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College Board Discontinues Optional Essay and Subject Tests

College Board, the company responsible for the commonplace SAT exams students take before college, has eliminated the test’s optional essay as well as its subject tests, CNN reported. This comes as yet another development away from standardized testing as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to complicate all spheres of life. In the past few months, several […]

January 20, 2021

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Maryland Lawmakers Attempt Again to Force State to Settle HBCU Lawsuit

The Maryland General Assembly is again attempting to get the state to settle a lawsuit by its historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), which claim that higher ed policy has impeded the schools and instead has given advantages to historically White schools for decades, The Baltimore Sun reported. U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake ruled in […]

January 20, 2021

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Dr. M. Lee Pelton Prepares to Take Up Leadership of The Boston Foundation

Dr. M. Lee Pelton, the 12th president of Boston’s Emerson College, will be leaving his role at the end of May, marking an end to decades of work in higher education. His next step: leading The Boston Foundation as CEO and president.

January 19, 2021

Scholars Reflect on HBCU Graduates Ascending into High Government Roles

As President-elect Joe Biden prepares to enter the White House, he’s joined by an influx of alumni from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) ascending into government positions.

January 19, 2021

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Study: COVID-19 Plus the Recession is Leading to Decreased Enrollment

Low-income students are particularly hard hit as people cancel or reduce postsecondary plans. An analysis from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW), titled “When Back to School Meets Stay at Home,” noted that 75% of households in which at least one person intended to take postsecondary classes changed their plans. Some opted not to take any classes (37%) and some reduced their course load or changed programs, institutions or format.

January 19, 2021

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2021 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Olivia Chilcote

As a member of the Luiseño, San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians, Dr. Olivia Chilcote has aimed to use her privilege in academia to address the issues and needs of the community.

January 19, 2021

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2021 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Elizabeth Aquino

Nurse, professor, scientist and activist all aptly describe Dr. Elizabeth Aquino. As an associate professor in the School of Nursing at DePaul University and president of the American Nurses Association-Illinois, Aquino has also risen to national prominence in her field. In 2019, she was named one of “Five Hispanic Nurse Trailblazers Everyone Should Know” by […]

January 19, 2021

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2021 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Nadia Abuelezam

Dr. Nadia Abuelezam grew up in an Arab immigrant family as the daughter of two Palestinian refugees. Her mother spent her childhood in Kuwait while her father was in a Lebanese refugee camp. As a first-generation Arab American college student majoring in mathematical biology, she wasn’t interested in “math for math’s sake.” She wanted to […]

January 19, 2021

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Community Colleges

Dr. Adrienne Grayson Transitions Her Equity Work Into the Community College Sphere

Dr. Adrienne Grayson entered the field of higher education with a goal of helping students have a positive college experience. Her interest in student affairs stemmed from being an Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) tutor and holding several related jobs during her undergraduate years at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).

January 19, 2021

Iowa Lawmakers Attempt to Eliminate Tenure Systems in Public Higher Ed

Iowa state Republican lawmakers have again proposed bills to eliminate tenured positions at the state’s public universities, The Gazette reported. State Sen. Brad Zaun proposed bills of the same nature in 2018 and 2019 that would prohibit tenure systems and the protections they grant. Rep. Steven Holt, proposed a similar bill in the House. Both […]

January 19, 2021

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Accessibility Services and Moving Towards Universal Design

I wonder if we who are nondisabled teachers have become so desensitized to the realities of disabled students that the violence done unto them by the university has disappeared from the informal settings in which we express surprise and frustration to one another.

January 19, 2021

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Temple U Hires Outside Law Firm To Probe Leadership at Its College of Education

Temple University has hired an outside law firm to investigate the leadership of Dr. Gregory M. Anderson, dean of Temple’s College of Education and Human Development, following faculty complaints, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer. In July, about half of the college’s 70 full-time faculty signed a letter in which they alerted the university to the dean’s […]

January 19, 2021

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Carnegie Mellon Hires Inaugural Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Following a national search, Carnegie Mellon University has appointed Dr. Wanda Heading-Grant its inaugural vice provost for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and chief diversity officer. Currently vice president for DEI at the University of Vermont, Heading-Grant will also hold a faculty appointment as a Distinguished Service Professor in the Heinz College of Information Systems and […]

January 19, 2021

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University of Delaware Marching Band to Escort Biden and Harris to White House Following Inauguration

The University of Delaware’s marching band has received the honor of escorting President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to the White House after they are sworn into office on inauguration day tomorrow, reports 3 CBS Philly. “I didn’t realize that I would end up marching in a presidential inauguration, a historical one for […]

January 19, 2021

KERRI-ANN M. SMITH

KERRI-ANN M. SMITH has been named the Inaugural Faculty Fellow for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity at Queensborough Community College. Associate professor at the institution, Smith holds a bachelor’s degree in English and Africana studies from Binghamton University, a master’s degree in English education from Brooklyn College and a doctorate in education, also from Binghamton.

January 19, 2021

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ROWENA ORTIZ-WALTERS

ROWENA ORTIZ-WALTERS has been named dean of the Greehey School of Business at St. Mary’s University. Previously dean of the School of Business and Economics at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, Ortiz-Walters holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Connecticut (UCONN), an MBA from the University of New Haven and a Ph.D. in management, also from UCONN.

January 19, 2021

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KATHLEEN CORNELY

KATHLEEN CORNELY has been appointed the Robert H. Walsh ’39 Endowed Professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry at Providence College. It is the college’s first endowed chair in the sciences. A professor of chemistry and biochemistry for more than 25 years at the school, Cornely holds a bachelor’s from Bowling Green State University, a master’s in biochemistry/endocrinology from Indiana University Bloomington and a Ph.D. in nutritional biochemistry from Cornell University.

January 19, 2021

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Latinx Higher Ed Policy Analyst Seeks to Uplift Disadvantaged Students

In her role at the California-based education non-profit Education Trust-West, Yvonne Muñoz attempts to help support students of color and low-income students, with the added background of having lived and persevered through the experiences that these students now face.

January 18, 2021