Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

As institutions of higher learning continue to grapple with creating more inclusive environments, Kizarts framework offers administrators, faculty, and staff practical tools to identify and counteract biases that may undermine diversity and equity initiatives. Kizart writes with both professional expertise and personal conviction.

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“Complete College, America: Harnessing the Power of Higher Education to Renew American Democracy” examines actionable steps that colleges and universities can take to prepare students to be ready for today’s workforce and be active, informed citizens. It cannot be a tangential, peripheral set of activities,” said Watson Spiva.

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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. It’s really hard to track data on adjunct faculty. But skyrocketing inflation caused a 2.4%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2024

More than 80% of college faculty and staff members have noticed increasing demand among online learners for mental health services this past school year, according to a new survey from the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) and teletherapy company Uwill. It's not why they chose the online education in the first place.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Interested participants can expect narrative video content, data-informed best practices, reflection activities and self-assessments. The curriculum’s first course, “The Students We Have,” is currently available for free to colleges throughout the nation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

My background directly informs my work and my approach to educational research," said Morris. "I His research examines the complex intersections of race, social class, and geography in educational opportunity, with a particular focus on the U.S. This year's annual meeting will take place next month in Denver.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

This interdisciplinary group brings together faculty, researchers, staff, and students to develop innovative solutions for improving recruitment, engagement, and retention.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Johnson has more than 30 years of higher education experience as a faculty member, researcher and administrator. Previously, she joined the IUPUI faculty in 1993 and ascended through the ranks as a department chair, dean and associate vice chancellor for undergraduate education, prior to her role as chief academic officer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2023

Carolyn Terry The annual Delphi Award – sponsored by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and the University of Southern California’s Pullias Center for Higher Education – commends and rewards schools giving support to non-tenure-track, contingent and/or adjunct faculty, according to its website.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Hopeful signs for a future beyond campus food pantries abound.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2023

City College of San Francisco (CCSF) will be rehiring faculty who were laid off last spring, the San Francisco Examiner reported. City College of San Francisco expects to rehire faculty members who were laid off last spring, according to reports. The move as a whole resulted in concern and uncertainty over the school and its community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 14, 2025

Rather, its about attracting world-class faculty, creating more research opportunities for students, and coming upwith new innovations that benefit everyday people particularlythose in Baltimore, where the sprawling HBCU campusis located. That information helped guide Morgan States spending priorities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2023

Stony Brook University will receive $12 million to increase research faculty to drive innovation and expand student opportunities. The money will go towards hiring faculty that help expand research funding and productivity, increase faculty diversity, and address instructional needs. King, Jr. –

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Michelle Robinson has become senior vice provost for faculty affairs at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) as of Feb. She has a keen ability to understand and resolve faculty and academic issues.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This dynamic not only informs how we advocate for students but also shapes how we collaborate with faculty, staff, and other leaders to build systems that uplift every learner. As a college president, building trust and forging partnerships with faculty, staff, and the community is central to the mission.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

These factors include, but are not limited to Black male initiatives, Black cultural organizations that help to facilitate a sense of belonging, culturally relevant pedagogical strategies, diverse faculty who demonstrate an ethic of care and support, and efforts to create an inclusive campus climate through antiracism.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Sasse’s selection and candidacy was surrounded by student protests , controversy, and a faculty vote of no-confidence. Education properly understood isn’t exclusively or even primarily about transmitting information,” Sasse said. Sasse was the sole finalist for the role. We want Gators to engage ideas.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Title V allows us to meet academic needs in really wonderful ways with tutoring and professional development for faculty, but our students have a lot of other needs and we’re seeing that more and more,” said Fabrizio. There are needs with food, housing, mental health support and counseling. … Dr. Dwayne L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

It brings together presidents, provosts, faculty, funders, policymakers, and industry leaders to address big questions facing HBCUs. DIVERSE : In addition to policymakers, faculty, and administrators, students play a major role in UNITE. At the end of the day, UNITE isn't just a conference; it's a movement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 16, 2024

I firmly believe perception informs pedagogy. Beyond professional and financial advancement, pursuing National Board Certification helps educators become better teachers and more insightful people, said Dr. Damara Hightower Mitchell, Chief Executive Officer of the EPI Center at Voorhees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2025

Pinkard, the former president of Wilberforce University who currently serves as an HBCU presidential fellow at Brown University, said that the convening was informed by "two very, very powerful assumptions. She has aspirations of joining the faculty ranks at an HBCU someday. Felton asked attendees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Colleges and universities use endowments to support several priorities, such as scholarships, upgraded facilities and faculty hiring. However, endowments at HBCUs currently trail those of other institutions by at least 70%. Together, we must hold our country’s leaders accountable and demand equity in education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 19, 2023

Two Cal State Fullerton (CSUF) business faculty are studying ways to maintain academic honesty in test-taking in a post-COVID world that utilizes remote and online exams. Their research observed that active proctoring made academic dishonesty less likely and is also more effective as a potential deterrent.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I would describe faculty as on a spectrum between sanguine and despairing,” says Dr. Joseph F. Faculty members, Brown recalls, were worried that students would use ChatGPT to cheat and bypass any difficulties they encountered, negatively impacting learning. “As you can imagine, people were and still are apprehensive.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2025

How one approaches resource allocationwhether it involves the funding of positions, projects, or prioritiesoccupies a prominent place in the minds of the faculty, classified staff, students, community, and board members. Inevitably, they will make judgments about the CEOs focus, values, and even character based on how funds are disbursed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

Stewart “I hope to cultivate a culture of care and support within our university community, advocating for the success and happiness of students, faculty, and staff alike,” said Stewart. I want to equip students with the tools to make informed decisions, fostering healthier lifestyles and well-being through education.” Williams. “I

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

It was not because the leaders or the practitioners or faculty members in these institutions weren't tech savvy or didn't care…It was about funding.” In addition to talking with students who are being impacted by the lack of digital infrastructure, CCA also valued the input of institutions with robust infrastructures.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

She researches race, gender, and informal economies in the Anglophone Caribbean. Brown-Glaude is the former chair of the Department of African American Studies, where she spearheaded the development of its major.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Excelencia in Education works to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. We offer faculty workshops on culturally sensitive teaching.” It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Nonetheless, the percentage of women STEM faculty remains disproportionately small. Launch committees are groups of experienced faculty and administrators that will create programming for new faculty members to plan out their career trajectories, build rapports, and develop mentor relationships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

where harassment reporting mechanisms often fail to protect Black faculty. Dr. Lori Patton Davis, a professor at the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies, says the way the U.S. For somebody who does want to be a faculty member, but it just seems very unattainable, I would say to stay positive,” says Burt. “Do

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Many of those students had to find information about how to successfully prepare for transferring through their own efforts, rather than have that presented to them upon enrollment at the community college. Lehman College, a four-year CUNY school, also has a Virtual Transfer Center that community college students can go to for information.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 28, 2024

University of South Dakota The South Dakota Board of Regents instated a new policy this year that effectively prohibits the use of gender pronouns and other affiliations by the state’s public university faculty and staff members. South Dakota’s population is roughly 9% Native American. The ACLU is considering next steps to address it.

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