Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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The same report found that Black/African American administrators in higher education were just 8% of all senior leaders. How did this small percentage of Black administrators facilitate their success against the odds? Whites make up more than 75% of all professionals in higher education. More than 80% were white.

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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 college plans to sustain student services through reassignments, modifications to existing duties, and staggered work schedules.

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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 college plans to sustain student services through reassignments, modifications to existing duties, and staggered work schedules.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2023

Arameh Anvarizadeh, associate professor and former director of admissions at USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy The result was what Anvarizadeh described as the most diverse cohorts in USC Chan’s history, featuring a 10% increase in admitted Black students and a 19% increase in Latinx ones.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Evidence suggests that many minoritized students already perceive campus environments as racist. Thus, removing mechanisms expressly intended to support the diversification of campus environments sends a strong signal to racially minoritized students that they do not belong in many collegiate spaces. These administrators (e.g.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Bartell, Sandra Robinson & Willie McKether Only two-thirds of new college students will complete their degree within six years. For Black, Latinx, and Native American students, this number is much lower. Moreover, institutions are grappling with faculty burnout, dissatisfaction, and resignations at growing rates.

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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. Barnett, senior research scholar emeritus at CCRC and co-author of the report.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For this piece, we identify the function and effects of neoliberalism on the relationships among graduate students and faculty. In higher education, neoliberalism manifests through the not-new concept of students-as-consumers, who “shop” for the best collegiate experience. Dr. Cathryn B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

In 2022, student leaders launched a campaign to challenge the long-standing stigma associated with attending community colleges. To overcome negative stereotypes, the CCSmart advocacy campaign tells the stories of students’ educational journeys and the positive impact community colleges had on their lives.

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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.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

Faculty play a central role in building connections with students. Their regular interaction and academic and career guidance, especially within their areas of expertise, can significantly help students in their college experience.

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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

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. According to the American Association of University Women (AAUW) women make up the majority of non tenure-track faculty across institutions in higher education.

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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

JULY 15, 2024

As institutions of higher education turn to AI machine learning and data-driven algorithms to make their work more efficient, a new study published in the American Educational Research Association (AERA) peer-reviewed journal , AERA Open , reminds administrators that algorithms can be racially biased. It becomes biased.”

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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’m proud of what my administration has been able to accomplish to date, and I am committed to continuing the work to collaboratively execute the strategic plan to make Jackson State the best institution it can be."

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#RealCollege Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Where can students turn for help with basic survival needs when their colleges and government programs fail them in a crisis? At a growing number of campuses, students are getting aid from the same people they turn to for classroom help: their professors. Many Students are Like Halima U.S. How do students make up that 40%?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

in Higher Education Administration Program at North Carolina Central University, an historically Black university in Durham, North Carolina. McMickens During an interview with Diverse , McMickens recalls an op-ed column written by a Black student in The Daily Pennsylvanian , the University of Pennsylvania student newspaper.

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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

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

APRIL 3, 2024

While players in the NCAA Tournament were diverse, head coaches and administrators lagged far behind. That's the conclusions from the new report, “Racial and Gender Equity for Black Women Student-Athletes,” authored by Dr. Shaun R. Seven percent of the overall student body is Black. It’s not fine. It’s absurd.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

While higher education is a path to opportunity — many underrepresented, minoritized students face systemic barriers that make their graduate-level academic experience feel like an uphill challenge. Representation can also be a challenge as a student moves further toward becoming a scholar. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

McCorn is a proven leader who has demonstrated a clear and concise vision for institutional change, while identifying and executing a comprehensive plan designed to achieve successful student outcomes,” said Michael Thurmond, Chairman of the Paine College Board of Trustees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

As associate director of the university’s Center for Advancement of Teaching, Rahming oversees FSU’s Learning Assistant Program, which has yielded impressive results in helping students excel in some of the school’s high-enrollment, lower-division courses that provide the foundation for learning in late courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Conway-Turner, who grew up in a small town in Missouri, said her journey mirrors that of many of the students at Buffalo State University (part of the State University of New York system). As a first-generation college student, she appreciated the process of education and embraced its transformative aspects.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Kayon Hall wants to change the way academia thinks about undocumented students. Black and undocumented students are socially and politically left out of the conversation,” said Hall, an assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio. Black undocumented students] are invisibilized.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

We are fully committed to first-generation students, but commitment is just the start. Consistent and strong intentionality in academic, psychosocial, and financial support is key to first-generation students successfully completing college. Edward’s students who bring their passions, talents, and ambitions to the hilltop.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

Two new reports and an online dashboard from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, are part of an ambitious effort to tell the story of transfer students. No state is doing well in terms of getting their community college students to transfer and complete,” said Velasco Rodriguez.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Patricia Cross Award — in honor of the legacy of distinguished university administrator, researcher, and teacher K. Patricia Cross — recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education and who are committed to academic innovation in the areas of equity, community engagement, and teaching and learning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

PHILADELPHIA— Despite the ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion within higher education, more than a thousand educators gathered in-person and virtually late last week to share strategies and brainstorm ways to center equitable outcomes for the students who attend their institutions. Dr. Michael A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

College students who graduate as English majors actually find jobs at about the same rate as those who major in other subjects, according to a recent report commissioned by the Modern Language Association (MLA). Along lines or race and ethnicity, Black and Latino graduates in the humanities typically earn less than their white counterparts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2024

The American Association of University Professors, or AAUP, has responded to a proliferation of administrative actions it deems as hastily enacted policies restricting rights to assemble and protest on college and university campuses. AAUP is condemning the increasing number of new administrative policies restricting on-campus demonstrations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 1, 2024

I loved my time as a student and have been thoroughly impressed by the university’s lived mission and how it has been embraced by the faculty, staff, administration, and students through their culture of caring,” she said. “I We are extremely excited about the future of Frontier under Dr. Flinders’ leadership.”

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In the fall of 2018, I was a student organizer for affirmative action and one of eight alumni who took the federal witness stand in the lawsuit Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), Inc. Students and alumni fought to voice the importance of race-conscious policies, campus diversity, and solidarity among communities of color.

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