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Faculty & Staff

Faculty Institutional Decision-Making Power Drops, Yet Departmental Power Rises

In recent decades, faculty influence increased over departmental and programmatic choices, yet their authority dropped in institutional-level matters like the overall budget. This mixed finding comes from the 2021 Shared Governance Survey by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), its first national snapshot on faculty authority in two decades.

July 29, 2021

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College Promise Programs Launch Innovative Solutions to Achieve Economic Mobility

As the nation turns toward recovery, College Promise—a non-profit aimed at eliminating college cost barriers—is implementing new models and training to promote economic mobility and post-college career success. Several of these programs were featured in the College Promise hosted webinar “Financial Sustainability for College Promise Programs: Navigating Through and Beyond COVID-19” that took place on Thursday.

July 29, 2021

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Department of Education Increases COVID-19 Relief Funding to Historic and Under-Resourced Institutions

The U.S. Department of Education announced an additional $3.2 billion in funding for historic and under-resourced institutions under the Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds (HEERF). The funding will go to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), tribal colleges and universities (TCUs), minorities serving institutions (MSIs) and other underserved institutions, like some community colleges. The funding […]

July 29, 2021

Dr. Miguel A. Cardona

Thank you, Simone Biles!

Like so many sports fans, I felt sympathy for Simone Biles when she stepped away from the Olympic stage to deal with her mental health issues. As a licensed professional counselor, I could not have been more proud to see her seek out the help that she and so many others need.

July 29, 2021

U of Richmond Donates Quarantine Housing to Homeless, Assault Victims

With vaccination rates rising and new COVID cases falling, the University of Richmond is donating the modular homes it had purchased for quarantine to now benefit the homeless as well as survivors of domestic abuse and sexual assault, reports NBC12. The university’s five doublewide modular homes will go to Virginia’s Family Crisis Support Services (FCSS), […]

July 29, 2021

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Yale University Organizations Create Grant and Program Opportunities to Support Women Health Research

To bridge the research gap, Yale University affiliated organizations—Women’s Health Research at Yale (WHRY) and the Office of Cooperative Research (OCR)—recently implemented programs and grant opportunities to support women faculty and research on women’s health. Since its establishment in 1998, WHRY has provided pilot funds to researchers looking to study sex and gender differences in […]

July 29, 2021

School of Medicine

Meet the Undergraduate Working to Keep Students in Haiti in School

A rising senior at Earlham College is trying to keep Haitians in high school amid violence in the country. The college student, Ted Jacquet, recently received a grant to develop digital resources for high schoolers in Haiti who cannot be in their classrooms due to safety concerns. The project is estimated to reach 10,000 students at 80 schools.

July 28, 2021

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Panel Focuses on Providing Support to Black Male Students During the Pandemic

Dr. Linda Garcia, the executive director of the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCSSE) and the National Alliance of Community and Technical Colleges, pulled together a panel of education leaders who have been making institutional changes in an effort to keep Black students, in particular, Black men, enrolled in higher education. The panel urged institutions to listen to their students, increase connections and pathways between K-12 and post-secondary education, and provide mentors to engage with and nurture Black male students through their education, both on and off campus.

July 28, 2021

Dr. Kenneth Ray

College Presidents Implement New Models to Bridge Affordability Challenges

Stepping into his presidency at Michigan-based Hope College in 2019, Matthew A. Scogin acknowledged that higher education had “never been more important.” Yet, it also had “never been more cost prohibitive.” Scogin’s efforts became focused on solving the affordability challenge. Years later, the solution was announced, with a new financial strategy called “Hope Forward.”

July 28, 2021

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Johns Hopkins Hires VP for Public Safety, Signaling Move Toward Private Police Force

In announcing its new vice president for public safety, Johns Hopkins University signaled that it plans to move forward with creating its own private police force — a decision that has been hotly debated, reports The Baltimore Sun. Massachusetts police commissioner Dr. Branville Bard Jr. will take up the position on Aug. 30, announced the […]

July 28, 2021

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U.S. Department of Education Releases $600 Million to Support Homeless Students

Under the American Rescue Plan Act’s Homeless Children and Youth (ARP-HCY) program, the U.S. Department of Education has released nearly $600 million in funding to support students experiencing homelessness.

July 28, 2021

GW Releases Classroom COVID-19 Health Protocols for Fall Reopening

In a letter to faculty members, Christopher Alan Bracey, interim provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at The George Washington University, laid out health protocols for a return to campus this fall, the GW Hatchet reported. Faculty members would not be required to “police compliance” of vaccination policies in the classroom. Bracey emphasized […]

July 28, 2021

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Clark Atlanta University Partners with One Million Black Businesses

Clark Atlanta University recently signed an agreement to connect at least 1,000 entrepreneurs with One Million Black-owned Businesses (1MBB) by 2030.

July 27, 2021

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Vanderbilt University Creates Institute to Honor Civil Rights Icon

More than two decades after Vanderbilt University expelled Rev. James Lawson for his involvement in the civil rights movement, the private, Nashville University has decided to honor the civil rights stalwart with the creation of the James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of Nonviolent Movements at Vanderbilt University.

July 27, 2021

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Ishmael Reed’s Undying Faith in Diversity and Multiculturalism

Ishmael Reed, the novelist, playwright, poet, knows a lot of things. Especially Higher Ed. In his novel, Japanese by Spring, Reed imagines a college taken over by Japanese businessmen who restructure the framework of curriculum debate. “Too white” gives way to not enough Zen Buddhism. Breathe deeply. It’s a satire, informed by Reed’s career as a now retired full-time lecturer at UC Berkeley.

July 27, 2021

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Two Atlanta-based HBCUs Clear 2020-2021 Student Debt

Clark Atlanta University (CAU) and Spelman College will clear remaining student account balances before the start of Fall 2021. CAU and Spelman are two historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) located in Atlanta, Georgia. CAU will clear any balances left for all 2020 semesters and spring and summer 2021 semesters. Spelman College will cover its […]

July 27, 2021

Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell

Mendoza Ventures Announces Fellowship Program

To provide diverse students in Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs with experience in the venture capital field, Mendoza Ventures has launched a new fellowship program. As part of the Venture Capital Fellowship Program, participants will conduct research to study investment trends and write investment memorandum. This summer, the inaugural program selected two fellows—from the […]

July 27, 2021

New Grants for University-Community Partnerships Prepare Students for Workforce

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities (USU) awarded their inaugural Collaborative Opportunity Grants to the University of New Orleans, the University of Memphis, and Cal State LA. The grants support partnerships between these public universities and local community organizations or businesses that equip students for career […]

July 27, 2021

Dr Christel Perkins