.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But the decision for Brandeis to forthrightly defund a student organization in light of prejudice isn’t the correct way forward, said Harvey Silverglate, co-founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), according to WBZ News. “Universities should have no political positions whatsoever,” he said.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

They often lack access to offices, professional development, research funds, and opportunities to collaborate with peers or vote in faculty meetings. Second, it helps us understand and appreciate graduate student’s efforts to win the right to be recognized as employees (not “apprentices” on a stipend) who rely on their jobs for living.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2023

Frost said while his campaign did conduct organizing on college campuses, there was also a lot of activity outside of that, such as culture- and art-based events. His campaign efforts tended toward community colleges because those students typically live in the community year-round.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

Image: Graduate student instructors and researchers at Yale University voted to unionize, 1,860 to 179, they announced this week. Yale’s is one of academe’s longest-running graduate student organizing campaigns, dating back to the 1990s. Some 3,214 workers total were eligible to vote.

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