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Inside Higher Education

• Updated educational attainment data show progress and gaps February 1, 2023
  Image: New data from the Lumina Foundation on college degree or credential attainment rates for U.S. adults show both good and bad news. The national share of working-age Americans who hold college degrees increased across racial and ethnic groups and rose in all states between 2019 and 2021. The share of adults with degrees or other […]
  Sara Weissman
• Community colleges' positive, pervasive digital leap February 1, 2023
  Image: Against the backdrop of headlines blaring news about declining community college enrollments, one bright spot has emerged: community college students, faculty and administrators are broadly aligned in their enthusiasm for the digital transformation that has occurred at their institutions since the start of the pandemic. That’s the broad finding of a report, “The Digital Transformation […]
  Susan D'Agostino
• Provost makes bestiality joke, reacting to concern for LGBTQ faculty February 1, 2023
  Image: Florida Atlantic University’s interim provost replied to concerns about the university collecting and providing to the state information that might be used to target Black and LGBTQ faculty members by saying, “We did not know what color—if they were purple, if they had sex with animals.” Michele Hawkins’s joke, during Monday’s Faculty Senate meeting, elicited […]
  Ryan Quinn
• DeSantis puts into action his plan to end "woke activism" February 1, 2023
  Image: The Ron DeSantis takeover of Florida higher education was on full display Tuesday. First the Republican governor announced plans to defund diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at state colleges and universities. Then, later that day, his handpicked trustees at New College of Florida convened for their first board meeting, where they ousted the president and […]
  Josh Moody