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The People’s Scientist: Dr. Esther Ngumbi Makes Science Accessible

As a child in rural Kenya, Dr. Esther Ngumbi helped her parents farm each day, watching as their crops sprouted from the soil, hopeful and green. But then, “insects would come and go through our crops, and sometimes what insects hadn’t taken away, drought would,” says Ngumbi, now an assistant professor of entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From a young age, Ngumbi wanted to know what the insects were and how farmers could control them. She wanted a career that could help her community grow plentiful food amid challenging circumstances and a changing climate.

Faculty & Staff

Report: All Faculty Types Suffer Job Losses in 2020-2021 Academic Year

The 2021 CUPA-HR Faculty in Higher Education Report found that all faculty types suffered job losses during the 2020-21 academic year. In terms of full-time faculty in specific departments, leisure and recreational activities and library science suffered the biggest job loss percentage, the report finds. As for sheer number, business, management and marketing and biological and biomedical sciences lost the most faculty, with a third to almost 50% of institutions reporting cuts in these departments.

Community Colleges

Virginia Community College Leaders React to Tuition-Free Initiative

With bipartisan support, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s tuition-free community college initiative, “Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3),” was signed into legislation last week.

Report: Employers Project Hiring More New College Graduates

According to a recent report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), employers are projecting to hire 7.2% more new college graduates from the Class of 2021 than they did from last year’s class. This marks a rebound from Fall 2020, when employers projected hiring 0.1% less from the Class of 2021.

A Q&A With Tiffany Howard, Assistant Athletics Director at Temple University

A Q&A with Tiffany Howard, assistant athletics director for Business Operations at Temple University.

Dr. Teysha Bowser Challenges Students to Examine Their Behaviors and Assumptions

“So, what are you?” “Can I touch your hair?” “You’re not like other Black people.” It’s the buildup of slight, everyday microaggressions like those that take a heavy emotional — and physical — toll on people of color and women, says Dr. Teysha Bowser, an assistant professor in the Department of Professional Counseling at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.

Report: Outcomes-Based Funding Models Need to be Made More Equitable

More than 30 states have outcomes-based funding models, which allocate money to colleges and universities at least partly based on various metrics for student success. But a new report by The Education Trust – examining outcomes-based funding formulas across the country from 2017 to 2020 – argues that these models perpetuate inequities in the ways they’re currently designed.

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First-Generation Institute Highlights Social Class and Institutional Responsibilities

Social class identity was one of many topics discussed during the First-Generation Institute hosted by the University of Minnesota’s (UMN) College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) last week.

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Income Share Agreements Might Discriminate Against HBCU Students, Report Says

The Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a joint demand letter to Stride Funding, a higher education lending company, expressing concern that their income share agreements are pricier for students who attend minority serving institutions like historically Black colleges and universities.

Community Colleges

Community College Enrollment Is Down 10%. Here’s How Schools Hope to Help Students Return

Data from the National Student Clearinghouse shows that community college enrollment in fall 2020 was down 10.6% from fall 2019 for full-time students and 9.9% for part-time students. The biggest declines were among African American males at 19.2% and Native American males at 20.1%.

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Higher Ed Equity Veteran to Bring Experience to New Post at University of the Pacific

Dr. Mary J. Wardell-Ghirarduzzi is returning to her alma mater to serve as the inaugural vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at University of the Pacific.

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Community Colleges

IWPR Report Highlights Challenges of Student-Parents

Using first-hand experiences, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) released a new report to highlight the ongoing challenges faced by student-parents and provide recommendations for institutions to help address their needs.

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