Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

HBCUs are attracting students at record numbers and experiencing an uptick in philanthropic support, both of which are chipping away at decades of underfunding. It’s a promising trend—one that we have a responsibility to ensure isn’t just a blip. Even with these successes, the long-term viability of many HBCUs remains precarious if we don’t take advantage of this moment to create lasting, systemic changes to advance the ways HBCUs operate and provide more Black Americans with access to the dis

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Steve Keating

MAY 4, 2023

Dealing with people who use “alternate facts” can be a difficult and complex task. Sometimes the alternate facts are meant to “protect” the person they have been shared with. Other times the alternate facts are small in nature, these are often called little white lies. Occasionally, your relationship with the “truth challenged” individual is so insignificant that it doesn’t matter if they are living in some alternate universe.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

Music is a medium commonly used as an instrument to motivate individuals through different facets of life. In 2017, hip-hop became the most streamed genre in the United States of America. While hip-hop may not often be referenced as tantamount with higher education, many artists have referenced the academe within their works. Dr. Jeremy C. McCool Whether you are analyzing Ye’s multiplatinum and highly regarded debut album “College Dropout” or J.

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Cal Newport

MAY 4, 2023

Not long ago, my kids’ school asked me to give a talk to middle school students and their parents about smartphones. I’ve written extensively on the intersection of technology and society in both my books and New Yorker articles, but the specific issue of young people and phones is one I’ve only tackled on a small number of occasions (e.g., here and here ).

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

Every so often, we get to see a college president overjoyed by the honor of awarding their son/daughter a diploma at commencement. That was the case for Dr. David K. Wilson, of Morgan State University in Baltimore, who in 2021, presented a degree to his son, alongside hundreds of other cheering Morgan graduates. But rarely do we see a college president preside over a commencement ceremony where they get to award a degree to their spouse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

Although the pandemic has negatively impacted enrollment across the world of higher education, the drops for minoritized men at community colleges have been especially precipitous. African Americans and Native Americans have been particularly affected, suffering declines of 24% and 26% respectively between fall 2019 and fall 2021. These decreases are especially concerning because of how popular a path community colleges have been for these groups: 44% of all Black undergraduates and 57% of all N

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Student Loan Planner

MAY 4, 2023

The Biden administration implemented a major bankruptcy policy change last year that’s designed to make it easier for some borrowers to discharge their federal student loans in bankruptcy. This new policy is not as far-reaching as what could be achieved through legislation (Bankruptcy reform legislation appears to be stalled in a bitterly-divided Congress.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

More than half of college students (58%) accessed mental health care during their K-12 years, according to data from TimelyCare, a virtual health and well-being company for higher education. Seli Fakorzi The finding indicates that issues of mental health are not recent, said Seli Fakorzi, a licensed clinician and director of mental health operations at TimelyCare.

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Student Loan Planner

MAY 4, 2023

The Biden administration implemented a major bankruptcy policy change last year that’s designed to make it easier for some borrowers to discharge their federal student loans in bankruptcy. This new policy is not as far-reaching as what could be achieved through legislation (Bankruptcy reform legislation appears to be stalled in a bitterly-divided Congress.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

Norwich University recently honored Brig. Gen. Enoch Woody Woodhouse Jr., one of the last surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen, with an honorary doctorate during commencement, NBC5 reported. Brig. Gen. Enoch Woody Woodhouse, Jr. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first group of all-Black military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps, for which Woodhouse served as a pilot in World War II.

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John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

MAY 4, 2023

The end of the semester is finally here! We know that you all have been working hard and hope that you take the time to congratulate yourselves on another wonderful semester. We are also celebrating that we now have a full semester on the books reading your questions, writing our responses, and having such amazing conversations with you all, so thank you for reading.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

Bluefield University was subject to hackers this week, with them taking over the Virginia university’s emergency alerts system and threatening to leak school files if the school doesn’t pay up, NBC News reported. “We have admissions data from thousands of students. Your personal information is at risk to be leaked on the darkweb blog,” the messages said.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MAY 4, 2023

Technology Partnerships and Higher Education A Conversation With Drew Magliozzi, CEO of Mainstay Alan Thu, 05/11/2023 - 06:00 Chatbots Higher Ed Leadership Innovation Spotlight In our mission to promote equity in higher education, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) highlights the strategies of our member institutions. With the growing focus on artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, chatbots in particular, we spoke with Drew Magliozzi , CEO of Mainstay.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

New York Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul has signed into law two bills that would make birth control and medication abortion easier to access, Livingston County News reported. Gov. Kathy Hochul One of the bills would allow pharmacists to prescribe over-the-counter birth control to patients. The other would fund a program to provide medication abortion at SUNY and CUNY campus health centers.

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Knack

MAY 4, 2023

As the mental health crisis among college and university students continues to grow, higher education institutions are increasingly exploring innovative approaches to provide support and promote overall well-being. One such approach is peer tutoring, which has been shown to not only improve academic performance but also positively impact mental health.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

Marcus Byrd Marcus Byrd has been named director of financial aid at Alabama A&M University. He served as director of financial aid at Coppin State University in Baltimore. Byrd earned a bachelor’s degree in finance and an MBA from Alabama A&M University.

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Tutor Zone

MAY 4, 2023

Introduction Tutor Zone is proud to offer an ensemble of programs fit for students in the ABC school district that range in their areas of subject matter and lesson format. We are continually striving to make opportunities available for children in every grade level (K-12) who want to engage in… The post A Quick Glance at our ABC Partnership Programs appeared first on Tutor Zone.

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HEAG

MAY 4, 2023

As college tuition continues to rise, many students struggle to balance their academic responsibilities with their financial obligations. This can lead to a variety of issues that impact student retention and completion rates, such as dropping out of school, taking … Read more ».

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EAB

MAY 4, 2023

Infographic 105 Tactics to Improve Employee Engagement Higher education institutions are confronting high rates of employee turnover and disengagement. To help leaders understand a range of options to improve morale, this infographic provides 105 different tactics to increase employee engagement. Each tactic is rated on how many employees it may impact and how resource-intensive it is.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

Howard University’s Center for Journalism & Democracy (CJD) has won a $4 million award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to create academic and applied research programs with the goal of bolstering health equity journalism at HBCUs. The award – applied over three years – will go towards The RWJF Investigative Journalism for Health Equity Project , which aims to support programming about teaching, research, and reporting on root causes of racial health disparities in the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

More than 39,000 people have signed an online petition for the University of Wisconsin-Madison to expel a student who used racist slurs and said she wanted Black people returned to slavery so she could abuse them, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. Despite condemning the video-recorded language, UW-Madison said, as a public institution , it was bound by the First Amendment.

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