Robert Kelchen

OCTOBER 25, 2024

As most of higher education is concerned about their financial position, a growing number of colleges are trying to encourage academic units to generate additional revenues and cut back on expenses. One popular way of doing this is through responsibility center management (RCM) budget models, which base a portion of a unit’s budget on their ability to effectively generate and use resources. [1] Both universities that I have worked at (Seton Hall and Tennessee) have adopted variations of RCM budg

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Harvard Faculty Suspended From Library Over Protest Josh Moody Fri, 10/25/2024 - 03:00 AM Roughly two dozen faculty members will temporarily lose access to Harvard’s main library following a silent protest in support of students punished for the same reason.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The world took notice when OpenAI released the high-powered large language model ChatGPT in November 2022. Nearly two years later, at EDUCAUSE 2024 in San Antonio, artificial intelligence was still a hot topic of conversation among higher education’s leading technologists. They mostly agree that AI is a tool that could be beneficial to colleges and universities in a number of ways, but acknowledge that just because an AI solution exists, that doesn’t mean it’s the right solution.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Beyond Masculine and Feminine: Teaching Romance Languages in a Nonbinary World Elizabeth Redden Fri, 10/25/2024 - 03:00 AM Nicholas Henriksen outlines steps for making Romance language classrooms more gender inclusive.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2024

AI as a Service lets colleges and universities consume advanced learning automation applications in bite-sized servings without having to develop AI solutions on their own. Because AIaaS is hosted in the cloud, services can scale up or down as needed. These benefits give higher education leaders vast opportunities to improve student services and optimize campus operations.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Students Under More Surveillance Than Ever Katherine Knott Fri, 10/25/2024 - 03:00 AM A new book from a Purdue University professor outlines how universities’ embrace of some digital technology tools is reinforcing racial and economic inequities.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 25, 2024

by Chahna Gonsalves The rapid integration of AI tools like ChatGPT into academic life has raised significant concerns about academic integrity. Universities worldwide are grappling with how to manage this new frontier of technology. My recent research at King’s Business School sheds light on an intriguing challenge: student non-compliance with mandatory AI use declarations.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Anglia Ruskin University building. Image credit: Anglia Ruskin University. In this post, we share with you the Collegiate Commentary from our latest Teaching Matters ‘Five things’ reflective round-up : Five lessons learned from the Students as Change Agents (SACHA) series. In this commentary, David Jay offers his thoughts on student belonging, intentionality, variety, co-creation and group work in relation to similar ‘change agent’ activities being undertaken at Anglia Ruskin University.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Washington and Lee University has received a gift of $132 million that will allow it to go need-blind in admissions, on top of its existing commitment to meet full students’ financial need without loans, it announced Thursday.

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University Business

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Moving systems and processes to the cloud can reduce costs and improve efficiency through cloud-based automated workflows and AI-driven insights. Yet, 70% of digital transformation projects fail to meet their goals, according to global research firm McKinsey & Company. In this white paper, learn four keys to effective change management practices when modernizing your IT systems to avoid common pitfalls.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Bonds for Higher Ed on the Ballot jessica.blake@… Fri, 10/25/2024 - 03:00 AM Voters in California, New Mexico, Rhode Island and Utah are weighing whether to give public colleges and universities more money.

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CU Work-Life Balance

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Employee Services has released a new tool to help faculty and staff better understand and use the University of Colorado’s Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) benefit. FAMLI benefits offer partial wage replacement for employees who take leave for a variety of eligible reasons. A new employee portal tile will display up-to-date information on an employee’s FAMLI benefit amount and supplemental leave time (sick or vacation) needed to make an employee’s wages whole.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Pennsylvania State University has barred a biomedical engineering professor from conducting further research following an investigation that found “unreliable data” in numerous publications she authored, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Thursday.

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University Business

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Adjusting for inflation, students today have paid less and borrowed less money to cover the price of net tuition than their peers throughout the last 20 years thanks to increasing avenues of financial aid, according to a comprehensive report from the College Board, “Trends in College Pricing and Student Aid 2024.” Colleges and universities distributed over $160 billion in grant aid to undergraduate and graduate students in the 2023-24 academic year.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Getting back to the basics is the way forward. It is very much not like me to share a positive perspective about higher education writ large in this space. After all, I’m the guy who, in August 2023, wrote (of higher education), “It’s Over: Higher Ed in the Rearview Mirror,” in which I declared that whatever beliefs people had about higher ed being places where individuals can make themselves better through education—across dimensions other than future employability—was an artifact of the past.

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University Business

OCTOBER 25, 2024

It is urgent that the leaders of colleges and universities stand up in defense of their interests and the values of higher education. American schools have long trumpeted their contribution to promoting an educated citizenry. Now, as one of the most consequential elections in American history approaches, we must do everything we can to help students work on campaigns and facilitate voting.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Positive Partnership: Creating Internships for Community College Students Ashley Mowreader Fri, 10/25/2024 - 03:00 AM Two-year college students are less likely to have paid internship experiences compared to their four-year peers. Community and institutional partnerships can provide additional opportunities for this population.

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University Business

OCTOBER 25, 2024

College students in North Carolina and Wisconsin are excited to exercise their right to vote in the upcoming presidential election. Students continue to march through their campuses during voting events to encourage their fellow student to vote. Watch the video at USA Today. The post College students march to the polls as early voting gets underway appeared first on University Business.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Falling Demand Quashes Hopes for British Enrollment Growth Doug Lederman Fri, 10/25/2024 - 03:00 AM Universities will struggle to grow their way out of current financial crisis as predictions of 350,000 more students by 2035 seen as unrealistic.

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University Business

OCTOBER 25, 2024

High school juniors and seniors who pursue dual enrollment opportunities enjoy higher percentages of postsecondary enrollment and completion compared to those who don’t, according to a new report from the Community College Research Center. However, student success largely depends on their state. Four in every five (81%) dual-enrolled student analyzed by the research center enrolled at a postsecondary institution in fall 2015, their first year after high school.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Anglia Ruskin University building. Image credit: Anglia Ruskin University. In this post, we share with you the Collegiate Commentary from our latest Teaching Matters ‘Five things’ reflective round-up : Five lessons learned from the Students as Change Agents (SACHA) series. In this commentary, David Jay offers his thoughts on student belonging, intentionality, variety, co-creation and group work in relation to similar ‘change agent’ activities being undertaken at Anglia Ruskin Univer

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Hope College Network

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Sipping my comfort latte in LJs, I look out to the colors of green, orange, yellow, and red leaves against the white background of Pillar Church. College friends walk by while waving through the window. The barista greets customers by name as she clears tables of yellow mugs. Peering at the clock that always seems to tick by faster, I savor my prolonged final sip of coffee as I calculate whether I have time to stop by the Wednesday morning Holland Farmers Market before my next class.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Change Agents collaborate with Sarah Anderson from the Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability in a workshop to help shape the University’s next community plan. Image credit: author. In this post, the co-editor of the Students as Change Agents (SACHA) June-July 2024 series , Emma Taylor, presents a reflective round-up from the ten blog posts, offering five lessons learned from the series.

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The Guardian Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2024

There is a difference between legitimate protest and acts of terrorism, writes Vivienne Rivis In 1969 I was a London School of Economics undergraduate when access to the women’s toilets in the Old Building was suddenly blocked by workmen erecting iron gates, supposedly to prevent “riots” after a series of sit-ins and protests ( UN rapporteur challenges LSE over action against pro-Palestine protesters, 20 October ).

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Change Agents collaborate with Sarah Anderson from the Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability in a workshop to help shape the University’s next community plan. Image credit: author. In this post, the co-editor of the Students as Change Agents (SACHA) June-July 2024 series , Emma Taylor, presents a reflective round-up from the ten blog posts, offering five lessons learned from the series.

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Higher Education Inquirer

OCTOBER 25, 2024

How is higher education enrollment changing? Today the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center published its first analysis of student numbers for fall 2024. This is important data, as ever, and I’ll dig into it with this post. It’s a mixed bag. Total enrollment rose, but a key indicator fell. One caution: this is the first such report for the semester, representing just over one half of the Center’s respondents’ data.

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Higher Education Inquirer

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Republican Greg Murphy (MD) has introduced legislation in Congress to crack down on American college campuses, and to support the restriction of freedom of assembly and other Constitutional rights. The legislation is titled the Education Not Agitation Act. This legislation disqualifies individuals who are convicted of certain criminal offenses from receiving education related tax benefits including the American Opportunity Tax Credit, the Lifetime Learning Tax Credit, and the deduction on studen

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