Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2024

More than 800 members of the University of California, Los Angeles, faculty and staff are calling for the resignation of Chancellor Dr. Gene D. The call is one of three demands the group made of the administration, during a May 9 rally amid antiwar protests. Dr. Gene D. The group also demanded that 1.) The group also demanded that 1.)

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

New faculty unions at Howard Community College and Frederick Community College have been certified and recognized, with full-time faculty recognized as AFT-Maryland members, Maryland Matters reported. More than 80% of Howard’s 170 faculty and 100 Frederick faculty submitted cards Aug.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

Faculty at California State University, the largest public university system in the U.S., The California Faculty Association is seeking a 12% salary raise and an increase in parental leave from six weeks to a full semester. It’s time to stop funneling tuition and taxpayer money into a top-heavy administration.”

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JANUARY 19, 2023

Community colleges serve the most diverse students in all of higher education. Jessica Enders COD's leaders support staff development to ensure its faculty, administrators, and staff are up-to-date on issues and teaching and learning strategies. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

Columbia College Chicago has laid off 70 faculty and staff members with plans to remove 32 vacant positions to address financial concerns amid declining enrollment numbers. The announcement tops mounting troubles for the college, whose budget deficit is expected to grow to $38 million.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 22, 2024

Young Wallace has been elected to serve as president of the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE), the membership organization devoted to improving teacher education for school and campus-based teacher educators. Young Wallace "I am deeply honored to be elected president of a national educator's organization,” said Wallace.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

Columbia College Chicago has laid off 70 faculty and staff members with plans to remove 32 vacant positions to address financial concerns amid declining enrollment numbers. The announcement tops mounting troubles for the college, whose budget deficit is expected to grow to $38 million.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

The University of Vermont’s (UVM) faculty union filed an unfair labor practice complaint with the Vermont Labor Relations Board May 16, alleging that the school administration is improperly increasing faculty workloads, VT Digger reported. The switch is labor-intensive and should qualify as an added workload, UA argued.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2024

Mike Lee California State University Sonoma President Dr. Mike Lee retired on Friday after he was placed on administrative leave after he agreed to protesters’ demands to involve them in university decision-making and pursue divestment from Israel. I wish him and his family well. Additional information will be forthcoming.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2023

USC declined to make administrators available for interviews with Diverse. The USC Chan Justice Collective is calling for Anvarizadeh’s reinstatement, a public apology, and the resignation of two administrators who they say were involved in her demotion. “I really think that she’s so powerful that they felt threatened,” she said. “Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

The campaign, initiated by the student international officers of the college honor society Phi Theta Kappa, uses evidence-based statistics and first-hand success stories to spread the message that community colleges offer a smart option for individuals to achieve their educational goals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor of Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies, School of Education, Howard University Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: B.A., educational leadership and policy, University of Texas at Austin, College of Education Career mentors: Dr. Victor B. Palmer, Howard University; Dr. Audrey J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2024

Irene Mulvey “ Manufacturing Backlash: Right-Wing Think Tanks and Legislative Attacks on Higher Education ” describes well-funded, widespread political attacks on higher education, comprising legislative pursuits that undermine academic freedom and university autonomy.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Affirmative action policies have been instrumental in increasing access and opportunities for historically marginalized groups in higher education. These administrators (e.g., Zoom) communities of practice that allow administrators to work collaboratively to reflect on best practices and implement appropriate strategies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

When ChatGPT, the large language model (LLM) AI that can generate long, detailed answers to complicated questions, was first made accessible to the public in November 2022, it changed the landscape of education forever. “As I would describe faculty as on a spectrum between sanguine and despairing,” says Dr. Joseph F.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

A new study by Course Hero, an online learning platform for educators, suggests that a rise in job satisfaction among faculty has improved since the start of the pandemic. Only 44 percent of tenure-track faculty and 36 percent of full professors are women. This includes a 20 percent gender pay gap among college administrators.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

Faculty members are more likely to self-censor today than social scientists did during McCarthy era of the 1940s and 50s, according to a recent report from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). And 42% of untenured faculty reported censoring themselves, compared with 31% of tenured faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

Faculty at Chicago State University walked off the job Apr. 3 after 10 months of failed negotiations between staff and administrators, WBEZ Chicago reported. The faculty are negotiating and striking for better pay and reduced workloads. The professors put in the time and work. They are burning our professors out.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Rutgers University faculty held rallies Dec. It’s completely unacceptable that the administration has dragged its feet for months in even addressing our main demands,” Negotiations are ongoing, Rutgers spokesperson Dory Devlin said. “All 6 at multiple campus locations, advocating for new union contracts, NJ.com reported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2023

The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning has placed Jackson State University (JSU) President Thomas Hudson on administrative leave with pay, effective immediately.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Part-time faculty at The New School walked out Nov. With approximately 200 demonstrators present, the strike was the result of years of tension between adjunct faculty and the private New York City school’s administration. Teaching staff also complained that administrators’ salaries were high compared to faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2023

The Jackson State University (JSU) faculty senate voted no confidence in JSU President Thomas Hudson on Jan. I look forward to working with the entire body of the faculty senate to address any concerns,” Hudson said. “To 26, the Clarion Ledger reported. In response, Hudson said Jan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Despite the fact that faculty are so crucial to students’ academic lives, they are often underutilized as levers of institutional change. Moreover, institutions are grappling with faculty burnout, dissatisfaction, and resignations at growing rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

McMickens’s scholarship centers on historically marginalized and underserved populations that suffer from inequities, particularly in higher education. The research is rich and ever-manifesting on college campuses for McMickens, an associate professor of higher education and the director of the M.S.Ed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

There is is a lot of discussion about what K-12 teachers do and don’t (mostly don’t) receive in terms of training in culturally relevant pedagogy, and it is often traced back to teacher education programs. Too often, we hear administrators complaining about their teachers being unprepared/under-prepared to work with Black students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2024

The recently released "Project 2025: The Conservative Promise" paints a dystopian picture of American higher education, overrun by a "woke" ideology that supposedly threatens our nation's very foundations. The document's authors misrepresent the origins of progressive thought in education. Department of Education is deeply troubling.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

Caring Campus, a program to have faculty contribute to fostering a culture of caring for students at schools, is related to observable benefits, according to a recent report by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Columbia University. At least it's one approach to helping them to fit into those efforts."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2023

The school is planning to cut approximately 100 more faculty within five years, on top of the previously announced 20-plus faculty positions to be phased out next year. The additional faculty reductions will come from more layoffs, early separation agreements, and unfilled vacancies. million next year, the Star Tribune reported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2024

The Future of Black Leadership in Higher Education: Firsthand Experiences and Global Impact is an excellent book that answers the question, what does it take to succeed as a Black professional in higher education leadership?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A new report released by The Education Trust titled, “Improving Titles III & V of the Higher Education Act to Better Serve Students of Color and Students from Low-Income Backgrounds” examines how Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) receive funds related to Titles III and V of the Higher Education Act (HEA). Dr. Kayla C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

As a first-generation college student, a Black woman, and the child of immigrants, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in higher education. Their findings demonstrate the significant educational and civic benefits of interracial and interethnic interactions during college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2023

Within the academy, the field of higher education, it is not difficult to find examples of racism in the form of micro-civilities, or implicit bias. Hilton Micro-civilities are a problem having detrimental impacts on professionals seeking a successful career path in higher education. Dr. Adriel A. Do I have a solution?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

McCorn said that he is looking forward to helping to grow Paine College, “Connecting Paine College's historic past with a strategic vision for the future will catapult this institution into unparalleled prominence in American higher education,” he said. “I

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Faculty play a central role in building connections with students. As Inside Higher Ed notes, “Students often turn to their faculty members for advice and support outside of academics, including career advice and mental health support, so positive student-faculty relationships are a critical piece of student success.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Two Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) professors are suing the school, claiming that it and its top administrators retaliated against them for making critical comments about the school to the press, Cleveland.com reported. The lawsuit was filed Monday by attorney Subodh Chandra in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2023

To identify and cut DEI in higher education. Model state legislation has been written — and if passed, would prohibit colleges from hiring DEI officers, spending money on DEI, and bar trainings that instruct staff/faculty to identify and fight against systemic racism. Their goal? Now, it’s time to change this paradigm.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A new audit of Gallaudet University has shown that administrative salary rose by 107% ($11.3 million) while overall spending on academics, including faculty salaries, fell by 6% ($4.8 million) since 2019.

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