Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 27, 2024

One of the most strategic investments that can be made when it comes to having a well-prepared workforce for the economy of the future is in mathematics education. The intersection of strong math skills and success in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) career fields presents an opportunity not only for individuals but also for the overall economic development of our communities.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 27, 2024

The Common App essay prompts are designed to demonstrate your ability to write clearly and concisely on a selected topic and help you distinguish yourself in your own voice. Your personal essay provides the opportunity for you to stand out in the crowded college admissions landscape. The key question you must answer is: What do you want the readers of your college application to know about you apart from courses, grades, and test scores?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 27, 2024

Pregnancy was always implicitly protected by Title IX. But Biden’s new rules formalize the rights of pregnant and parenting students, making higher ed more accessible. Lacy Guzman decided to go back to college when she was pregnant with her first child. She and her husband had both lost their jobs around the same time, and they wanted to set their family-to-be up for a more stable future.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

AUGUST 27, 2024

Ray Stanley, vice president and CIO at Marian University in Indianapolis, knew he needed to shore up the institution’s cybersecurity stance when he couldn’t get an insurance policy without making some changes. “We were looking at our cyber insurance requirements,” Stanley says. “We got to a point where we had to have multifactor authentication, or we weren’t going to get insurance.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 27, 2024

Faculty members who run a lab have a research job and a leadership job, but they are often only trained for one of those, Jen Heemstra writes. Conflict resolution, financial planning, people management, public relations—all such job duties and more came with my faculty career, and it’s fair to say that I did not feel adequately prepared for any of them.

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Roompact

AUGUST 27, 2024

“We are not here to lecture our students after they’ve been in class all day.” “I think we need to remember how to just have fun.” As someone who has worked with residential curriculum across several different universities, one of my greatest frustrations is hearing phrases like these. On one hand, I totally agree with.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 27, 2024

Proposed federal regulations have institutions and higher ed groups worried about time and financial burdens. Hundreds of professors, colleges and higher ed organizations have expressed sharp criticism of the Department of Education’s proposed regulations for online courses, saying they stem from an antiquated mindset about new modalities—and place a time burden on professors and a financial burden on institutions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 27, 2024

New York governor Kathy Hochul met Monday afternoon with the leaders of more than 200 colleges and universities in the state to discuss emergency preparations for potential protests as students return for the fall semester, according to a statement from the governor’s office.

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University Business

AUGUST 27, 2024

In what ranking does the University of Wisconsin-Madison top the likes of Berkeley, John Hopkins and Georgetown? How could Florida International University beat out the state’s flagship when other popular rankings wouldn’t even place it in their top 100? Washington Monthly has three simple answers: social mobility, research and promoting public service.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 27, 2024

Litigation stemming from antisemitism on campuses shows that colleges must revive their commitments to freedom and tolerance, Austin Sarat writes. The spate of lawsuits and administrative complaints accusing colleges of tolerating antisemitism on their campuses has made for a busy summer for the lawyers who represent colleges and universities. But what has been good for their business has been much less good for the higher education institutions in which they work.

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Via's

AUGUST 27, 2024

We are excited to introduce Via Academy, our brand-new online learning platform designed to empower you and your team with the knowledge and skills to fully leverage all the features and functionalities of Via Global and Via Travel. Whether you’re onboarding new team members or looking to stay current with the latest updates, Via Academy offers a flexible, user-friendly, and engaging learning experience.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 27, 2024

Reading Growth: A History and a Reckoning and thinking about how universities will pay to transition to renewable energy sources. Growth: A History and a Reckoning by Daniel Susskind Published in April 2024 “Once you start thinking about [economic] growth, it’s hard to think about anything else.” While it is doubtful that the economist Robert Lucas ever uttered these exact words, they—the words—feel true.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 27, 2024

In this episode of Changing Higher Ed, Drumm welcomes Dr. Shaun Carver, Executive Director of UC Berkeley's International House, to discuss effective strategies for enrolling and retaining international students in U.S. higher education. Podcast Overview: • Insights into the rising trend of international student enrollment and its impact on U.S. campuses. • Strategies for creating welcoming environments that attract and support international students. • Practical advice on addressing challenges

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SRHE

AUGUST 27, 2024

by David Webster If GAI is the ‘uncanniest of guests’ in the University what can we do about any misbehaviour? What do we do with this uninvited guest who behaves badly, won’t leave and seems intent on asserting that it’s their house now anyway? They won’t stay in their room and seem to have their fingers in everything. Nihilism stands at the door: whence comes this uncanniest of all guests?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 27, 2024

Artificial intelligence holds immense potential to reshape the classroom experience for learners and educators alike, and while uncertainty remains, many faculty members report success in thoughtfully employing AI tools to support teaching and learning.

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University Business

AUGUST 27, 2024

The steep cost of living in some college and university towns can significantly dent employees’ spending power, fueling economic inequity and union strikes. This “invisible housing crisis” can also disrupt efforts to attract and retain talented faculty and staff, according to a report last year from the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area. “Simply put, wages are not keeping pace with housing costs,” reads the study, which focuses on afford

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Credo Higher Ed

AUGUST 27, 2024

Each year, we honor our exceptional team by awarding the Credo Values Awards to individuals who exemplify the core values of our firm. The award recipients are selected by Credo's Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and the Director of Extraordinary Talent via nominations from the broader team. We received many exceedingly qualified nominations for individuals across the firm who exhibit these values and are pleased to announce this year's recipients.

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The Guardian Higher Education

AUGUST 27, 2024

The federal government’s higher education reforms have attracted criticism from across the sector Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Albanese government has announced it aims to cap international student levels at 270,000 in 2025 , under a plan that would pare back university enrolments to their 2023 levels. The proposal – which covers the higher education and vocational education and training (VET) sectors – is subject to a bill before parliament.

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Parchment

AUGUST 27, 2024

How do we better connect learners to opportunities? How can states and employers better understand what credentials are being issued? Deb Everhart, Chief Strategy Officer at Credential Engine, joins us to discuss their efforts to improve pathways by investing in credential transparency. Deb shares how Credential Engine’s Credential Registry and Credential Transparency Descriptor Language (CTDL) are powering what learners, states, and employers know about the credentialing ecosystem.

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Higher Education Whisperer

AUGUST 27, 2024

Greetings from the State Library of South Australia cafe. In Adelaide for the AIIA iAwards. So far nothing odd has happened. Last time I bumped into the now Vice Chancellor of ANU writing a report for the SA government. On a previous visit I bumped into another professor writing a report on tech development for government.

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CAPD

AUGUST 27, 2024

Join your classmates for this year’s MIT Future Series, a collection of events tailored to your needs as a first year undergraduate student at MIT. Learn more and register for events individually at the Handshake links below. For all CAPD events, go to the CAPD events calendar. CAPD’s Virtual Orientation & Orientation P-Set | August 26 – September 6 When it comes to planning for your career, you may know exactly where you’re headed.

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Hope College Network

AUGUST 27, 2024

Every year, I find myself saying “summer has never gone by this fast before!” and every year, I’m convinced that this is the year I really mean that. Yesterday, President Scogin gave his beginning of the year talk to all the professors and faculty. Today as I’m writing, freshmen are getting moved into their dorms. At this time of year, I can’t help but think of the incoming students and their parents, each in the midst of their own life transition.

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Terminalfour

AUGUST 27, 2024

This summer, social media platforms have rolled out some new changes that higher education marketers should know about. From new engagement tools on Instagram to community features on YouTube and AI-driven content tools on LinkedIn, there are plenty of fresh opportunities. Read on to find out more.

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Parchment

AUGUST 27, 2024

How do we better connect learners to opportunities? How can states and employers better understand what credentials are being issued? Deb Everhart, Chief Strategy Officer at Credential Engine, joins us to discuss their efforts to improve pathways by investing in credential transparency. Deb shares how Credential Engine’s Credential Registry and Credential Transparency Descriptor Language (CTDL) are powering what learners, states, and employers know about the credentialing ecosystem.

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AIFS Abroad

AUGUST 27, 2024

Growing up poor in rural America, going to another country, and even for some another state, was often unheard of. Only some lucky few with relatives that were connected could make it out of the dim world of a hometown. Leaving meant those travelers would come back different, better somehow now that they’d been “refined” into someone classy.

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University Business

AUGUST 27, 2024

As freshmen thumbed through dorm posters and shopped for school supplies at the University of Alabama’s student center during the first week of school, other spaces in the building were noticeably empty. References to “diversity” have been scrubbed from office name plates. All signage had been removed from the once-bustling Black Student Union office.

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Higher Education Whisperer

AUGUST 27, 2024

Professor Andrew Norton (Australian National University) makes a well reasoned case for Australia not needing caps on international student numbers. He suggests recent changes to regulations will be sufficient to correct problems with the system.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 27, 2024

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is representing, for free, Jewish academics who don’t want to support a pro-BDS labor organization. But the foundation is trying to score broader wins. Will Sussman was elected president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Hillel group for Jewish grad students in May 2023, months before the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.

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University Business

AUGUST 27, 2024

In 2022, just a few months away from finishing nearly a decade at the helm of Purdue University, former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels was asked if his brand of conservatism — pragmatic, frugal, respectful — could survive in today’s Republican Party. At first, he dodged the question, saying that after a decade at Purdue he’d essentially been in a political quarantine.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 27, 2024

A new report from AEI adds to a growing wave of conservative criticism suggesting that academe should avoid taking a stance on contentious issues.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 27, 2024

A University of Miami professor has apologized after a picture surfaced on social media last week showing her wearing a keffiyeh and Palestine-themed sash while teaching.

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