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For example, Black students in P-12 schools tend to be suspended at higher rates than their racial peers and the belief is that this discipline will teach Black students a lesson to behave in class. Teach students how to be self-advocates - asking for help and speaking up about concerns.

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MAY 1, 2025

The founders came here on an ox-pulled cart and developed all this, one administrator told me, pointing across the campus. As administrator after administrator told me, the traditional rankings weren't designed for schools like theirs. You dont think that was innovation looking forward and responding to a need?

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MARCH 9, 2023

The governor has even promoted the idea that teaching about anti-Black racism in U.S. We believe that higher education faculty and administrators play an integral role in combating the faulty assumptions, racist ideas and harmful policies put forth by white nationalists.

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JANUARY 26, 2025

I was always advocating for students rights and issues, working with administration, leaders, and university presidents advocating for university students, says Briscoe of her time at ASU. I cite much of her work in my research in this area and assign multiple papers of hers in courses I teach here at USC.

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APRIL 3, 2025

By focusing on employer needs, we have launched eight bachelors degrees in crucial areas including nursing, education, information technology, and public safety administration. In an effort to fill critical openings, some schools have reduced the criteria needed to teach, including the requirement of a traditional teaching bachelors degree.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Chaka Cummings has been appointed the inaugural executive director of The Association for Teaching Black History in Kentucky. It will work to help make sure that the contributions of Black Kentuckians are embedded into the teaching of state and national history. Woodson Center for Interracial Education at Berea College.

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JANUARY 24, 2025

A growing number of administrators are trying to offer that help to students but struggle to afford the costs. When asked why they choose not to claim Medicaid reimbursements for eligible services, community college administrators listed several reasons, including the lack of capacity to manage the Medicaid billing process.

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APRIL 24, 2025

The February directive had sent shockwaves through higher education institutions across the country, with many administrators and faculty expressing concern that their diversity programs could trigger federal funding cutoffs.

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MARCH 6, 2024

The conference attendees were a mix of students, faculty, donors, education administrators, and edtech professionals. This suggestion is reasonable given the common occurrence of faculty in the higher education sector being hired without any prior preparation to teach [facilitate learning].

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APRIL 4, 2025

Monica Parrish Trent, Chief Program and Network Officer at Achieving the Dream, an organization focused on creating student success and equity at community colleges, says that students with disabilities often face administrative hurdles in accessing accommodations, as well as social and sensory barriers in classrooms.

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MAY 13, 2025

These pressures include integrating multiple demanding responsibilities across scholarly research, teaching, and administrative duties, leading to "chronic role overload and significant time management challenges." One of the study's most striking findings involves the relationship between academic rank and anxiety levels.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

During my first year of teaching, I focused on providing academic support. As mentors, we need to be present and ready to adapt our support as our students’ needs evolve and then figure out how to use our networks to meet those needs. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

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APRIL 16, 2025

The existential threat of intruding upon academic freedomand, more importantly, the ability to teach, educate, and protestis at our doorsteps. In recent months, we have witnessed an alarming attempt to dismantle the administrative state and erode the democratic principles that have guided our nations progress since slavery.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Her current work extends beyond the classroom, as she actively supports and teaches study abroad programs in the Caribbean and Africa, helping students expand their global perspectives and gain a deeper appreciation for different cultures. She is also a professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

She was teaching us the ideals of Black Pride long before the term was a thing. He understands the challenges that Black faculty and administrators face at predominantly white institutions. “She played the piano and she had a song she would always lead that said, ‘We’ve been right there in line, we are Americans too.’

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AUGUST 15, 2024

in Higher Education Administration Program at North Carolina Central University, an historically Black university in Durham, North Carolina. My research focuses on inequities in higher education among marginalized college students and the impact of college environments on students, faculty, and administrators,” says McMickens. “I

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

She was teaching us the ideals of Black Pride long before the term was a thing. He understands the challenges that Black faculty and administrators face at predominantly white institutions. “She played the piano and she had a song she would always lead that said, ‘We’ve been right there in line, we are Americans too.’

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College Planners of America

JUNE 11, 2025

Administrative bloat is a term used to refer to steep growth in administrative staff relative to college faculty and students. For several decades, colleges have experienced a substantial upswing in non-instructional spending on administrative services. The ratio between faculty and administrators has shrunk.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Nancy Lynne Westfield is director of Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Theology and Religion. Known for her pedagogical and administrative vision and creativity, Westfields dynamic leadership focuses upon teachers who want to improve their teaching and have a more balanced teaching life.

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MARCH 12, 2025

I was fortunate to meet Rosalyn Farrington, a Black feminist professor teaching in the Womens Studies Department and she introduced me to Audre Lordes The Master Tools Will Never Dismantle the Masters House. I began teaching College Success courses to first generation, low income, multicultural students.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. Part-time faculty at The New School walked out Nov.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Brown, director of academic integrity at The Institute for Learning and Teaching at Colorado State University (CSU). Now almost a year since its release, Brown says CSU faculty and administration are coming to terms with the fact that “policing students’ use [of ChatGPT] is probably impossible, usually ineffective, and definitely inefficient.”

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MAY 31, 2024

AAUP President Dr. Irene Mulvey made this case in a May 22 statement durimh the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing with higher education administrators. Several states have successfully begun efforts to defund campus diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and weaken tenure and accreditation.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

This year’s recipients truly embody the commitment to excellence in teaching, scholarship, leadership, and civic engagement that Pat Cross championed throughout her distinguished career,” said AAC&U President Dr. Lynn Pasquerella. “We Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award.

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MAY 10, 2023

Sharif El-Mekki, founder and CEO of the Center for Black Educator Development ( CBED), said that while less than 2% of public-school teachers are Black men, teaching was the top career choice for Black men who attended HBCUs and have a college degree. There are Black men who are interested,” El-Mekki said. “So

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Narrow, self-serving yardsticks for assessing impact of scholarship, teaching, and service. counting publications, citations, teaching ratings) are often based on self-justifying yardsticks. The criteria should be read aloud, prior to evaluating that dimension. Traditional standards (e.g.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. All faculty and administrator searches must have a DEI advocate who completes specialized training.

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JUNE 26, 2023

Ron DeSantis The 2022 state law – the “Individual Freedom Act” (“IFA”) – bans professors at Florida’s public universities from expressing certain viewpoints while teaching topics such as racial and sexual discrimination and injustice. Ron DeSantis’s administration responded by appealing to the Eleventh Circuit. Florida Gov.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

The controversy began in October, when Dr. After a student complained, L ó pez Prater was told that she would not be teaching a course in the spring semester. This would create a classroom environment inimical to the free and vigorous exchange of ideas necessary for teaching and learning in higher education.”

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MARCH 6, 2025

With over 25 years of administrative, research, and teaching experience in various higher education settings, Vega transitioned to academia as a faculty member and has significantly contributed to the Master of Arts in Higher Education program at Montclair State University since 2017. Vega earned her Ed.D.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

The award recognizes graduate students demonstrating exemplary promise as future higher education leaders and committed to academic innovation in equity, community engagement, and teaching and learning. It is open to doctoral-level graduate students planning careers in higher ed and nominated by faculty or an administrator.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

Aspen subsequently began two intensive fellowships that select senior administrators with the qualities of exceptional presidents and teach lessons from the field about how to achieve exceptional and equitable levels of student success.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

That they have folks that look like them teaching at those four-year universities. There are 11 federally recognized American Indian tribes in Minnesota. Among the requirements for some Native American specific scholarships are uploading tribal I.D. That’s beyond the financial piece.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

Gonzales earned a bachelor’s degree in secondary education and a master’s in teaching mathematics, both from Northern Arizona University as well as a doctorate in educational administration from the University of Texas at Austin. Gonzales has been appointed chancellor of the Maricopa County Community College District in Arizona.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

We are actively attacking the leadership stance of the DeSantis administration and legislative bills restricting the teaching of Black History which Dr. Carter G. Marvin Dulaney; the Rev. Kim McKissick; and Cliff Albright of Black Voters Matter. “We Woodson gave his life's work with the founding of ASALH,” said Dulaney.

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MAY 7, 2024

Scott holds a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies from the University of Missouri-Columbia, a master’s in teaching early childhood education from Norfolk State University, and a doctorate in higher education administration from Morgan State University.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

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. “We We continue to negotiate in good faith and on a regular basis with Rutgers’ unions,” Devlin said. “All

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