Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 31, 2024

The Ohio State University is launching a new mental health initiative to expand teletherapy services for nearly 70,000 students across its five campuses. Ryan Lovell "Our goal is to build upon a student experience that is not only free of stigma around mental health but where students feel supported and encouraged to seek help if they are experiencing mental health challenges," said Ryan Lovell, associate vice president for student health and well-being at The Ohio State University.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 31, 2024

Facing pressure from conservative lawmakers, Missouri’s flagship university is disbanding its inclusion, diversity and equity division, undoing a keystone achievement of the 2015 campus protests over racial equity. The University of Missouri at Columbia is dissolving its Division for Inclusion, Diversity and Equity, leaders announced Tuesday morning, in an effort to pre-empt legislative action from conservative state lawmakers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 31, 2024

Dr. Trineice Robinson-Martin Trineice Robinson-Martin has been named chair of the ensemble department at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. She served as a faculty member at Princeton University. Robinson-Martin holds a bachelor’s degree in improvised music studies from San Jose State University and a Master of Music degree in jazz studies from Indiana University-Bloomington as well as a master’s and doctorate in music and music education from Teachers College, Columbia Universit

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 31, 2024

The Kern Community College District will pay former Bakersfield College professor Matthew Garrett $2.4 million under a recent settlement agreement.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JULY 31, 2024

Higher education institutions have been slower to adopt zero-trust principles than their peers in other industries, according to a new survey — findings that indicate colleges and universities are leaving themselves vulnerable to the continuing onslaught of cyberattacks. The 2024 CDW Cybersecurity Research Report polled IT professionals in education, government, private business and other fields to gauge how prepared organizations are to defend themselves.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 31, 2024

Education officials in Georgia announced last week that the state would approve funding for Advanced Placement African American Studies courses, reversing an earlier decision after facing backlash from teachers and school districts.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JULY 31, 2024

Colleges and universities have spent more than $1 billion on educational technology since 2020, making enormous investments focused on improving the quality of remote learning and eventually expanding into student tech, campus safety tools and much more. The cash came, for the most part, from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund, a multibillion dollar allocation from the federal government that was necessary to allow learning to continue and was critical to keeping many institutions afloat

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 31, 2024

Studies reveal the psychological and economic factors behind contract cheating, which can help us stamp it out Imagine a university student paying someone else to sit their exam, take their tests, and write and submit all of their assignments. We call this “contract cheating” because the student enters a contract to outsource their work, whether formal or informal, with another person.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 31, 2024

Proposed changes to Indiana’s high school graduation requirements won’t meet Purdue University’s standards for admission, President Mung Chiang wrote in a letter to state education officials last week.

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University Business

JULY 31, 2024

“I am an assistant principal at a high school, and the shortage is real. This is my 28th year in education, and there are not people entering our field at the same rate as those retiring or those deciding that this is not the career for them. We are about to hit the critical precipice where we simply will not have enough teachers for our students, and we have to do something, or we will be in trouble.” —Tanya Snook, Keller, Texas, LinkedIn, Jan.2024 In recent news, numerous reports h

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 31, 2024

The University of California, Los Angeles, has been ordered by a federal judge to create a plan to ensure Jewish students have equal access to campus in collaboration with three Jewish students who sued the university over antisemitism, the Los Angeles Times reported.

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University Business

JULY 31, 2024

Almost two years ago, Isaiah Hickerson woke up in the middle of the night from a dream that he was a coder. The dream was totally random; he didn’t know a thing about coding. He had a job answering phones in the grooming department at a PetSmart in Miami. After hours, he was trying to figure out what to do with his life. At 23, he’d taken some community college classes in business and biology.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 31, 2024

Jacob A. Brown, Jeffrey S. Bednar, C. K. Gunsalus and Nicholas C. Burbules describe how to identify and manage the lingering influence of some leaders’ legacies. One of the challenges for new incoming academic leaders can be coping with the legacies of leaders who preceded them. These legacies can be favorable or not; they can be grounded in realities or exaggerated, for better or worse, through the unreliable lens of memory.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 31, 2024

Use of NDAs in cases of harassment and sexual misconduct will also be banned under measures introduced by regulator Universities in England will be fined if they fail to take adequate steps to protect students from harassment and sexual misconduct under measures that will also ban the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in such cases. Higher education institutions will have to take steps to prevent “abuse of power” where there are personal relationships between staff and students, the univer

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Paradigm IQ

JULY 31, 2024

Learn from the world leaders of Paradigm to discover Navigating Elections: How to Foster Inclusion and Productivity

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 31, 2024

Fee Management System: 10 Important Advantages for Higher Education Leaders admin Thu, 08/01/2024 - 01:19 Implementing a fee management system may be a crucial step for higher education leaders to improve fee collections and increase revenue. Higher education leaders understand the value of automated systems and keep looking for successful turnaround education solutions that put them on a course for success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 31, 2024

The U.S. Department of Education plans to email borrowers with at least one outstanding federally held student loan to inform them of the Aug. 30 deadline to call their servicer and opt out if they do not want the relief. Dr. Miguel Cardona Officials said borrowers who opt out of relief would not be able to opt back in and would be temporarily opted out of forgiveness due to enrollment in an income-driven repayment (IDR) plan until the department can automatically assess their eligibility for th

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 31, 2024

A snapshot of academic freedom perceptions in a tumultuous academic year yields results that may surprise higher education observers. But demographic breakdowns might provide a more complex picture.

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University Business

JULY 31, 2024

The University of Missouri will eliminate its division focused on diversity, social equity and inclusion on the Columbia campus, completing the dismantling of administrative structures put in place after protests in 2015 brought national attention to issues of racial equality. The move coincides with the departure of division Vice Chancellor Maurice Gipson.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 31, 2024

A federal judge shot down an effort Tuesday from four Southern states to immediately block the Biden administration’s new Title IX rule from taking effect, finding that Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina failed to show that they would be successful in their legal challenge.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JULY 31, 2024

The American education system promises equal opportunity for all. However, that promise is far from reality. The K-12 system, the foundation of this educational pyramid, is riddled with inequalities that create a segregated pipeline towards higher education and future careers. This report delves into the systemic issues within K-12 education and their far-reaching consequences.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 31, 2024

If the ambitious legislation passes, future budget appropriations would be based on an adequacy and equity formula, particularly benefiting regional and minority-serving institutions. Four months ago, a commission of Illinois higher education officials and bipartisan lawmakers unveiled their proposal for an ambitious new funding model that prioritizes adequate and equitable allocations for the state’s colleges and universities.

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