January 29, 2021 | : Dr. Andrew Howard Nichols, who was senior director of higher education research and data analytics at education nonprofit The Education Trust, has died. Dr. Andrew Howard Nichols Joining Ed Trust in 2014, Nichols was known for his social justice and equity work, particularly for under-served students. Some of his research […]
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January 29, 2021 | : By her own account, Dr. Krystal L. Williams admittedly took an “indirect route” to her post as an assistant professor in the College of Education at The University of Alabama. “I’m fairly new to the academic ranks,” says Williams, a native of Fort Worth, Texas, who earned a bachelor’s and
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January 29, 2021 | : Women’s rights organizations are making a renewed push for an Office of Gender Equity in the U.S. Department of Education under President Joe Biden. In a Jan. 8 letter to the Biden-Harris transition team, the idea garnered support from 117 organizations, including the Feminist Majority Foundation, the American Association of University Women,
Tributes poured in across the nation for award-winning actress Cicely Tyson, who died on Thursday at the age 96. Cicely Tyson Tyson was the first Black woman to star in a main role – in 1960s TV drama “East Side/West Side” – and she won two Emmys for her role in 1974 film “The Autobiography of Miss Jane
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January 29, 2021 | : The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign announced it will stop using remote-proctoring software Proctorio after the summer 2021 term, following near a year of criticism on campus and nationally, The Verge reported. Students and faculty alike have panned Proctorio, citing anxiety, breach of privacy and potential discrimination against minorities. Use of such software
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January 29, 2021 | : Liz Tovar will be University of Iowa’s executive officer for diversity, equity and inclusion, Iowa City Press-Citizen reported. Liz Tovar Since August, Tovar has been interim associate vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion. Her appointment still requires Board of Regents approval. Tovar holds multiple degrees from the University of Kansas,
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January 29, 2021 | : New College of Florida has received the largest gift in its 61-year history from the estate of longtime Sarasota philanthropists J. Robert “Bob” Peterson and Pasqualina “Lee” Peterson, The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported. Lee died at age 90 in 2017, five years after Bob. Bob served several years on the honors college’s
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January 28, 2021 | : More than 1,000 Columbia University students are not yet paying this semester’s tuition, demanding that the school reduce its cost amid financial difficulties and remote learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, NBC News reported. The tuition strike began last Friday as semester payments were due. Those striking – undergraduate and graduate students – are
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At the event, teams of Manitoba postsecondary students developed solutions to an issue now familiar to all in Canada’s university sector: how to improve online learning. Manitoba postsecondary institutions joined forces with the province’s tech incubator to host a virtual hackathon last November that tackled an issue now familiar to students from across the country:
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January 27, 2021 | : Southwest Tennessee Community College has won the 2021 Bellwether Award in the category of Planning, Governance and Finance. STCC was the only Tennessee school in the 10 finalists nationwide in the Planning, Governance and Finance category. Southwest’s Redesign, Reinvent, and Reset: Organizing for Large Scale Systemic Change was a strategic
