Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2024

Drexel University is offering tuition at half the cost for students who have earned an associate degree from any accredited community college in the U.S. Dr. Dawn Medley “Our experiential education model has proven to be one of the best ways for students to prepare to be leaders in their careers, so it's incumbent on us provide opportunities for more students to earn a Drexel degree,” said Dr.

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Great College Advice

MAY 17, 2024

Do students need letters of recommendation for Ivy League Schools? In short, yes! For high-achieving, ambitious high school students, the college admissions process can be very stressful. Top-tier colleges and universities often have more requirements than their less selective counterparts. For many students, one of the most nerve-wracking parts of the process is getting good letters of recommendation for Ivy League and other highly ranked schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2024

Gender-based violence, harassment, and sexual assault continue to be rampant on college campuses across the country. More than one out of every eight students experiences rape or sexual assault , and one-in-five female students reports receiving assistance from a victim-services agency. Faculty and staff are also at risk of harm. Collectively, higher education must give this issue the attention and priority it deserves.

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Great College Advice

MAY 17, 2024

Do students need letters of recommendation for Ivy League Schools? In short, yes! For high-achieving, ambitious high school students, the college admissions process can be very stressful. Top-tier colleges and universities often have more requirements than their less selective counterparts. For many students, one of the most nerve-wracking parts of the process is getting good letters of recommendation for Ivy League and other highly ranked schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2024

Nassau Community College teachers have reportedly filed an ethics complaint against the college regarding allegations it paid $120,000 to a lobbying company supporting the construction of a Sands casino on Long Island, New York. Dr. Faren Siminoff For the Nassau Community College Federation of Teachers (NCCFT), led by President Dr. Faren Siminoff, concerns are ongoing about the financial management of the community college.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 17, 2024

Sonoma State President on Leave After Protest Agreement Josh Moody Fri, 05/17/2024 - 03:00 AM Mike Lee was disciplined after striking a deal with student protesters. The agreement included an unusual embrace of an academic boycott of Israeli universities.

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University Business

MAY 17, 2024

Mergers have become the lifeline for many institutions in the face of financial upheavals that often come as a shock to campus leaders. Such transactions have grown in complexity, too. However, leaders can increase their institution’s lifespan and streamline the acquisition process by following these steps. Over the past several years, we’ve witnessed a dramatic shift in higher education that’s led to a number of financial pressures, like enrollment, for instance.

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University Business

MAY 17, 2024

Higher ed funding, particularly at the state level, is not going in the direction one might expect at public colleges and universities a few years after the economic turmoil of the COVID pandemic. And neither is enrollment, according to a new analysis that also examines appropriations through the lens of the Great Recession of 2008. The 3.7% growth in funding per full-time student at public institutions in 2023 is just the second time inflation-adjusted education appropriations exceed pre-Great

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 17, 2024

Characterizing Pro-Palestinian Protesters as Antisemitic is a ‘Dangerous Conflation’ jessica.blake@… Fri, 05/17/2024 - 03:00 AM Khaled Beydoun, a scholar of the First Amendment and Muslim identity, discusses free speech rights on campus and argues that Islamophobia and antisemitism have shared roots.

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College for Creative Study

MAY 17, 2024

For the third year, the Mohawk Design Summit brought together retailers and designers to curate the 2025 and 2026 products for the Mohawk, Karastan and Godfrey Hirst brands.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 17, 2024

High school juniors in Illinois will be required to take the ACT to graduate starting next spring. The state has required students take the SAT since 2016, when it first switched from the ACT.

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PUC

MAY 17, 2024

Mackenzie Wheeler is a junior theology student from Calimesa, CA. What made her choose to study theology was having a massive passion for God and to someday be a family minister or youth pastor. Deciding to attend PUC was not a hard choice for Mackenzie since her parents and sister are PUC alums. What do you like the most about the theology program?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 17, 2024

Sonoma State University President Mike Lee has left his role mere days after striking a controversial deal with pro-Palestinian protesters on campus that brought a rebuke from California State University System leaders, who accused Lee of “insubordination” and placed him on administrative leave.

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University Business

MAY 17, 2024

Many college and university leaders are excited about the capabilities of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and interested to learn how this technology could transform higher education. Generative AI presents many new possibilities for institutions to deliver extraordinary experiences for students, faculty, researchers, and administrative staff.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 17, 2024

Gloomy Financial Outlook for British Universities Doug Lederman Fri, 05/17/2024 - 03:00 AM Four in five institutions could face deficits given stalling domestic enrollment and declines in international recruitment, if higher education regulator warns.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MAY 17, 2024

Fast, reliable networks are the backbone of many higher education technology initiatives. Networks support traditional institutional workflows in addition to newer remote work infrastructure, teaching and learning tools used for remote and hybrid learning, research initiatives and the breadth of Internet of Things tools now on campus. As more colleges and universities migrate to the cloud, having a strong network becomes even more important.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 17, 2024

Eastern Gateway Community College, a long-struggling Ohio institution, will close this fall after battling financial woes for over a year. The university’s board of trustees approved a plan on Wednesday to shutter the college on Oct. 31. Courses will be held through the summer, with a graduation in August.

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Experiential Learning Depot

MAY 17, 2024

I love a good summer maker project! At the beginning of the design thinking process, sometimes kids need a little scaffolding. This blog post offers you and your kids 25 design thinking project ideas for the anytime of the year, but they are especially fun in the summer! Keep kids engaged and practicing awesome life skills all summer long! My kids and I have been working on design thinking projects for years.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 17, 2024

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has released a report about the institution’s response to the Aug. 28, 2023, shooting in which a professor, Zijie Yan, was murdered.

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MAY 17, 2024

Cornell President Martha E. Pollack has announced she will retire on June 30 after leading the New York university for seven years. Pollack’s departure marks the third Ivy League leader to step down amid political turbulence in recent months. Martha E. Pollack “There are few roles that afford so much opportunity to make a positive difference in the world,” Pollack, a computer scientist and expert in artificial intelligence, said of her tenure in an announcement posted to the universi

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 17, 2024

The volume and intensity of pro-Palestinian protests on campuses appears to have decreased in recent weeks from its febrile peak in late April. However, this week, leaders at two campuses where protests have continued to smolder called on law enforcement to intervene.

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University Business

MAY 17, 2024

For three years in college, Texas A&M University student Ethan Tan lived in houses near campus with six roommates, each of them paying about $400 a month in rent. Tan, a graduating senior, said that low cost saved him from having to take out more loans and pick up long work shifts, which would’ve barred him from participating in some of the leadership opportunities he took at school.

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Creatrix Campus

MAY 17, 2024

Strategic Planning in Higher Education: Path to Success editor Fri, 05/17/2024 - 12:53 Eighty-four percent of senior finance professionals, according to recent surveys, believe their universities should use financial data more effectively to support their decision-making, which appreciates the importance of data-driven decision-making in higher education.

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University Business

MAY 17, 2024

An unfortunate mistake caused 1,500 people who applied for admission to Georgia State University in Atlanta to celebrate their acceptance a little too early. The affected students who applied for admission for the 2024-25 school year received a welcome email from the university on April 29, congratulating them on their acceptance. However the university said the students, who had incomplete applications, received the welcome email by mistake.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 17, 2024

This month’s episode of The Pulse podcast features a conversation with Ethan Webb, founder and CEO of Mindstream. In the interview with host Rodney Murray, Webb discusses how Mindstream helps instructional designers and others use AI to create learning content.

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University Business

MAY 17, 2024

The pro-Palestinian protests that roiled college campuses in late April and early May have begun to abate in recent weeks. As summer break approached, school leaders at some schools struck deals with student protestors while others resorted to calling on law enforcement to forcibly remove activists from campus. The tumult will likely taper off over the summer, according to experts, but could return again in the fall as the concessions made by some colleges come into sharper view.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 17, 2024

Today on the Academic Minute, part of University of St. Thomas Week: Shinwon Noh, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, examines the peer pressure students can feel in choosing majors.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MAY 17, 2024

Now, more than ever, we need to stand up for a reparative, debt -free education that liberates our collective possibilities – not pushes us further into a violent war machine. That’s why on May 22, we are going to Washington D.C. to call on the President to use his executive powers to fund education and liberate student debtors, not to accelerate war.

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