Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 17, 2023
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are safe spaces for personal development. Attending HBCUs provide intentional, intrusive, and focused resources dedicated to its students’ academic success and mental well-being. HBCUs expose students to experiences that can’t be imitated, accepting students as they are—nurturing and inspiring the whole person for academic and career readiness.
Active Minds
AUGUST 17, 2023
Pencils? Check. Notebooks? Check. The planner you were obsessed with that you’ll use diligently for one week and then forget about? Also, check. As you prepare to head back to school this fall, it’s just as important to check in with your mental health (and the well-being of your friends and peers!) as it is to check off all the items on your back-to-school shopping list.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 17, 2023
City Colleges of Chicago’s (CCC) partnership with One Million Degrees (OMD) will begin at Malcolm X College this fall, providing students at the college dedicated support towards academic and career success. CCC’s partnership with the community college student success organization comes in the form of a four-year pilot program, which began last academic year at another CCC school, Olive-Harvey College.
Steve Keating
AUGUST 17, 2023
I’ve known a whole lot of very smart people with a ton of potential. All they needed was a break or two and someone to push them forward towards success. Unfortunately neither of those “needs” were ever fulfilled. So, much of their smarts, talents and abilities where left unused. They have done okay in life, outside observers might even say they have done better than just okay.
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.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 17, 2023
Three years after the initial Black Lives Matter protests and with the COVID-19 pandemic emergency now lifted, enrollment at HBCUs continues to rise. In 2020, as the nation contended with the pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests across the country, many historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) saw an uptick in interest and applications.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 17, 2023
The University of Chicago will pay $13.5 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that it conspired with other elite schools to limit financial aid for admitted students. The school is the first defendant in the suit to settle, The Washington Post reported. The lawsuit – filed in Illinois federal court in January 2022 – claims that 17 colleges and universities use a shared financial need methodology that reduces institutional dollars to students from working- and middle-class families.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 17, 2023
The Rutgers Law School Housing Justice & Tenant Solidarity Clinic is representing members of 75 Prospect Street Tenant Association in lawsuits against companies owned or managed by Ron Kutas, alleging that he is responsible for a building’s deteriorating condition. The building in question is “The Castle,” a 44-unit historic building with a well-documented history of neglect, including building-wide leaks, mold, and dysfunctional elevators.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 17, 2023
Ingrid O. McMillan Ingrid O. McMillan has been appointed director of the I.P. Stanback Museum and Planetarium at South Carolina State University. She served as director of history, art, and culture at Penn Center, Inc., on St. Helena Island, South Carolina. McMillan holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from South Carolina State University and an MBA in management from Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 17, 2023
Katherine Werwie Katherine Werwie has been appointed associate curator at the Nash Museum of Art at Duke University. She served as a graduate research assistant in technical cataloging at the Yale Center for British Art. Werwie, a graduate of Barnard College in New York City, earned a master’s at the University of Cambridge.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 17, 2023
Royel Johnson Royel Johnson has been appointed director of the National Assessment of Collegiate Campus Climates. Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s in educational policy studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as a Ph.D. in higher education and student affairs from The Ohio State University.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 17, 2023
Evelyn Rucker Evelyn Rucker has been named director of intercultural affairs at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. She served as the interim director. Rucker holds a bachelor’s degree in social work and a master’s in public administration from Jacksonville State University in Alabama.
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