Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 3, 2024

In April , I outlined the challenges Black students and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are facing with the rollout of the new Better FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) form, a dynamic that has since led to a multitude of challenges, setbacks, and concerns among students, caregivers and educators as completing the form is a prerequisite for college students to receive federal student aid such as grants, work-study funds, and loans.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 3, 2024

A suite of new regulations governing higher education took effect Monday. Here’s what you should know about the key measures now in place—and the legal challenges they face. A host of new federal regulations took effect Monday, and Education Department officials say the new rules make up part of “the most effective system ever to oversee predatory and low-quality institutions of postsecondary education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 3, 2024

Georgia Gov. Brian P. Kemp has been re-elected to a second, one-year term as chair of the Southern Regional Education Board. Gov. Brian Kemp Kemp will help lead the nonprofit, nonpartisan interstate compact comprising Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 3, 2024

As microcredential programs slowly gain traction, more universities are looking for leaders to coordinate the efforts. Amy Heitzman noticed a new trend when UPCEA, an online and professional education association, put out calls last year to institutions looking to bulk up microcredential programs. “Five of the 40 [applicants] said, ‘We’re going to hire someone to head this up,’” said Heitzman, UPCEA’s deputy CEO and chief learning officer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 3, 2024

Dr. Carmen S. Dixon Carmen S. Dixon has been appointed dean of the School of Education at Capital University. She serves as an associate professor of education. Dixon holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Ohio University, a master’s in curriculum and instruction from Mount Vernon Nazarene University, and a doctorate in curriculum and instruction from Ohio University.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 3, 2024

Citing the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down affirmative action, a conservative group filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally discriminating against white men in faculty hiring.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JULY 3, 2024

There’s no point in waiting any longer: If your college or university doesn’t have a generative AI use policy, it’s time to build one before the fall semester gets here. There’s plenty of guidance from schools that already have policies on generative artificial intelligence, including dozens of examples from across the higher education landscape. There’s also plenty of need for AI policy guidance, judging by the 2024 EDUCAUSE AI Landscape Study, which asked higher education leaders how well thei

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Roompact

JULY 3, 2024

“Do I really have to go through training again?” “Training is boring, we just sit there.” “I’ve already done this twice! It’s the same thing every year.” “Can I skip this session?” If these laments sound familiar to you, you might just work with student staff in Residence Life. While training is mandatory for a.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 3, 2024

Christine Moskell offers lessons she’s learned about how colleges can tap staff members’ expertise and harness their full potential. I am a staff member with a Ph.D. who has taken an alternative academic career path from a contingent faculty member to an instructional designer position. My professional journey in higher education never exposed me to the broad scope of roles and responsibilities that staff members play to support a college.

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University Business

JULY 3, 2024

Western Governors University is the titanium needle in the haystack in the U.S. higher education landscape. It boasts some of the highest student satisfaction rates in the country despite being one of the only universities to follow a self-paced, competency-based learning model. It enrolls 20 times more students than the average institution. In a heated political climate, the private nonprofit garners the respect and attention of higher ed leaders from both sides of the political spectrum.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 3, 2024

More than 100 instructors at Front Range Community College have had to wait for their summer paychecks, according to The Colorado Sun. It’s the latest in a string of payroll lags from the college, which has campuses in Longmont, Westminster and Fort Collins. As a result of the latest delay, some staff members have been forced to pick up extra jobs and pay bills late.

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CU Work-Life Balance

JULY 3, 2024

This year, the university’s Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) introduced a significant new benefit for eligible CU employees. This benefit offers paid leave in addition to existing federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) job protections and CU’s Parental Leave benefit. The interplay of these leave programs, the process for applying and requirements to document these types of leave present a steep learning curve for everyone involved.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 3, 2024

A new report by the Vera Institute of Justice marks one year since the return of Pell Grants to incarcerated students and analyzes how programs can improve. A decision by Congress to restore Pell Grants to incarcerated students took effect last summer, a win for students and their advocates after imprisoned people attending college were barred from the federal financial aid for almost three decades.

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The Humphrey Group

JULY 3, 2024

It wasn’t a soft landing that brought leadership coaching into my life. In 2008, I had a professional setback that resulted from an incident of workplace discrimination. The experience left me reeling and forced me to get honest. I had to ask myself whether my professional trajectory to date had really been aligned with my values.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 3, 2024

Students today are more willing to take a stand and advocate for each other than their predecessors, so higher ed leaders can tap into these voices to transform campus life for the better, writes student affairs VP Matt Gregory. For the last five years, infinite digital ink has been spilled over how Generation Z is reshaping commerce, the workforce and even politics.

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University Business

JULY 3, 2024

In an already difficult year for college applicants, when it came down to picking a school, there was one factor that outweighed all others: financial aid. Even in ordinary years, choosing a college largely hinges on the amount of financial aid offered and the breakdown among grants, scholarships, work-study opportunities and student loans. In 2024, however, ongoing issues with the new federal financial-aid application have heightened the role of aid in college choices.

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Terminalfour

JULY 3, 2024

New accessibility standards for websites and mobile apps are making digital access better for everyone. There have been updates to the ADA legislation. We look at what they are and what you’ll need to do to ensure inclusivity (and stay compliant!). Guest blog by Little Forest.

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University Business

JULY 3, 2024

Clarks Summit University in Pennsylvania is the latest religious school to announce it will shut its doors due to financial stress. The school’s closing highlights the brutal landscape for small colleges grappling with enrollment declines and rising costs. Those challenges can be particularly acute for religious colleges, which confront the same issues secular schools do while struggling to appeal to a declining number of young people who say organized faith is a part of their lives.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 3, 2024

A new episode of Inside Higher Ed's Key podcast digs into one of the knottier problems in higher education: how learning is recognized across institutions.

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University Business

JULY 3, 2024

Hampshire College in Amherst announced cuts to staff benefits Monday, just months after the school’s leaders said it had recovered from enrollment and financial problems. Five years ago, Hampshire’s money problems forced it to consider either a merger or a potential closure. And that was before the pandemic caused college enrollment to plummet. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and other alumni tried to stem the crisis by raising funds, which temporarily secured the college’s future.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 3, 2024

We’d like to hear from people who have taken out a loan to cover university tuition fees or student maintenance loans in the UK, and how this is affecting them We’d like to hear from people who have taken out a student finance loan in the UK to cover university tuition fees or living costs, and how this is affecting them. Whether you have already been repaying your student loan for years, or have just begun, or are yet to start repaying it, we’re interested to hear how this debt has been affecti

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University Business

JULY 3, 2024

Say I hop into a large language model (LLM) to do cursory research for a University Business piece and the query, “What can universities do to eliminate bias in AI systems they use?” returns results that are irrelevant, off the mark or inherently biased. No harm done, probably. But what if a university uses a customized LLM-based AI to filter thousands of student applications and even a small percentage of the AI’s assessments are irrelevant, off the mark or inherently biased?

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 3, 2024

Revolutionizing Student Living: Cutting-Edge Innovations in Housing editor Wed, 07/03/2024 - 04:21 Of late, the modern definition of student housing is all about establishing a vibrant living environment that fosters both personal, physiological, and intellectual development in addition to offering a place to sleep and study. It is true that to address the growing demand for innovative student housing, higher educational decision-makers are looking for innovative housing solutions that the stude

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Great College Advice

JULY 3, 2024

Todos los años, al terminar el secundario, muchos estudiantes argentinos buscan la mejor opción para continuar su camino de aprendizaje. El objetivo, en la mayoría de los casos, es convertirse en un profesional de excelencia y vivir haciendo lo que les gusta. Sí te interesa cursar una licenciatura o maestría en una universidad estadounidense, desde Great College Advice queremos ayudarte.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 3, 2024

Analysis shows hippos get all four feet off the ground at once up to 15% of the time when at full pelt It takes a scientific mind to see the grunting hulk of a hippopotamus and wonder whether, given sufficient motivation, such an improbable beast might ever become airborne. And so to researchers at the Royal Veterinary College in North Mymms, Hertfordshire, whose painstaking examination of footage of the creatures revealed that when the hefty herbivores reach top speed they do indeed take off.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 3, 2024

When Nicole Lynn Lewis founded Generation Hope in 2010, she realized that her organization could be the first place that parenting students are ever told “Yes.” “The families we serve go out into the world, in educational and community settings, where the answer is often, ‘No.’ They face a ton of red tape and are asked to perform their poverty time and time again to get their foot in the door to resources,” said Lewis.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 3, 2024

Staff, students and writers criticise decision to issue programme’s co-founder with a redundancy notice Goldsmiths, University of London has been accused of being “determined” to close its Black British literature course after selecting its co-founder for redundancy as part of a cost-cutting programme. On Monday provisional redundancy notices were issued to 97 academic staff across 11 university departments, the Guardian understands, including Prof Deirdre Osborne.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 3, 2024

The American Civil Liberties Union has released a memo analyzing potential anti-DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) policies that the legal organization said could come from a second-term Donald Trump presidency. “Trump plans to intensify efforts to eradicate DEI programing and inclusive education, banning books and censoring curricula on race, gender, and the lived experiences and contributions of marginalized groups in classrooms,” said Kim Conway, senior policy counsel of the ACLU's Democr

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 3, 2024

American Transparency publishes spending investigations under the moniker OpenTheBooks but doesn’t say where it gets its own money. Its definitions of DEI positions are way too broad, says one targeted university. Adam Andrzejewski and his organization, OpenTheBooks, seem very busy. The former Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate and his group publish an ongoing series of articles at RealClearInvestigations, a conservative-leaning news site, called “Waste of the Day.

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