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Drawing Comparisons Between Current Protests and Those of the Past
U.S. colleges and universities currently face proliferating pro-Palestine student protests on their campuses, resulting in encampments and hundreds of arrests nationwide.Dr. Omar WasowBerkeley Center for Race and Gender during the 1960s.It’s a tactic that’s become more prominent following the 59-day Occupy Wall Street protests against economic inequality and corporate greed in Fall 2011, said Dr. Omar Wasow, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California
TABITHA MILLER
Dr. Tabitha MillerTabitha Miller has been named president of Martin Community College in Williamston, North Carolina. She served as the vice president and chief academic officer at the college. Miller holds a bachelor’s degree in education from The Ohio State University as well as a master’s and Ph.D. in English from East Carolina University.
YOHANNIS A. JOB
Yohannis A. JobYohannis A. Job has been named vice president of enrollment management at Benedict College. He served as vice president and dean of enrollment management at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas. Job holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration -marketing from the University of Arkansas, and a juris doctorate from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Selective universities won’t be disrupted
Just over a decade ago, Clayton Christensen and I predicted that serious challenges were coming to higher education. The post Selective universities won’t be disrupted appeared first on eCampus News.
At Least a Dozen States Are Considering Free Child Care for Early Educators
A program that began in Kentucky as a novel idea to rebuild the early childhood workforce — and, in effect, buoy the broader labor market — has quickly spread to states across the country. To draw early educators back into classrooms, legislators in the Bluegrass State made a change in fall 2022 that expanded the eligibility requirements of Kentucky’s child care subsidy program to include all staff who work at
New Data Show Persistent Lagging Pay for Educators
The National Education Association has released four new reports that show educator salaries have continued to lag behind inflation over the past decade.The association found that the lag — despite recent efforts to mitigate inflation effects — has limited the ability to attract and retain quality educators amid personnel shortages and low morale, according to its reports exampling educator pay and school funding from pre-K through college.Becky PringleThe reports include
Birmingham-Southern College Campus Up for Purchase: Reports
Alabama A&M University is reportedly planning to make an offer to purchase the shuttering Birmingham-Southern College campus, which would become Alabama A&M University at Birmingham.Keith D. ThompsonShannon Reeves, vice president of governmental affairs and external relations at Alabama A&M, said the Huntsville-based historically Black university is conducting due diligence to prepare to extend an offer for the defunct private, liberal arts college, expected to close May 31.The Birmingham-Southern Board of
Report Finds That Affirmative Action Only Led to Incremental Progress
A report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) suggests that diversity gains made at the most selective colleges and universities — even with race-conscious affirmative action — have been marginal.Dr. Jeff Strohl“A small number of selective colleges are launchpads to positions of influence, but these institutions remain highly segregated by race/ethnicity and class,” said Dr. Jeff Strohl, director of CEW and lead author of “Progress
Winning a Fulbright Was a High Honor for Russians. Now It Could Jeopardize Scholars Who Go Home.
By Karin Fischer Illustration by The Chronicle; iStock image Some fellowship recipients find themselves in limbo after Moscow levels accusations at academic exchange.
Academic cuts, mergers, and closures from April
April has brought more academic cuts, mergers and closures. I noted examples of this trend in last month (1, 2, 3) but as they used to say on radio, the hits keep coming. A Hechinger Report article claimed one institutional closure per week, and I recommend the piece for its humanity. In this post I’ll be brief, as I have a week full of travel, meetings, and iffy broadband. I’ll