Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. At the same time, they struggle to retain the women and minoritized faculty who they have recruited. In many units, the scholarship alone or largely determines whether the faculty member receives a favorable evaluation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

The suit accuses the school’s faculty and administration of snubbing high-profile white male applicants. Northwestern has one among its nine residential tax faculty. Inevitably, the document pairs its lonely truth with an almost laughable falsehood, stating that tax law scholars who are female are “difficult or impossible to find.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Cluster hiring instantly injects diversity into departments that have little, while making the experience easier for minoritized faculty members. Steele remembers being at an event for new faculty. They were hiring three.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2024

In the current moment, many of my colleagues are on the front-line combing through records and various document management systems looking for the answer to whether students completed their degree requirements — did they graduate? All institutions of higher learning have the source of truth in the form of an academic catalog or bulletin.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

We strive to empower students, faculty, staff, and community members to address contemporary social issues through intellectual inquiry, reflective dialogue, and community action." Many of the historical documentation that takes place in the city surrounds the lead up to-and the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2024

OCR reviewed documentation of 75 similar reports from the 2022-23 school year through February 2024. Lhamon Complaints arose about the university’s responses to allegations of discrimination or harassment, including based on shared Jewish ancestry and shared Palestinian or Muslim ancestry.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2024

I suspect they apply whether you are faculty, staff, or student, and perhaps well beyond the academy as well. Try to avoid casual conversations with them, and if you have them document what was said and by whom. It also made me admire the incredible scholar activists who lit the way. Write it all down immediately. (5) They are not.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The pandemic opened the door for many faculty to experience teaching online that hadn’t before,” said Dr. Elizabeth M. Making the shift and continued development Luoma was on Yale University’s faculty initiatives team when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020. I knew we needed to up our usage of it. … Dr. Rebecca S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2022

She encourages young faculty to focus on the stories they want to tell. Her distinct impact is valued by JCSU faculty and administration. “Dr. Another current project is a short film that will document the stories of women who have been part of the JCSU faculty and staff for over 30 years.

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Patter by Pat Thomson

JANUARY 11, 2025

Senior faculty members should be named as co-authors on work independently generated by their junior colleagues only if they have made substantial intellectual contributions to the experimental design, interpretation of findings and manuscript preparation. I would also take the precaution of documenting everything.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

Gabriela Torres, Wheaton College Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Community is everything! What I’m really interested in is people’s experiences with the environment, particularly environmental change, and documenting how they navigate these changes,” Treviño Peña says. Treviño Peña has been a proud community builder.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2023

We the graduate workers, the second largest body of instructors after tenure track faculty, we can't afford our rent, our medical bills, our groceries, a $500 emergency or a trip home." There still remain barriers between them (transgender students) and receiving that care," Fleischmann said. "So

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Because the SCOTUS decision allows for students to include references to their racial and ethnic background in essays that they provide as part of the college application process, it is essential that assistance be provided to prospective applicants as they create and modify successive drafts of these documents.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

With a new federal grant that Chang and his fellow UConn faculty and staff members have secured from the U.S. Curriculum Alongside wraparound services and culturally competent faculty and staff, what’s taught in the classroom is also vital to bolstering student success, Chang says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

That animals avoid environments which seem unhealthy due to predators or poor conditions is a well-documented ecological phenomenon. Protect faculty governance in colleges and universities. Humans are no different. We, too, instinctively avoid environments that look unhealthy or unwelcoming.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2023

This issue has been well documented by Black scholars throughout the years. For example, on one occasion a Vice-Provost asked me to share my research agenda at a faculty meeting. During the entire 15 minutes I spoke, I had never experienced so many blank stares, eye rolls and outright disrespect.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Strategy: Transition to a case management model that offers students proactive guidance and access to resources, and engages faculty to see a complete picture of their academic journey. The Outcomes: Achieved significant improvements in persistence and streamlined processes through a data-informed approach and strong faculty partnerships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2023

Some materials, like the faculty and student handbook, had to be created from scratch and then reviewed by KC’s Board of Trustees for approval. It’s been a long journey. I’m grateful for the team that’s stuck with us.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 19, 2024

Brice says he has fielded calls from over 250 people, including former students, staff, faculty, and administrators who spent time in Poe Hall and have since become sick with cancers or other illnesses. But, they are still subject to basic discovery, like turning over documents for a public records request,” says Brice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I Developing individual supports for each student.” “It is estimated that over 7 million people speak Spanish in Texas,” says Rueda-Acedo, who from 2005–13 was the sole faculty member. Latino faculty at UTA closely mentor the students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

It has been documented exhaustively that diversity contributes to positive learning outcomes, and work teams that consist of individuals with varied backgrounds, perspectives, ethnicities, races, belief systems, cultures and socio-economic statuses are proven to achieve greater results than those that lack such diversity.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2024

Initially, these speeches were often delivered by faculty members or notable figures within the academic community. For Burns, part of his journey as a storyteller and documenter of history has been to be “on the lookout” for the rhymes of history. Over time, commencement addresses have evolved.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

For many of them, the school has scheduled a “day of service,” wherein students, faculty, and staff can volunteer in their community. In addition to multiple forums and the school’s annual showing of documents from its Martin Luther King Jr. Penn State , for instance, has events lined up for a number of its campuses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2024

ACP retains full control over the curriculum documents and can update them whenever, Sperrazza said. In addition to putting out this content, ACP also helps train college students, higher ed faculty and staff, and realtors, so that they’re aware of the historical contexts surrounding their area and work. "We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 5, 2023

McPhail attributed the issues to incomplete audits, a lack of record maintenance and documentation under a previous administration, and an unreliable former auditor. SAU faced an earlier probation between 2016 and 2018. "I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Dr. Yoshiko Harden While Scott’s investment in historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) is well-documented, her contributions to community colleges have not received as much attention. And through the latter, students can gain on-campus employment, mentorship from faculty or staff, and job skill development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 28, 2023

Wendy Barrales, a graduate student researcher at the CUNY Graduate Center, talked about her experiences starting an ethnic studies program at a high school for girls, which led to the creation of the women of color archive , an online project that documents the stories of matriarchs of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Concurrently, in some cases, state legislatures are passing bans or limits on diversity/equity/inclusion programs, racial equity training for faculty and staff, the teaching of Black history, and classroom discussion on topics related to critical race theory. Another dynamic is a new form of segregation emerging as the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Through our work we found that when given the chance to document their experiences fat students overwhelmingly focus on the ways they do not fit in furniture, chairs, and generally within classroom spaces. As a group of scholars and researchers we were interested in such a focus and established the #FatOnCampus research project.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

CGS researchers focused on examining microcredentials that are credit-bearing, are documented on academic transcripts, and require bachelor’s degrees. This focus was mainly to avoid confusion among the various types of microcredentials out there, some which are still nascent in the higher ed landscape, the report noted.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As thoroughly documented by High Country News , forced land dispossessions serve as the foundation for institutions of higher education in the U.S. But the story goes much deeper, and the original assimilationist trajectory endures. My own institution, Kansas State University, used land entirely from the Kaw (Kanza or Kaá?

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 1, 2023

Faculty and staff needed ways to easily communicate and access student data in one place so they had the shared context they needed to meaningfully help students. Faculty and staff can now access a comprehensive picture of each student. To advise students effectively, we needed to see the whole picture.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Greater diversity also has numerous well-documented benefits for all students. Protective factors such as faculty and staff that promote student connectedness and are equipped to provide psychoeducational resources and learning experiences that support student mental health can make a difference for students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Faculty and staff at DCCC embraced him, Shegog said, seeing him as a human first and foremost, asking him to share who he was, his past, and his dreams. Being in this system with these barriers put me in a position that, almost seven years ago, I was downtown panhandling for change,” said Shegog.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

In 2019, Oglethorpe partnered with TheDream.US , a national scholarship program that helps provide access to a college education for immigrant youth who came to the country at a young age without documentation. Undocumented students make up nearly 10% of Oglethorpe’s degree-seeking student body. As the scholar advisor to TheDream.US

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The purpose of the age-old course syllabus remains the same — a crucial document that sets the foundation for a course by providing students with essential information, outlining expectations, and serving as a reference point throughout the semester.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Between processing applications, tracking down missing documents, and ensuring awards align with school policies, the workload can be exhausting. Reduce Administrative Work & Eliminate Missing Documents Managing financial aid applications can be tedious, especially when dealing with incomplete submissions and missing paperwork.

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