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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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Jones In the great hallways of the academy, lined with towering shelves of canonical texts, echoing with the cadence of scholarly debates, one might expect every corner of higher education to have been interrogated, dissected, and held up to the harsh, illuminating light of inquiry. But athletics is no outsider. It has never been.

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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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in educational leadership. Continually going back to that same campus was ideal because I still was able to connect with mentors and faculty and staff and it really just nurtured my journey in higher education, she says. She is also a professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

A new report from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences offers promising insights into the state of humanities programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), even as humanities degree completions decline across the nation. I can’t begin to stress how important the humanities are to liberation and freedom.”

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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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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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FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A transformational paradigm shift is needed in the curation of how Black boys and young men are seen and how educators and practitioners - school counselors, teachers, resource officers, administrators, postsecondary faculty and staff - work with them. Our Black boys and young men are ready ! Now professionals must get ready too!

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JANUARY 2, 2023

Wayne State University has received $6 million for a cluster hire program to recruit and hire 30 new humanities faculty and create a Black Studies center. The grant also helps fund the launch of the Detroit Center for Black Studies, which will be faculty-led and help connect Black Studies faculty from Michigan institutions.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

For example, in 2020, the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) found that Black/African American employees comprise less than 10% of higher education professionals. Whites make up more than 75% of all professionals in higher education.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

and others created the Higher Education Leadership Foundation (H.E.L.F.) The four-day convening will include administrators, faculty members, policy makers, and innovators interested in the latest trends and strategies for enhancing educational practices and leadership. When Dr. Herman J. From May 12-14th, H.E.L.F.

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MAY 18, 2025

Hines Black students have cultural assets and exude brilliance in both K-12 and Higher Education. Black educators and K-12 and stakeholders in higher education (e.g., faculty, staff, and administrators) are highly underrepresented, which is a crisis. Below, we go deeper and provide recommendations.

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MARCH 14, 2023

To identify and cut DEI in higher education. 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. Their goal? Now, it’s time to change this paradigm.

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APRIL 4, 2023

Nearly 100 Columbia University faculty members are criticizing the school’s plan to open a new research hub for professors and graduate students in Tel Aviv, Israel, citing the country’s human rights record and political situation, The New York Times reported. Columbia’s faculty seems to be quite divided on the matter.

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APRIL 13, 2025

Moreover, given the current socio-political era of anti-DEI, faculty and other university personnel have been losing funding, positions, and operational units that support research and programming that help the most vulnerable student populations to thrive and attain optimal outcomes in higher education and in their personal lives.

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JUNE 23, 2023

Jonelle Knox When I reviewed the question posed to me about [re]engaging the college community, I started thinking about a missed opportunity that many colleges and university leaders are not taking advantage of; the collaboration of student affairs and human resources to create [re]engagement activities.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

According to the complaint, Martinez Powless repeatedly raised concerns to her supervisor, human resources, and the college president about discrimination against a Black employee requiring accommodations. She also reported alleged disparaging comments made about Black employees.

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JUNE 14, 2023

As a law professor emanating from a primarily liberal arts institution, I deemed it invaluable that the author’s note in my law review articles could state that research was conducted, in part, as an FRN Scholar-in-Residence at NYU, courtesy of the Faculty Resource Network.

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JANUARY 2, 2025

Likewise, as a higher education professional, I have mentored and supported first-generation Black postsecondary STEM students who share similar life experiences, aspirations, challenges, and stories that help them persist through their STEM education and workforce readiness training. Segrest through my program.

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AUGUST 26, 2024

Thirty-two tenured faculty members are slated for layoffs at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). Faculty also have statutory layoff rights, which UWM will of course honor,” Mone said. Dr. Mark A. The Waukesha campus will close entirely next spring.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Joy Gaston Gayles will become head of the NC State College of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development (ELPHD), effective Jul. She was the 2022 President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Hikes Woman of Color in the Academy Award.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This shift in perception must also extend beyond K-12 education to colleges and universities. we examine how Black male students and professionals in higher education face discrimination, microaggressions, and Racial Battle Fatigue. In another one of our op-eds, “Is the Black Man the Bogeyman in the Ivory Tower? "

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Esther Jones has been named associate dean for faculty development in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty at Brown University. Before her latest post, Jones served in various leadership capacities including as an associate provost in the Office of Faculty Affairs at Clark University.

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APRIL 4, 2023

The fellows – 20 CUNY Graduate Center doctoral student fellows and 45 faculty fellows – will be affiliated with CUNY’s BRES Collaboration Hub and will do research and create curricula to improve Black, race, and ethnic studies at CUNY. Faculty fellows get $2,000 stipends for research and curriculum development projects.

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JANUARY 15, 2025

Title: Associate Professor Tenured: Yes Age: 40 Education: B.S University of California, Irvine (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Career mentors: Dr. Stephen Mattingly, UTA; Dr. Melanie Sattler, UTA Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Stay resilient and persistent. Aim for steady progress.

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JANUARY 20, 2025

Alessandra Lynch, Butler University; Dr. Joshua Bennett Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Teach your students to be human as you teach them everything else. Douglas, Indiana University - Indianapolis; Prof. Thomas Kneeland went to college with his mind set on becoming a physician.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

Georgetown University and Howard University have been awarded a $3 million grant to help fund the establishment of a center for medical humanities. year grant from the Mellon Foundation will go towards the Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice, which aims to reduce health disparities in D.C.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Faculty at The Ohio State University (OSU) are criticizing the school’s recent free speech policy changes, citing negative effects to classroom dynamics, The Lantern reported. But some faculty have viewed the mechanism as being open to dubious claims. However, a policy can’t change that, Eveland said.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Old Dominion University’s (ODU) Darden College of Education and Professional Studies is launching a program to help address disparities in the number of minorritized higher ed faculty. The priority deadline for applications for the two- to three-person initial cohort is Dec.

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JUNE 15, 2023

Any recent gains in salary for full-time faculty members have been swallowed up by soaring inflation. Full-time faculty saw a 4% bump for the year ending fall 2022, the largest single-year gain since 1991. For faculty, that only happens maybe twice in their career, when they go from assistant to associate, and from associate to full.”

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JANUARY 20, 2025

Alessandra Lynch, Butler University; Dr. Joshua Bennett Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Teach your students to be human as you teach them everything else. Douglas, Indiana University - Indianapolis; Prof. Thomas Kneeland went to college with his mind set on becoming a physician.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Faculty resignations have been increasing at Iowa universities, The Daily Iowan reported. According to the state Board of Regents’ Annual Human Resources Report , University of Iowa (UI) faculty resignations rose from 80 to 92 from fiscal year (FY) 2021 to FY 2022 – in FY 2020, there were 73 resignations.

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APRIL 6, 2025

The Foundation's Board Co-Chairs, Debra Knopman and Terry Adamson, praised Holloway as "an eminent historian, a respected scholar of the humanities, a public intellectual, and an influential leader in higher education," highlighting his "thoughtful approach to collaboration" and "firm commitment to the Foundation's long-term view."

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The UNCF (United Negro College Fund) and Robert Kraft’s Foundation brought a diverse group of Black and Jewish students, faculty and administrators together for a series of Unity Dinners across the nation. The dinners - which kicked off at the National Civil and Human Rights Museum in Atlanta before moving to George Washington University in D.C.

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JULY 26, 2023

Simmons will deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the highest honor from the federal government for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. Simmons The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) lecture – “Facing History to Find a Better Future” – will take place 7 p.m. Dr. Ruth J.

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JUNE 12, 2023

Coastline College is now offering a program to help teach faculty about the complexities and nuances of the Vietnam War. The goal is to help faculty create curricular materials for humanities courses and provide veterans and Southeast Asian students more access to meaningful content. The program will run Jun. 19-23 virtually.

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JUNE 20, 2023

The Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) will host its 8th annual early-career faculty professional development program, ELEVATE (Enriching Learning, Enhancing Visibility & Training Educators), this week.

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