You searched for feed - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/ A Blog by ACE Mon, 12 Feb 2024 20:54:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.higheredtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/apple-touch-icon-150x150.png You searched for feed - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/ 32 32 Capacity Building for Shared Equity Leadership https://www.higheredtoday.org/2023/01/09/capacity-building-for-shared-equity-leadership/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 17:31:05 +0000 https://higher-ed-today.local/?p=17889 Over the past three years, the American Council on Education (ACE) and the University of Southern California (USC) have been working together to study new ways that campuses are thinking about leadership for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Our research team identified an approach called shared equity leadership (SEL), which spreads responsibility for DEI work broadly across campus and creates culture ...

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]]> Accountability for Campus Equity Is Everyone’s Work https://www.higheredtoday.org/2022/09/15/accountability-for-campus-equity-is-everyones-work/ Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:49:52 +0000 https://higher-ed-today.local/?p=17846 More than two years after the murder of George Floyd and the racial reckoning that arose in its wake, urgency around equity-minded and anti-racist work in higher education continues to increase. Student and community stakeholders are pressing college and university leaders for evidence of action and increased accountability around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work. Data that show progress on key ...

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]]> Helping Students Explore Transfer: How Phi Theta Kappa’s Transfer Honor Roll Can Help https://www.higheredtoday.org/2022/03/18/helping-students-explore-transfer-how-phi-theta-kappas-transfer-honor-roll-can-help/ Fri, 18 Mar 2022 18:52:32 +0000 https://higher-ed-today.local/?p=17769 By Lynn Tincher-Ladner and Dan Phelan  Recently, the Joint Statement on Transfer and Award of Credit was updated for the first time since 2017, part of the work of the ACE National Task Force on the Transfer and Award of Credit. The statement, revised by ACE, the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, and the Council for Higher Education ...

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]]> Trauma-informed Colleges Begin With Trauma-informed Leaders https://www.higheredtoday.org/2022/03/14/trauma-informed-colleges-begin-with-trauma-informed-leaders/ Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:24:09 +0000 https://higher-ed-today.local/?p=17768 By Jason Lynch From the COVID-19 pandemic to the global impacts of climate change and the continued battle for racial justice in the United States, higher education leaders are now more than ever faced with challenges that will reshape the campus landscape. Recent ACE survey reports show that the mental health of students, staff, and faculty are a top concern for ...

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]]> Many American colleges should be proud of how they navigated COVID-19. The next draft of history should reflect their success. https://www.higheredtoday.org/2022/02/01/many-american-colleges-should-be-proud-of-how-they-navigated-covid-19-the-next-draft-of-history-should-reflect-their-success/ Tue, 01 Feb 2022 20:05:06 +0000 https://higher-ed-today.local/?p=17738 By Justin Pope Higher education’s fifth semester of the COVID era is underway. The challenges remain, but this one feels different. Most colleges are pushing forward more courageously, prioritizing students and their mental health. Thanks to experience, the different nature of omicron, and broad political and public recognition of the need to persevere through COVID-19, we are in a new phase. ...

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]]> Virtual Learning Can Be a Gateway to Increasing Equity in Higher Education https://www.higheredtoday.org/2021/09/08/virtual-learning-can-gateway-increasing-equity-higher-education/ Wed, 08 Sep 2021 17:52:00 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=17636 By Joseph I. Castro When an entire nation of college students suddenly found themselves faced with the reality of closed campuses in spring 2020, the disruption caused by the abrupt pivot to learning in an environment without classroom instruction was daunting. What followed, however, would be more than a year of resilience, adaptability, and resolve demonstrated by students, faculty, and staff ...

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]]> Do Institutions Really Know What Is Going on With Their Students’ Mental Health? https://www.higheredtoday.org/2021/06/28/institutions-really-know-going-students-mental-health/ Mon, 28 Jun 2021 12:08:00 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=17609 By Kate Wolfe-Lyga and Marcus Hotaling In April 2021, an ACE survey indicated that 73 percent of college presidents identify mental health as a pressing issue as the pandemic-affected 2020–21 academic year comes to a close and they look ahead to the fall semester. A number of studies, articles and blog posts in recent years have hinted that campuses are figuratively ...

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]]> Regional Data-sharing Agreements: The Central Florida Education Ecosystem Database https://www.higheredtoday.org/2021/02/05/regional-data-sharing-agreements-central-florida-education-ecosystem-database/ Fri, 05 Feb 2021 21:09:41 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=17378 By Suzanne Wilson Summers Higher education is increasingly embracing the use of big data to increase and assess the effectiveness of institutional policies and practices and to drive needed change. The Central Florida Education Ecosystem Database (CFEED) offers one promising model for regional data-sharing agreements that can increase educational attainment. With a shared commitment to student success and an understanding that ...

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]]> Innovating the Transfer Pipeline Through Regional Partnerships https://www.higheredtoday.org/2021/02/05/innovating-transfer-pipeline-regional-partnerships/ Fri, 05 Feb 2021 19:16:49 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=17374 A majority of students entering community colleges indicate that they plan to transfer to a four-year institution. Yet, despite their aspirations, transfer rates remain low and bachelor’s degree completion rates even lower. Researchers have identified multiple barriers to transfer and degree completion for transfer students, including unclear articulation and transfer pathways between two- and four-year institutions; financial need that forces many ...

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]]> Who Are These Diversity Officers? https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/05/20/who-are-these-diversity-officers/ Wed, 20 May 2020 08:00:17 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16663 By Joana Dos Santos The National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan interviewed a number of academic diversity officers (ADOs) to learn more about how they view their role. Results from this study were published last fall. In this new blog series, ADOs and other senior leaders discuss the role, the challenges ADOs face, and the opportunities these ...

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]]> Guideposts for the COVID-19 Learning Transition https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/03/30/guideposts-covid-19-learning-transition/ Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:23:54 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16464 By Louis Soares In a recent op-ed for The New York Times, higher education scholars Richard Arum and Mitchell L. Stevens raised fundamental and intriguing questions about how the COVID-19 crisis could drive a move to online instruction and perhaps signal deep changes coming to higher education’s business and academic models. Their focus on residential and selective institutions provides both ways ...

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]]> Don’t Call it a Scandal https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/12/02/dont-call-scandal/ Mon, 02 Dec 2019 18:32:19 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16081 By Gail F. Baker This post is the second in a series from the Association of Chief Academic Officers. The day starts like any other. Need to handle a complicated personnel issue, post an enrollment update, and answer budget questions. As you prepare to leave for a meeting, there’s a call from university communications. A reporter wants a comment about some ...

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