Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2023

Cardinal “There’s an enormous amount of scientific evidence supporting the value of physical activity,” said Dr. Brad Cardinal, study co-author and professor in OSU’s College of Public Health and Human Sciences. The study – lead author was Dr. Alexandra Szarabajko, chair of exercise science at Columbia College – examined 331 U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Faculty members, Brown recalls, were worried that students would use ChatGPT to cheat and bypass any difficulties they encountered, negatively impacting learning. But this method led to its own problems, including students’ work being falsely flagged as AI-generated. Dr. Joseph F. Brown A perfect solution was not easy to find.

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Active Minds

JANUARY 29, 2025

The Emerging Scholar Fellowship , generously supported by the Scattergood Foundation for Behavioral Health and Macys , is a unique opportunity for students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or Persons of Color (BIPOC) to work on their own groundbreaking mental health-related independent research. Authored by Alicia Elms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Registered A pprenticeships—programs that combine school instruction with paid on-the-job training, allowing students to “earn while they learn” — are critical on-ramps to good jobs. The program allows students to work on their own timelines, from one year to four. But creating the program was not easy.

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The Emerging Scholar Fellowship , generously supported by the Scattergood Foundation for Behavioral Health and Macys , is a unique opportunity for students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or Persons of Color (BIPOC) to work on their own groundbreaking mental health-related independent research. Authored by Elena Smith.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

Halima Monds was a first-year student at Spelman College when she joined SpelREADS , a program that pairs undergraduate tutors with students in Atlanta Public Schools to help boost their reading ability. If a student is not reading on grade level, that’s a pipeline to prison. “If And yet, there’s reason for hope.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2024

Members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) had been on the ground working there since 1962 and there was tension with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Marcus Bright There was a significant level of tension among individuals and organizations that had been doing work to advance voting rights in Selma and the surrounding areas.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Dr. Jack Thomas In my own journey, leading a campus with such diverse student representation has reinforced the importance of embracing diversity and fostering a culture of inclusivity. This period witnessed a remarkable increase in minority enrollments and the establishment of support programs designed to cater to diverse student bodies.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 25, 2023

Subscribe: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Youtube | Full Transcript Today on the show, I’m talking with Dr. Marisa Vernon White, Vice President of Enrollment Management and Student Services at Lorain County Community College. 28:32] – Another benefit to these systems is improved data literacy among faculty. [30:19]

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Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

DECEMBER 13, 2016

From the days of old when punch cards held reams of research to the present day when information is stored in data-rich, mobile accessible clouds, the student experience is directly connected to an institution’s technology. Social media are perhaps the easiest technologies to mention when we one is thinking about the student experience.

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The University Innovation Alliance

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Completion Grants: Innovative Financial Aid for Today's Students. Student Aid. The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) was honored to partner with The Chronicle of Higher Education for its September 29, 2022 panel discussion on innovative financial aid for today's students. The first semester we supported 40 students.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

5 Tips to Recruit and Enroll Latine/x Students in Your Community College. Prospective Latine/x college students in the U.S. And even though Hispanic students were the only college student population who saw consistent growth over the past 10 years, there was still a 24.5% Tip #1: Build belonging.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Accountability comes in many forms: to state or governing agencies, students, key performance indicators, operating measures, and more. educational policy is a focus on using evidence, or data, to inform decisions about institutional and educator quality, budgetary decisions, and what and how to teach students” (3).

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Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

MARCH 2, 2017

However, with a deeper glance, it’s the connections between these areas that are the strands that form essential aspects of the student experience. Student Success. Student engagement is everything when it comes to student success. Engagement is what creates a meaningful student experience. High Tech, High Touch.

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Catherine Cronin

APRIL 14, 2023

After months of discussion and imagining, Laura and I published a global call for proposals in January 2022, inviting educators, students and scholars any/everywhere to respond. In my #OER23 presentation ( slides here ) about the book, I described its genesis in pandemic times.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more. Projects addressed topics such as annual giving, student retention, professional and continuing education, academic program planning, and more. Scroll down to read about each of the capstone projects in the fellows’ own words.

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

EAB’s Wenie Lado is joined by Dr. Brian Peterson from the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches, advises students, and serves as the Director of Penn’s Makuu Black Cultural Center. And so how do they find the right students to bring to their campus and who are a good fit? Transcript [music] 0:00:12.4 music] 0:00:46.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

We and many others have written about how Black males are the most disenfranchised students in our nation’s schools. Giving all of our students access to contemporary literature that centers Black youth perspectives is not only important in decolonizing literature education but also in presenting a holistic view of Black childhood.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court’s landmark decision gutting the use of race in college admissions was the quintessential torch to our collective hearts, leaving us disheartened and concerned for our students’ futures. Well done, SCOTUS. In 1996, affirmative action was struck down by the U.S. 5 th Circuit Court of Appeals in Hopwood v.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The older I get, the less surprised I am by human behavior. I vote for five reasons: 1. While growing up in the Deep south during America’s apartheid era, my parents could not vote without paying a poll tax and passing a racist literacy test, reserved exclusively for Blacks.

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Timely MD

MAY 1, 2023

A recent nationwide survey found nearly 60% of Gen Z college students have received mental health care before arriving on campus – during their K-12 years. Many college and university leaders already have made significant investments in creating a connected system of care that improves student outcomes by supporting student mental health.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Forty-one years had passed since Howard graduated from the school, but his formative years as a student there radically transformed his life and set him on the path to becoming the world class scholar that he is today. Those shifting demographics are broadly reflected in today’s student population.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2025

Ambitious, and often anxious, students enter collegiate Alicia P. At any age, collegiate students feel the intensity between their desires for differentiation and longing for belonging and a clear sense of purpose. Peoples environments aspiring to find answers, solve problems and create systems to support themselves and others.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2025

The letter demanded a comprehensive restructuring of Harvards governance, hiring, admissions, and student life. It demanded academic departments be ideologically reshaped, student organizations dismantled, and faculty policed for anything considered activism. But we understand, as humans, that fairness has to be considered in context.

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