Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 19, 2025
Who Would Win the Mens NCAA Basketball TournamentBased on Academics? Johanna Alonso Wed, 03/19/2025 - 03:00 AM The 2025 installment of Inside Higher Ed s annual tradition to see which team would come out on topif the only factor were the NCAAs academic metrics.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
MARCH 19, 2025
Enterprises in all industries have legacy applications and outdated infrastructure, but higher education institutions often accrue technical debt because they tend to delay technology upgrades or turn to short-term solutions to meet their needs, according to EDUCAUSE. Technical debt is prevalent because budgets are stretched thin and organizations want to maximize their investments, says Scott Ragsdale, senior director of U.S. healthcare, state, local and education sales at Nutanix.
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CAPD
MARCH 19, 2025
The application is due on April 15, 2025. This program aims to promote access to the legal profession by equipping participants with the tools and resources they need to apply to the law schools of their choosing and succeed as law students and legal professionals. This innovative program is designed to support Scholars in every aspect of their law school application process.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
MARCH 19, 2025
One of the most pressing challenges facing higher education institutions is maintaining and growing enrollment in the face of a declining pool of American high school graduates, a phenomenon known as the enrollment cliff. Another is increasing distrust in higher education at large. In response, colleges and universities are taking a much closer look at the student experience.
CAPD
MARCH 19, 2025
Application Deadline: April 30, 2025 Are you a rising junior or senior considering to law school? Do you need guidance on law school admission, the LSAT, law school classes or legal career paths? Join Washington and Lee’s APEX Program 2025 , a FREE , four-day virtual program that will accelerate your law school admissions journey. The program schedule is from 12:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 19, 2025
High costs associated with attending college continue to dampen the publics perception of the value of a degree, among both those who dont have a credential and those in pursuit of a degree, according to new data from the Lumina Foundation and Gallup.
Higher Education Whisperer
MARCH 19, 2025
Greetings from "Study or starve? Financial challenges of students studying in Australian and New Zealand Universities" online from the Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success (ACSES). Professor Karen Charlton from the University of Wollongong, discussed a salutogenic approach, looking at what helped students, rather than just what the problems were.
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Roompact
MARCH 19, 2025
Wed like to introduce you to our ACUHO-I intern for 2025, Venus Skowronski!Venus is helping us out with the further development of RA360.org. We’re excited to find out the new heights she can take it to! Venus Skowronski Pronouns: She/Her Hometowns: Port Charlotte, FL, and Chicago, IL Alma Mater: Favorite Emoji: What is something.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 19, 2025
The Education Department is reinstating 65 probationary employees who were fired in the last two months, following a court order.
Higher Education Whisperer
MARCH 19, 2025
Greetings from the weekly AI, ML and Friends Seminar at the Australian National University School of Computing, where Prof. Guy Aridor from Northwestern Kellogg School of Management is speaking on "The Value of Belief Data in Online Recommendation Systems". These are the systems which online stores use to recommend a product or post, based on what your friends like.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 19, 2025
American voters on both sides of the political aisle are hungry for more transparency and accountability in higher education, according to a new survey from Arnold Ventures.
Higher Education Inquirer
MARCH 19, 2025
The Higher Education Inquirer has recently received a Freedom of Information (FOIA) response regarding student loan debt held by former Liberty University students. The FOIA was 25-01939-F.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 19, 2025
The University of Utah has received a $75million gift for the construction of an 800,000-square-foot hospital and medical campus in West Valley City, roughly 11 miles west of the main campus in Salt Lake City. The gift comes from the George S. and Dolores Dor Eccles Foundation, a Utah-based philanthropy that invests in conservation, education, the arts and health and wellness.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 19, 2025
The University of Pennsylvania is facing significant financial implications as the federal government halts $175 million in funding over policies regarding transgender student-athletes, raising concerns about academic freedom and institutional autonomy in higher education. The White House announced the funding pause Wednesday in a statement that characterized the university's policies as forcing women to compete with men in sports.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 19, 2025
Dear Student Success readers, Inside Higher Edlaunched our Student Success platform at the beginning of 2023 because we saw a need for service journalism that would help people who directly impact the outcomes and well-being of students on campuses across the country.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 19, 2025
Historically Black and Predominantly Black community colleges across the South received an unprecedented $2.7 billion in federal pandemic relief funding, according to a new study released Wednesday by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. The report, Equity and Emergency: COVID-19 Relief Funding at Historically and Predominantly Black Community Colleges in the South, examines how 39 institutions across 10 Southern states utilized Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) allo
SRHE
MARCH 19, 2025
by GR Evans This blog was first published in the Oxford Magazine No 475 (Eighth Week, Hilary term, 2025) and is reproduced here with permission of the author and the editor. Rachel Reeds short but comprehensive book, Surviving and Thriving in Higher Education Professional Services: a guide to success (Routledge, 2025), is both an instruction manual for the professionals it was written for and an illuminating account of what they do for the academics and students who benefit.
University Business
MARCH 19, 2025
Dismissing the value of a college degree has become a national pastime. Everyone from Silicon Valley to Capitol Hill is jockeying to land the hardest punch on higher education. Traditionally, a college degree signals someone has the skills to become a high achiever. But in recent years, more employers are questioning the primacy of the four-year degree and are instead searching for ways to hire individuals with specific skills.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 19, 2025
International Enrollments Precarious Moment Liam Knox Wed, 03/19/2025 - 03:00 AM International students are a financial lifeline for many colleges, and enrollments are just recovering from the pandemic. The Trump administration is pushing them away.
University Business
MARCH 19, 2025
Register Now Date & Time: Tuesday, April 15that 2 p.m. ET The need for higher ed to adopt effective policies and procedures surrounding past-due account management is more pressing than everwith heightened scrutiny from The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and a recent national ban on transcript withholdingbut so is the urgency to show compassion towards students with overdue payments.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 19, 2025
Moodys Downgrades Sector Outlook to Negative Josh Moody Wed, 03/19/2025 - 03:00 AM In December, the ratings agency predicted stability for higher education, but the Trump administration has upended that forecast.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 19, 2025
Dr. Robin H. Holmes-Sullivan As a college president, I am often asked the same two questions: Why does college cost so much? and Is it really worth it? I usually start my answer with a statistic some find surprising: despite the headlines, post-high school educational attainment in the U.S. is at an all-time high. Just last month, the Lumina Foundation released a report demonstrating that54.9% of working-age adults in the U.S. hold a degree or credentiala 17% increase since 2008.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 19, 2025
Proactive Punishment: Trump Admin Pauses $175M to Penn Katherine Knott Wed, 03/19/2025 - 08:00 AM The university is facing an investigation related to transgender athletes participating in sports, and a White House official says the freeze is just a taste of what could be coming down the pipe.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 19, 2025
Randi Weingarten The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the U.S. Department of Education, escalating tensions over what the union describes as an illegal and abrupt shutdown of student loan relief programs that has left millions of borrowers facing higher payments amid economic uncertainty. The 1.8 million-member teachers union claims that three weeks ago, education officials under the Trump administration removed application forms for income-driven repa
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 19, 2025
The American Association of University Professors chapter at Columbia University is urging officials there to reject the Trump administrations demands, which include putting an academic department under receivership, abolishing the University Judicial Board and giving security employees arrest auth
University Business
MARCH 19, 2025
Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident and Columbia alum, was detained by ICE for his role in leading pro-Palestinian protests at his former university last year. As Khalil’s case has captured the nation’s attention, free speech advocates see it as a test of the First Amendment. Meanwhile, the Trump administration argues they have the right to deport Khalil without charging him with a crime.
University Business
MARCH 19, 2025
A judge ordered the Trump administration to temporarily reinstate some of the education grants it had nixed as part of its work to end diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. U.S. District Judge Julie Rubin in Maryland said that the U.S. Department of Educations termination of the grant awards is likely to be proven arbitrary and capricious, because the Departments action was unreasonable, not reasonably explained, based on factors Congress had not intended the Department to consider, and w
University Business
MARCH 19, 2025
Colleges and universities will have to begin looking elsewhere for funding and support as the Trump administration continues to shrink federal spending on higher education. While the administration has notmoved to cut Pell Grants, its already disrupted the student loans space. “Conservatives are looking to shrink the federal loan footprint and portfolio program, says Steve Taylor, policy director at Stand Together Trust, a philanthropic organization.
University Business
MARCH 19, 2025
The well-being of LGBTQ+ young people suffers not because of who they are but due to mistreatment and stigmatization, a leading suicide-prevention organization contends. The Trevor Project has released a state-by-state analysis of the mental health of LGBTQ+ teens and young adults. The survey of 18,000 LGBTQ+ young people ages 13 to 24 examines suicide risk, access to care, discrimination, bullying and the impact of anti-LGBTQ+ policies, among other factors.
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