Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Vanderbilt University is expanding its nationally recognized no-loan financial aid program, known as Opportunity Vanderbilt. Dr. Daniel Diermeier Dr. Daniel Diermeier, the university's chancellor, announced the university’s commitment to offering full-tuition scholarships to admitted students of families whose annual income is $150,000 or less. “We want everyone who has what it takes to get into Vanderbilt to be able to enroll, regardless of their financial background.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A FAFSA of Their Own Liam Knox Mon, 02/19/2024 - 03:00 AM After months of FAFSA delays and missteps, some colleges are sending students homemade aid forms and early offer estimates. That could be a risky gambit.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Black LGBTQ+ youth face both racism and homophobia as a result of their intersectional identity. As a result, they also face hardships related to a number of facets in their lives, including school safety, religion, community support, and higher education, according to a new report from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation. Charleigh J. Flohr The " 2024 Black LGBTQ+ Youth Report " – which the HRC Foundation created in partnership with the University of Connecticut – examines data from thei

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The Maryland House of Delegates passed a bill Thursday that would ban the consideration of legacy status in admissions for all colleges that receive state funding, both public and private. It will move on to the state Senate next. “With this legislation, we end an unfair practice that benefits a select number of students over those less privileged and connected,” Delegate Jazz Lewis, the bill’s sponsor, tweeted after the vote.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Western Wyoming Community College has launched a new partnership to provide students with immediate access to teletherapy. Amy Galley The college, a public community college serving nearly 3,000 students across a rural and remote five-county region, selected Boston-based Uwill to increase its existing counseling capabilities for all students. Uwill is a leading mental health and wellness solution for colleges and students.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In this extra post, Vassilis Galanos invites us to reflect on the sociopolitical backdrop behind the fast adoption of technologies like Generative Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education, such as the casualisation of academic employment in a landscape pressured by research excellence frameworks.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Debbie Magyar Debbie Magyar has been appointed director of the Florida Small Business Development Center at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. Magyar holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Kentucky and an MBA from Mount Vernon Nazarene University in Ohio.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Dr. Katie Lynch Katie Lynch has been appointed provost and vice president of academic affairs at Brookdale Community College in New Jersey. Lynch holds a bachelor’s degree in English and history from Dartmouth College, a master’s in literary studies from the University of Wisconsin, and a Ph.D. in literary studies from the University of Wisconsin.

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Terminalfour

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Is email marketing prospering? Which social media platforms should you invest more in this year? How frequently should you reach out to parents?

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Roompact

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, “What is the future of the RD position and role?” Guest Post by Trinity Brooks, Residence Life Professional In Student Affairs and Higher Education (SAHE), we often feel led to always have the right answers to questions. SAHE is ever-changing, so I’m confident when I.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Could a Per-Student Tax Alleviate a College Town’s Budget Challenges? kathryn.palmer… Mon, 02/19/2024 - 03:00 AM The University of Delaware owns nearly 35 percent of the untaxed property in Newark but is exempt from paying property taxes. City officials want to tax the university $50 per student, per semester.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In Baton Rouge, La., only 36.4 percent of adults aged 25 or over hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, according to U.S. Census Bureau data, which is on par with the state’s attainment rate of 36.3 percent, according to figures from the Lumina Foundation. To combat the “brain drain” of local students, the Baton Rouge Area Chamber (BRAC) worked with its local business partners to market internship and job opportunities to college students, connecting employers and students on a singular job platfor

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

What to Make of Dartmouth? Elizabeth Redden Mon, 02/19/2024 - 03:00 AM Jim Jump considers Dartmouth’s decision to reinstate standardized testing “in context.

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Credo Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Delays in the release of the FAFSA and the distribution of information necessary for financial aid awarding are a hot topic across higher education currently. Concerns about how this will impact admissions and incoming student enrollment are at the forefront of this conversation, but we have been considering the ways in which these challenges will impact the success and retention of current students.

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NACADA

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The clock is ticking on your chance to submit a proposal for the 2024 NACADA Annual Conference , held this year October 27-30 in Pittsburgh, PA. The call for proposals closes this week on Thursday, February 22 at 11:59 pm central! Whether you are a novice to the field of student success and advising or a seasoned expert, we are looking for YOUR amazing ideas to help shape the future of our profession and contribute to a diverse, global, and collaborative community of learning.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The University of Michigan said it asked one of its vendors to stop work, following an offer on social media to sell student data to train artificial intelligence. “Student data was not and has never been for sale by the University of Michigan,” spokesperson Colleen Mastony said in a statement to Inside Higher Ed. “The [message] in question was sent out by a new third party vendor that shared inaccurate information and has since been asked to halt their work.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Prof Paul Kleinman on putting ChatGPT to the test on his work. Plus letters from Michael Bulley and Dr Paul Flewers No wonder Robert Topinka found himself in a quandary ( The software says my student cheated using AI. They say they’re innocent. Who do I believe?, 13 February ). To test ChatGPT’s abilities and weaknesses, I asked it to write a short essay on a particular topic that I specialised in.

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Higher Education Whisperer

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This semester I am aiming to take a tentative step into AI for teaching. This will be in three workshops planned at ANU, for the computer project student's capstone e-portfolio for the ANU Techlauncher program. The students have to prepare a portfolio in the form of an application for a real job.

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Campus Sonar

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Differentiation is the bottom line of brand strategy. It's what makes an institution relevant and justifies its tuition and perceived quality. Yet any effort to stand out from the competition is a challenging prospect for many institutions searching for relevance and future direction. In a competitive market, it's becoming increasingly important for institutions to stand out.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A good education is a ticket to a better future. Generally, the higher the level of education one completes, the higher their income potential and the lower their chances of unemployment become. Some states are able to provide better quality education than others, though. In this study, WalletHub compared all 50 states across 18 key indicators of a well-educated population: educational attainment, school quality and achievement gaps between genders and races.

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Campus Sonar

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It’s not surprising that 72% of college presidents agree or somewhat agree that their institution needs to make fundamental changes in its business models, programming, or other operations ( Inside Higher Ed’s 2023 survey of presidents ). Or that roughly 40% of U.S. higher ed institutions are at, or nearing, financial risk, calculated by EY-Parthenon’s Institutional Viability Metric (IVM).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Today on the Academic Minute: Ken Jones, professor of theater at Northern Kentucky University, explains how the arts can bring forgotten voices back to the forefront. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Image credit: Otter-student by Vassilis Galanos created with Midjourney In this extra post, Vassilis Galanos invites us to reflect on the sociopolitical backdrop behind the fast adoption of technologies like Generative Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education, such as the casualisation of academic employment in a landscape pressured by research excellence frameworks.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Two people were found dead with gunshot wounds in a dorm room at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Friday morning, KKTV reported. One of the victims was a registered student at the university, the Denver Post reported Sunday.

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College for Creative Study

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

People who say that the journey is more important than the destination haven’t met Megan Shellenbarger (Graphic Design ’09). She’s managed to make the most out of both. “CCS prepared me for the world more than I ever knew,” Shellenbarger said. “The bar was so high, and the knowledge base was so broad, that I felt like I really was set up to graduate and stand on my own two legs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The law, policy and politics of AI. This semester I am teaching Law, Policy and Politics of AI. For all my classes, I begin with Lawrence Lessig’s four-factor analysis: law, markets, social norms and technology. That all seems fine until I explain how these factors take shape in time and space. Last week I fell down a big rabbit hole on the rise of corporations in American history as a way of explaining the peculiar role that corporations play in contemporary society.

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College for Creative Study

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As a 2002 graduate of the Entertainment Arts program at CCS and the Associate World Director at Blizzard Entertainment, Damarcus Holbrook invites you into his home, offering a glimpse into his decade-long journey contributing to iconic World of Warcraft expansions such as Warlords of Draenor, Legion, Battle for Azeroth, and Shadowlands and much more.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The Higher Education Inquirer has been tracking Ambow Education (AMBO) for about two years. Ambow Education is the owner of the NewSchool of Architecture and Design in San Diego and the former owner of Bay State College which closed in 2023. Tomorrow, February 20, 2024, Ambow completes a 1-10 reverse stock split to pump up its stock price just enough to avoid delisting from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

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College for Creative Study

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Through two semester-long projects in collaboration with Ford Motor Company, Gravity Sketch and American Chemistry Council, CCS students showed off their sustainable vehicle designs for the future of transportation. The College for Creative Studies (CCS) is proud to announce the successful completion of two groundbreaking projects sponsored through the Transportation Design program during the Fall 2023 semester.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The Week in Admissions News Susan H. Greenberg Mon, 02/19/2024 - 03:00 AM University of Missouri system extends test-optional policy; New York fines the College Board for selling student data; Wisconsin approves guaranteed admissions. Byline(s) Susan H.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It is a love letter to the wonders of needlework, a multi-storey mill for the 21st century. Our writer enters an orange peel lobby and ascends some Harry Potter stairs at the new London College of Fashion It must be the ironing board with the best view in the capital. On the top floor of the new London College of Fashion, in a prime corner of the kind usually reserved for a boardroom, a student is busy pressing their garments in front of a rolling panorama of the Olympic Park and the towers of t

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This week’s episode of The Syllabus podcast features Alex Morey, director of campus rights advocacy at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. The Syllabus podcast is from the Office of Open Learning at American Jewish University and Inside Higher Ed.

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