Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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In a significant gathering dedicated to the advancement of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), approximately 70 leaders from across the higher education landscape have converged on Claflin University this week for the Ideation, Innovation, and Collaboration summit sponsored by the Higher Education Leadership Foundation (H.E.L.F).

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The organization's latest workforce trends report, "The Non-Exempt Higher Education Staff Workforce: Trends in Composition, Size, and Equity," reveals a 9 percent overall decrease in full-time non-exempt staff positions since 2017. The non-exempt staff workforce at U.S. Part-time staff numbers fell by 8 percent during the same period.

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APRIL 24, 2025

A federal judge in New Hampshire delivered a significant legal victory Thursday for proponents of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in education by granting a preliminary injunction against the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Additionally, researchers have shown that Black boys and young men are abysmally absent in advanced academics but overrepresented in special education, and in disciplinary infractions such as suspension and expulsion, thus, contributing to their opportunity gaps. Black males will rise to high expectations held for them! Collaborate.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

McMickens, Morris Thomas, and Calvin Hadley There is deep concern about the status of Black men in higher education. A recent report about the enrollment of Black men in postsecondary education indicates that Black men comprise 4.6% Palmer, Larry J. Walker, Tryan L. or a little over 850,000 of the 18.6

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A new audit of Gallaudet University has shown that administrative salary rose by 107% ($11.3 million) while overall spending on academics, including faculty salaries, fell by 6% ($4.8 million) since 2019.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A new report released by The Education Trust titled, “Improving Titles III & V of the Higher Education Act to Better Serve Students of Color and Students from Low-Income Backgrounds” examines how Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) receive funds related to Titles III and V of the Higher Education Act (HEA). Dr. Kayla C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, University of Oklahoma Age: 38 Education: B.S., Student Affairs and Higher Education, Indiana State University; Ph.D., Business Marketing, Albany State University; MBA.,

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JUNE 26, 2024

Real average salaries for full-time faculty members remain below pre-pandemic levels, according to a report released by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Its findings come from AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey. Its findings come from AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

Rather than accepting this as inevitable, his administration launched a comprehensive analysis of student data, policies, and practices. Named after the institutions namesake, a pioneering African American educator, the program provides comprehensive support and resources to high-achieving students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

McCorn said that he is looking forward to helping to grow Paine College, “Connecting Paine College's historic past with a strategic vision for the future will catapult this institution into unparalleled prominence in American higher education,” he said. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2025

Joshua Travis Brown formerly enslaved educator purchases a plantation to create a school for freed persons. Tribal leaders sheltering from windswept plains combat the disillusionment of their reservations youth through education. You dont think that was innovation looking forward and responding to a need?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A new study examines potential effects of artificial intelligence on current challenges faced in higher education and notes that few are ready. But only 16% of faculty and 11% of administrators feel prepared for change. The survey suggests that GenAI could help solve some ongoing challenges in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2025

While community colleges play a crucial role in providing accessible and affordable education to diverse student populations, many still struggle to fully accommodate students with disabilities, according to insights from community college students, faculty, and higher education experts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2025

Strayhorn few years ago, Liu (2023) published, Everyone is Talking about Belonging in The Chronicle of Higher Education. There can be no question that this reflects a growing infrastructure to support belonging for all faculty, staff, and students in higher education. A Dr. Terrell L.

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MARCH 12, 2025

Patterson, a native of Corinth, Mississippi, brings 25 years of higher education experience to Murray State, with particular expertise in enrollment management, diversity and inclusion, and strategic planning. Leon Owens, chair of Murray State's Board of Regents, expressed enthusiasm about the appointment.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Michigan State University (MSU) tenure-track faculty have launched a public unionization campaign to gain more influence in administrative decision-making, The State News reported. Though MSU's non-tenure track faculty and many of MSU's non-academic staffers are unionized, its research-focused, tenure-track professors are not.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The ACPS, conducted by the American Council on Education and the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) Institute, found that 61% of college presidents surveyed were men, and 46% were white men. Whites make up more than 75% of all professionals in higher education. More than 80% were white.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2025

Wilks, who brings more than 25 years of experience in higher education leadershipprimarily at Historically Black Colleges and Universitieswill officially begin her tenure on June 1, 2025. Pamela Richardson Wilks as its 14th president, marking a significant leadership transition for the historic South Carolina HBCU. Zion Church."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students.

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MARCH 18, 2025

President-designate Bolton has been a transformational leader in higher education and has been recognized as an effective organizational strategist in every institution she has served," said John M. Prior to Georgia Tech, Bolton held administrative positions at Washington University in St. At Georgia Tech, she managed a $3.1

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 6, 2025

In a significant leadership transition at one of legal education's key institutions, the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) has appointed Sudha Setty as its new president and chief executive officer, effective July 1, 2025. Law schools and higher education face enormous challenges and opportunities," Setty said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Supreme Court struck down race-consciousness in college admissions upending four decades of precedent and reshaping the landscape of higher education (Edelman, 2023, par. Roueche Center for Community College Leadership, College of Education, Kansas State University. In June 2023, the U. Dr. Carl B. Dr. Terry A. Mathis of the John E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Her pivot from medical school aspirations to a career in health education is now a lesson she shares with young people: life is a journey, not a checklist. in educational leadership. Last year, Howard-Baptiste was appointed as the President of the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education (AABHE).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2025

Often missing is educators having compassion and understanding the root cause of students actions that shifted to them being disciplined to implementing restorative justice measures. In this practice, educators are committed to the success of historically marginalized student subgroups by countering oppressive pedagogies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

As the holidays approach, today’s colleges and universities are increasingly marked by overflowing donation bins containing canned goods collected by every student organization and faculty department to stock the campus food pantry. Over the last decade the food pantry became a higher education trend.

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MARCH 6, 2023

USC declined to make administrators available for interviews with Diverse. The USC Chan Justice Collective is calling for Anvarizadeh’s reinstatement, a public apology, and the resignation of two administrators who they say were involved in her demotion. “I really think that she’s so powerful that they felt threatened,” she said. “Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration, University of Vermont Tenured: No Age: 34 Education: B.A. in Sociology of Education with a policy concentration; Teachers College Columbia University; and Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Hampshire College; M.A.

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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. It’s time to stop funneling tuition and taxpayer money into a top-heavy administration.”

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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 announcement tops mounting troubles for the college, whose budget deficit is expected to grow to $38 million.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2025

College and university administrators should be strategic about how they respond to government attempts to root out diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives (DEI) on campus. Thats what a bevy of scholars told attendees who gathered at the annual conference of the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education. This was cool.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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 call is one of three demands the group made of the administration, during a May 9 rally amid antiwar protests. Dr. Gene D. The group also demanded that 1.) The group also demanded that 1.)

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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

APRIL 29, 2024

Columbia University administration leaders and student organizers failed to reach agreement in negotiations that might have included the university’s divestment from Israel.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Kristin Mallory Mallory, who currently serves as vice president for Academic Affairs at Wor-Wic Community College in Maryland, will assume her new role on July 1, 2025, bringing with her a comprehensive vision for educational excellence and community engagement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2024

Some members of the faculty at Columbia University have lodged a vote of no-confidence for the university’s president, Dr. Minouche Shafik. Law enforcement made several arrests and the administration issued suspensions of students involved in the on-campus demonstrations.

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