Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

He likened Roberson's efforts to the late Bob Moses, who was a member in the 1960s of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the founder of the math literacy non-profit, The Algebra Project. “[The] I think Dr. Roberson’s Ahead of the Game exemplifies the idea that every child has a civil right to gain math literacy.”

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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. Faculty members, Brown recalls, were worried that students would use ChatGPT to cheat and bypass any difficulties they encountered, negatively impacting learning. “As you can imagine, people were and still are apprehensive.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Our program directors and faculty chairs work closely to match them to existing courses.” UNT went through an entire process of strengthening their data infrastructure and building data literacy across their campus, so the right people have access to the right data to inform their decision making,” said Voight.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 10, 2024

“I don’t defend everything that Martin Luther said or did, but clearly at the time of the Reformation (16th century) there was an emphasis that he had around access to education and access to literacy.” He has also created an emerging leader cohort program to identify and bring together mid-level faculty and staff for leadership development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The focus on English skills needed in an academic setting and tailored support services through the Academic Literacy & Language (ALL) Center have proven beneficial. It also added professional development for all the tutors and faculty. Most of the individuals leading sessions are faculty of color. are Hispanic.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

When a model predicts that Black or Latinx students are more likely to fail, how users interpret that information depends on their racial consciousness and data literacy. For example, if faculty hold deficit assumptions about these students’ ability to succeed, they may dismiss those students as a lost cause.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Warren Grayson and Dr. Jennifer Elisseeff, The Johns Hopkins University; and Dr. Michele Manuel and Dr. Cammy Abernathy, both of University of Florida Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Feel the fear and do it anyway! a nonprofit organization focused on empowering historically excluded groups with financial literacy.

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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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Catherine Cronin

AUGUST 24, 2022

At the start of this summer, I gave a keynote at the annual AMICAL Conference titled ‘Critical digital literacies: Developing agency and sustaining hope in troubled times’ Yesterday, AMICAL kindly posted the videos from the conference, so I am sharing links to the keynote and to the conference here. AMICAL Conference 2022.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

I hope to use my time here to increase that literacy among all communities,” she continues. “I "Serving as the director for a nursing program that's the largest HBCU in the U.S. I really hope that the legacy that we leave is that NC A&T will impact the future of healthcare in a major way."

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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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School & Student Services by Community Brands

JANUARY 17, 2025

For example, a Financial Aid Impact Night featuring speeches from students, families, and faculty whove witnessed the transformative power of financial support. These events can also be live-streamed or recorded for broader outreach.

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Timely MD

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Having access to virtual care means students, faculty and staff do not have to go into an office, they don't have to take off work or set an appointment.” This may include initiatives such as financial literacy programs, childcare support, and access to affordable housing options.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Although these requirements are unavoidable burdens, I worked with faculty committees to identify data that would also be usable by them as they educated students. As the institutional research executive, I have frequently attended faculty senate to hear the frustrations, obstacles, and opportunities encountered by the faculty.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 25, 2023

28:32] – Another benefit to these systems is improved data literacy among faculty. [30:19] [24:11] – Your systems need to support your action. [26:40] 26:40] – Technology has evolved, and the systems available can make more time for the human to human conversations and guidance. [28:32]

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The DeVry Fusion team developed a two-pronged approach to improve their ability to help their students succeed: Establish a Data-Activated Digital Care Engine to complement faculty & advisor impact. Develop a Technology Ecosystem to deliver broad data integration and multi-channel communication capabilities.

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Civitas Learning is changing this by democratizing data and integrating actionable insights into intelligent workflow tools that faculty and staff need daily. Designed for ease of use regardless of data literacy, our platform helps team members at every level transform data into actionable information that targets individual students.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Colleges can make progress toward helping students feel they belong in the following ways: Hire diverse staff and faculty. From multi-lingual parent orientations, tours, financial literacy courses and family-oriented pathways programs , this is an important way to not only support your students but their key influencers as well.

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EAB

MAY 25, 2023

The group included representatives from many parts of campus, including Associate Deans, the Provost’s Office, the Teaching and Learning Commons, Faculty Senate Committee Chairs, the Registrar’s Office, faculty, and several others, which gave us a wide range of perspectives. The data and analyses are not going to be perfect.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Support your students from day one by making financial literacy a mandatory part of your orientation process. Financial Literacy: Virtual and in-person training is provided to students. Ensure your campus leverages a system that enables faculty to issue alerts to the right student service offices as soon as a problem arises.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The wide-ranging bill, introduced by Senator Jerry Cirino, proposes several substantial changes to Ohio's public universities, including a ban on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, restrictions on faculty strikes, and the introduction of a mandatory civics course.

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EAB

JUNE 8, 2023

As a part of an AI initiative launched in 2020, UF first began offering an introductory course teaching basic AI literacy and concepts to all students. Faculty can then spend more time innovating in the classroom and finding productive ways to engage students, especially as use of ChatGPT in the classroom explodes.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The district faculty and staff serve approximately 10,500 students and their families. They knew they needed to address teacher retention, but typical methods like engagement surveys and gathering feedback from the teachers’ association did not bring them closer to meaningfully addressing this goal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Arizona State University (ASU) faculty have received $1.6 Department of Education for a program to teach K-12 teachers about civics, history, and media literacy. A number of ASU faculty will contribute and particiupate in the project. million from the U.S. The funding is to be awarded over three years.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Children’s Literacy Initiative: The Children’s Literacy Initiative (CLI) helps to ensure that low-income students are able to read at or above their grade level. On this infographic, include the distribution of donors and participation levels from faculty and alumni. Show Gratitude.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Below are a few of the key themes that appeared in multiple capstone projects from past participants. Scroll down to read about each of the capstone projects in the fellows’ own words. Scholastica Student Success Improving success for pre-health students Joe Fritsch, Ph.D.,

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Timely MD

JULY 6, 2022

There is a struggle at many rural community colleges to fill faculty and staff positions, and many rural college leaders find that their concerns are not always reflected in the national conversation on higher education issues. Lack of public transportation. Limited access to affordable childcare.

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EAB

MAY 1, 2023

Case in point Share the data, good and bad, in an open forum like a faculty meeting or training. You might say: In the data dictionary, we defined ‘student’ as, “anyone enrolled in coursework, after census, in the Fall of this year.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Republicans and some Democrats aren’t happy with campus protests about the Israel/Hamas war, and many Democratic-leaning faculty don’t feel comfortable speaking up on issues if they work for red-state public universities,” says Kelchen. Bonner has his own book series with Routledge, titled Diverse Faculty in the Academy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

To this end, we provide P-12 educators; college/university faculty, administrators, and staff; and other education stakeholders a blueprint to collaboratively work with Black males through a culturally responsive lens.

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

The most popular one right now is on financial literacy. So if I'm just being, but as a Black man, as a father of five, as someone who claims Philadelphia's home now, but originally from Harrisburg, and I can bring that experience as a faculty mentor on a trip with a 20-year-old from another part of the globe, right?

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Timely MD

MAY 1, 2023

According to an annual survey by Inside Higher Ed, about two-thirds of presidents (65%) indicate that they plan to increase their institution’s capacity to meet the mental health needs of students, staff, and faculty members. I believe my staff would have probably told me, ‘This is too much.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Simmons , academic administrator in higher education Pauline Yu , scholar of Chinese literature 2023 National Humanities Medalists : Anthony Bourdain (posthumous) , chef and author LeVar Burton , actor and literacy advocate Roz Chast , cartoonist and author Nicolás Kanellos , scholar and publisher of Hispanic literature Robin Wall Kimmerer , (..)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2025

It demanded academic departments be ideologically reshaped, student organizations dismantled, and faculty policed for anything considered activism. Whats new is that the federal government is now using that logic to impose structural amnesiareplacing racial literacy with silence, and calling it merit. Weve seen this before.

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