Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Family, it is time for a chat! Pull up a seat or make whatever adjustments that you need to make so that my brothers and I can rap with you. Over the last few days, we have seen countless opinions internal and external to the HBCU community regarding the exit of Coach Prime [Deion Sanders] from Jackson State University. There have been many opinions flying across Twitter, Facebook, and even national news stations like CNN.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

Finals season is upon us. It’s an especially stressful time of year for students as we navigate through exams and papers to the end of the semester. As a senior in college, I know what it’s like to struggle to stay above water during finals, COVID-19 and all. Over the years, I’ve learned to put my well-being first and let go of some stress around academic performance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A new study conducted by the ultra-conservative Manhattan Institute and published by the City Journal claims to prove that Critical Race Theory (CRT) is being taught in K-12 education. However, their claim is false, because they misrepresented CRT to prove their point. According to the study, evidence that CRT is being taught in school comes from recent high school graduates endorsing the following four statements: (1) “America is a systemically racist country,” (2) “white people have white priv

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles addresses the crowd at the opening of ASHE's 47th Annual Conference. LAS VEGAS-- Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A national scholarship program for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) is set to be launched. The program aims to help financially support civic-minded high school students who are interested in attending HBCUs. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The program strives to encourage students to follow in the footsteps of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and develop into advocates and champions for universal rights.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Despite pledges from campus leaders to diversify all facets of their institutions, faculty have remained stubbornly white, according to a new report from the Education Trust, a non-profit that works to close opportunity and achievement gaps. “It reflects something that we’ve long known,” said Dr. Kimberly A. Griffin, professor and dean of the College of Education at the University of Maryland. “ That the student body is diversifying much faster than the faculty is. ” The report, based on 2020 da

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I recently went on a cruise to some destinations in the Caribbean and as is customary I entered my credit card information for additional expenses that may be incurred on the voyage. There were packages on the cruise that I knowingly purchased and anticipated being charged for. Halfway through the cruise, I glanced at the “account” section of the cruise line’s app and noticed that there was an amount that I wasn’t expecting that was being charged every day that was called “onboard gratuities”.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In October 2022, the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) released a new report where, again, Black students lagged behind white students on the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) also known as the Nation’s Report Card. Specifically, in comparison to 2019, the previous assessment year, average mathematics scores for grade 4 students were lower in 2022 for American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black, Hispanic, students of Two or More Races, and white students (see [l

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

North Carolina A&T State University is being reprimanded for enrolling too many out-of-state first-year students in the last two years, WFMY reported. The UNC System Board of Governors had set N.C. A&T’s enrollment cap at 35%. However, in 2021, N.C. A&T had 41% of students, enrolled from out-of-state, according to the system. As a result, the school has been fined and must forfeit nearly $2 million of its budget, per the UNC System ’s Nov. 17 decision, with the system recommending t

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As institutions wrap up their fall semesters, many faculty, staff, and students look forward to a chance to go home to familiar stomping grounds and family traditions. But for students who identify as LGBTQ+, particularly those who identify as non-binary, going home for winter break can paint a more complicated picture. Holiday stress impacts almost all students, according to a new survey of over 1,200 students from TimelyMD, a virtual health and wellbeing company that partners with almost 250 h

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Since 1804, the New-York Historical Society (New-York Historical) and its stewards have been preserving and showcasing history. For the past three years, it’s been teaching others to do the same, seeking to expand what the face of museum studies looks like. Dr. Valerie Paley Through a partnership with the City University of New York’s School of Professional Studies (CUNY SPS), New-York Historical has been teaching CUNY students the ins and outs of museum operations via a graduate degree in Muse

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy will be receiving a media literacy bill from the New Jersey Senate to sign, a bill that would make New Jersey the first state to mandate information literacy education for all K-12 students. Gov. Phil Murphy “This bill ensures that 1.3 million public school students in New Jersey will be better prepared for life beyond school with key skills that help them with lifelong learning, civic participation, and work skills,” said Olga Polites, New Jersey Chapter Leader of Me

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2022

For close to a year, I have been strategizing and working with Randy Raymond, a software engineer at Google, to make access to computer science education the new “Space Race” and create models that schools can scale to deliver instruction to students. We believe that this movement can be expanded and go a long way towards increasing diversity in fields like engineering and computing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The Target Corporation is launching an internship program for students at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal reported. Maya Moss The Target Scholars Sophomore Internship Program will give second-year students industry experience in a number of the retailer's departments, such as retail, supply chain facilities, technology, merchandising, and product development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries. All these factors contribute to recent enrollment declines at institutions of higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Since the Regents of the University of California v. Bakke case of 1978, the Supreme Court has been asked on several occasions to rule on the constitutionality of using race as one factor in higher education admissions. The Court has consistently held that diversity is a compelling interest and that race – not quotas, can be one of many factors in selecting a class of students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The events of 2020 are still resonating. A life-threatening pandemic, disproportionately impacting communities of color and low-income families, and the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd became catalysts for a summer of protests, crystallizing the renewed call for racial justice in America. Dr. Brooke Vick, chief diversity officer, associate provost for equity and inclusion, and coordinator of the new DEI certificate program at Muhlenberg College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

On the same day the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments regarding race-conscious admissions policies, higher education stakeholders gathered to discuss the barriers keeping more women and people of color from becoming college and university presidents. Dr. Estela Bensimon, professor emeritus and founding director of the Center for Urban Education at the University of Southern California, and president of Bensimon & Associates.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, epicenter New York City was a shadow of its former self. The streets were empty. Between July 2020 and July 2021, the U.S. Census found the city lost 15.7% of its population. Housing costs dropped and vacancies grew. In January 2021, the median rent for a one bedroom in the city was at its lowest point in years: $2,300 a month.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II has been appointed founding director of Yale Divinity School’s (YDS) new Center for Public Theology and Public Policy. He will also serve as professor in the practice of public theology and public policy. The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II Barber – a moral movement leader with experience of 30 years of pastoral ministry and in multiple public leadership roles – led the Moral Mondays protests and movement in North Carolina; established Repairers of the Breach to t

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A growing body of research has shown that race-matched instruction—when teachers and learners come from the same background—is beneficial for students. College students have been shown to be likelier to pass courses with race-matched instructors, likelier to receive higher grades in those courses, and likelier to persist in school. Race-matched students were also more likely to take an additional class in that subject and to major in it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The Taliban government has suspended university education for all female students in Afghanistan , CNN reported. This represents part of the increasing oppression on Afghan women’s rights. Girls were barred from secondary schools in March , after the Taliban ordered schools for girls to shut hours after they were to reopen following closures after the August 2021 Taliban takeover.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Dr. Ellesse-Roselee Akré, assistant professor of health policy and clinical practice at the Dartmouth Institute Dr. Ellesse-Roselee Akré has always understood the value of diversity in STEM fields In the first year of her Ph.D program, she worked with researchers who were studying why people making 300-400% of the federal poverty level were not signing up for Obamac

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Graduate school first-time enrollment has gone up between Fall 2020 and Fall 2021, according to a new report. Dr. Enyu Zhou The Graduate Enrollment and Degrees (GE&D) report – released by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) – showed that, between Fall 2020 to Fall 2021, first-time enrollment rose by 8.9%. According to the report, first-time enrollment in this context refers to the number of students enrolled for the first time in graduate certificate, education specialist, master’s, or doc

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Dr. John B. King Jr., who served as U.S. Secretary of Education under President Obama, will become the 15th chancellor of the State University of New York (SUNY), effective January 2023. Dr. John B. King Jr. "I am humbled and honored to accept the position of chancellor and to advance Governor Kathy Hochul’s vision to make SUNY the best statewide system of public higher education in our nation,’" King said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Carol Ashley, lead counsel of the team that wrote the American Association for Access, Equity, and Diversity’s amicus brief The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in two cases expected to determine the future of race-based affirmative action programs in America. The cases have the potential to overturn 40 years of precedent establishing that racial considerations are legal as long as they are carefully tailored, used as one factor among many, and that no race-neutral alternatives exi

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) has launched an initiative to bolster science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education nationally. U.S. Deputy Education Secretary Cindy Marten This new Raise the Bar: STEM Excellence for All Students initiative aims to help implement equitable, high-quality STEM education for students from Pre-K to higher ed in order to ensure career readiness and global competitiveness.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Desireé C. Boykin has recently been awarded the Higher Education Leadership Foundation’s (HELF) 2022 Vanguard Award and inducted into its Sankofa Hall of Leadership. Desireé C. Boykin “We believe it is important to honor those who are strengthening the bridge to sustainability and thriving that our ancestors so carefully built and curated,” the foundation said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In the era of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Great Resignation, faculty and staff burnout is a major problem in higher education. A 2022 Gallup poll found that educators reported the highest level of burnout of any industry , and 35% of college and university workers reported “always” or “very often” feeling burned out at work. It’s a phenomenon that can particularly a ffe ct minoritized workers: a March survey by the Society of Human Resource Management found that more than a third of Black, ind

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

After years of steady increases, internationalization at colleges and universities slipped backwards during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report released Thursday by the American Counc il on Education (ACE). The report found that although 47% of institutions saw accelerating internationalization between 2017 and the start of the pandemic, only 21% described acceleration between 2020 and 2021.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Students and an advocacy group are suing Yale University, alleging systemic discrimination against students with mental health disabilities, CNN reported. The lawsuit – filed Wednesday in Connecticut federal court – claims that the school discriminated against students with mental health disabilities and forced students to withdraw after exhibiting severe mental health disability symptoms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Dr. Alvin Schexnider's father, Alfred Schexnider, and mother, Ruth Mayfield Schexnider. After four years of effort, Dr. Alvin Schexnider has put the finishing touches on his latest book. This time, he turned the lens inward. “It’s important to know from whence we came,” said Schexnider, former chancellor of Winston-Salem University and author of Saving Black Colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Dr. Terza A. Lima-Neves is working with colleagues to launch a minor in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. Photo courtesy of Terza A. Lima-Neves If someone wants informal career advice, he or she can check out Dr. Terza A. Lima-Neves’ YouTube Channel, 1000 Seeds: Living Life on Purpose with Dr. Terza. There is even a video titled “How Do We Choose the Right Career Path?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The University of Washington (UW) and Google have announced a $400,000 gift from the tech giant that will go towards efforts to diversify the field of K-12 computer science education. Computer science is one of America’s most critical fields. It ' s also among the fastest growing. But it is dominated by white and Asian males. This effects both the culture of the tech world and the products that it creates —from facial recognition software that can’t recognize Black and brown people to algorith

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Part-time faculty at The New School walked out Nov. 16 to protest pay and working conditions, The New York Times reported. 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. The New School’s adjunct professors have not received a raise in four years, leaving their real earnings trailing behind inflation and down 18% from 2018, according to A.C.T.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The live chat function in Zoom classes helped students feel more comfortable, according to a recent University of Nevada, Las Vegas study. Dr. Rachael D. Robnett The study – published in the journal PLOS ONE – looked at anonymous chat summaries from Fall 2020 of 230 students in two introductory biology lecture courses with synchronous remote video instruction.

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