Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Michigan State University (MSU) will offer in-state tuition to out-of-state Native American students through their Native American Tuition Advantage Program (NATAP), beginning in Fall 2025. Dr. Kevin Leonard, director of the Native American Institute at MSU, was speaking with a Native, out-of-state student whose tribal affiliation was in Michigan when she began to share the struggles that come with paying out-of-state tuition.

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Great College Advice

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

One of the most-asked questions we receive from families is some version of this: “What do colleges look for these days in a student?” Although anecdotes can help, sometimes the data can tell the story for you. Grades and Course Rigor Matter the Most in College Admissions The most recent National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) State of College Admission Report updated its four-year college members’ survey of the Factors in the Admission Decision.

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Dr. Josie Ahlquist

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As technology and social media evolve at dizzying speed, from TikTok to ChatGPT and beyond, the challenge is not just to keep up but to remain purpose-driven and human-centered in the digital age. While digital innovations offer unprecedented opportunities for connection, they also risk distancing us from the essence of our humanity.

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The Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

David Pleins , Assistant Director, Walker Center for Teaching and Learning, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Key Statement: Foreign language vocabulary acquisition (and the learning of information more generally) need not be a painful enterprise! Through focused retrieval practice, linking words to images, using iconic gestures, and acts of the imagination, students can learn course material more deeply and effectively.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Colleges Deploy Meditation and Baked Potato Bars to Combat Election Stress Johanna Alonso Tue, 11/05/2024 - 03:00 AM With about seven in 10 Americans reporting that the election is a significant source of stress, colleges are planning ahead to manage anxieties in the coming days.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Tuesday’s presidential election is the most critical in our lifetime—with the potential to change the trajectory of the country. And the stakes couldn’t be higher for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), which for generations have punched above their weight. They serve more economically disenfranchised students than most U.S. institutions, and they do so successfully, facilitating the upward mobility of the majority of their students.

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The Guardian Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Fees could rise from £9,250 to about £9,500 and the move is expected to come into force from September 2025 Starmer went on to say the government was “going to treat people smugglers like terrorists”. And he explained what that meant. So we’re taking our approach to counter terrorism, which we know works, and apply it to the gangs with our new Border Security Command.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Self-sovereign identity is a new idea in the world of identity and access management, focusing on giving users more control over their digital identity. The promise of SSI is that it will shift the ownership of digital identity back into the hands of individual users and give them more control over how parts of their identity will be disclosed or shared with others.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Two free expression advocacy groups say they’ve sent letters to Pennsylvania public colleges and universities “urging them to protect students’ expressive rights leading up to election day,” according to a news release sent Friday. The groups are the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Michigan State University (MSU) will offer in-state tuition to out-of-state Native American students through their Native American Tuition Advantage Program (NATAP), beginning in Fall 2025. Dr. Kevin Leonard, director of the Native American Institute at MSU, was speaking with a Native, out-of-state student whose tribal affiliation was in Michigan when she began to share the struggles that come with paying out-of-state tuition.

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The Guardian Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Ministers to announce increase in annual fees, which have been capped at £9,250 since 2017 UK politics live – latest updates University tuition fees in England are to go up next autumn for the first time in eight years, the government is to announce. If linked to inflation, it could take fees up by £250 a year to a record £9,500 in October 2025, providing some respite for universities that have been struggling with a deepening financial crisis.

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Roompact

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

When you hear the word silo, what comes to mind? For me, I immediately think of the Midwest and a tall structure housing grain or feed or something that is very unfamiliar to this Floridian turned North Carolinian. However, there may be no need to travel to the Midwest, there could be silos right there.

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Higher Education Inquirer

OCTOBER 31, 2024

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 34 CFR Part 30 [Docket ID ED–2023–OPE–0123] RIN 1840–AD95 Student Debt Relief Based on Hardship for the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program (Direct Loans), the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program, the Federal Perkins Loan (Perkins) Program, and the Health Education Assistance Loan (HEAL) Program AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Defending Democracy, Defending the University Elizabeth Redden Fri, 11/01/2024 - 03:00 AM Michael S. Roth writes that attacks on higher ed and democracy this election season threaten to sweep away 100-plus years of progress. Byline(s) Michael S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Dear HBCU Graduates, As we stand at the dawn of the most consequential presidential election in American history, I must confess that I am deeply concerned about the future of American democracy in general and the implications of the election outcomes for Black people and other historically marginalized groups. As someone who grew up in the Arkansas Delta during America’s apartheid era, I experienced firsthand the emotional and physical pains of systemic racism, abject poverty, and political dis

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The Guardian Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Federal government overhaul to remove close to $20bn of student debt for 3 million Australians Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast All Australians will have their student debt cut by 20% next financial year, as part of a major federal government overhaul designed to boost access to education and address “intergenerational unfairness”.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2024

As higher education institutions continue to discover the benefits of hosting data in the cloud, these environments are becoming increasingly complex. According to the 2024 CDW Cloud Computing Research Report, 88% of higher education institutions have moved more than a quarter of their applications into the cloud. But overall, 79% of higher education respondents said the benefits of the cloud have met or surpassed their expectations, and 94% of respondents said they can very or somewhat effectiv

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Higher Education Whisperer

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Professor Hazel Melanie Ramos, Nottingham UniversityGreetings from EduTech Asia 2024 in Singapore. I am attending the first workshop on the use of observation, before the mail conference starts tomorrow.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

How Some Faculty Plan to Handle Class on Election Day Johanna Alonso Mon, 11/04/2024 - 03:00 AM Some professors plan to bring the election into the classroom Tuesday to encourage civic engagement, while others will cancel class altogether to facilitate voting.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In the fall of 2018, I was a student organizer for affirmative action and one of eight alumni who took the federal witness stand in the lawsuit Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College. Students and alumni fought to voice the importance of race-conscious policies, campus diversity, and solidarity among communities of color.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Level Up Gaming has been hit by a massive ransomware attack—and company CEO Sloan Stanfield is relying on a group of high school students to save the day. Stanfield has charged them with quickly diagnosing the issue, coordinating recovery efforts and alerting law enforcement to protect the company’s data—and a $25 million investment. But Level Up isn’t a real company and no one’s career or data is at stake.

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The Humphrey Group

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Explore how Dan Price’s $70K minimum wage decision embodies The Leader’s Mindset. Align leadership actions with vision, conviction, and courage can inspire lasting results.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Remember the days when clicking on all the squares that contained a bicycle used to be proof enough that you were human online and not a bot? Well, the era of CAPTCHA is coming to an end as AI is learning to bypass what once used to be a reliable security check. As cyberattacks and data breaches continue to rise each year, and as artificial intelligence becomes ubiquitous and better at common tasks, it’s growing increasingly difficult to use established security measures to verify personhood onl

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Are 3 Years of Medical School as Good as 4? kathryn.palmer… Mon, 11/04/2024 - 03:00 AM The number of accelerated medical degree programs has tripled over the past decade. New research shows that outcomes are similar to those of four-year programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

A 126-year-old building at Knoxville College (KC) was destroyed after a fire broke out at the vacant historically Black college on Monday evening. Elnathan Hall was an administrative building on campus but largely remained empty for several decades after the university lost its accreditation and largely closed its doors. The Knoxville Fire Department's investigation unit said that it is searching for the cause of the fire.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Faculty and administrators are using AI professionally and personally at over double the rate from last year, and 93% expect to use it more over the next two years, asserts a new report from Ellucian. However, concerns surrounding data privacy and bias are increasing as well. The higher education technology solutions provider surveyed 445 faculty and administrators from more than 330 institutions across the U.S. and Canada in its second annual “AI in Higher Education Survey” to bette

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The Guardian Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Contracts with existing students that prevent changes may mean up to £2.5m less income, according to one institution Some universities in England could lose out on millions of pounds from increased tuition fees because their contracts with existing students may prevent changes to terms and conditions. The government announced on Monday that undergraduate tuition fees are to go up for the first time in eight years next autumn , taking annual payments to a record £9,535 a student.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Image credit: Unsplash In this insightful post, Cathy Benson, an EAP Lecturer at English Language Education in the Centre for Open Learning and Coordinator of Academic Language and Literacies for Research Students at the University of Edinburgh, explores the evolution of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses to inclusively serve all doctoral students, irrespective of their first language.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

As Election Looms, Undocumented Students Worry Sara Weissman Fri, 11/01/2024 - 03:00 AM A high-stakes presidential contest, paired with an ongoing legal battle over DACA, stands to affect 400,000 college students.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

The City University of New York’s School of Medicine was awarded $19.3 million from the National Institutes of Health to create a health equity center. The transformational gift will support the development of the New York Center for Minority Health, Equity and Social Justice, to be led by the CUNY School of Medicine and headquartered on its Harlem campus.

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Roompact

OCTOBER 30, 2024

~ Blog Posts Written By RAs for RAs ~ Quick, think of the worst policy-related incident you can respond to. Chances are, some event like a massive dorm party or maybe a vandalism event came to mind. These, however, have nothing on the more emotional side of the job. Such as, when is it proper.

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The Guardian Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Rachel Reeves made funding the NHS a priority, but people working in other areas said they were disappointed Rachel Reeves’s first budget emphasised raising taxes to help the NHS, as the health service tries to cope with huge waiting lists and an ageing population. Funding the NHS was a top priority, but people in other sectors – from universities to social care – feel the budget was a missed opportunity to deal with impending crises or bring in desperately needed reforms in their areas.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Photo credit: Amanda Campbell (Creative Content and Marketing Officer) In this post, Lianya Qiu, Emily Birtles and Julie Smith, from Moray House School of Education and Sport, along with Aubrey Li and Rie Shigemori, from School of Economics, share their experience of co-developing the Dissertation Buddies programme, supported by the Student Partnership Agreement grant.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The AAUP’s New President Is Not Staying Neutral Ryan Quinn Wed, 10/30/2024 - 03:00 AM Todd Wolfson is pushing the century-old American Association of University Professors to fight higher ed’s detractors and “organize every campus.” But critics say the venerable organization is straying from its roots.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Dr. Lester McCorn, who led Clinton College in South Carolina for the past 7 years, has been named the new president of Paine College in Augusta, Georgia. Both institutions are historically Black colleges and universities. McCorn is scheduled to take the helm of Paine College in January. While at the helm of Clinton College, he has helped the institution secure millions of dollars in grants for new programming and presided over the transition of the school from a a two-year school to a four- year

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Colleges and universities are routinely under attack by cybercriminals, and hundreds of those individuals or criminal organizations have successfully breached higher education networks in recent years. That’s what happened at Lewis & Clark College in 2023, when an administrator’s credentials were compromised and attackers reached inside the school’s IT systems.

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The Guardian Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

First lift since 2017 staves off fuller reckoning with higher-education funding but gives no confidence for the future It was always going to be difficult for a Labour government to get it right on tuition fees. Having once promised they would be abolished, Keir Starmer’s team have been forced to announce an increase just months after assuming office.

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