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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Former collegiate athlete Yusuf Sabree was a standout student-athlete who currently holds the position of district dean of student services at Wayne County (Mich.) These student-athletes were also interviewed about the support services that they needed. Community College. Engage in relationship building. Recognize opportunity.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

New faculty unions at Howard Community College and Frederick Community College have been certified and recognized, with full-time faculty recognized as AFT-Maryland members, Maryland Matters reported. More than 80% of Howard’s 170 faculty and 100 Frederick faculty submitted cards Aug.

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AUGUST 26, 2024

Thirty-two tenured faculty members are slated for layoffs at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). Faculty also have statutory layoff rights, which UWM will of course honor,” Mone said. Dr. Mark A. The Waukesha campus will close entirely next spring.

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MAY 10, 2024

More than 800 members of the University of California, Los Angeles, faculty and staff are calling for the resignation of Chancellor Dr. Gene D. The group claimed that, on April 30, “UCLA administration and LAPD stood by as students were brutally attacked for over four hours by outside agitators.” Dr. Gene D.

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MAY 2, 2024

College students are turning to faculty for career advice, but not as many of these educators are working with their school’s career centers to better respond, according to a new study from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Awareness is important,” NACE President and CEO Shawn VanDerziel said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2024

California State University (CSU) system employees who are members of the California Faculty Association (CFA) will go on strike next week, starting Monday. was prompted by the faculty union’s demands not being met, including the pay increases they asked for. To note, faculty can cancel individual classes to honor the strike.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Bartell, Sandra Robinson & Willie McKether Only two-thirds of new college students will complete their degree within six years. For Black, Latinx, and Native American students, this number is much lower. Moreover, institutions are grappling with faculty burnout, dissatisfaction, and resignations at growing rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

Columbia College Chicago has laid off 70 faculty and staff members with plans to remove 32 vacant positions to address financial concerns amid declining enrollment numbers. The college plans to sustain student services through reassignments, modifications to existing duties, and staggered work schedules.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2022

University of Florida (UF) faculty have expressed worry about a new regulation that would allow college deans to review employment of tenured faculty every five years instead of seven, The Gainesville Sun reported. UF faculty already have a tenured review process that takes place every seven years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

Caring Campus, a program to have faculty contribute to fostering a culture of caring for students at schools, is related to observable benefits, according to a recent report by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Columbia University. Barnett, senior research scholar emeritus at CCRC and co-author of the report.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Students at Fresno Pacific University students are criticizing and protesting faculty and staff reductions due to university budget cuts, which could put several university programs at risk, KFSN reported. Instead, they cut a tenured professor who means a lot to students here and programs that mean a lot to this community."

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

Faculty at California State University, the largest public university system in the U.S., The California Faculty Association is seeking a 12% salary raise and an increase in parental leave from six weeks to a full semester. Hundreds of students are expected to join the picket lines to support the striking faculty.

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JUNE 3, 2024

Columbia College Chicago has laid off 70 faculty and staff members with plans to remove 32 vacant positions to address financial concerns amid declining enrollment numbers. The college plans to sustain student services through reassignments, modifications to existing duties, and staggered work schedules.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The UT System has allocated $55 million across the ERUs to fund the recruitment of research-active faculty to increase its national research prominence and federal funding opportunities. program growth and discovery translations that benefit our city, state, and nation,” he continued. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The presence and success of faculty of color in higher ed continues to come up short, as these faculty members continue to face countless obstacles as they attempt to progress in their careers, according to a new report from the American Psychological Association. Dr. Michelle Y. The report provides recommendations to address them.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

Faculty play a central role in building connections with students. Their regular interaction and academic and career guidance, especially within their areas of expertise, can significantly help students in their college experience.

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APRIL 2, 2023

In 2022, student leaders launched a campaign to challenge the long-standing stigma associated with attending community colleges. To overcome negative stereotypes, the CCSmart advocacy campaign tells the stories of students’ educational journeys and the positive impact community colleges had on their lives.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Old Dominion University’s (ODU) Darden College of Education and Professional Studies is launching a program to help address disparities in the number of minorritized higher ed faculty. student with 18 completed credit hours who identify as racially and ethnically diverse. To be eligible, applicants must be a second-year Ph.D.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

million SUNY grant and is looking to hire 30 replacement faculty and 36 new faculty, Pipe Dream reported. The grant – part of a $53 million SUNY-wide hiring initiative – will go towards creating faculty positions with a heavy focus on research. BU deans were asked to create proposals for the new faculty positions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Faculty resignations have been increasing at Iowa universities, The Daily Iowan reported. According to the state Board of Regents’ Annual Human Resources Report , University of Iowa (UI) faculty resignations rose from 80 to 92 from fiscal year (FY) 2021 to FY 2022 – in FY 2020, there were 73 resignations.

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MARCH 29, 2023

academic employment has dramatically shifted from mostly full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty to mostly contingent positions. That's according to a new report from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)which provides data depicting the shift away from tenure to contingent faculty at most U.S.

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MAY 30, 2024

More than 80% of college faculty and staff members have noticed increasing demand among online learners for mental health services this past school year, according to a new survey from the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) and teletherapy company Uwill. It's not why they chose the online education in the first place.”

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Some faculty at Spartanburg Community College (SCC) are criticizing what they allege is heavy-handed governance and changes without faculty input by the school administration since new leadership in 2020, The Post and Courier reported. There have even been calls for outside oversight agencies to investigate SCC.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Ebony McGee To explore these questions, we published, Factors Contributing to Black Engineering and Computing Faculty’sPathways Toward University Administration and Leadership , where we interviewed 21 Black engineering and computing faculty members who transitioned into administrative leadership roles in their colleges and universities.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

The California State University (CSU) has reached a tentative agreement with the California Faculty Association (CFA), ending their systemwide strike after one day. “I This tentative agreement makes major gains for all faculty at the CSU.” More details regarding the agreement are expected over the coming days.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

Any recent gains in salary for full-time faculty members have been swallowed up by soaring inflation. Full-time faculty saw a 4% bump for the year ending fall 2022, the largest single-year gain since 1991. It’s really hard to track data on adjunct faculty. But skyrocketing inflation caused a 2.4%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Students and faculty at the New College of Florida held a a protest during a board of trustees meeting a Tuesday after a conservative takeover of the college, CNN reported. Lawmakers are trying to take away freedom of academic thought by telling students what they are allowed to study, said third-year student Chai Leffler.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

A new study by Course Hero, an online learning platform for educators, suggests that a rise in job satisfaction among faculty has improved since the start of the pandemic. According to the American Association of University Women (AAUW) women make up the majority of non tenure-track faculty across institutions in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

Faculty members are more likely to self-censor today than social scientists did during McCarthy era of the 1940s and 50s, according to a recent report from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). And 42% of untenured faculty reported censoring themselves, compared with 31% of tenured faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Faculty and staff at the University of Colorado Boulder walked out and protested for higher wages and other demands Thursday, CPR reported. Non-tenure track faculty, contracted staff, and student workers demanded raises and better working conditions. In 2021, the majority of CU’s faculty is non-tenure-track (66%).

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

California’s community colleges are lacking in full-time faculty, according to a recent report from California’s state auditor. The state-ordered audit looked at hiring and state funds spending practices for full-time faculty at four community college districts: Foothill-De Anza, Kern, Los Rios and San Diego.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For this piece, we identify the function and effects of neoliberalism on the relationships among graduate students and faculty. In higher education, neoliberalism manifests through the not-new concept of students-as-consumers, who “shop” for the best collegiate experience. Dr. Cathryn B.

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JUNE 14, 2023

As a law professor emanating from a primarily liberal arts institution, I deemed it invaluable that the author’s note in my law review articles could state that research was conducted, in part, as an FRN Scholar-in-Residence at NYU, courtesy of the Faculty Resource Network.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

Faculty members will vote next week on resolutions to express no confidence in embattled president E. Gordon Gee and to oppose his proposed cuts to the university’s academic programs, which will affect roughly 2% of the student body. The turmoil at West Virginia University continues. That is simply not factual.”

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JANUARY 13, 2023

Rhode Island College (RIC) will be requiring masks in classrooms for students and faculty when spring semester starts next week, given a slight surge in COVID-19 cases in Providence County, WJAR reported. The masking requirement will also apply to faculty offices, labs, and student services staff offices.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Faculty at The Ohio State University (OSU) are criticizing the school’s recent free speech policy changes, citing negative effects to classroom dynamics, The Lantern reported. But some faculty have viewed the mechanism as being open to dubious claims. William Eveland, a professor of communication at OSU.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Michigan State University (MSU) will offer in-state tuition to out-of-state Native American students through their Native American Tuition Advantage Program (NATAP), beginning in Fall 2025. After looking into and providing a solution to assist the student, Weatherspoon wanted to know what more the institution could do.

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