Great College Advice
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Most students will save the supplemental essays as the very last thing they do on their application. But those supplemental essays are important. Some would say they are as important as the Common App personal statement. Red flags are raised by admission officers when they read an excellent personal essay followed by a less than mediocre supplemental essay.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Colleges throughout the Carolinas are picking up the pieces after the devastating storm. But officials are confident students will be able to finish the semester. As colleges and universities across the western Carolinas start the cleanup from Hurricane Helene, administrators say a full recovery will take not just days or weeks, but months and possibly even years.
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Teaching Matters Student Engagement
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Image credit: unsplash, Ying Ge, CC0 In this extra post, Dr Adan Chew, Dr Jess Gurney, and Dr Magdalena Cerbin-Koczorowska, from Edinburgh Medical School, explore the concept of student-centred education through the lens of medical education and clinical practice. In considering different learning theories, they foreground the importance of social and cultural influences, and the uniqueness of the individual, on learning.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Facing multimillion-dollar budget deficits, some colleges announced they would ax jobs and academic programs. Others noted cuts are on the horizon. Jobs, academic programs and athletic teams were all on the chopping block at many universities last month as they struggled to plug budget holes amid declining enrollment.
University Business
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Flawed incentive structures for publishing scholarly work may be eroding faculty and research integrity at large, contributing to an “epidemic” of dishonesty and even cheating, says Phillip Magness, senior fellow at the Independent Institute, a think tank, and co-author of “ Cracks in the Ivory Tower: The Moral Mess of Higher Education.” “Academia is an industry,” he says. “Even though we have private universities, it’s really kind of a private-pub
Confessions of a Community College Dean
OCTOBER 7, 2024
The president of Texas A&M International University in Laredo died unexpectedly on Thursday, according to a university announcement. No cause of death was given for Pablo Arenaz, the university’s sixth president, who had served in the role since 2016. TAMIU first hired him as provost in 2008.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
OCTOBER 7, 2024
An effective incident response plan is essential for a university’s cybersecurity strategy and overall resilience. However, the plan’s success depends on all parties being well trained. Tabletop exercises are necessary for testing these plans, ensuring preparedness and identifying areas for improvement. Partnering with an outside organization on these exercises can offer additional benefits.
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CAPD
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Washington University admissions ambassadors (current law students) can meet with you to answer questions, discuss application materials, and help with application strategy for any law school application. The full list of the services they offer is below. Admissions Ambassadors Can… Review Application Documents – Ambassadors can help review your resume, personal statement, addenda, and any other materials you plan on submitting on any given application!
Confessions of a Community College Dean
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Vanessa Doriott Anderson offers advice on a process that, if done well, should be anything but perfunctory. As the fall leaves begin to turn in my part of the country, I’m reminded that another season is upon us: the season of recommendations. Like piles of leaves, requests for these documents begin accumulating as the academic hiring cycle begins and graduate school applications come due.
ISA Journal
OCTOBER 7, 2024
At ISA, we know that mental health is a topic relevant to every individual. Similar to physical health, staying mentally well is an ongoing practice and a highly individualized journey. While traveling, you may notice some shifts in your wellness that require unique interventions.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Two American scientists have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of microRNA “and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation,” the Nobel committee announced Monday.
University Business
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Major universities are beginning to report the performance of their endowments for the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2024, and the early news finds several institutions realizing double-digit investment gains. Here’s a rundown of some initial results. Brown University’s endowment saw an 11.3% investment return during Fiscal Year 2024. It racked up $728 million in investment gains and $203 million in new endowed gifts.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Pre–COVID-19 data shows that the outcome divide between online and in-person learners existed long before the pandemic accelerated the online sector’s growth, according to a report published last week by Third Way, a center-left think tank.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
OCTOBER 7, 2024
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Confessions of a Community College Dean
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Just hours after a federal judge allowed the Biden administration’s new student loan forgiveness plan to proceed, another judge blocked it.
University Business
OCTOBER 7, 2024
How much can Arizona’s state universities charge students? There is a limit — but only on paper. The Arizona Constitution requires that instruction in the university system be “as nearly free as possible.’’ In 2003, John Kromko, then a Democratic state representative from Tucson and a student at the University of Arizona, cited that clause after the Arizona Board of Regents hiked tuition by a whopping 39.1%.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Longtime enrollment professional Ryan J. Dougherty saw three disconnects and five surprising realities when he approached the college search as a parent. After more than 20 years in college enrollment, including several as a vice president, I thought helping my firstborn child choose a college would be second nature. Turns out, I was wrong. Being on the other side as a parent revealed how complex and emotionally charged the admissions process really is.
Higher Education Inquirer
OCTOBER 7, 2024
The Higher Education Inquirer has been waiting since December 2017 for information from the US Department of Defense (DOD) about decades of predatory behavior by subprime colleges against military servicemembers, a disturbing pattern reduced by the Obama Administration and made worse again by the Trump Administration. We are still waiting for information, nearly seven years later and through multiple efforts, as Donald Trump runs again for President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
OCTOBER 7, 2024
We asked higher ed leaders and thinkers to take stock of the fraught year just past and offer a vision for the future. They gave us a quarrelsome, eloquent earful. In retrospect, perhaps it was inevitable that the horrifying Hamas attack on Israel last Oct. 7—and the escalation of horrors that ensued when Israel invaded Gaza—would light a spark on many U.S. campuses.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 7, 2024
American xenophobia is as old as the United States. For most of America’s history there has not been a coherent immigration system. It was not until the late nineteenth century that a bureau of immigration was even forme d. While immigrants from China, Mexico, and parts of the Caribbean would come to the United States throughout this period, they were explicitly barred from becoming American citizens.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Views essays in the year since Oct. 7 have spoken to the many challenges campuses have confronted. In the year since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the start of the ongoing war in Gaza, U.S. higher education has been rocked by accusations of antisemitism and Islamophobia and consumed with debates over free speech; diversity, equity and inclusion; political interference; the role of police on campuses; the wisdom, or not, of neutrality; the state of academic freedom—even the very values of
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