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Wayne State University Receives $6 Million Grant for Humanities Faculty Cluster Hire and Black Studies Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Wayne State University has received $6 million for a cluster hire program to recruit and hire 30 new humanities faculty and create a Black Studies center. The grant also helps fund the launch of the Detroit Center for Black Studies, which will be faculty-led and help connect Black Studies faculty from Michigan institutions.

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Diverse Students Are Going Hungry at the Cafeteria Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Terry O’Banion Community college students who are from lower socio-economic backgrounds, are first generation, and who have not been successful in high school are starving to death trying to find educational sustenance at the cafeteria curriculum.

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CUNY Graduate Center Selects 65 Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Doctoral and Faculty Fellows

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The fellows – 20 CUNY Graduate Center doctoral student fellows and 45 faculty fellows – will be affiliated with CUNY’s BRES Collaboration Hub and will do research and create curricula to improve Black, race, and ethnic studies at CUNY. Faculty fellows get $2,000 stipends for research and curriculum development projects.

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The Consuming Effects of Commodifying Education on Faculty Members

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For this piece, we identify the function and effects of neoliberalism on the relationships among graduate students and faculty. Neoliberalism’s intrusion in higher education causes students to expect high return-on-investment; correspondingly, faculty are expected to be superhuman workers. Dr. Cathryn B.

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Young to Head-up FAMU Center for African and African American Studies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Darius Young Young is a history professor at the FAMU College of Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities. The funding supports faculty and student fellowship programs, undergraduate and graduate student research, learning communities for curriculum development and course enhancements, and cultural programming.

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Wayne State University Receives $6 Million for Cluster Hire Program and Black Studies Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Wayne State University has received $6 million to recruit and hire 30 new humanities faculty and create a Black studies center. and global histories, culture, social, economic, legal, and health systems. .

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Higher Ed Leaders and Scholars Discuss Promises and Pitfalls of AI Tool Usage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT can prove very valuable and promising in the realm of higher education but come with their own suite of issues that need to be considered, according to higher ed leaders and faculty who participated in a panel discussion on Wednesday.