Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2023

“We found that debate was linked to improvements not only in overall ELA achievement but specifically in those ELA competencies requiring critical thinking skills,” said study co-author Dr. Beth Schueler, an assistant professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Instead, CSU faculty and educators across the nation are discovering ways to adjust their pedagogy to accommodate this brave new world, not only through the creation of AI-proof assignments but also assignments that purposefully incorporate AI use. If we don’t think about the ways it can be used, we’re setting ourselves up for failure.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2023

Cardinal “There’s an enormous amount of scientific evidence supporting the value of physical activity,” said Dr. Brad Cardinal, study co-author and professor in OSU’s College of Public Health and Human Sciences. Researchers found that 56.2% of institutions did not require PE; 31.7% had a partial requirement.

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Active Minds

JANUARY 29, 2025

Ryan Horio University of California, Los Angeles Project: The Need for Post-Pandemic Mental Health Support Within Asian American College-aged Youth: Addressing Anti-Asian Hate and Sinophobia Through Institutional Interventions Ryan Horio is a fourth-year student at UCLA dual majoring in Asian American Studies and Human Biology & Society.

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Ryan Horio University of California, Los Angeles Project: The Need for Post-Pandemic Mental Health Support Within Asian American College-aged Youth: Addressing Anti-Asian Hate and Sinophobia Through Institutional Interventions Ryan Horio is a fourth-year student at UCLA dual majoring in Asian American Studies and Human Biology & Society.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

As I reflect on my journey through higher education, I find myself looking back on a career that began in the small, rural community of Calhoun in Lowndes County, Alabama. It was there that I first understood the profound impact that education could have on a person’s life.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

They can be expensive and difficult to schedule, and they require a lot of human capital. HBCUs like Spelman produce almost half of all Black teachers in America, despite making up only 3% of the nation’s higher education institutions. But using work-study funds to pay college tutors will help.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

There is also instruction in job-search skills such as interviewing and resumes, and in relevant life skills, such as teamwork, stress management, and financial literacy. In the program, s tudents learn construction , electrical and plumbing basics, blueprint reading and drawing, math , and worksite safety.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2024

Despite the ratification of the 15th Amendment in 1870 which was supposed to guarantee the right to vote, Blacks faced formidable obstacles such as poll taxes, literacy tests, intimidation, and violence, effectively disenfranchising them for generations.

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Catherine Cronin

APRIL 14, 2023

Higher Education for Good: Criticality, resistance and hope What a joy and a privilege to travel to Inverness, Scotland to participate in the Open Education Conference #OER23 last week. In this first short post I’ll summarise my presentation Hi gher Education for Good: Criticality, resistance and hope.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Blogs Creating a data-informed campus: part 3 Using data to facilitate institutional effectiveness The conversation around data-informed decision making in higher education continues to accelerate. All too often, however, the question of how to capture these data and use them to positively affect the institution remains.

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Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In higher education, our use of technology has always run in step with the world around us. Making connections, building community, improving digital literacy , and enhancing employability are just a few of the ways in which social media contribute to a more well-rounded student experience. Being Human.

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The University Innovation Alliance

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) was honored to partner with The Chronicle of Higher Education for its September 29, 2022 panel discussion on innovative financial aid for today's students. In higher education, we throw these acronyms around, and we assume that our audience knows what we're talking about.

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Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

MARCH 2, 2017

When I was in graduate school, my mentor used to talk to me about the challenges of creating a “high tech, high touch” environment in higher education. Just think about all of the human-friendly technology-based services that make up the modern university. That was way back in 2004.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

are the most likely to choose community college as their first step when pursuing a higher education. Our mission is to walk students through unfamiliar processes, support their academic and human needs, and create opportunities for placemaking within the institution ,” says El Centro Director Julissa Colón.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The culminating experience for the EAB Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship was the capstone project that substantively contributed to the fellows’ professional advancement and helped solve a pressing challenge facing their home institutions. The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

All higher education professionals from HBCUs across the country, we are among the inaugural cohort of Teaching in an Inequitable Society fellows, sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children Black Caucus and the Institute for the Study of Modern-Day Slavery at Tougaloo College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs.

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

The most popular one right now is on financial literacy. And again, they're at this formative stage where they're really seeing themselves as I'm this invincible human being out to conquer the world. We're located in a building in the middle of campus with two other cultural centers, La Casa Latina and PAACH.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The older I get, the less surprised I am by human behavior. I vote for five reasons: 1. While growing up in the Deep south during America’s apartheid era, my parents could not vote without paying a poll tax and passing a racist literacy test, reserved exclusively for Blacks.

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Timely MD

MAY 1, 2023

“We have requested that there are some therapists of color that look like our students so that it could help to address the stigma around mental health and make our students a little bit more comfortable with accessing and utilizing the services,” Parsons told The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Ruth Simmons—the prominent education leader who was the first African American to lead an Ivy League institution—was among 18 other individuals who was honored on Monday with a National Humanities Medal at the White House. The 2022 and 2023 National Medals of Arts were also presented at the same ceremony.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Tyrone Howard Photo by Caylo Seals “I had no idea what AERA was — never heard of it,” says Howard, who despite his growing interest in research, was still uncertain if he wanted to pursue a career in higher education. No matter what area of education you’re in, you should at least be asking some questions that have to do with race.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2025

The federal memo reads like a wish list from those who have long wanted higher education to retreat from efforts to repair the racialized inequality that plagues this country. Whats new is that the federal government is now using that logic to impose structural amnesiareplacing racial literacy with silence, and calling it merit.

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