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Students
Doing Better By Students When a College Closes
Although college closures are not common occurrences, numerous factors suggest a continuing uptick, so higher education institutions, accreditors and the government are wise to work together on reforms that protect students when such crises occur. That was the consensus of speakers Tuesday at “School’s Out Forever: Reforming the College Closure Process,” an event hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center.
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NYC Task Force and Report Tackles Incarceration
The head of a prominent New York City nonprofit is guiding a team of the Big Apple’s most-engaged community leaders to redo the way they prevent and address incarceration.
Community Colleges
Author Chat: New Book Mines Racial Disparities in College Degrees
Journalist Richard Whitmire discusses how to significantly improve graduation rates of first-generation, low-income, minority college students in his sixth book, The B.A. Breakthrough: How Ending Diploma Disparities Can Change the Face of America. Whitmire, a past president of the National Education Writers Association and former editorial writer for USA Today, discussed the book (published by The 74 and released April 9) and related issues with Diverse.
Women
Report: Education is Key Factor in Gender Bias Among Women in Politics
As campaign season for the 2020 presidency begins with more women competing for the nomination than ever before, gender bias continues to affect their chances of political success, with 13 percent of Americans believing that men are more emotionally suited for political office than women.
African-American
Art Historian Explores African Diaspora, Intersections
Dr. Huey Copeland, an associate professor of art history and the Arthur Andersen Teaching and Research Professor at Northwestern University, has advanced scholarship in contemporary and modern art of the African diaspora like few others.
Sports
MLB’s Diversity Hiring Score Unchanged
Baseball is a game played at a slow pace and is deliberate when it comes to changing the way it is played. The same can be said for Major League Baseball (MLB) and its racial and gender hiring practices.
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AACC Annual Convention Shines a Spotlight on the Value of Community Colleges
Leaders from the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) believe that it is a “moral imperative” for the institutions to further their support of the millions of students who show up at their campuses.
HBCUs
Morehouse College to Admit Transgender Men in 2020
Morehouse College—the nation’s only historically Black all-men’s school in the nation—will begin admitting transgender students who identify as men in Fall 2020.
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Survey Explores Faculty Behaviors, Perceptions in Teaching, Research and Publishing Practices
Faculty attitudes are beginning to shift around the use of open educational resources (OER), scholarly search engines such as Google Scholar and cloud-based data storage services, even though there is some divergence between their attitudes and actual behaviors in some areas. Those are a few findings from a recently released Ithaka S+R survey of nearly 11,000 faculty members at four-year institutions across the U.S.
Students
RISE Conference Engages Hot Education Topics
Hot education topics ranging from workforce relevance and measuring student outcomes to school choice and postsecondary access and affordability highlighted the second annual Reagan Institute Summit on Education (RISE) conference Thursday at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center.
Faculty & Staff
Survey: Full-Time Faculty Salaries Barely Above Inflation For Third Year in a Row
For the 2018-19 academic year, salaries for full-time faculty members at U.S. colleges and universities, on average, are 2 percent higher than they were in the 2017-18 academic year — just 0.01 percent above the inflation rate for the academic year after being adjusted.
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Report Evaluates How States Allocate Funding For Higher Ed After 2008 Great Recession
Since the 2008 Great Recession, state funding for higher education across the country has only halfway recovered, according to findings from the 2018 State Higher Education Report recently released by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO).
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