By Marjorie Valbrun. Changing demographics and demands for inclusion on campuses open a nontraditional path to the presidency. But two recent appointees have been subject to anonymous email campaigns. More...
23 mai 2018
21 mai 2018
Sit-In at Wells Over Diversity Issues
By Scott Jaschik. Students at Wells College started a sit-in on Tuesday morning and some remained in the administration building on Wednesday evening. Those protesting told The Auburn Citizen that they were frustrated by a lack of progress for minority students. More...
21 mai 2018
How Do You Read the Diversity Statement?
Numerous websites and articles help academic job seekers write their diversity statements, including two pieces by Tanya Golash-Boza and Victoria Reyes in Inside Higher Ed. That makes sense with such a new genre of job document and the variation in professional development provided across graduate programs. More...
13 mai 2018
Île-de-France : l’Agence régionale de la biodiversité prend son envol
La 1ère agence régionale de la biodiversité est francilienne et témoigne du rôle de chef de file de la Région en la matière. Rattachée à l'Institut d'aménagement et d'urbanisme, elle a été lancée ce 12 avril. Plus...
9 mai 2018
State support for colleges declines as student diversity grows
Just about every investment priority of state governments took a hit at the beginning of the last decade thanks to the Great Recession, which drained revenues while placing stress on safety-net programs. More...
9 mai 2018
St. Louis NAACP mulls litigation over state funding for black colleges
A federal lawsuit in Maryland has civil rights activists in Missouri considering a challenge to the state’s treatment of historically black colleges and universities, the St. Louis City NAACP announced Monday. More...
6 mai 2018
Walking Around a Problem
Learning how to lead is also about learning how to balance the need for action with deliberative and deliberate approaches. It is quite correct to expect administrators, particularly in higher education, to demonstrate decisiveness in their decision-making behaviors. More...
3 mai 2018
Gender diversity in international education
If it wasn't for my sophomore theatre professor, I may have never thought about studying abroad during college. Having never been out of the USA before, the idea of taking classes in a different country always seemed elusive and rather unattainable to me. Many of my peers already knew where they wanted to go abroad, having traveled with their families to places I had never been and only seen in movies or read about in books. More...
24 avril 2018
Calif.’s higher ed diversity problem
In 1996, right after voters in California banned affirmative action in employment and college admissions, minority student enrollment at two and four-year institutions plummeted. What has happened since though, is pretty remarkable. More...
23 avril 2018
Mincing words: Diversity and inclusion
In the late 1960s, in the wake of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements in this country, Black/African-American studies departments began to spring up at institutions — mostly the major research institutions — across the country in response to student activism on campus. By the 1990s and early 2000s, higher ed finally began to recognize that race in this country was non-binary — the country is not only black and white — and offices of Diversity and Inclusion began sprouting up on campuses nationwide. More...
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