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. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2023

Jackson – an urban researcher, media ethnographer, anthropologist of religion, and theorist of race/ethnicity – is currently the dean at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication and serves as the Richard Perry University Professor and is on the faculty at Penn’s Center for Experimental Ethnography. Jackson holds a B.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. At the same time, they struggle to retain the women and minoritized faculty who they have recruited. Narrow, self-serving yardsticks for assessing impact of scholarship, teaching, and service. Moreno at al.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The pandemic opened the door for many faculty to experience teaching online that hadn’t before,” said Dr. Elizabeth M. Luoma, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Sacred Heart University. “In Today, all JCSU faculty are required to have a virtual component to every course, which Stukes said is a great idea.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Dr. Roberto Rubalcaba, an associate professor at San Diego City College who teaches gateway math courses, was unsurprised by the findings. He tries to avoid this in his own teaching. “I The study also suggests a policy shift: a move away from assessing, sorting, and tracking students and towards supporting faculty development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

Peyton Manning will become a professor of practice in The University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s (UT) College of Communication and Information, starting this fall. He will teach topics such as sports reporting, video production and performance, leadership and communication, and public speaking.

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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. The concept is quite simple.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 2, 2023

She previously served as vice provost for academic affairs, dean of residential faculty, and associate professor of communication studies at Vanderbilt University. Beasley has been recognized for her teaching and mentorship at every university for which she has worked.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Her role entails collaborating with multiple campus constituents, including faculty; the Offices of Academic Affairs; Student Affairs and Enrollment; and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Human Resources; Counseling and Wellness; Registrar; Public Safety and Security; Facilities; Communications; Information Technology; Legal Counsel; and others.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

John Martin As such, the faculty are asking for back pay, changes to pay structure, and for the suit to be made a class action that could allow for the incorporation of other adjuncts. As many as 37,000 adjuncts teach in the 115 colleges. They make up 70% or more of faculty at 35 districts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2023

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the school had 118 full-time faculty and 107 part-time faculty in Fall 2022. Saint Rose will have to make “teach-out” agreements with schools willing to accept their students and credits, a process that may come with some discrepancies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

To do so, she focused on long-standing issues like program development and student support services, and by the time the Coast Community College District Board of Trustees approved her permanent position, progress was tangible. Jordan says people are pleased with Randall’s candor and the transparency in communication.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

While MCC’s own equity audit showed that the college was taking significant steps to promote inclusivity in learning, the audit found a perceived lack of infrastructure that formally institutionalizes systems, processes, communication, programming, and accountability metrics for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Professor, Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Director, Asian American Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison Tenured: Yes Age: 40 Education: B.A., mass communication, Indiana University; and Ph.D., media studies and Asian studies, Pomona College; M.A.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. She concluded the fellowship and joined the faculty of John Jay.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

This moment demands that we clearly communicate the value of DEI programs to all stakeholders – students, parents, faculty, administrators, and policymakers. For faculty members: As educators, you have a profound influence on shaping future leaders.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 19, 2023

The nontenure-track roles come with little job security if there is no multi-year contract, leaving some of these instructors with no guarantee from semester to semester whether their jobs will be there so they can teach and earn income, Milkman said. And in negotiations at NYU, we were also able to win compensation for out-of-class work."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Jones Jones is currently chief diversity officer at William Paterson University and teaches diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) modules to senior leaders through The Equity Institute, a remote program at the University of Southern California Race and Equity Center. “I’m Dr. David E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. The idea to create a cannabis studies program at the Salem, Virginia school came from a faculty discussion in 2022 about out-of-the-box curriculum ideas. I think my mouth unhinged,” she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

Then, you should individualize your teaching and educational practices to help the students continue to develop their strengths. Or, it could be having them go into their community to tutor some high school kids to increase their verbal communication and leadership skills. How can you do this?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Perspectives and expectations based on work from home that began during the COVID-19 pandemic spawned changes in communicating, teaching, and engaging. These real and perceived conflicts and uncertainties play out in the classroom, in board meetings and in faculty negotiations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2024

It is a space to establish community, which is important for persistence and student success. Johnathan Gooch, communications director for Equality Texas, says that, by spring, many schools had to shut down their LGBTQ+ centers. If forced to scramble for meeting space, there would be only a small fraction of that programming.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 24, 2024

We went around the state and started teaching persons in non-traditional areas that college is a possibility and these are the things you need to do,” she says. The radio/television gives me the ability to speak, write, and communicate in a way so that people understand and feel what I believe,” says Walker-Griffea.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Nichols College President Glenn Sulmasy has resigned, following reports that he allegedly engaged in sexual misconduct with several students during his time teaching at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, CNN reported. Sulmasy Nichols had opened an investigation into the retired US Coast Guard captain after news of the allegations broke.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

Akbar, who teaches in the department of arts and communication, sees it as a vital means of communicating. Students and faculty find a way to produce creatively, even if it’s not formal,” said Akbar. Each semester, Tesman teaches a class for incoming students to get them acclimated. Dr. Gregory A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Until campus leaders can move to rectify campus spaces and furniture to more closely meet the needs of fat students, we encourage all faculty, teaching assistants, and student affairs practitioners who are charged with creating learning experiences to consider how they might manage these realities and help shift them for fat students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In short, the syllabus helps to create a structured and organized learning environment, facilitating effective communication and expectations between instructors and students. Furthermore, feedback loops must be baked into our teaching practices for students to provide input on the inclusivity and effectiveness of educational media.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. Canton, who is also an associate professor of history, hired two faculty members in year one. Last year, he hired another faculty person. there were protests on campus. I had to get used to that.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Pitt also sought to teach the LGBTQ+ community how to defend themselves from physical attacks against them by offering faculty and staff self-defense training. It's about empowering people,” said Jason Togyer, communications manager for Pitt’s Office for Equity, Diversity & Inclusion.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

“Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Dr. Erika D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Across the country, state legislators have been debating—and in several cases passing— legislation that censors teaching and learning, threatens academic freedom, and limits or eliminates diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and efforts both on and off campuses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Higher education is a ladder to social and economic mobility and stability, and learning certain skills like leadership, critical thinking, problem-solving and communication, can make the difference in a graduate feeling their time in postsecondary education was both worth the expense and helped them achieve life goals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

Grad students serve as teaching fellows, facilitating discussion sections and grading student work. In addition to the representational advantages, minoritized faculty may present material in a way to which students of color can more easily relate. There’s this additional resonance.”

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

AUGUST 27, 2024

IHEP: If you had to recommend one or two sense of belonging interventions for all faculty members to implement in their courses, what would you suggest and why? Dr. Knottenbelt: For faculty to understand belonging and foster a culture of growth in their class, they must develop a consistent communication strategy. — Dr.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 29, 2025

This new feature enables colleges and universities to integrate Civitas Learning advising functionality directly within the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS), providing a seamless user experience for faculty and advisors. Why This Matters Time and ease of use are critical for users balancing teaching, advising, and administrative tasks.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

And throughout his teaching career, he has encouraged his students to study abroad. “Dr. says Dr. He adds that studying abroad allows students to expand their skills in critical thinking, global citizenry, cultural sensitivity, and communication with different people. "I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This requires intentionality and assessing all aspects to safeguard what is best about higher education: students, faculty, and staff who are different but learning, disagreeing, and growing for the betterment of society and self.” Dr. Barbara J. Additionally, institutions should be attentive to the well-being of all employees.

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