Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

More than 300 women faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder will receive back pay and a salary equity analyses every three years, following a $4.5 million settlement that the university reached following a class action lawsuit that was filed alleging widespread gender pay discrimination. “I’m feeling very proud of our class representatives for pursuing this action,” said Dr.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

What Is Behind FIRE’s Attacks on AAUP? Elizabeth Redden Mon, 11/18/2024 - 03:00 AM FIRE is no defender of academic freedom, Joan W. Scott writes. Byline(s) Joan W.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced $5 million in grants to support Tribal students at land-grant colleges and universities through the New Beginning for Tribal Students (NBTS) Program. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack The announcement was made by Secretary Tom Vilsack at the 2024 White House Tribal Youth Forum held late last week. “These USDA investments reinforce our commitment to empowering Tribal Nations by cultivating tomorrow’s agriculture sector professionals and buildin

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Federal Judge Strikes Down Biden’s Overtime Expansion jessica.blake@… Mon, 11/18/2024 - 03:00 AM The order means that tens of thousands of college and university staffers are no longer guaranteed either a raise or overtime benefits.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The potential use cases for generative artificial intelligence appear endless. As this tech tool continues to evolve, it has given university leaders and faculty members the potential to solve a broad spectrum of institutional and pedagogical challenges. Microsoft Windows devices are at the forefront of this transformation, enabling schools to harness the power of AI effectively.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Words like “race” and “equity” have been removed from 78 course titles at the University of North Texas, The Dallas Morning News reported.

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AIFS Abroad

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Every November, International Education Week (IEW) celebrates the transformative power of global learning and cultural exchange — and 2024 is no exception! It’s a time to recognize the countless ways international education and cultural exchange opportunities can shape lives, strengthen communities, and build connections across borders. As part of this celebration, we’re putting a spotlight on a few of our study abroad and international internship program participants who embraced these opportun

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Higher Education Whisperer

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Greetings from the new 4th floor at Canberra Innovation Network where Dr Craig Benson, CIO of Skycraft. His company provides communication for commercial aircraft globally, using Australian made satellites. Craig described how this space company doesn't do expensive "rocket science".

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Enhancing and modernizing the higher education student experience is a top priority for college and university administrators. But while institutions are starting to understand the significance of the problem, many are no closer to solving it. This is something we at CDW Education have been hearing about for a while from our partners on university campuses.

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Higher Education Whisperer

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

I have booked to attend the ASCILITE 2024 computers and education conference at the University of Melbourne, 1 to 4 December (being a joint author on one paper). But conferences with multiple streams can be a bewildering experience, so I like to do a best of, in advance.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Police are investigating after pro-Palestinian protesters vandalized University of Washington president Ana Mari Cauce’s home and automobile last week, The Seattle Times reported.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Faced with rural population declines and falling university enrollments, Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education needed a dramatic overhaul. Thanks to a reimagining of how its 10 member institutions track and report financial accountability and student success — and an upgrade of IT foundations to ensure the requisite data around those metrics can be properly harvested and analyzed — sound data now informs systemwide decision-making, Chancellor Emeritus Daniel Greenstein says.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

A report on the response by the University of California, Los Angeles, to pro-Palestinian protests this past spring found that problematic decision-making processes, poor communication and other errors put campus safety at risk, the Los Angel

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AIFS Abroad

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Eager to step into the footsteps of a college student who’s studying abroad in France? We recently caught up with AIFS Abroad program participant Farida from the University of Cincinnati, who has been spending an academic year on the French Riviera in Cannes. Read on to learn more about her study abroad experience with AIFS Abroad and the impact of being an international Student in Cannes.

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Higher Education Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Title: Supporting Minds, Supporting Learners: Addressing Student Mental Health to Advance Academic Success Source: Center for Community College Student Engagement The 2023 Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) and Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE) gathered essential data to guide community colleges in supporting student mental health and well-being.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Before community colleges can jump into offering dual enrollment, they must first build a well-intentioned partnership and assess which pathways are conducive to employment in high-wage, high-need industries, asserts a new report from the Career Ladders Project. The equity-based nonprofit examined how six pairs of community colleges and K12 districts across the Los Angeles Regional Consortium have worked together to build high-quality dual enrollment partnerships.

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Higher Education Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Title: Fewer Freshmen Enrolled in College This Year Following Troubling FAFSA Cycle Author: Katharine Meyer Source: Brookings Institution, National Student Clearinghouse Research Center The rollout of the new FAFSA form last year triggered cascading consequences across the higher education community. The launch was delayed, customer calls remained unanswered, and the number of filings decreased by about three percent.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Colleges and universities, on average, are admitting a larger proportion of their applicants than they did 20 years ago, new research by the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute finds. The median acceptance rate at bachelor’s degree-granting universities and colleges was 7.6 percentage points higher in 2022 than it was in 2012, AEI found.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Image credit: University stock photo, Paul Dodds In this extra post, Majdouline El hichou, Research Assistant on the PTAS-funded project on ‘Co-Creating a Development Needs Analysis (DNA) for PGRs’, shares insights into the co-creation process, learnings from surveys and focus groups, and their implications for the new DNA. You can read more about the origin of the PTAS project in this blog post by Anna Pilz, and please do check out the project webpage.

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The Humphrey Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Empathy has been a leadership buzzword for quite some time. Many leaders view empathy as an inherent trait rather than a skill that can be nurtured and developed. Yet, academic research consistently demonstrates that empathy training can enhance relationships and improve workplace dynamics.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

URI Receives $65M Gift for Scholarships for STEM Majors Susan H. Greenberg Mon, 11/18/2024 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Susan H.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The cost of in-state college tuition in Virginia has gone down in the past five years when adjusted for inflation, but it’s still higher than most of the U.S., according to the College Board. Why it matters: Salaries aren’t keeping up with inflation, so Virginians are likely considering the squeeze of year-to-year tuition and fee increases when making college decisions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

As Trump Threatens Deportations, Campus Leaders Tread Carefully Sara Weissman Mon, 11/18/2024 - 03:00 AM Colleges are considering what supports they can offer their undocumented students. Some leaders feel constrained in what they can publicly say or legally promise.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Enrollment in trade school has grown 4.9% from fall 2020 to 2023, erasing pre-pandemic declines, according to a new report from Validated Insights, a market research company. Revenue has also expanded 11.1%. Interest in attending trade school has nearly doubled among both teens and adults since 2017. In 2024 alone, search traffic is up 27%. University enrollment, on the other hand, has declined by 0.6% since the pandemic, according to data compiled from the National Center for Education Statisti

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Connecticut governor Ned Lamont, a Democrat, ordered midyear budget cuts for higher education institutions despite projections that the state will have a surplus of $1.6 billion at the end of the fiscal year in June, the CT Mirror reported.

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Higher Education Inquirer

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Johny C. Taylor Jr , President of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) , has been short-listed for the position of US Secretary of Labor. HEI is covering this story because Mr. Taylor is also a board member of Guild, an edtech company we have been covering since 2021. Moving forward, we are also interested in following any decisions he could make affecting labor in higher education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The incoming Trump administration is considering appointing Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a vocal critic of COVID-19 restrictions who has accused the National Institutes of Health of holding too much power, to a major public health role in the government, The Washington Post reported.

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The Guardian Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Republican president-elect says he wants to dismantle the US education department and fire ‘radical left accreditors’ Donald Trump hates the state of higher education in the US so much that he wants to start a new online university that will dole out bachelor’s degrees free of charge to challenge existing colleges. Trump has also vowed to “deport pro-Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again”.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The Game is this weekend. The Harvard-Yale game, of course. It’s usually less about the football and more about the drinking. This year’s event comes with a new twist. The tailgate talk will likely include discussion on who’s to blame over the impending reign of Trump the Disruptor. And the demise of higher ed. Emil Guillermo You don’t have to be a Harvard or Yale grad to have read the “How the Ivy League Broke America, ” by David Brooks, in The Atlantic.

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