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Business and Health Professions Lead Faculty Growth as Humanities Decline, CUPA-HR Report Finds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In recent years, higher education institutions have faced increasing pressure to prioritize disciplines with clear career pathways over traditional liberal arts programs, according to a new report from the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR).

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68 Since 2015, 64 students, 93.75% of whom are Latino, have been placed in internships. “I I am inspired by everybody’s willingness and enthusiasm to make our community a better place,” says de la Fuente Iglesias.

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Student Success, Retention, and Employability – Getting Digital in a High Tech, High Touch Environment

Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

Social media are the go-to engagement channels for both traditional campus communicators and online-only education programs. The idea being that technology would remove the human element and that it would be almost impossible to create technology-based systems that would elevate and enhance the human experience of higher education.

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Crucial Conversations

The Advisor That Cares

2015, August 20). These three questions and action prompt can foster healthy open communication and a collaborative environment. With safety problems or when dialogue stops and conversations become crucial, the human brain switches from a source of rational reasoning to one of fight or flight. Callibrain. Vital Smarts India.

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Representation Matters

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Adele Newson-Horst was developing a grant proposal, she quoted a 2015 article published in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education that noted HBCU institutions had been slow to introduce gender-related programs. The women’s and gender studies minor at North Carolina Central University was launched in the fall of 2016.

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A Decade Later: The Flint Water Crisis

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When Dr. Benjamin Pauli moved to Flint, Michigan, in June 2015, the town was already one year into a water crisis without knowing it. Through 2015 and 2016, volunteers, celebrities, and politicians clambered to the beleaguered city, ushering in national attention, funds, and bottled water.

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On Section 230 and the Dream of a More Human Internet

Cal Newport

The focus of the case is a single sentence, found in Section 230(c)(1) of 1996’s Communications Decency Act : “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”