Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

For two decades, the gradual decline of the liberal arts degree has been met with both resignation and celebration. The prevailing belief is that students should prioritize hard, technical skills essential for thriving in our rapidly evolving information economy—with areas like science, technology, engineering, and business taking precedence over subjects like English or philosophy.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Florida International University faculty have raised concerns about course revisions designed to comply with state law, a process undertaken quietly across the state. Florida International University’s Board of Trustees voted last week to drop 22 courses from the core curriculum, including Anthropology of Race & Ethnicity, Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies, and Sociology of Gender.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Susanna Rinehart, associate professor of theatre history, literature, and performance, has been named associate dean for academic and faculty affairs for Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture, Arts, and Design (AAD). Susanna Rinehart As one of four associate deans in the college, Rinehart will play a critical role in advancing the college’s academic agenda and fostering a supportive and inclusive academic environment that will lead to student and faculty success.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Employees and students must vote off campus in November for the first time in years. Voting groups say such changes are a common, albeit subtle, form of voter suppression. This November, for the first time since before 2008, students, faculty and staff will be unable to vote on Purdue University’s campus on Election Day.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A newly released report amplifies the narratives of staff of color (SOC) in higher education, highlighting the impact of whiteness in the workplace on their experiences. Reporting on data drawn from interviews with 50 full-time SOC at the University of Michigan, " T hriving Staff of Color: Imagining Higher Education Institutional Transformation " is the latest report from researchers on the CASCaDE Project (Change Agents Shaping Campus Diversity and Equity).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Colleges and universities are considering new ways to incorporate generative AI into teaching and learning, but not every student is on board with the tech yet. Experts weigh in on the necessity of AI in career preparation and higher education’s role in preparing students for jobs of the future. A May 2024 survey by Inside Higher Ed and Generation Lab asked students if they knew when, how or whether to use generative artificial intelligence to help with coursework.

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University Business

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Not a week goes by without new laments about the decline of the humanities and social sciences. Many of these op-eds blame the utilitarian popularity of the STEM disciplines for declining enrollments and diminishing support for the traditional liberal arts. My experience is different. I know I can find support for the value of the liberal arts among the leaders of the very STEM disciplines whose popularity my colleagues decry.

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The Guardian Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Business students at £9,250-a-year Regent College London raised series of complaints with Office for Students Students at a private higher education college charging £9,250 a year were taught by staff reading out bullet points and showing videos, according to an investigation that found one tutor held an online class while appearing to be on public transport.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 3, 2024

As emerging data shows that taking out loans to earn a graduate degree doesn’t always pay off, policy experts call for even stronger regulation of graduate schools. With graduate students owing nearly half of all student loan debt, policy experts are increasingly pointing to graduate education as a risky investment.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Storing digital data in RNA? It sounds like science fiction, but it’s not. Researchers have been working on storing data in DNA for several decades, but they are now also turning to synthetic RNA to find a less costly alternative. The explosion of data generation means there’s a need to increase the capacity for data storage, and universities are always seeking options that are low-cost, have tight security and require little maintenance.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The University of North Carolina at Asheville canceled classes through the rest of this month as a result of damage caused by Hurricane Helene, The News & Observer reported.

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University Business

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Most colleges and universities affected by Hurricane Helene across the Southeast last week have re-opened their doors to students. All 12 state universities in Florida resumed classes on Sept. 30, Florida Phoenix reports. In Georgia, Valdosta State University, Georgia Southern University and a slew of technical colleges resume classes this upcoming Monday—as does East Tennessee State University.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Ithaka S+R’s research highlights how a diverse group of users is using (or not) the credit mobility tool. As students become increasingly mobile, carrying credits from multiple institutions and sources, the need for transparency in credit transfer has become paramount. At the City University of New York, CUNY Transfer Explorer (T-Rex) was launched in May 2020 to address this need with a goal of increasing the transparency and accuracy of transfer information.

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University Business

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The nomination of Howard University graduate Kamala Harris for president has brought new attention to historically Black colleges and universities , or HBCUs, in the United States. The oldest HBCUs have been in existence for over 150 years, and HBCUs continue to play an important role in the U.S. higher education landscape. As of fall 2022 – the latest semester with available data – there were 99 HBCUs nationwide, and they collectively enrolled just under 290,000 students, according to the Nat

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s lawsuit

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Hope College Network

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Hope College: Traditions Unlike Any Other Hope College isn’t like other colleges. What qualifies it as so unique? First of all, it is strongly anchored in its Christian background, which defines the campus environment. Here, the customs are events that link generations of students, not simply your typical school function. Walking through the Pine Grove makes you sense the close-knit, small-town atmosphere of the whole area.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Every football fan has seen it happen. A head coach, burning with competitive fire, lashes out at a defenseless victim: his headset. Or an innocent tablet is slammed into a table by a coach sickened by even the sight of the device. The catalyst for the violence isn’t always the same. It could be a mistake made by a player, anger at a referee, disappointment in a fellow coach or, sometimes, it’s the technology itself.

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Hope College Network

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Hope College would not be Hope College without the breadth of clubs and organizations offered. I confidently believe that I would not be the individual I am today if it was not for the transformative ways Hope’s organizations have shaped me as a person. Here at Hope, I am involved in a wide variety of organizations: Greek Life, Students Teaching and Empowering Peers (STEP) program, and the Hope Chemistry Club.

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Roompact

OCTOBER 3, 2024

We're excited to welcome Paul back to the show this week to explore what qualities make Roompact as an education technology company unique. He shares with Dustin how the small but mighty team has navigated growth, partnerships, and funding to create a business that truly stands out from its peers.

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Higher Education Inquirer

OCTOBER 3, 2024

We are following a story first exposed by two Bloomberg journalists about six universities that are taking unfair advantage of the US visa system. According to the article, "By exploiting a federal on-the-job-training rule, people from India, China and elsewhere can work full time while completing most classes online and showing up in person only a few times a year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

For years, advocates for higher education in prison programs worked to see Pell Grants reintroduced for incarcerated individuals. When the revised Pell Grant regulations went into effect in July 2023, they contained a provision that college in prison programs must now document how they and/or organizations with which they partner provide reentry services.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Temple University has temporarily suspended its Students for Justice in Palestine chapter after the group protested at a College of Engineering job fair where weapons manufacturers were present, the Philly Voice reported.

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Higher Education Inquirer

OCTOBER 3, 2024

(Charlottesville, VA) In the aftermath of the violent repression of the encampment protests at UVa in May by police and administration, and with issues about first amendment rights at UVa still unresolved, faculty at the University of Virginia will host: “Repression on Grounds: A Virtual Town Hall on May 4 and Its Aftermath” on Sunday October 6 from 11 am -12:30 pm EDT.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Maryland governor Wes Moore, a Democrat, said he will honor the federal ruling to allow a student-led “vigil for Gaza” at the state’s flagship higher ed institution Oct. 7, but added that he considers it “inappropriate” to host such an event on the anniversary of Hamas’s attack against Israel, The Hill reported.

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