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From Small-Town Roots to National Honor: SC Native Receives State's Highest Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Moore is also the assistant director of the Directorate for STEM Education at the National Science Foundation. billion and nearly 200 employees, he helps to leads the largest federal entity dedicated to funding educational research. since 2018. With a budget of approximately $1.8 Dr. Jerlando F.L.

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Reconciling Contrasting Findings on Perceptions of Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A Gallup poll was released, bearing terrible news: only 36% of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education, down 12 percentage points from 2018 and 21 percentage points from 2015, when more than half of U.S. Americans generally see value in higher education.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. In 2018, he wanted to get more involved with student programming, so he joined the college’s LGBTQ+ History Month committee.

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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Empowering Futures Gift was earmarked to fund scholarships, advance medical education and research, support faculty expertise, increase athletic competitiveness and make possible numerous student-centered initiatives. There were a lot of things happening in Houston that didn’t add up to me,” says Vasquez Heilig. “I at Stanford.

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Capabilities Approach & open education

Catherine Cronin

Although I now work independently in open education research and policy, my work between 2019 and 2021 related to practice and policy in the Irish HE sector, as Digital and Open Education lead for Ireland’s National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.