Sat.Feb 24, 2024

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Universities Use Video Walls as Storytelling Tools

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

In fall 2022, installation of Samsung’s large-scale immersive display technology, dubbed The Wall, helped update the lobby in Newhouse 1, the I.M. Pei-designed building that Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications added in 1964. The video wall gives the university’s communications school a dynamic way to depict students’ experiences.

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The Importance of Routines During Break for Young Adults with Autism

CIP

For most neurotypical high school and college students, school breaks are an opportunity to trade studying and deadlines for gaming and sleeping in. However, for neurodivergent students such as those with autism and other learning differences, extended breaks can break important routines, be detrimental to progress, and can lead to difficult transitions back to work and school.

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Getting Involved in SEAHO

Roompact

Getting involved in a professional association has a number of benefits. Luckily for professionals working in residence life and college student housing, there are a number of ways to get involved. The Association of College and University Housing Officers – International (ACUHO-I) represents professionals on the national level, but there are also regional associations that.

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UNCG cuts 20 programs due to conform to budget - Eli Baine, East Carolinian

Ray Schroeder

The chancellor of the University of North Carolina Greensboro, Franklin Gilliam Jr. announced this month the university will be doing away with 20 academic programs due to budget constraints, and some students at other public universities worry it could happen elsewhere. Gilliam wrote in a statement that he will approve many recommendations made by university deans and Provost Debbie Storrs.

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Alumni Spotlight: Emily’s Fashion Internship in Florence

AIFS Abroad

In the Tuscan region of Italy lies a quaint, historic city that’s home to Renaissance-era art and architecture: Florence. Emily, a recent graduate from Roanoke College with a degree in Communication Studies and Marketing, was eager to indulge in a slow-paced yet dynamic lifestyle while interning abroad. She found Florence the perfect place to do so, and was quick to live like a local during her fashion internship there.

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State Funding Scenarios Discussed at Board of Regents Meeting - CU Denver

Ray Schroeder

CU Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Chad Marturano presented the preliminary 2024–25 budget proposal, which takes into account three scenarios for increasing undergraduate resident tuition. The tuition scenarios for each CU campus are directly tied to state funding scenarios. The state legislature determines the amount of funding provided for higher education each spring, generally finalizing the budget in April before the governor signs it into law.

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Australian Universities Accord Final Report: Mostly Good

Higher Education Whisperer

Australian Universities Accord Final Report, 25 February 2024The Australian Universities Accord Panel, chaired by Professor Mary O’Kane, has released a 408 page final report (25 February 2024). Some of the suggestions I made in my submission (and no doubt many others made), found their way into the report).