Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

“I have all confidence that Trustee Vassar is going to lead us extraordinarily into this next phase as we go into some very important decision-making with the new presidential search and other things coming up.” – Trustee Brianna T. Scott On Sunday, October 22, Michigan State University (MSU) Trustee Brianna Scott presented a seven-page letter to the board calling for the removal of Dr.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Online Enrollments Spike at Community Colleges Sara Weissman Mon, 11/20/2023 - 03:00 AM Federal data suggest larger shares of students at two-year colleges are enrolling online. Higher ed experts say the trend calls for more online supports.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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Dr. Marcus L. Thompson will become president of Jackson State University (JSU), effective Nov. 27. Dr. Marcus L. Thompson Jackson State University Thompson is currently deputy commissioner and chief administrative officer of the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL), the state’s public university system. In this role, Thompson helped establish the IHL ADA/Accessibility Services Task Force and leads efforts to bolster university diversity, access, and success.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Will the Feds Strip Colleges’ Funds Over Anti-Jewish, Muslim Bias? Katherine Knott Mon, 11/20/2023 - 03:00 AM Pulling federal money from colleges would happen only after a long, complicated process. For the Education Department, it would be a “nuclear option.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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Frederick White Frederick White has been named executive director of Title III programs at Jackson State University in Mississippi. He served as the federal grant navigator consultant for the National League of Cities. White holds a bachelor’s degree from Mississippi Valley State University as well as a master’s degree and doctorate from Mississippi State University.

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Higher Education Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Title: National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s Regular Updates on Higher Education Enrollment Source: National Student Clearinghouse The National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) continues to provide up-to-date enrollment trends to highlight disparities in pandemic recovery across differing student and institutional characteristics. The NSC’s latest report encapsulates comprehensive data concerning 9.6 million students, both undergraduate and graduate, reported by.

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Higher Education Whisperer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Craig Davis, Andrew McCallum, Mandy Snashall, & Petr AdamekGreetings from the Canberra Innovation Network, where an.auDA panel is discussing "Unlocking Success: Harnessing Technological Disruption for Business Growth". Having spent much of the last week and a bit answering media enquirers about the Optus outage, as an ANU expert, I would like a little less technological disruption.

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Symplicity

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Symplicity® Corporation , the global leader in student employability, wellness, and success, welcomes back New Zealand Uni Talent , the network of all eight New Zealand Universities, and looks forward to supporting and collaborating with them once again in providing opportunities for students to engage with employers.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Commission on Presidential Debates has chosen four colleges and universities to play host to the presidential and vice presidential debates for next fall’s general election.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In this extra post, Glen Cousquer, Lecturer and Programme Coordinator in One Health↗️ and Conservation Medicine↗️, explores the power of transformative and genuine dialogue in addressing all forms of oppression, including bullying.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Navigating Grief in Career Transitions Out of Higher Education marylchurchill… Mon, 11/20/2023 - 03:00 AM Why you should make time to grieve when leaving academia. Byline(s) Chinasa Elue Brandy L.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

While most of her peers were preparing for their driving tests, Kyla Guru was making cybersecurity training available to vulnerable groups and partnering with a high school classmate to create a tech conference for girls. Now a senior at Stanford University studying computer science and international security while also completing her master’s degree, Guru, one of 30 Higher Ed IT Influencers to Follow, spoke to EdTech about her inspirations, how her education has refined her views on cybersecuri

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

What Happens When You Think Too Much? Sarah Bray Mon, 11/20/2023 - 03:00 AM How can you learn to settle down your runaway thoughts, Victoria McGovern asks, so you can focus on doing work you need to complete your graduate degree?

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College Forward

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

SAN ANTONIO , Nov. 16, 2023 / PRNewswire / — The Alamo Colleges District , the largest community college district in the south Texas region that serves 70,000+ students and provides tuition-free college to thousands of high school seniors, today announced a major new pilot initiative designed to improve first-year student retention, particularly among first-generation students and students from under-resourced backgrounds, through near-peer coaching.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The University of North Carolina at Wilmington was sanctioned last week for surpassing its out-of-state enrollment limit for the second year in a row. UNC Wilmington has an 18 percent enrollment cap for out-of-state students, put in place by the state legislature; for the past two years, however, nonresidents have made up 27 percent of its student body, an excess of over 200 students.

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The Guardian Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Mark Rusling says that a university education is clearly no inoculation against anti-Jewish racism, and Lynne Davies is appalled that Jewish students are being targeted at UK institutions The description of Jewish fear at British universities by an anonymous student at Oxford University is deeply upsetting and yet deeply unsurprising ( Why is antisemitism so rife in UK academic settings?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Iowa Board of Regents voted last week to cut back on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at the state’s three public universities, KCRG.com reported.

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Ray Schroeder

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A group led by a West Virginia University business school professor recently released an alternative plan that would address the university’s $45 million budget hole without making any of the program cuts and faculty reductions university officials have already approved. A group, going by the name Stewards of WVU, released a plan on Oct. 31 billed as an alternative to the Academic Transformation plan the university is undergoing.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Photo credit: Ellen Cochrane of Gaia Horsemanship. The image shows Glen’s research collaborator Ellen Cochrane engaging in multi-species dialogue with a number of her equine friends. Ellen and Glen’s work to explore the shift from the bit to the between, from domination to partnering, is grounded in principles of non-violent communication and are detailed in a recent paper in the Austral Journal of Veterinary Science ( Cousquer, 2023 ).

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Ray Schroeder

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The union representing City College of San Francisco’s faculty is accusing the school’s top official of falsifying financial information during ongoing labor talks. The American Federation of Teachers Local 2121 said it uncovered evidence that Chancellor David Martin allegedly inserted false data into a 2020 budget document to make it look like recent unprecedented fund transfers were based on long-standing policies.

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AIFS Abroad

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Last Updated on November 20, 2023 by Cat Rogliano “Money can’t buy happiness,” the line goes. Of course, when the rent’s due, it’s easy to forget this. But a 20-year study by Cornell University professor Dr. Thomas Gilovich is here to remind us that investing in experiences — like studying or interning abroad , for example — over things is how to achieve happiness.

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College Forward

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For more than 10 years, February at College Possible Minnesota means it’s time for Metro Visit Days – an annual tour event for high school juniors who are beginning their search for their perfect college. Metro Visit Days is College Possible’s most accessible event: Students are picked up from their high schools on a weekday afternoon and driven to a central meeting place where they then travel by bus to their chosen college.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Blogs How to use marketing to engage program-switchers Graduate and adult students apply outside their program of interest more often than you think It can be tough for enrollment leaders to know exactly how to market to and communicate with prospective graduate and adult students, which is why we make a continued effort to demystify these students’ behaviors through our research.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Texas State University in San Marcos will host the first in a series of four scheduled general election debates next year on Sept. 16, 2024, Texas State officials announced Monday. The university will become the first in Texas to host a general election presidential debate, school officials said. Texas State is also the only university in Texas with a United States president alumnus, Lyndon B.

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Higher Education Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Title: “We Shouldn’t Have to Choose Between Maintaining and Bettering Our Lives”: An Analysis of Older and Parenting College Students Authors: Ivy Love, Edward Conroy, Iris Palmer, and Sarah Sattelmeyer Source: New America Older students (i.e., students 24 or older), who are also referred to in the literature as adult learners, nontraditional students, or independent.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Wellesley College is under federal investigation for hate on campus. The Department of Education said it received complaints about alleged incidents of anti-Semitism at the school. Wellesley said one incident involved an email sent to students living in a dorm hall. Another incident involved complaints about a panel that spoke on the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute: Lucas Berenbrok, associate professor of pharmacy and therapeutics at the University of Pittsburgh, discusses which over-the-counter cold medicines may work and which may not.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Between 2016 and 2021, college enrollment in non-English languages dropped 16.6% nationally — the steepest decline since the Modern Language Association began recording these data in 1958. There were over 1.18 million foreign language enrollments at 2,455 institutions in fall 2021, according to a report released by MLA on Nov. 15. That’s more than 236,000 fewer enrollments than 2016 and almost 500,000 fewer than 2009, when national enrollment in languages peaked at 1.67 million.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Presidents’ Perspectives on Affirmative Action: a Survey Doug Lederman Mon, 11/20/2023 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Doug Lederman

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University Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Grand Canyon University (Ariz.) President Brian Mueller was fired up last week, announcing that he’s going toe-to-toe with the Department of Education. Mueller, who believes GCU has been unjustly targeted , is appealing the Department’s $37.7 million fine waging that the university engaged in false advertising. It’s the largest fine issued against a university for deceptive practices. “None of this makes any sense,” said President Mueller at a press conference. R

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A tenured Jewish professor at the University of Southern California was barred from the campus and instructed to teach remotely after getting into a verbal altercation with students attending a memorial for people killed in Gaza during Israel’s bombardment of the territory, the Forward reported.

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AIFS Abroad

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Last Updated on November 20, 2023 by Cat Rogliano Do you find you never know what to say in an interview when they ask you what your strengths are? Well, if you’re accepted into one of our international internship programs, AIFS Abroad can help you with that. All AIFS Abroad interns take the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment, a personal development tool based on decades of research into human strengths.

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