May 2023

Academia and industry alike have long grappled with the lingering issue of gender equity in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and professions. The National Girls Collaborative Project’s 2023 “State of Girls and Women in STEM” report revealed much of the same. Women comprise 48% of the total workforce in the U.S. but […]

St. Cloud State University’s financial issues and cuts are getting worse, with its $18 million budget deficit in fall 2023 projected to grow to $24.5 million next year, the Star Tribune reported. The school is planning to cut approximately 100 more faculty within five years, on top of the previously announced 20-plus faculty positions to

LGBTQ+ civil rights organization The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) will expand its work to combat HIV and its surrounding societal effects using a $5 million grant from biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, Inc.Kelley Robinson The grant – awarded over three years – will go towards efforts to eradicate stigmas about HIV in Black and Latino communities

Dr. Koffi C. Akakpo will become president of Kentucky State University, effective Jul. 1.Dr. Koffi Akakpo Most recently, Akakpo has served as the president and CEO of Bluegrass Community and Technical College (BCTC). Previously, he was vice president for business, administrative, and student services, COO, and chief student services officer at North Central State College

Educational testing giant ETS, will be shortening its GRE General Test to take less than two hours to complete, starting this September.Amit Sevak The test will have the “Analyze an Argument” task in its analytical writing section removed; its unscored section removed; and the number of questions in the quantitative and verbal reasoning sections reduced.

Dr. Lisa CardozaLisa Cardoza has been appointed president of California’s American River College. Cardoza holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s in social sciences of education from Stanford University and a doctorate in educational leadership from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

The 35th annual NCORE—the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education—held this year in New Orleans, began under somewhat inauspicious circumstances. Campus diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives are under attack across America, and the previous weekend, Texas state lawmakers passed a ban on DEI offices and programs at public universities. But in what

The majority of adults in the U.S. say that the U.S. Supreme Court should allow colleges to consider race as part of the admissions process, but few believe students’ race should be a major factor, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The poll – conducted in May

Harold Wallace IIIHarold Wallace III has been appointed director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at Wichita State University in Kansas. He served as director of the Wilbur N. Daniel African American Cultural Center at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. Wallace holds a bachelor’s degree in ethnic studies, business, and sociology from

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has opened a hotline for complaints about colleges in the state and is calling on the state higher education governing board to ban drag shows, NBC News reported.Gov. Kristi Noem The Republican governor said in a letter to the South Dakota Board of Regents that states have allowed “liberal ideologies