Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Amid news that the U.S. Department of Education (ED) is delaying the sending out of student information relevant for financial aid calculations to institutions, higher ed scholars and officials have voiced concern and uncertainty over how this change will affect low-income and first-generation students in particular. Dr. Greg Nayor In what has been another delay, ED announced last week that schools and agencies involved in financial aid will receive Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAF

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Fallout From a FAFSA Fiasco Liam Knox Mon, 02/05/2024 - 03:00 AM Colleges are pushing back admission deadlines after the latest FAFSA delay. But not all institutions will be affected equally, and many aren’t yet ready to make the call.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Pa Lee Moua Pa Lee Moua has been named executive director of the Schreiber Institute for Women’s Leadership at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay. She holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Lakeland University in Herman, Wisconsin, a master’s in educational leadership and administration from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, and a Ph.D. in leadership studies from Marian University of Fond du Lac in Wisconsin.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The Misguided War on Test Optional Elizabeth Redden Mon, 02/05/2024 - 03:00 AM Akil Bello argues defenders of test requirements attack student choice and institutional priority setting.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Sharcus Steen Sharcus Steen has been appointed chief investment officer at the University System of Maryland Foundation. Steen holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and psychology and a master’s in organizational behavior from Stanford University as well as an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

University of Bristol academic who was sacked after being accused of antisemitic comments wins ‘landmark’ decision A sociology professor sacked by the University of Bristol after being accused of antisemitic comments has won a “landmark” decision that he was discriminated against because of his anti-Zionist beliefs. An employment tribunal ruled that Prof David Miller was unfairly dismissed, and that his “anti-Zionist beliefs qualified as a philosophical belief and as a protected characteristic p

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Dartmouth College plans to reinstate the standardized test requirement for applicants to the Class of 2029 and beyond, reports The Dartmouth. Lee Coffin The announcement was made via campus-wide email from Dartmouth President Dr. Sian Leah Beilock. Dartmouth applicants will be required to take and submit scores from the SAT or ACT college entrance exams.

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Roompact

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, “What is the future of the RD position and role?” Guest Post by Stephanie Carter-Atkins, Residence Life Professional I have had the distinct pleasure of being in this field for 20 plus years, I say that softly because I don’t look a day over 35.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Advocates Promote Equitable Prison Education Programs Post–Pell Restoration kathryn.palmer… Mon, 02/05/2024 - 03:00 AM Using feedback from incarcerated students is one way to work toward making prison education programs more racially inclusive, according to a new report from the Vera Institute of Justice.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Several prominent universities banned legacy admissions when affirmative action ended. With students from underserved backgrounds liable to take the biggest step backward, university officials believed the practice of favoring applicants who hail from alumni was difficult to justify. One civil rights group sued Harvard University, charging that legacy admissions “expand[s] privilege instead of opportunity,” AP News reports.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Aspiring Accreditor Focuses on Student Outcomes Josh Moody Mon, 02/05/2024 - 03:00 AM The Postsecondary Commission aims to offer a new model of evaluating institutions. It has powerful supporters, vocal critics and a long road ahead to federal recognition.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

But a couple of members of the CFA Board of Directors, the entity that called off the strike and decided to send the tentative agreement out for a vote, used words such as “transformational” and “excellent” to describe the agreement. They also said they thought Monday’s deal was the best they were going to get. The board’s decision to accept the tentative agreement and end the strike wasn’t unanimous, they told Inside Higher Ed , but it was “overwhelming.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene in the latest affirmative action legal battle, this time centered on the United States Military Academy’s continued use of race-conscious admissions.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Penn State University branch campuses — their enrollments down sharply — face the largest share of $94 million in universitywide spending cuts intended to erase an operating deficit and create what President Neeli Bendapudi calls “a more sustainable future.” The 20 campuses, including those in Western Pennsylvania, would absorb a $54 million or 14.1% reduction under a proposal being readied for a July vote by university trustees.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

On AI and ‘Meaningful’ Feedback johnw@mcsweeneys.net Mon, 02/05/2024 - 03:11 PM If ChatGPT can do it, and if the purpose is learning, it’s not worth doing.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In this extra post, Satu Kapiainen, Team Manager in the Digital Skills and Training↗️ Team at Information Services, shares updates on the implementation of the University wide training that was delivered as part of the Learn Ultra upgrade. This post is linked to the series: Spotlight on Learn Ultra↗️.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A new report by California Competes, a nonpartisan research organization, identifies “promising practices” being implemented at state institutions to bolster support for “comebackers”—nontraditional learners who re-enrolled after stopping out.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Image from IS webpage: Getting started with LEARN Ultra In this extra post, Satu Kapiainen, Team Manager in the Digital Skills and Training Team at Information Services, shares updates on the implementation of the University wide training that was delivered as part of the Learn Ultra upgrade. This post is linked to the series: Spotlight on Learn Ultra.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Today on the Academic Minute: Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, associate professor of communication studies at Colorado State University, defines cultural othering and explores the paradox of that way of thinking.

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Higher Education Whisperer

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Professor Abby CathcartGreetings from the ANU Learning & Teaching Day: Connect & Inspire. Professor Abby Cathcart, UTS Director Student Success & Teaching Advancement, addressed putting joy back into university study. She pointed out the difficulties with online learning during the pandemic.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The two biggest and most powerful conferences in big-time college athletics are joining forces to develop a joint committee to advise the two leagues about the future of college athletics and how they might respond.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Students from financially modest backgrounds can have it tough going to college. Students are likely to spend upward of $120,000 for a bachelor’s degree, considering the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) averages one year of tuition, fees and room and board at $30,031. Luckily for federal aid recipients, online schooling is gaining traction in higher education, and students who opt for purely online modalities can save tens of thousands of dollars on on-campus housing.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A University of Iowa crisis hotline, which was launched two years ago to support students, expanded its services in January to include faculty, staff and postdoctoral researchers, according to The Gazette in Cedar Rapids.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Pensacola State College is offering money-back tuition guarantees for students enrolled in certain programs: welding, registered nursing and paramedics. All three fields will grow in the coming years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. PSC and all colleges in the 28-school Florida College System are offering graduates a tuition refund as a stipulation of Florida’s 2021 Reimagining Education and Career Help Act, known as the REACH Act.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Dartmouth College announced this morning that it would again require applicants to submit standardized test scores, starting next year. Like many other colleges during the Covid pandemic, Dartmouth dropped its requirement that applicants submit an SAT or ACT score. Three Dartmouth economists and a sociologist then dug into the numbers. One of their main findings did not surprise them: Test scores were a better predictor than high school grades — or student essays and teacher recommendations — of

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University Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Recently, criticism of global university rankings has intensified. The causes and the possible consequences of this discontent are diverse and the future is hard to see, but it is a good bet that, in a few years, the international ranking scene will look very different. For those with jaded palates, Times Higher Education ( THE ) is planning interdisciplinary and online learning rankings, which no doubt will be very exciting and awesome.

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