Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

As the school year begins and progresses, we are very mindful of the need for educators to be culturally responsive and welcoming to minoritized students, those in particular who are marginalized and denied opportunities to feel a sense of belonging and membership in their classrooms and all academic settings. The barriers to academic achievement and pride are numerous and too often seen with racial discrimination – deficit thinking, low expectations, hyper-surveillance, excessive discipline, ov

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The Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Caitlin K. Kirby, Michigan State University Min Zhuang, Michigan State University Imari Cheyne Tetu, Michigan State University Stephen Thomas, Michigan State University Keywords: Generative AI, Course Design, Teaching Philosophy Key Statement: We offer a framework to help navigate a response to generative AI in higher education classrooms through a series of guiding questions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Dr. Nicholas B. Dirks, president and CEO of The New York Academy of Sciences, held a conversation earlier this week with two higher education experts about the current crises facing postsecondary institutions: rising tuition costs and student debt, decreased state and federal funding, an increased criticism of a humanities-centered education, and the value proposition of higher education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Faculty unions at McGill university say they face similar pushback from university administrators as graduate workers at Boston University To the editors, Unions are essential to building strong, cohesive universities where research and critical thought thrive because professors and students are secure and protected. While negotiations are sometimes strained, they result in greater consensus, enabling universities to fulfill their role of improving and transmitting knowledge for generations to c

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Michael Williams Michael Williams has been named athletics director at Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He served as the associate athletics director for facilities and operations at John Jay College. Williams holds a bachelor’s degree in health education from Long Island University.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Two entrepreneurial Stanford students fed hundreds of essays—both high and low quality—into an AI model to train it on what top-tier colleges look for in admissions essays. Scott Lee was scrolling through LinkedIn in June when he came across a post touting exactly what he was looking for: an AI machine called Esslo that provides feedback on college essays, based on those that have helped students gain admission to top-tier universities like Harvard and Stanford.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Kenya Tyson Kenya Tyson has been appointed senior associate provost to vice provost for strategic initiatives at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. She served as assistant provost at The New School in New York. Tyson holds a bachelor’s degree from Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, a master’s in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati, and a juris doctorate from Delaware Law School.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

New America has launched the Accelerator for Community Colleges in the Innovation Economy (Accelerator) using a $3 million grant from Ascendium Education Group. Sethuraman Panchanathan The Accelerator provides community colleges engaging with NSF Engines with a community of practice, technical assistance, best practices, research insights and recognition, capacity-building funding, and broader support structures to support institutional policy, programmatic, and practice innovations.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The largest institutional accreditor in the United States has formally introduced a new process for reviewing bachelor’s degree programs that require fewer than the traditional 120 academic credits.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Dr. Miguel Cardona Funding to the tune of $179 million in new grants is now available to help improve literacy and academic achievement nationwide, according to officials from the U.S. Department of Education. The new Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant is $149 million to be awarded to 23 states to advance effective, evidence-based literacy practices.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The Office for Civil Rights has resolved six investigations into how colleges responded to reports of antisemitism. The findings show how those colleges fell short of federal law and hold lessons for the rest of higher ed. Over the course of nearly a decade, Jewish students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reported more than 135 incidents of alleged antisemitism.

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PUC

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Whether you have finalized your roommate for the upcoming school year or not, you should get to know your roommate before school starts. Even if you’ve known your roommate for a long time, living together might be Start With The Basics Introduce yourself to your roommate if you haven’t already. Start with the basics by asking your roommate where they’re from and what their major is.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art announced Tuesday that it will provide free tuition for all seniors over the next four years, a plan it aims to extend to all undergraduates.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In any successful organization, the mission is not merely a statement; it is the very core from which all strategies emanate and against which all outcomes are measured. It serves as the foundation upon which the organization’s vision is built and its goals are set. For small to medium-sized nonprofit higher education institutions, the mission is especially critical as they navigate an increasingly challenging environment.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Michigan State University paid the Department of Education nearly $2.8 million in fines after awarding financial aid to students who were enrolled in academic programs that the department had not yet approved, The Lansing State Journal reported.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

More Americans are pursuing short-term professional certificates on mobile devices to upskill in automation and generative AI in the workforce. These new learning pathways can be a means to level the playing field in the face of more digitally advanced, STEM-oriented workforces found in other countries, declares a report from Coursera. Coursera, the online course provider, studied the labor force participation rate, human capital index, GDP per capita, internal user data and other third-party in

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Enrollment at Saint Augustine’s University is down by more than 70 percent over last year, WRAL reported.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The first day of the semester at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York on Tuesday came with a surprise for seniors that will make them the envy of college students everywhere. Their tuition for the year will be free. The announcement marks an unexpected milestone in the college’s effort to return to free tuition for all students, a model that had distinguished Cooper Union, a school for art, architecture and engineering, for nearly all of its 165-year history.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Many academics criticize traditional lectures as being too passive and old-fashioned, but they actually help enhance pedagogical diversity, writes Xinqiang Li. With the continuing influx of international students into the United States, pedagogical practices have become more diverse and enriched by the educational traditions those students bring to the classroom.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Devon Richard is going back to school after a long time out of the classroom. Richard is 32. When he was a teenager, he dropped out of high school, where he admits he was not very interested in learning. “I started fights, stabbed a kid with a fork,” he said. “[I was] pretty much a troublemaker.” Read more from Texas Public Radio. The post Hoping to boost enlistments, an Army college partnership will help recruits get GEDs appeared first on University Business.

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Higher Education Whisperer

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Greetings from Canberra Innovation Network's First Wednesday pitch night. I am here to let people know the Australian National University has computer interns needing placements to hone their skills.

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NACADA

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Each year, NACADA hosts Region Conferences in addition to the annual conference. At each of these conferences, a “Best of Region” presentation is selected based on conference evaluations. The presenters of these sessions are given guaranteed slots to present at the annual conference. Here, we are highlighting this year’s Best of Region winners. Unfortunately, the Best of Region 1, “Empowering Autonomy: Strategies to Break the Learned Helplessness Cycle Among College Students,” presented by Hope

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The Guardian Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Former home secretary finishes behind Mel Stride after only securing 14 votes Grenfell Tower inquiry report – live updates PMQs is starting soon. Here is the list of MPs down to ask a question. Kemi Badenoch is the clear favourite of Conservative members for next leader, and will be very hard to beat if she makes it into the final ballot of two, according to a survey by ConservativeHome.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Students living in hotels miles from campus. Six students sharing a single shower. These are just a few of the solutions from this year’s overcrowded campuses. Another academic year, another set of universities struggling to fit all their students into campus housing. It’s almost a cliché at this point: Universities miscalculate student housing needs for myriad reasons, ranging from big enrollment booms to unforeseen facilities issues.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The University of Maryland won’t allow student groups to hold events on the one-year anniversary of the start of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 7, The Baltimore Sun reported Monday.

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