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Times Higher Education (THE) (blog)
April 26, 2018
The United States Bill of Rights grants American citizens numerous freedoms such as those of association, religion and protest. ... I also led gathered activists in chants and callbacks, demanding lasting and immediate policy reform to make our institutions of higher education safe places to learn and grow.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
April 26, 2018
Pavuluri decided to move to the United States after reading about researchers in child psychiatry here. She eventually joined the psychiatry department at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 2000. She founded the Pediatric Mood Disorders Program, which became a highly regarded clinicÃâà...
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
April 25, 2018
Stempower now has chapters at Stanford University, Purdue University, the University of Tennessee and other campuses across the United States and in Uganda and Kenya. More than 200 girls have participated in the program since 2016, and surveys administered by the founders indicate that 80 percentÃâà...
The Chronicle of Higher Education
April 25, 2018
Walia, however, believes that Northwestern has the power to give her an additional two years in the United States. ... In a hyper-political environment, there is a danger that higher-education critics might view the reclassifications as cynical attempts by universities to misuse the spirit of the STEM extensionÃâà...
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
April 24, 2018
These men of color faced two systems that failed them – the education and criminal justice systems, which often intersect to create the perfect storm resulting in disproportionate rates of educational failure, incarceration and death of youth of color in the United States. No one is immune, not even gatedÃâà...
The Advocate
April 23, 2018
New York Times investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones will deliver the commencement address at Xavier University's 91st annual graduation ceremony May 12 in the university's Convocation Center. Hannah-Jones is expected to address about 550 undergraduate, graduate and pre-professionalÃâà...
IU Newsroom
April 10, 2018
INDIANAPOLIS -- Joining 30 other colleges and universities across the United States, IUPUI has been selected as an inaugural member of the Higher Education Anchor Mission Initiative, a national collaboration designed to develop and share new strategies for deploying higher education's intellectual andÃâà...
The Chronicle of Higher Education
March 27, 2018
It went all the way up to the United States Supreme Court and back down to the lower courts, exhausting the plaintiffs, who knew they were fighting an uphill battle against a ... The Ayers case became a landmark for other states that sought to settle disputes over inequity and segregation in higher education.
The Advocate
March 27, 2018
A $600,000 grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation will allow the Loyola University Institute for Ministry to further sustainable development efforts in Africa, university officials announced. The money will let the ministry continue partnering with Catholic nuns in Africa to advance a development agendaÃâà...
The Chronicle of Higher Education
March 27, 2018
These cases were a victory for the plaintiffs and brought about, in part, by the Supreme Court's 1992 landmark decision in United States v. Fordice. That ruling requires states that maintained dual systems of higher education to eliminate or reform policies traceable to the segregated past if those policiesÃâà...
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
March 27, 2018
Citizens of America, we are under siege and on the battlefield against each other. We live in the same United States, but we live in a divided country. When some of us wake up in the morning, we have hope, while others of us wake up hopeless. In an intriguing way, we are in another civil war. Our uniformsÃâà...
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
March 27, 2018
One way is to make it more widely known that HBCUs, though only 3 percent of higher education institutions, constitute 10 of the top 20 institutions awarding STEM ... With the increasing diversity of the United States, it is critical that HBCUs be seen as a viable opportunity for educating minority students.
NNU News
March 27, 2018
A groundbreaking new study from Philadelphia-based consulting firm Econsult Solutions, Inc. analyzes the significant economic impact of Christian higher education in the United States. Commissioned by the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU), the study calculates the impact on theÃâà...
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
March 26, 2018
“School shootings and gun violence are far too prevalent in the United States, affecting many communities across our nation, including institutions of higher education. We take seriously our responsibility to provide a secure setting at which our students can flourish,” wrote the presidents of CatholicÃâà...
Gainesville Times
March 25, 2018
They will emerge again later this year if the Senate takes up reauthorization of the Higher Education Act or throws out outrageous election-year ... Here is another fact: More than 1 million foreign students on legitimate U.S. visas entered the United States in 2016 to enroll in American colleges andÃâà...
The National Law Review
March 16, 2018
The enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 has raised a number of potential issues for institutions of higher education. Due to this significant impact, institutions need to study ... More than 50 percent of the students are located in the United States. It is not a state college or university. The aggregateÃâà...
Mondaq News Alerts
March 16, 2018
The enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 has raised a number of potential issues for institutions of higher education. Due to this significant impact, institutions need to study the Tax Act and plan appropriately.
PortageLife
March 16, 2018
In some parts of the United States, like the Midwest, the demographic trend data indicates that currently, and over the next several years, there will be a decrease in the numbers of traditional-aged students. At the same time, we recognize that there are thousands of adult learners who have never gone toÃâà...
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
March 16, 2018
ABUJA, Nigeria — Facing different but equally harrowing crises, parents and educators in the United States and northeast Nigeria are debating similarly drastic measures to improve school safety as a painful public reckoning plays out in both countries.As students hold walkouts across the U.S. amid aÃâà...
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
March 16, 2018
According to the Women's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor, 70 percent of women with children under 18 are currently in the workforce. ... Higher education institutions should offer legal, economic, political and business coursework that will allow female students to advocate for themselvesÃâà...
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
March 13, 2018
ACPA Targets Race and Social Justice in Higher Education ... Moody, who works in higher education administration at American University, said the national political and social climate in U.S. has grown more volatile in recent years. ... “We repeat this over and over again throughout the United States.
Inside Higher Ed
March 13, 2018
As a scholar, Adam Laats focuses on the history of education in the United States, not issues of theology. He brings a historical perspective to his new book, Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education (Oxford University Press), focusing on how the institutions evolved and how theirÃâà...
Mondaq News Alerts
March 8, 2018
Several years before I left the US Senate, my colleagues and I passed the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama. Now, ten years later, both chambers of Congress are drafting a reauthorization of the legislation, significantly modifying the US higherÃâà...
Inside Higher Ed
December 31, 1999
“I've seen good ideas and policies proposed when VSOs and the higher education community come together.” ... Association of the National Guard of the United States and the National Guard Association of the United States sent a letter to committee lawmakers in December endorsing the legislation andÃâà...
Connect2 OWU
December 31, 1999
DELAWARE, Ohio – Ohio Wesleyan University's Dale J. Brugh, Ph.D., is one of 45 emerging higher education leaders nationwide to be selected as a 2018-2019 American Council on Education (ACE) ... Its ACE Fellows Program is the longest-running leadership development program in the United States.
