Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In the wake of the COVID pandemic, high school GPAs (HSGPA) are less likely to be clear indicators of first-year, postsecondary success. A more holistic assessment of students, including the use of the ACT test score alongside HSGPA, acts as a better predictor. That’s according to the latest report from the ACT , which analyzed high school GPAs, ACT test scores, and first-year grades in students from 2017 to 2021.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Dozens of restrictive laws passed since 2020 could impact student voters this year, from shortened timelines for absentee ballots to new restrictions on using student IDs. In the last presidential election, an out-of-state student going to college in Ohio wouldn’t have to do much to vote in the state beyond registering and bringing proof of residence—a bank statement, a utility bill or even a paycheck listing their Ohio address—to the polls.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a series of bills into law to address the legacy of racial discrimination, including a bill to establish a Black-Serving Institution designation for California colleges and universities. Senate Bill 1348 authored by California state senator Steven Bradford, looks to promote Black student success in higher education by creating the nation’s first recognition of a Black-Serving Institution.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted to fire former UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow from his tenured faculty job over making pornography. The Universities of Wisconsin has fired Joe Gow for a second time over his pornographic double life: the Board of Regents voted unanimously on Friday to oust him from his tenured faculty position.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

It was a beautiful, sunny day that turned into a lovely, brisk night on Tuesday, November 4, 2008, the night then Sen. Barack Obama was elected the 44 th President of the United States. That evening, I met with other scholars of color in graduate school for an election night party. The election updates were electrifying – the possibility of the nation’s first Black president.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Scott McLemee interviews Paul Reitter, translator of a new English edition of Marx’s Capital. In early 1845, a young and precariously employed holder of a Ph.D. in philosophy named Karl Marx signed a contract with a German publisher for a book, in two volumes, on political economy. He had already filled notebooks with extracts from his studies in the field, and at the time likely felt like he was already reasonably far along on the project.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Dr. Kavita Bala Kavita Bala, currently the dean of the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University has been named the university’s 17th provost. An expert in computer vision and graphics, Bala will succeed John Siliciano, professor of law in Cornell Law School, who has served as interim provost since July 1.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Higher education has a reputation for being slow to embrace some of the technological advancements that other industries might jump at the chance to adopt. Whether that’s because of administrative red tape or a lack of funds, colleges and universities often approach large-scale technology projects in manageable phases rather than with an overnight transformation.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

High school counselors are no longer primarily focused on getting students into college, according to a new survey. Are they failing students—or finally seeing them? High school students are less certain than ever that they’ll attend college after graduation, according to a survey of counselors released Thursday by the higher ed consulting firm EAB.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

President Mark Lombardi’s 18-year tenure at Maryville University is bound to leave a deep impression on his community once he retires at the end of this academic year. Will he be missed? He’d like to believe so. “I don’t know. Sometimes I like to push fast and hard, and sometimes [our staff] think we move a little too fast and that I push a little too hard,” says President Lombardi, who is also chair of the NCAA Governors Board for Diversity and Equity. “But I

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

An anonymous $100 million gift will help the University of Chicago expand its efforts to support free expression and advance the work of its Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression, the university announced Thursday.

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College for Creative Study

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

As family members grow older and pass on, their stories become lost,” reflects CCS alumna Taylor Childs, ’18 Crafts-Fiber Art. With her latest fiber design installation, “Apex,” she seeks to preserve and honor these cherished family narratives. Read more in Bridge Detroit’s feature, “Detroit Fiber Artist Honors Family History with New Installation.” Continue Reading The post Detroit fiber artist honors family history with new installation (Taylor Childs,

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The National Institutes of Health said Thursday that Dr. Eliezer Masliah, a prominent Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease researcher, falsified or fabricated images published in two papers, which it is now retracting.

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PUC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

As someone who loves color, decoration, and organization, junior health sciences and fine arts major Bethanee Tabura spent most of her childhood dreaming in advance of her graduations, school banquets, and class trips. When the opportunity to run for student association social vice president came, she knew she had to run because of what she loves to do.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Something’s to be said for students seeing a professor step out from behind the lectern and face uncertainty with a sense of calmness and confidence, writes Mike Land. I sit in the parlor of the homeless shelter, lost in the scene unfolding across the room. On a sofa sits Megan, one of my Introduction to Journalism students; beside her is Mesline, the Haitian shelter resident whom Megan was interviewing.

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Higher Education Inquirer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), America's largest robocollege, is facing layoffs. And this time, workers are talking. For years, Southern New Hampshire has avoided scrutiny compared to other schools that have been labeled bad actors. Part of this reduced scrutiny may have been because SNHU is a non-profit and some because Paul LeBlanc, its long-time president, was perceived as an online higher education visionary, granting degrees that consumers could afford.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Miles College has signed an agreement to buy the 192-acre campus of Birmingham-Southern College—which closed abruptly earlier this year due to financial issues—

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College for Creative Study

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Continuing its expansive work serving communities in Detroit and beyond, the CCS Practicing Design Center supports nonprofit organizations through partnerships offering design solutions from CCS faculty and students The College for Creative Studies (CCS) is pleased to announce the launch of its Practicing Design Center, partnering nonprofit and community organizations with CCS students and faculty to tackle community challenges using the transformative power of art and design.

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CAPD

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge is MIT’s 20+ year-old social impact incubator housed in the PKG Public Service Center. Since its founding in 2001, IDEAS has enabled MIT student-led teams to apply their education and expertise in collaboration with community partners to address social and environmental challenges around the world. Through IDEAS, MIT students recruit a team from anywhere in the world and develop a creative solution in partnership with impacted stakeholders.

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ISA Journal

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

We get it - procrastination happens! That's why we've extended deadlines on some of our favorite programs to help you take the next step towards studying abroad. Plus, we have included all programs still accepting applications this coming winter and spring semesters. Whatever destination or subject you're dreaming of, we can (probably) take you there.

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CAPD

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

MIT is launching a cohort of student researchers to work collaboratively with Institute offices and local city and community leaders to tackle shared challenges related to climate change. The focus for IAP 2025 (January 6 – January 31, 2025) will be understanding and communicating heat risk and developing heat risk reduction efforts. The IAP Climate Program is open to MIT undergraduates ONLY.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

As higher ed grapples with a tight labor market, it’s no surprise that campus employees want what most other professionals want: competitive salaries and benefits, job security and a healthy work-life balance. But how higher ed employees prioritize these job features depends on their roles, ages and whether they’re at risk for turnover in the coming years, says a new survey from the TIAA Institute, a think tank, and CUPA-HR, the human resources professional organization.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still receiving a salary. In January of this year, Maura Finkelstein, a tenured associate professor at Muhlenberg College, temporarily reposted on Instagram a statement from a Palestinian American poet.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Americans have completely lost confidence in college. That’s the common narrative in a seemingly never-ending scroll of media reports and surveys raising the alarms about falling enrollment and political controversies on campus. But “many of these articles are getting the story wrong,” says the latest analysis from New America, a research organization and think tank that is taking a deeper look into what it calls “college declinism.” “News accounts routinely c

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Few students at Harvard University who protested the war in Israel last year were disciplined, according to a report released Thursday by the House Education and Workforce Committee.

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