Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

That animals avoid environments which seem unhealthy due to predators or poor conditions is a well-documented ecological phenomenon. Humans are no different. We, too, instinctively avoid environments that look unhealthy or unwelcoming. It is therefore time to connect the dots among efforts to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) activities, overturn race-conscious admissions, and bring back standardized tests.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 11, 2024

Lumina Awards Millions for Admissions Innovations Johanna Alonso Mon, 03/11/2024 - 03:00 AM The seven winning states and university systems will use the funds for direct admissions, universal transfer pathways and other initiatives to simplify admissions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Earning a college degree is still a sound investment, although the rate of economic return varies across college majors and student demographics, according to a new American Educational Research Association (AERA) analysis of 5.8 million Americans. Dr. Liang Zhang “Our cost-benefit analysis finds that on average a college degree offers better returns than the stock market,” said study coauthor Dr.

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University Business

MARCH 11, 2024

With public trust in higher education waning and a barrage of reports illustrating the middling outcomes associated with Americans who earn a college degree, state lawmakers are fighting to restore public trust in their institutions by promising to hold them more accountable. An increasingly popular tactic is dangling money over the heads of its two- or four-year institutions—or both—through performance-based funding models.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Nehemiah Yisrael Nehemiah Yisrael has been named director of procurement and property control at Morgan State University in Baltimore. He served as the director of procurement at the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Services in Alexandria, Virginia. Yisrael is also the recipient of two “Meritorious Civilian Service Awards” for leadership from the United States Navy.

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Roompact

MARCH 11, 2024

This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, “What is the future of the RD position and role?” Guest Post by Ali Martin Scoufield, Residence Life Professional I have…let’s call them ‘fond’ memories of participating in job placement. I completed speed-date style job interviews one after the other, sustaining myself for days on.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 11, 2024

The Career Benefits of Volunteer Engagement Sarah Bray Mon, 03/11/2024 - 03:00 AM You can use such opportunities to network, develop skills outside your comfort zone, try bold things and contribute to society, writes Chris Smith.

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College for Creative Study

MARCH 11, 2024

With the help of several of America’s leading art and design schools, we once again identify top students ready to burst on the design scene.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 11, 2024

Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin signed bills Friday prohibiting the state’s public universities from giving preference to legacy applicants in admissions decisions. The legislation, unanimously approved by both chambers of the General Assembly, holds that public institutions cannot offer an admissions advantage based on a student’s legacy status or “familial relationship to any donor to such institution.

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Higher Education Whisperer

MARCH 11, 2024

Greetings from the Australian National University Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence and Catastrophic Risk. Normally I attend weekly AI, ML and Friends Seminars in the ANU School of Computing, but today I am in the social sciences building, with philosophers. The colloquium is by the ANU Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory Lab.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 11, 2024

Let’s Have Better Debates About Standardized Tests Elizabeth Redden Mon, 03/11/2024 - 03:00 AM Ben Paris argues that test critics downplay the disadvantages of test-optional policies.

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Ray Schroeder

MARCH 11, 2024

One month after taking its OpenAI-powered virtual assistant global, the Swedish buy-now, pay-later company has released new data touting its ability to handle customer communications, make shoppers happier, and even drive better financial results. The app-based AI chatbot already handles two-thirds of all customer service chats, the company said Tuesday—some 2.3 million conversations so far—with the virtual assistant earning customer satisfaction ratings at the same level as human agents.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 11, 2024

Louisiana Stops Requiring FAFSA Completion in High School Doug Lederman Mon, 03/11/2024 - 03:00 AM Some state officials say the policy was burdensome and promoted college-going over more vocational paths. Critics of the change fear it will impede college attainment for needy students.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

This bleak, eye-opening film finds mass strikes, gobsmacking whistleblower lecturers and med students forced to survive on food rations of £10 a week. Higher education is failing so many The comedian Geoff Norcott has a dilemma: should he be saving money so his son, “Little Geoff”, can go to university when the time comes, or should he buy a new car now?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 11, 2024

An investigation by the journal Nature into the retraction last year of major research findings by a physicist at the University of Rochester reveals significant flaws in how university officials and scientific journals handled the matter.

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College Forward

MARCH 11, 2024

College Possible Minnesota, the Minnesota chapter of the pioneering national college access and success nonprofit, has appointed Deb Salls as its new executive director. A celebrated nonprofit leader, Ms. Salls brings decades of relevant experience working youth and other social impact organizations. “I am very excited to join the College Possible Minnesota team,” said Deb.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 11, 2024

It’s More Important Than Ever to Invest in Research Communication Doug Lederman Mon, 03/11/2024 - 03:00 AM Sharing big ideas in easy-to-understand ways can help academics and their colleges and universities expand their reach into the public sphere.

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University Business

MARCH 11, 2024

Virginia will become the second state to ban legacy admissions at public colleges and universities after Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed a bill that unanimously cleared the state legislature. The bill says public universities cannot give preferential admissions to college applicants based on their familial relationship to the school. Virginia joins Colorado as the only states to ban the practice.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 11, 2024

A short history of labor. A few weeks ago, not wanting to sacrifice class time, I offered a short history of corporations in the U.S. Now that we are reading Kate Crawford’s Atlas of AI, I complement that essay with one on labor. The labor movement in the U.S. is an outgrowth of industrial capitalism. Free labor had long been unshackled from the constraints of feudalism and further separated from tradition by immigration (indentured servitude or free labor) or forced migration (people sold into

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University Business

MARCH 11, 2024

After four years of test-optional admissions for undergraduate applications, The University of Texas at Austin will return to requiring standardized testing scores, beginning with applications for the Fall 2025 semester. Analysis of the University’s own data further revealed that on average, students who submitted standardized scores performed significantly better on those exams and in their first semester of college, relative to those who did not take the test or chose not to have their scores

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 11, 2024

Today on the Academic Minute: Daniel Newton, assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business, explores how one quiz show could help your career.

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University Business

MARCH 11, 2024

SUNY campuses will phase out the use of plastic utensils, bags, bottles and other items in the coming years as part of a statewide push to keep hard-to-recycle waste out of landfills. The new policy phasing out so-called single-use plastics came out of recommendations made by a task force that began studying the issue two years ago. Grocery bags, water and beverage bottles, plastic wrap, stirrers, straws, utensils — even balloons — will be phased out in stages as more plastic-free alternatives a

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College for Creative Study

MARCH 11, 2024

CCS Foundations faculty and students have work on exhibition at Livonia Town Center in a show called Side by Side 2. Faculty Elena Arnaoutova, Jen Fitzpatrick, Michelle Lannoo, Joshua Mulligan, Dan Stewart, Peter Dunn and Lorraine Thomas have work featured along side students David yoon, Winter Stevenson, Elvin Poskovic, Sydney Faulkner, Emma Goldstein, Lou Tucker and Ella Hall in Livonia, Mi.

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Ray Schroeder

MARCH 11, 2024

More than half of recent four-year college graduates, 52 percent, are underemployed a year after they graduate, according to a new report from Strada Institute for the Future of Work and the Burning Glass Institute. A decade after graduation, 45 percent of them still don’t hold a job that requires a four-year degree. Those stark data points were highlighted in a report released today called “Talent Disrupted.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 11, 2024

From the Margins to the Mainstream, and Perhaps Back mprutter@mit.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

President Biden addresses Congress on March 7. When President Biden addressed over 32 million viewers for the annual State of the Union (SOTU) last week, he used the occasion to issue a full throttle support for higher education. While speaking on his administration’s accomplishments in his last four years of service, Biden also addressed what he called “the future of possibilities we can build together.

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