Higher Education Today – PHENND https://phennd.org We are a network of over 25 colleges and universities that strengthens service learning in Philadelphia, connecting academics with community involvement. Fri, 04 Oct 2024 19:30:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Beyond the Culture Wars: The Real Story of State Policy and College Campuses https://phennd.org/update/beyond-the-culture-wars-the-real-story-of-state-policy-and-college-campuses/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 19:30:26 +0000 https://phennd.org/?post_type=update&p=84628 “There is a lot that state legislatures can do to reverse the illiberal takeover of higher education,” according to the Manhattan Institute in its 2023 issue brief, Abolish DEI Bureaucracies and Restore Colorblind Equality in Public Universities. As the field of play in issues from abortion rules to labor policy and workers’ rights shifts from Capitol Hill to individual statehouses, state lawmakers are increasingly shaping the national debate on higher education. This shift was underscored in 2021 by J.D. Vance, then a candidate for the U.S. Senate, when he delivered the keynote at the National Conservatism Conference titled “Universities are the Enemy,” which further propelled higher education into the center of the nation’s culture wars.

Now, the good news. The influence of state lawmakers is substantial, but it quietly goes far beyond the highly publicized debates over initialisms such as DEI and CRT. When you clear away the gamesmanship, there remains an opportunity to collaborate on initiatives that have bipartisan support as well as support from campuses and the broader community—initiatives that strengthen communities, enhance economic resilience, and expand educational access.

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]]> A New Accountability for Broadening Participation in STEM https://phennd.org/update/a-new-accountability-for-broadening-participation-in-stem/ Tue, 13 Jun 2017 03:02:52 +0000 https://phennd.org/?post_type=update&p=52581 This blog posting, A New Accountability for Broadening Participation in STEM by Ira Harkavy, Louis Martin-Vega and Daryl Chubin appears on Higher Education Today, a Blog by the American Council on Education. The posting calls for new forms of accountability in order to recruit and nurture a more diverse population to be included in STEM-related fields. The posting is informed by research and dialogue supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). A New Accountability for Broadening Participation in STEM

https://www.higheredtoday.org/2017/05/22/new-accountability-broadening-participation-stem/

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