Current Issue within Higher Education

Running head: Current Diversity and Inclusion issues with Higher Education Administration

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CURRENT ISSUES WITHIN HIGHER EDUCATION 2

Current Diversity and Inclusion issues with Higher Education Administration

Shawn Gauthney

Wilmington University

December 8th, 2020

Current issues within Higher Education

Introduction

A journal of higher education published an original report that contained reports of higher education's academic study. The report says that higher education is a wide or rather a broad enterprise since it has a dynamic society role. Therefore, this paper will discuss the main issues within higher education (Altbach, Reisberg, & Rumbley, 2019).

The higher education report addressed all the authorities of all types of campuses, starting from dean to university decision-makers on new higher education directions. These new directions have been weighed and proved by all sources to provide advice on how t approach significant problems facing the learners and the administrative staff of those institutions. Various topics were addressed to ensure effective learning for all students. These topics include: improving the climate for all the campus leaders to ensure proper and effective ruling. The issue addressed developing a student's identity by allowing every student to incorporate their social skills into academic and non -educational moments. By doing this, the students would be able to shape their identity through education.

Moreover, the topic of connected learning is also a primary concern. In this connected learning, learners are allowed to pursue a personal interest with the people surrounding them or rathe their friends. Through this, knowledge in projects linked to academic success and achievements and civic engagement.

Freedom of education in Higher Education

Nowadays, higher education has given the students the freedom to learn and do whatever they want, provided that it is not against the school rules. Space is a necessity in these higher education institutions since everyone is like an adult. According to the AAP's policy, institutions f higher education conduct themselves for the common good and not furthermore interests in either the teachers or the institution as a whole. However, the common good is dependent on free search for both the truth and its open exposition (Brubacher, & Rudy,2017).

Higher education institutions, through the influence of the AAP's committee, has encouraged sharing of governance. This shared governance allows particular groups of people to make decisions in those institutions. These groups include the staff, faculty, and at times a group that is interested in contributing to the decision-making process. The idea of shared governance started in the 1960s when most colleges had just begun modernizing many operations. However, shared management has become distorted in the modern world because it has completely lost its meaning. Most colleges and universities believe that a committee's work is to make decisions in the institution. Other colleges consider that it is only the faculty and the administrators that should make decisions. Due to this confusion, it is hard to explain the meaning of shared governance in the modern world.

Racial justice is the other current issue within the higher education system. Of late, various demonstrations to address racism in schools, where black students receive unfair treatment as outcasts, are very common. Some movements such as Black lives matter and the AAP have been fighting for solidarity and equal rights for all black or white people. Students who attend institutions that consider the skin color hardly graduate, especially black students. On the other hand, white students in the same institutions are affluent, and they can quickly pay bribes to graduate. This issue of racism among students starts with the community, where they don't believe that all black students have the same rights as white people. Most institutions enroll most poor black students to struggle with fee payment s that they have nothing to share with their white friends. In contrary to all these racial injustices, many faculty and administrators have signed in to fight against racial injustices in higher learning institutions (Arday, & Mirza, (Eds.)2018)

Promotion of gender and sexuality in Higher Education

Many female students find it hard in enrolling for their academic professions. Many women face the challenge of inequities in salary payment, where the chances of being promoted to a higher rank are rare. They also face sexual harassment because they are weak people who cannot fight for themselves, as society sees them. Their power and potentials are discriminated against in various fields because they believe that some jobs are fit for men. Due to this issue of discriminating against women, the AAP has focused on formulating a policy statement that would favor women who have been victims of discrimination. The committee also focuses on addressing the issue of equality in terms of salary payment. it has even gone ahead to stop sexual harassment for women and female students (King, Parker, Hill, Kelly, & Eason, 2017)

The issue of tenure

The tenure is to make faculty members into stakeholders in their institutions, where they receive an incentive to maintain their high standards of work. Tenure also ensures that faculty members get promotions to higher ranks. However, the main piece of tenure is considering the nature of academic units in colleges and universities. It ensures that academic freedom is safeguarded, providing a free and safe environment for all those who teach and participate in conducting academic researches in higher education. AAP insist that faculty member should be signed in as full-time members, to remove the myth that when a faculty member loses their positions because of their speech or even publications, the can rarely fulfill their primary responsibilities.

In conclusion, AAP has played an essential role in ensuring that all activities concerning students and the workforce in the higher education institution proceed without difficulty. The paper has discussed some of the issues within higher education, including racial injustices, among others discussed above.

References

Altbach, P. G., Reisberg, L., & Rumbley, L. E. (2019). Trends in global higher education: Tracking an academic revolution. Brill.

Brubacher, J. S., & Rudy, W. (2017). Higher education in transition: A history of American colleges and universities. Place of publication not identified: Routledge.

Friday, J., & Mirza, H. S. (Eds.). (, 2018). Dismantling race in higher education: Racism, whiteness, and decolonizing the academy. Springer.

King, B. M., Parker, K. S., Hill, K. J., Kelly, M. J., & Eason, B. L. (2017). Promoting sexual health: Sexuality and gender/women's studies courses in US higher education. Health Behaviour and Policy Review, 4(3), 213-223.