Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Cabrini University has laid off six full-time faculty – three of them were tenured – this month as part of budget cuts to help remedy its financial deficit, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The six – 8.7% No programs were eliminated as part of this plan,” said spokesperson Trish Bradley.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

At Wor-Wic, she spearheaded initiatives that streamlined course offerings and improved scheduling processes, leading to increased retention and completion rates. Her innovative approach to academic programming has consistently demonstrated her commitment to student-centered education and workforce development. "I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

Coastline College is now offering a program to help teach faculty about the complexities and nuances of the Vietnam War. The goal is to help faculty create curricular materials for humanities courses and provide veterans and Southeast Asian students more access to meaningful content. The program will run Jun. 19-23 virtually.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2025

Alessandra Lynch, Butler University; Dr. Joshua Bennett Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Teach your students to be human as you teach them everything else. Douglas, Indiana University - Indianapolis; Prof. Thomas Kneeland went to college with his mind set on becoming a physician.

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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. They’re on a journey.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2025

Alessandra Lynch, Butler University; Dr. Joshua Bennett Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Teach your students to be human as you teach them everything else. Douglas, Indiana University - Indianapolis; Prof. Thomas Kneeland went to college with his mind set on becoming a physician.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Alongside teaching, Thompson is also working on her master’s degree in education policy at Florida State University and is scheduled to graduate next month. Leslie Fenwick, dean emeriti of education at Howard University and other researchers—many of whom she’s read and studied during her years as a student.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Cluster hiring instantly injects diversity into departments that have little, while making the experience easier for minoritized faculty members. Louis Filmmakers Showcase and is scheduled to screen at the St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Faculty and Black groups at Michigan State University (MSU) are calling for campus stakeholders to be able to interview MSU’s sole presidential candidate, given his role in a number of race-related controversies , The State News reported. The interview would be open to all MSU representatives.

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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. Many faculty and staff, she pointed out, have had to take on extra responsibilities from other positions that have gone unfilled. They’re worn down. People are just plain overworked,” said Dr. Margaret W.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2022

College students are taking fewer credit hours than before and conscious course scheduling is becoming more relevant, according to a new report from higher education resource company Ad Astra. And so, course scheduling with intentionality to fit changing student needs becomes increasingly relevant. What other barriers are in the way?"

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

The budding Black studies department at the University of Rochester will fast-track their hiring of faculty with the help of a $3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation. chair of faculty programs and departmental initiatives in the university's Black studies department. Dr. Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. McCune, Jr.,

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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Higher education leaders strive to create a course schedule that is both efficient to build and easy for students to enroll in necessary courses. Despite this intention, course schedule planning is often a reactive process that can lead to increased workloads for staff and frustration for students during active registration periods.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Students benefit tremendously from seeing themselves reflected in the faculty, staff, and student peers who make up the campus community. Many of the students are working adults with children who may also be caring for elderly parents while trying to maintain jobs with rigorous work schedules.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2023

Dr. Jonathan Holloway Faculty concerns and disagreements surrounding a potential merger culminated in a Jul. However, opposing faculty argue that such a merger would provide little benefit for clinical care and medical education, given that the two schools collaborate anyway.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

Throughout the following 10 months, the fellows participated in meetings with their faculty mentors and optional monthly cohort-wide calls to discuss their progress. A lot of faculty see us as people not worth investing in,” Cho said. “So Their work would not have been possible without the Emerge Fellowship, they said. “A

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2024

The University of Florida is an elite institution because of our incredible faculty who are committed to teaching, discovering, and serving," the memo added. The association is scheduled to meet in Seattle for its annual meeting later this month and the Florida decision will inevitably be at the top of the agenda.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

Faculty and staff must work to center their schedules around the learner, not vice versa. Practices like starting programs quarterly or even monthly and reducing the number of days students must come to campus for hands-on or clinical instruction can better accommodate students’ schedules.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Instead, new student orientation, advising, and other supports are focused on assessing whether students need remediation, introducing students to the college, and helping them schedule their first-term courses. Connections with faculty are important. Faculty should know students’ preferred names and use them from the very start.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

University officials noted that, under New York State Education Law 224-A and CUNY policy , students have the right to request religious accommodations for any scheduled academic activities that may conflict with their religious observances. Religious accommodations are likewise available to faculty and staff.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2024

The literal and physical road map to an academic record begins with what faculty identify as the course work and field experience necessary to represent the academy beyond its respective institutions in the workforce and in research. Johnson is University Registrar at Lincoln University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Meanwhile, the American Association of University Professors’ annual faculty salary survey report shows a 0.6 percent dip in overall faculty head counts between fall 2019 and fall 2021. Virtual resources also offer 24/7 support and can help reduce stress for the limited number of faculty still on campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

A Latino student researching a university department observed that hardly any of the faculty had backgrounds similar to his own. “I I was afforded opportunities to navigate higher education because of the presence of faculty of color, because of the presence of Latino faculty,” Galan said. students. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It’s clear the regents are deeply divided over this proposal, have immense concerns about this process and the difficult position they were put in, and are all committed to their charge—doing what’s best for our past, present, and future students, faculty, and staff, and the institutions that have defined our state for generations,” Evers said. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Dr. LaVar Charleston At the college level, Burt noted that there are many reasons for the underrepresentation of Black male faculty and students in STEM, including racial microaggressions, low expectations of STEM capabilities, pressure to represent their entire race in STEM environments, and a lack of belonging on campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

The MLK Day programming schedules for several schools span multiple days full of various events, recognizing the numerous facets and aspects of the Civil Rights Movement. For many of them, the school has scheduled a “day of service,” wherein students, faculty, and staff can volunteer in their community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2023

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." The next bargaining session is scheduled for Friday, and the university remains ready to meet at any time."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2023

We have met with faculty, staff, and students to hear their concerns, and will continue discussing with them how the school can build on its efforts to advance equity, inclusion, and diversity,” the school said. In a statement, USC Chan said that they had engaged with the group. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

She saw that certain processes and procedures, such as schedules and transcript evaluations, could be unique and not simply replications from four-year institutions. At the same time, the deans are talking to their faculty about the data in the classroom that faculty are using. As technology developed, she embraced it.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

For example, I worked with a student who felt completely overwhelmed by their responsibilities and had been reacting to school and activities as they came up, rather than planning out their daily and weekly schedules. This helped the student better see where they could incorporate movement into their schedule.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Williams said some faculty members become such experts in their field that they forget what it is like to learn as novices. As they explored things such as changing school start times and bus schedules, he saw the equity issues that could arise. Banerjee said he chose Georgia Tech because of the faculty and advisors with whom he works.

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Faculty play a central role in building connections with students. As Inside Higher Ed notes, “Students often turn to their faculty members for advice and support outside of academics, including career advice and mental health support, so positive student-faculty relationships are a critical piece of student success.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For example, start by having students write an initial draft of their potential college admission essay on the first day of high school and schedule updates with experiences throughout the school years, up until the student submits a completed essay with their college applicaitons. Concerned alumni groups. Coordinated scholarly presentations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Williams said some faculty members become such experts in their field that they forget what it is like to learn as novices. As they explored things such as changing school start times and bus schedules, he saw the equity issues that could arise. Banerjee said he chose Georgia Tech because of the faculty and advisors with whom he works.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

A Latino student researching a university department observed that hardly any of the faculty had backgrounds similar to his own. “I Carlos Galan “I was afforded opportunities to navigate higher education because of the presence of faculty of color, because of the presence of Latino faculty,” Galan said. students. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The Empowering Futures Gift was earmarked to fund scholarships, advance medical education and research, support faculty expertise, increase athletic competitiveness and make possible numerous student-centered initiatives. This job requires being on 24-hours a day,” he says. “I at Stanford.

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