Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Through his advocacy for Black students in California, he has observed several key barriers that impact their enrollment and success, including Black faculty representation, culturally reflective curriculum, pedagogy and instructional methodology. In what ways are you prepared to recenter your institution around Black students?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

To earn the Seal of Excelencia a college or university must demonstrate an intentional, institutional focus on advancing Latino student success by aligning data and practice. Colleges and universities that have received the Seal of Excelencia enroll 17% of Latino students in the U.S. and graduate 19%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A transformational paradigm shift is needed in the curation of how Black boys and young men are seen and how educators and practitioners - school counselors, teachers, resource officers, administrators, postsecondary faculty and staff - work with them. Collaborate. Self-reflect. Now professionals must get ready too! No more potential denied!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2023

Cloud State University’s financial issues and cuts are getting worse, with its $18 million budget deficit in fall 2023 projected to grow to $24.5 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

And the stakes couldn’t be higher for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), which for generations have punched above their weight. It’s instructive to understand how our collective efforts brought us to this point. They serve more economically disenfranchised students than most U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2025

In a significant gathering dedicated to the advancement of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), approximately 70 leaders from across the higher education landscape have converged on Claflin University this week for the Ideation, Innovation, and Collaboration summit sponsored by the Higher Education Leadership Foundation (H.E.L.F).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

Faculty members are sometimes questioned about their choice to teach at a community college rather than at other higher education institutions. Community college faculty are usually prepared to respond to these questions, with varying reasons for their career choice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Researchers at the University at Buffalo have been awarded a $10 million grant from the U.S. In our Graduate School of Education and across disciplines, more than 200 faculty are leveraging the power of AI, all with the aim of contributing meaningfully to the greater good. Tripathi. “In The Center will be led by Dr. X.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Among the latest efforts are HB 715 in North Carolina, which would remove tenure for future faculty in the University of North Carolina (UNC) system and at public community colleges, and SB 266 in Florida, which would give the state more control over the content of core classes and limit funding for DEI efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2025

Major universities hit hardest include Johns Hopkins University, which announced 2,200 layoffs directly attributed to declining federal research funding, and Harvard University, which faces a $2.2 The economic impact extends far beyond university campuses. This critical infrastructure is now under unprecedented threat.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

Im accountable for facilitating access to quality, culturally relevant instruction and services designed to prepare students for fulfilling careers and to help empower lives of civic engagement. Moorpark College faculty members provide students more time on tests in gateway Math and English courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

The Texas Senate has approved a bill that would limit how state public universities can promote equitable access to higher education and foster campus diversity, The Texas Tribune reported. The bill will not affect course instruction, faculty research, student organizations, guest speakers, data collection or admissions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Morgan State University, a Historically Black university in Baltimore, has been awarded the 2022 ETS/CGS Award for Innovation in Promoting Success in Graduate Education: From Admission through Completion from The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) and ETS. Its instructional curriculum is built on a series of four courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

The California State University (CSU) announced it will provide all instructional faculty, librarians, counselors, and coaches with a 5% general salary increase. With this action, we will ensure that well-deserved raises get to our faculty members as soon as possible," said Leora Freedman, vice chancellor for human resources. "We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2024

For the past three years, students at National University (NU) have been given the chance to bolster their in-classroom learning with integrated real-world work experience via a partnership between NU and work-based learning platform Riipen. Riipen’s employer pool is made up of more than 35,000 industry partners.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Scott has been appointed assistant provost for faculty development and diversity at Yale University. Scott holds a bachelor’s degree in communications at Texas Southern University, an M. in curriculum and instruction at Prairie View A&M University, and a Ph.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

A Pepperdine University professor has been working on a pilot instructional program to give high school students a head start when it comes to understanding math. Roberson, who teaches statistics in Pepperdine’s political science program, served as one of the initiative’s teachers, instructing students on algebra.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Meridith Randall GWC Academic Senate President Damien Jordan, an associate professor of counseling, says Randall built trust among the faculty while serving as vice president of instruction, which readily translated when she became interim president. and for the University of California system it is 79.5%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2024

On May 31, news broke that the University of the Arts in Philadelphia would close its doors permanently June 7. This abrupt closure of a Philadelphia Arts educational institution summons a complex history that haunts the art world at the center of fine arts, foundations, and historically Black colleges and universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Jessica Davis-Ganao, associate professor and chair of the criminal justice program at North Carolina Central University. Davis-Ganao is an associate professor and chair of the criminal justice program at NCCU, a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in Durham, NC. Students are absolutely loving it,” said Davis-Ganao.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

New College of Florida and Spartanburg Community College have been added to the American Association of University Professors ’ list of institutions sanctioned for substantial noncompliance with widely accepted standards of academic government. AAUP’s Governing Council voted on the measure Feb.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Some faculty in Texas may not be expected to demonstrate proficiency in knowledge transfer. The article seems to make clear that incorporating a DEI statement into the application folio of faculty is not considered necessary. Some faculty speak to this in their philosophy statements.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

The world is rapidly changing, and so is the educational landscape, said panelist Marcus Penny, a STEM instructional coach for Boston Public Schools. Individuals do not need to be limited to the public school system and to traditional avenues of education in order to attain their education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Sophia Rahming is single-handedly helping to revolutionize peer-to-peer learning at Florida State University (FSU). It was originally conceived and developed at the University of Colorado Boulder and has since grown to more than 120 other colleges. The concept is quite simple. But how do you do that with a class of 400 students?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2023

“We’re looking forward to his leadership, his work with the entire community and his ability to lead this instruction for the success of his students, faculty and staff,” said Robert Gilbert, chair of the HCC board of trustees. Timmons holds a doctorate in higher education administration from Bowling Green State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Dr. Jerry Fliger Fliger is currently vice president for instruction at College of the Mainland. Fliger holds a bachelor’s in interpersonal and public communication from Purdue University Fort Wayne; a master’s in speech communication from Miami University; and a Ph.D. in rhetoric and culture from Bowling Green State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 8, 2023

Page Page is currently provost and vice president for academic affairs at Savannah State University. Previously, Page was vice president in the Division of Academic Affairs and professor of English at Dillard University. in American and African American literature from Louisiana State University. Dr. Yolanda W.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Kristina Whalen Whalen is currently vice president of academic services at Las Positas College and vice president of the California Community Colleges Chief Instructional Officers Association. In this new role, Whalen will be part of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District leadership team.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

Indeed, significant numbers of today’s college students no longer conform to the traditional notion of someone in their late teens or early 20s who matriculated to a four-year university straight out of high school. Faculty and staff must work to center their schedules around the learner, not vice versa.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Amidst these ongoing and widening challenges, college and university leaders have a responsibility to ensure they are supporting and fostering greater inclusion for LGBTQ+ students. A clearly articulated and well-publicized commitment to inclusion may have a dramatic impact within schools and universities. Train Faculty and Staff.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I would describe faculty as on a spectrum between sanguine and despairing,” says Dr. Joseph F. Brown, director of academic integrity at The Institute for Learning and Teaching at Colorado State University (CSU). Calhoun, assistant vice president and dean of the Center for Academic Success at Seton Hall University, agrees. “As

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

When Dr. Elmer Guy first came to Crownpoint Institute of Technology in 1999 as dean of instruction, he could not have known that, 24 years later, he would oversee the institution’s renaming to Navajo Technical University (NTU). It became the first tribal college and university, or TCU, to offer a Ph.D. The creation of this Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2023

The University of Michigan’s Graduate Employees' Organization (GEO) began striking Mar. We the graduate workers, the second largest body of instructors after tenure track faculty, we can't afford our rent, our medical bills, our groceries, a $500 emergency or a trip home."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. A data literacy workshop series offered each semester helps to foster a data-driven decision-making culture across the university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2023

Instruction cannot proceed in the atmosphere of fear that would be produced were a teacher to become subject to administrative sanction based upon the idiosyncratic reaction of one or more students. The AAUP did not say when a report might be made public.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2024

If institutions can minimize the number of days that students must come to campus and offer virtual instruction at other times, it makes it easier and less expensive to find childcare and lowers a major barrier to enrollment. What institutions can control is program structure. Are our programs stackable and focused toward career progression?

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