Great College Advice

JUNE 7, 2024

Key Steps to Applying to American Universities from Chile Whether your child chooses to pursue a master’s or bachelor’s degree that is uncommon in your home country or simply wants to have an enriching experience abroad, Great College Advice is here to help. In this article, we present the key steps for applying to American universities from Chile. ( Leer en español ) “Nearly 3,000 Chileans enrolled to study at universities and higher education institutions in the United States

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JUNE 7, 2024

As cybersecurity threats against higher education institutions evolve in complexity, colleges and universities need to be ready for anything. Because higher education is one of the sectors cybercriminals target most often, institutions must not think of cyberattacks as merely a possibility. Rather, they should be on guard against inevitable attacks on the valuable data on their networks.

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Great College Advice

JUNE 7, 2024

Key Steps to Applying to American Universities from Chile Whether your child chooses to pursue a master’s or bachelor’s degree that is uncommon in your home country or simply wants to have an enriching experience abroad, Great College Advice is here to help. In this article, we present the key steps for applying to American universities from Chile. ( Leer en español ) “Nearly 3,000 Chileans enrolled to study at universities and higher education institutions in the United States

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 7, 2024

‘Is Our System of Free Speech Failing Us?’ jessica.blake@… Fri, 06/07/2024 - 03:00 AM In a Q&A with Inside Higher Ed, Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, discusses the impact of the pro-Palestinian protest movement on campus speech.

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CIP

JUNE 7, 2024

We are excited to announce our 2024-2025 Independence Award Scholarships have been awarded! Recognizing the need for greater diversity, equity, and inclusion, the Independence Award aims to provide greater opportunity and access to those who wish to enroll in the College Internship Programs Full Year Program offering.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 7, 2024

Long Waitlists for Introductory English at City College of San Francisco Sara Weissman Fri, 06/07/2024 - 03:00 AM Some faculty and students say the community college isn’t offering enough sections of the often required course, leading to program completion delays and frustration.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JUNE 7, 2024

It’s a bit uncomfortable to describe higher education institutions in harsh business terms, but universities have bills to pay, and they need the dollars to pay them. The top priority for higher education remains preparing young adults for the world and the workforce. But some of the best ways to provide those experiences are expensive. Tuitions have continued to rise over the years, and many colleges are stressing over how to keep students attending with the enrollment cliff growing closer.

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PUC

JUNE 7, 2024

When Faye Rippe was a freshman last year, one of her RAs inspired her to become one. Now, she is experiencing being one herself at Andre Hall for the first floor. Her first job was at a school, and she missed talking with her students and hearing about their day. Being an RA allowed Faye to continue those duties as she does daily check-ins on her hall residents to make sure they’re doing well.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 7, 2024

Higher Education Is Not a Musical Sarah Bray Fri, 06/07/2024 - 03:00 AM The narrative that faculty can overcome anything through individual agency may be similar to that of a Broadway hit, yet it’s a fantasy, writes Juliet Shields.

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University Business

JUNE 7, 2024

Red Lake Nation College on Thursday celebrated the opening of its downtown Minneapolis location, with music and applause filling the air as supporters gathered to mark one of the first times an accredited tribal college has set up in an American city. “It’s really hard to do. If it was easy, it would have been done a long time ago,” College President Dan King told a crowd of tribal members, government officials and others packed into the school’s new building on 3rd Stree

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 7, 2024

Rockland Community College President Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo has been fired after less than a year on the job and a tenure marked by layoffs and clashes with faculty, lohud.com reported. He joined Rockland last July.

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University Business

JUNE 7, 2024

The urgent calls and emails to Point Park University started within hours of the abrupt announcement that a venerable arts campus in Philadelphia would close within a week, leaving hundreds of students suddenly without fall college plans. University of the Arts, dating to the 1870s, had become the latest small private campus to succumb to enrollment losses and financial pressures.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 7, 2024

The University of Pennsylvania issued new, temporary protest guidelines on Thursday, explicitly banning encampments. This is the first time such a prohibition has been made at the Ivy League institution, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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University Business

JUNE 7, 2024

Emily Lund tried so hard to make 21½-hour days work. For eight months, the 21-year-old farmer got up at 5 a.m. to feed the animals on the family farm nestled in the rolling hills just outside of Richland Center, which she’s been running for nearly three years. Most weekdays, after two hours of feeding animals, she’d leave her farm by 8 a.m. to make the 1½-hour trek to UW-Madison, where she was enrolled as a double major in agriculture business and science and is learning how to breed cattle.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 7, 2024

Fears Mount Over Detention of Academics Who Traveled to China Marjorie Valbrun Fri, 06/07/2024 - 03:00 AM Several Chinese academics working overseas have disappeared or been detained on return to China as the country’s leaders expand national security laws.

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University Business

JUNE 7, 2024

Private colleges and universities are increasingly eager to tap into additional streams of revenue beyond enrollment and tuition. Some schools may be expecting to benefit from the good graces of a heavyweight donor ; others may operate an inn or theater. DeSales University’s windfall, on the other hand, started with a spammy-looking email. Mark Albert, CIO and associate vice president for information technology at the Pennsylvania-based university, remembers being bombarded by tech brokers

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 7, 2024

Today on the Academic Minute, part of Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Benefits of Project-Based Learning Week: Lindsay Davis, assistant professor of teaching in the humanities and arts department, looks into how academic projects can help narrow self-efficacy gaps for female students.

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 7, 2024

Top 10 Challenges in Higher Education Management and Simple Solutions admin Fri, 06/07/2024 - 15:04 Managing challenges in higher education and uniting departments and campuses to achieve the mission is always a big challenge for those involved in the management. Transforming higher education systems with high technology-enabled automation tools to support the academic and administrative processes will make it easy to achieve their goals.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 7, 2024

Rebuilding Trust in an Age of Scarcity johnw@mcsweeneys.net Fri, 06/07/2024 - 03:00 AM There is no such thing as “higher education” writ large anymore. It’s now about moving forward in an age of scarcity.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 7, 2024

New Presidents or Provosts: Alamance, Ball State, Chowan, Clarkson, Colorado State-Pueblo, San Diego CC, Tampa Doug Lederman Fri, 06/07/2024 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Doug Lederman

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 7, 2024

The Biden administration’s new income-driven repayment (IDR) plan known as Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) is “far more generous and costly” than what Congress intended when it passed the law authorizing IDR, argues a new report from the Defense of Freedom Institute, a conservative think tank.

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