College Planners of America

JUNE 11, 2025

Administrative bloat is a term used to refer to steep growth in administrative staff relative to college faculty and students. For several decades, colleges have experienced a substantial upswing in non-instructional spending on administrative services. The ratio between faculty and administrators has shrunk.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff. All faculty and administrator searches must have a DEI advocate who completes specialized training. The current administration is led by a Latinx president and provost and includes more female leaders than ever before.

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SRI Education

JULY 22, 2025

This blog is the second of three blogs summarizing recommendations from students, families, educators, mental health professionals, and administrators for improving students’ mental health services in schools. What was the school community’s next priority?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 25, 2025

But by the following week, she was on administrative leave. When instruction includes novel, emotionally or intellectually stimulating features, students show greater attention, motivation, and cognitive performance, particularly in STEM and technical subjects (see Guo & Fryer, 2025 ; Hidi & Renninger, 2006 ).

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Student Privacy Compass

APRIL 29, 2025

Transparency and Parental Consent: about 10 states mention the need for transparency surrounding AI policies: both vendor transparency and school administrators transparency with parents and students in how AI tools used at school collect and use data. In Context.

Education 52

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Streamlining the transfer application process can significantly reduce the burden of paperwork and administrative tasks. By creating a simplified application with flexible deadlines and clear instructions, schools make the process more accessible and user-friendly for transfer students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 18, 2025

to learn about instructional methods and administrative strategies to support Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and other diverse student groups. Following instructions from the community’s elders, Umoja’s director of curriculum and instruction, dressed in a white dress with matching heels, stood behind the podium and addressed the room.

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The Counseling Geek

JULY 25, 2025

The Time-Expertise Paradox Between individual counseling sessions, group interventions, crisis response, administrative duties, and collaboration meetings, comprehensive research feels impossible. It provided videos with instructions, links to the correct parts, etc. Screenshots and step-by-step instructions for every feature.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2025

But having been recruited into other leadership roles, such as Associate Vice President for Instruction at De Anza College south of San Francisco, she says she felt more than ready when applying for these top jobs. Its a matter of not just educating our own community but also reversing the perceptions about us.

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College Aid Services

MARCH 3, 2025

The Department of Education has released an FAQ to clarify concerns stemming from last month’s Dear Colleague Letter, which instructed institutions to cease using race preferences and stereotypes as a factor in their admissions, hiring, promotion, compensation, scholarships, prizes, administrative support, sanctions, discipline, and beyond or (..)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2025

It instructed the University to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs under whatever name, and to cease any admissions or hiring practices that consider race, gender, or even proxies for race. The administrations memo targets racial equity work explicitly. The fantasy here is not just that racism has disappeared.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We hope Donald Trump means it when he says he wants a focus on project-based instruction, career and technical education and apprenticeships. During Trump’s first term, he tapped McMahon to lead the Small Business Administration, the agency that gives loans and disaster relief to companies and entrepreneurs. million members. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2025

The neglect is also administrative—a kind of “friendly fire” that surfaces whenever campuses ask more of Black women than they budget for. Land-grant parity lags, too; 1890 campuses wait months for matching funds federal law says should arrive automatically.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2025

Trump signed an executive order he called Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity, instructing federal agencies to end diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices and programs. DelMastro-Jeffery arrived at Richland fresh off an internship with the Biden-Harris administration.

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Timely MD

JANUARY 24, 2025

Make it easy for students to access support by including details about available services, step-by-step instructions on registration, and links to relevant resources. Campus surveys also revealed strong approval for the program, with administrators confirming that CEEP successfully met their needs for timely, effective support.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2025

An Office of Management and Budget memorandum instructed agencies to pause federal financial assistance activities, effectively freezing research grants and public health program funds. The report documents that approximately 780 NIH grants were terminated or faced cancellation by March 2025 under new administrative priorities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2025

Department of Education employees were instructed to vacate their offices by 6 p.m. This development comes amid broader efforts by the Trump administration to significantly downsize or potentially eliminate the federal agency. This count excludes managers and supervisors. The new cuts will include 1,315 federal employees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Department of Education has placed dozens of employees on paid administrative leave following President Donald J. Employees placed on leave received notification that they would continue receiving full salaries and benefits but were instructed not to perform work-related tasks or enter office premises.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

This new directive marks a stark departure from the Biden administration's interpretation of Title IX, which had previously established that schools excluding transgender students from sports teams were in violation of the law. Critics argue the administration is crafting sweeping policy changes around a statistically minimal issue.

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NCLC Student Loan Borrower Assistance

MARCH 20, 2025

The SAVE plan is the newest income-driven repayment plan for federal student loans, created by the Biden Administration in 2023. The Eighth Circuit also instructed the lower court to expand the scope of the preliminary injunction to block the entire SAVE Rule, not just the cancellation provided through the SAVE plan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2025

The action comes just weeks before the new school year begins, with school districts across the country scrambling to address massive budget shortfalls created by the Trump administration's funding freeze. "As The largest portion consists of $2.2

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from FIU, a master’s in human resources development and administration from Barry U. in Miami, and a doctorate in instructional technology and distance education from Nova Southeastern University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The board of trustees and administration thoroughly restructured the college's academic offerings without meaningful faculty involvement and denied academic due process to multiple faculty members during their tenure applications and renewals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The 2023-2024 Digital Learning Pulse Survey revealed that three-quarters of higher education trustees, faculty, and administrators believe GenAI will noticeably change their institutions — and help solve ongoing issues. But only 16% of faculty and 11% of administrators feel prepared for change.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2022

For close to a year, I have been strategizing and working with Randy Raymond, a software engineer at Google, to make access to computer science education the new “Space Race” and create models that schools can scale to deliver instruction to students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2023

“We’re looking forward to his leadership, his work with the entire community and his ability to lead this instruction for the success of his students, faculty and staff,” said Robert Gilbert, chair of the HCC board of trustees. Timmons holds a doctorate in higher education administration from Bowling Green State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2023

Miller, signed a statement saying that care for the beliefs of the Muslim students in the class should have “superseded academic freedom,” and another administrator wrote to students that L ó pez Prater’s actions were Islamophobic. Hamline’s president, Dr. Fayneese S. The AAUP did not say when a report might be made public.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

If they found some interesting, they could then make requests to their administrator or librarian for the full text of articles. “I The other states, the students request an individual article, and then an administrator or a person designated by the Department of Corrections will review that request. Some states use it like full JSTOR.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Davis holds master’s degrees in instruction and curriculum design and in business administration-technology management from the University of Phoenix and a doctorate in educational leadership and policy analysis from East Tennessee State. Patrick Davis Sr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2023

Previously, he was superintendent of Alleghany County Schools; assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction for Lee County Schools; and an elementary principal and assistant principal in Union County Schools.

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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. In the program, s tudents learn construction , electrical and plumbing basics, blueprint reading and drawing, math , and worksite safety.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

The conference attendees were a mix of students, faculty, donors, education administrators, and edtech professionals. Thus, it would seem more than appropriate, at minimum, to assess and examine our current practices, including who performs one of our most essential functions [instruction].

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2023

The plan will help reduce the deficit to about $9 million by fall 2025 and create a surplus of about $5 million by fall 2026, according to administrators. University leaders attributed the budget deficit to enrollment, insufficient staffing reductions, and high instructional costs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Undergraduate LAs operate as part of an instructional team, supporting both students and faculty to create more inclusive, learner-centered classrooms that improve student and faculty success. from FSU but has since found fulfilment as an administrator. “I The concept is quite simple. This is praxis. I am still doing my research.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2023

Model state legislation has been written — and if passed, would prohibit colleges from hiring DEI officers, spending money on DEI, and bar trainings that instruct staff/faculty to identify and fight against systemic racism. The SEL approach deeply and successfully embeds DEI into day-to-day campus operations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Now almost a year since its release, Brown says CSU faculty and administration are coming to terms with the fact that “policing students’ use [of ChatGPT] is probably impossible, usually ineffective, and definitely inefficient.” But this method led to its own problems, including students’ work being falsely flagged as AI-generated.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Ladson-Billings is Professor Emerita and former Kellner Family Distinguished Professor in Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Gloria Ladson-Billings, one of the world's most prolific educational researchers.

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