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Howard Expects to Gain R-1 Status. Other HBCUs Will Follow.

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Howard University would be the only historically Black institution to earn the Carnegie Foundation’s coveted classification, but certainly not the last. Next year, Howard University is expected to gain Research-1 status, the coveted Carnegie Foundation classification for doctoral universities with very high research activity. HBCU leaders and experts say Howard’s ascendance would be a win for the entire sector as more historically Black institutions strive to make it into the upper echelons of r

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A Step-by-Step Guide for Teaching a Comprehensive High School Climate Change Unit

Experiential Learning Depot

Teaching climate change to high school students can be daunting—complex science, data-heavy concepts, and a range of social and economic impacts to consider. But with the right approach, climate change activities, and resources, you can guide your students through this important topic in a meaningful, memorable, and scientific way. This step-by-step guide will walk you through each key concept in climate science using the structure of my Climate Change Unit Bundle.

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Academic Probation Gets a Rebrand

Confessions of a Community College Dean

College students who earn a 2.0 GPA or below are often at risk of dismissal. Leaders are now reimagining how academic probation is communicated to students and ways to make the policy less punitive. Academic probation, while designed to be a notice to students of poor performance, can be a significant barrier to student success. Around 8 percent of graduating college seniors have been on academic probation at least once during their time in college, and this rate increases to 9 percent among fir

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Mastering data science project management

CAPD

Want to impress recruiters and land your next data science role? Mastering how to run a data science project can set you apart. Check out the key takeaways below and read the full article from Dzidas Martinaitis via the link at the bottom. Define the problem A well-defined problem is essential. Questions like “What impact does this email campaign have on site clicks?

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What happens to students when rural colleges cut programs and majors

University Business

Rural students are more likely to prefer to stay close to home when it comes to college. What should people who work with rural students do if they find themselves in a higher education desert? Yes, survey data show that rural students prefer going to college near where they live. In some cases, they don’t have a financial choice. But there are still options for them, including going a little bit farther away to universities and colleges that offer them financial aid.

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Cornell Interim President Accused of Violating Academic Freedom After Email Leaks

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A professor’s accusation that another’s course is antisemitic and dangerous spilled out into public after the interim president weighed in and his private email was shared. Cornell University’s interim president is facing public accusations that he suppressed academic freedom after he criticized a pro-Palestinian professor’s planned course in an email and that email was shared with a reporter.

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Higher ed market: Is it too hard to open a new college?

University Business

Despite recent fluctuations and dire future forecasts, the number of college students has grown over the last 30 years. But the number of colleges and universities competing in the higher ed market has not. “Four in five students today attend an institution that was founded before 1970, and virtually none attend a school that formed in the 21st century,” writes researcher Preston Coooper, in a new report for the American Enterprise Institute and the Foundation for Research on Equal O

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Community college graduation rates increase in Colorado

University Business

The number of graduates from the state’s community colleges has seen a marked increase, according to data released Wednesday by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Overall, the number of Colorado college students earning credentials within six years is holding steady. The report tracks cohorts of students over six years. Colorado’s college completion rate for the cohort of students who started college in the fall of 2018 stayed about the same at 59.1 percent graduating in 2024, a

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Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Transfer articulation agreements and alternative solutions to credit transfer. Regular readers of the “Beyond Transfer” blog don’t need me to describe the huge problems caused by transfer students’ credits not transferring as applying to degree requirements, or not transferring at all, and how credit transfer problems can harm higher education equity.

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Knocking on wood for this year’s FAFSA rollout

University Business

A strong beta season has led to a nearly seamless rollout of this year’s FAFSA application, which opened publicly nearly two weeks earlier than its Dec. 1 schedule. Despite the optimism, higher ed leaders are remaining vigilant. “So far, knock on wood,” says Michelle Barton, m anaging director of program operations at Bottom Line , a college advising service for first-generation and low-income students.

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Ohio State Retracts Raises After Federal Court Repeals Overtime Rule

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Ohio State University announced that it will rescind recent raises for hundreds of employees, The Columbus Dispatch reported.

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The 5 biggest revelations from a review of Connecticut’s public college system

University Business

On Thursday morning, higher education experts hired by the state were expected to present the results of a nearly year-long review of Connecticut State Colleges and Universities, recommending broad changes designed to stabilize the system’s finances. The 194-page report, authored by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems and obtained by CT Insider on Wednesday, blames CSCU administrators for a lack of “bold decision-making” necessary to address the system&#

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Success Program Launch: Wraparound Support for Former Foster Youth, Homeless Students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A new program at Carlow University in Pennsylvania provides targeted support and outreach to students with foster care experience or who have experienced homelessness. Surveys show that cost of higher education is one of the greatest barriers to entry for low-income students and one of the top reasons students leave college.

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Detroit’s College for Creative Studies Hustles to Attract Accessories and Fashion Students

College for Creative Study

The post Detroit’s College for Creative Studies Hustles to Attract Accessories and Fashion Students appeared first on College for Creative Studies.

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Brown Unveils Diversity Recruiting Strategy

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Brown University is launching a new initiative to improve student diversity, focusing on expanded recruitment and financial aid strategies to combat the effects of the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling striking down affirmative action.

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The University as a Sociopath

Higher Education Whisperer

Previously I wrote about the Loyalty Tax on Academic Staff. The idea being that staff who are loyal to the institution are not rewarded with loyalty, or good conditions, but instead exploited. This may be because, I suggest, the institution suffers from Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), commonly referred to as sociopathy.

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3 Questions on ‘Beyond “Zoom University”’

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A conversation with Jenae Cohn on her chapter in Recentering Learning. This conversation is with the author of the chapter “Beyond ‘Zoom University’: A Heuristic for Advancing Inclusive Digital and Online Pedagogy” in our new co-edited book, Recentering Learning: Complexity, Resilience, and Adaptability in Higher Education (JHU Press, 2024).

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10 higher ed marketing trends from the last decade you can still leverage today

Terminalfour

The higher education marketing landscape has change significantly in the last decade—and we've been blogging about the trends and changes throughout. Find out what's evolved and how these changes are still relevant to higher education marketers today.

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A Year After the First Antisemitism Hearing, What’s Become of the Presidents Who Testified?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Last Dec. 5, Congress held the first of three hearings on campus antisemitism. Of the seven presidents who testified, four are gone and one is on the way out. Last Dec. 5, the presidents of three leading universities stepped before Congress for a hearing on campus antisemitism that was widely criticized when they failed to offer forthright responses on whether hypothetical calls for the genocide of Jews would violate their institutions’ policies.

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ResEdChat Ep 96: How to Leverage Appreciative Inquiry with Alex Baker

Roompact

This week, we're featuring another edition in this year's series of episodes featuring our guest writer cohort. Dustin speaks with Alex about the concept of appreciative inquiry and how he sees it applying to the work residence life professionals do every day. Alex shares how utilizing appreciative inquiry is a way to harness affirmative positivity and bring a strengths based approach to how we work with colleagues and students.

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WellMed zoo trip: A wellbeing day out for the Medical School

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Image credit: Kev, Pixabay In this post, Rozet Balliou describes how she, along with a group of staff and students, set up a wellbeing day at Edinburgh Zoo for Edinburgh Medical School students and staff. Rozet is a 4th year Medical Student at Edinburgh Medical School, and a and a member of the WellMed committee. This post is part of the Student Partnership Agreement 2024 series.

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Living Away from Home

Hope College Network

Leaving home for college is no small step, but for me, it was a bit more of a leap. Before arriving at Hope College, I spent a month in Ohio with my uncle, getting a small taste of life away from home. But moving from Cincinnati to Michigan, where I’d be truly on my own, was different. My first days here were tough, and for the first time, I felt the weight of being completely responsible for myself.

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Teaching America to Spanish Kids: A Cultural Journey Every Monday

ISA Journal

Every Monday, I have the privilege of stepping into a classroom filled with curious faces, eager to learn about a world that feels so far away from their own.

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A New Attitude: Why McMahon Isn’t DeVos 2.0

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Daniel A. Collier writes that Linda McMahon’s approach as secretary of education may not mirror that of Betsy DeVos. President-elect Donald Trump recently announced Linda McMahon as his pick to head the Department of Education—a department he has openly talked about eliminating.

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How might we do climate action in academia under a second Trump administration? (Bryan Alexander)

Higher Education Inquirer

With the reelection of Donald Trump, a candidate who has flaunted his desire for autocracy—aided and abetted by a Republican-controlled Congress that will not constrain him with guardrails—the United States is now poised to become an authoritarian state ruled by plutocrats and fossil fuel interests. It is now, in short, a petrostate. – professor Michael Mann, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists How can we do climate crisis work within the higher education ecosystem under a second Trump administration?