January 2023

Tiffani Dawn SykesTiffani Dawn Sykes has been appointed vice president and director of intercollegiate athletics at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee. Sykes is a graduate of Virginia State University. She holds a master’s in sport administration from Grambling State University in Louisiana.

Nearly 54% of working age adults in the U.S. have achieved some kind of postsecondary degree or credential, putting the country even closer to the Lumina Foundation’s goal of 60% attainment by 2025. Lumina, a private nonprofit working to increase learning opportunities for all after high school, has been tracking credential and degree attainment for

The College of Education and Human Development and the School of Medicine at the University of Louisville are launching an online Master of Science degree in Health Professions Education (MSHPE) to fulfill the needs of a growing health care industry. “The goal of the MSHPE program is to magnify the impact of the health professions

The college affordability crisis has students working and borrowing all that they can in order to manage the cost of school. But a new report from the National College Attainment Network (NCAN) shows that the high school class of 2022 left an estimated $3.58 billion on the table last year in the form of unclaimed

Recently, when I was asked to appear on a Diverse sponsored panel at the recent AAC&U annual meeting on the best practices of attracting, hiring and retaining diverse faculty and administrators, I approached it from a journalist’s perspective. I simply asked the most senior people I knew among my acquaintances around the country about the subject.

Indiana University Northwest’s administration disregarded standards of academic due process when it dismissed tenured professor Dr. Mark McPhail, according to a report from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). McPhail, a professor of communication and previously IU Northwest’s chief academic officer, was notified on September 2021 by campus police that he had been dismissed

The University of Arkansas system is in talks with the University of Phoenix, one of the largest for-profit colleges in the U.S., about an acquisition, according to the Arkansas Times. The deal, which the Times estimated at $500 to $700 million dollars, would be the most recent example of a higher ed trend: unions between

Dr. Chris Gilmer will become president of West Virginia University Potomac State College, effective immediately, MetroNews reported. Gilmer has been interim president of the school for the past nine months.Dr. Chris Gilmer Gilmer will also continue as tenured professor in WVU’s Division of Liberal Arts. Previously, he was president of West Virginia University at Parkersburg;

Jeremy YoungThe battle over critical race theory raging across America in recent years is most often fought in the realm of K-12 education, where white parents have asserted newly discovered rights to prevent their children from being taught aspects of American history that might make them feel guilty. But the fight to ban the idea

Jennifer HamerJennifer Hamer has been named special adviser to the president of Pennsylvania State University for institutional equity. Hamer earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Texas at San Antonio, a master’s in sociology from Texas A&M University, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin.