University Business

AUGUST 30, 2023

Leading up to the new academic year, colleges and universities have signed numerous partnership agreements of different shapes and sizes to meet the country’s workforce needs, particularly in healthcare. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates that 1.9 million fewer Americans are working today than a month before the pandemic started. Early retirement, low immigration rates and employees quitting after the Great Resignation have created such a delta that even if all 5.9 currently unemployed

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Campus Sonar

AUGUST 30, 2023

“We report quarterly, but no one really gives feedback.” “Our information goes into an annual board report, and we’re not sure if anyone even reads it.” “We work hard, but don’t always feel seen.” “We have a new leader coming in and want to position our team’s value effectively.” We hear comments like these all the time, and campus communicators are genuinely concerned their efforts are lost in the sea of competing priorities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 31, 2023

Using a grant from the U.S. National Park Service, Howard University is restoring the home of civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell. This endeavor was funded by an African American Civil Rights (AACR) grant from the National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Fund, which has given out more than a total of $2 billion in historic preservation grants since 1977.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 29, 2023

Families and students often ask us, “does volunteer work matter for college admissions?” Volunteer work can help your college application stand out, especially at highly selective places like Ivy League schools. You will have the chance to list your volunteer work in the activities section of your Common Application, and you also may be able to write about some of your volunteer work in your essays.

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The Scholarly Teacher

AUGUST 16, 2023

Zachary Q. Young , Utah Valley University Anton O. Tolman , Utah Valley University Key Statement: Simple and practical metacognitive surveys can help instructors tailor curriculum to best suit the unique needs of their students and promote learning. Keywords: Metacognition, readiness stages, effective learning Are Students Ready To Change? Several popular methods of student studying (rereading, highlighting, etc.) are relatively ineffective in promoting lasting learning.

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The Guardian Higher Education

AUGUST 31, 2023

Student says he has been pressured to remove a reference to Antoinette Sandbach, a descendant of a slave merchant The former Tory MP Antoinette Sandbach has threatened the University of Cambridge with legal action after a historian named her as a descendant of merchants who enslaved his ancestors. Malik Al Nasir, a third-year PhD history student at St Catharine’s College, has spent the past 20 years exploring his family’s history of slavery and the wealth that was built from those who enslaved t

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University Business

AUGUST 30, 2023

“We’re going to ride the wave and see what happens.” This was an intriguing response from one of Primacy’s higher education clients when discussing the possibility of adopting Meta’s latest social media platform, Threads. It’s a sentiment that captures the challenge many higher education institutions face today: How do we harness the potential of new social platforms while ensuring a well-founded strategy that increases awareness and aids in engagement?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

It’s not enough to make statements. It’s not enough to create working groups. It’s not enough to pay attention to only some parts of the larger problem. When it comes to improving mental health equity on college campuses, more work just needs to be done, mental health experts said during a webinar Wednesday. (left to right, top to bottom) Dr. Shawnté Elbert; Dr.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 17, 2023

College admissions interviews are an important element of the application process. However, there are several different types of college admissions interviews. This post provides important tips to help you prepare for the different types of college admissions interviews so that you can demonstrate your abilities, show your enthusiasm for a college, and share your sparkling personality.

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Symplicity

AUGUST 29, 2023

Along with a new school year, this third quarter brings a new release to all Symplicity Recruit premium clients. Here’s everything you need to know about Symplicity Recruit 8.7.

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EAB

AUGUST 28, 2023

Blogs Most strategic plans fail to set useful goals. Why these mistakes make it impossible to meet institutional objectives. Everyone agrees that a strategic plan should set clear institutional goals. The plan should serve as the “North Star” guiding what is otherwise “a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over car parking,” as Clark Kerr famously quipped.

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University Business

AUGUST 25, 2023

As it currently stands, no HBCU fits the bill for R1 status, a Carnegie Classification rank that every research institution aspires for. Only 146 colleges and universities—less than 4% of all higher education institutions—have reached this pedestal. But that could all change thanks to a new opportunity announced by the U.S. Department of Education called the Development Infrastructure Grant Program (RDI).

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

AUGUST 25, 2023

At Connecticut’s Fairfield University, computer science students do more than read about cybersecurity in the classroom. They also help run the school’s security operations center (SOC). “They extract data from the monitoring tools and format it in a concise way for the security team,” says Mirco Speretta, cybersecurity program director. “They create reports using our network monitoring software, and based on what they see, they can open a task for the security team to continue the investigation

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

There is is a lot of discussion about what K-12 teachers do and don’t (mostly don’t) receive in terms of training in culturally relevant pedagogy, and it is often traced back to teacher education programs. Too often, we hear administrators complaining about their teachers being unprepared/under-prepared to work with Black students. Likewise, we have witnessed frustration by teachers for the same reasons.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 17, 2023

At Great College Advice, we are offer all sorts of advice on the perfect college essay. Here we focus on college essay introduction examples. In other posts, we have cover the importance of searching for the right topic by making sure the essay focuses on YOU , and by digging deep so that your essay is personal. We also discussed the importance of telling a good story and what to do if you are just stuck.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 25, 2023

University leaders are fielding demands to remove a book, deemed antisemitic by some and a legitimate criticism of Israel by others, from a course syllabus. A book included on a course syllabus at Princeton University has sparked controversy on and beyond the New Jersey campus. Some Jewish campus community members and onlookers contend that the book peddles antisemitic tropes and false assertions about Israeli policy and should be removed from the course.

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Clark Nesxen

AUGUST 24, 2023

Magnet schools emerged on the K-12 scene as early as the 1960s to establish a public education option that met multiple goals: attracting a diverse student body from across a school district, supporting students with specific interests, and offering equitable opportunities resulting in high levels of academic success. Today, over 4,300 magnet schools educate more than 3.5 million students nationwide, according to Magnet Schools of America.

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University Business

AUGUST 31, 2023

Diego Fonseca looked at the computer and took a breath. It was his final attempt at the math placement test for his first year of college. His first three tries put him in pre-calculus, a blow for a student who aced honors physics and computer science in high school. Functions and trigonometry came easily, but the basics gave him trouble. He struggled to understand algebra, a subject he studied only during a year of remote learning in high school.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

It was the kind of problem that most colleges and universities would love to have. A few years ago, the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business at Purdue University, then known as the Krannert School of Management, was struggling to keep up with inquiries from prospective students interested in learning more about its programs. “The first issue was the volume of emails we were getting and the time it took to answer them,” says Dan Gaines, associate director of marketing and analytics at the

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 31, 2023

Brown University has launched a Center for Career Exploration to better prepare students for the modern-day workforce. “Brown students are ambitious and driven, and the Center for Career Exploration will provide them with exciting opportunities to grow personally and professionally while they develop their skills and explore career possibilities,” Dr.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 30, 2023

Researching colleges and universities can be very overwhelming. From guidebooks to college websites, there is a TON of information out there! But reading sources and statistics can only get you so far. There is one invaluable resource in your college search that should not be overlooked: college admissions counselors. If you have the opportunity to connect with a college admissions counselor, whether that is face-to-face on a campus visit or college fair or over email, it is crucial to know what

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 24, 2023

Only two years after acquiring the coding boot camp, the university cited the rise of AI and increased competition as reasons for the shutdown. Southern New Hampshire University is winding down a coding boot camp two years after acquiring it amid a rise in low-cost competition and the broad adoption of artificial intelligence tools.

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EAB

AUGUST 22, 2023

Podcast How MSU Saved Millions Without Cutting Faculty or Programs Episode 163. August 22, 2023. Welcome to the Office Hours with EAB podcast. You can join the conversation on social media using #EABOfficeHours. Follow the podcast on Spotify , Google Podcasts , Apple Podcasts , SoundCloud and Stitcher or visit our podcast homepage for additional episodes.

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University Business

AUGUST 25, 2023

Under the new rules approved Wednesday, staff and faculty at Florida colleges can be fired if they use a restroom for a gender that does not correspond with their gender assigned at birth. Employees may also face a verbal and written warning and suspension without pay as penalty for a first offense. Colleges will be forced to fire employees after a second offense, according to the new rule’s text.

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PUC

AUGUST 22, 2023

Coming from Southwest Michigan is Timothy Robertson, PUC’s assistant professor of data science. When he was given the chance to work at PUC, it was an opportunity he couldn’t pass up. Since January, Timothy has been teaching data science, machine learning, statistics and mathematics, and advises students. Do you have a favorite class to teach?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

In June, as the nation’s highest court handed down a predictable and yet devastating ruling striking down the use of affirmative action in college admissions, the Center for Journalism & Democracy announced its inaugural Visiting Professorship for Investigative or Data Journalism at Howard University. Here is why this matters. Nikole Hannah-Jones When the U.S.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 3, 2023

AP or IB? A prospective client emailed me yesterday with a question that is regularly asked of me when I give presentations on college admission. Which is better, Advanced Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB)? Do colleges find one more impressive over the other? In my opinion, both the AP and IB programs are equally valuable. In that the exams associated with those courses provide an external measure of quality.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

AUGUST 21, 2023

In this extra post, Ukrainian student Olena Herasymova shares insights into her experience participating in the innovative hybrid summer school↗️ co-led by the Institute for Academic Development and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU) in Ukraine. It was the first Ukrainian-British summer school for graduate students of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

AUGUST 18, 2023

Colleges and universities adapted quickly to educational challenges during the pandemic. They subscribed to collaboration tools to support online classes and upgraded in-classroom technology to enable hybrid or HyFlex learning, which was important when students returned to campus. Now, more than three years later, many institutions have discovered that students want the flexibility and convenience of these different learning modalities to become permanent fixtures, prompting schools to further i

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University Business

AUGUST 24, 2023

In 2021, a former student from USC tried making a purchase on USC’s online bookstore, considering alumni who buy through its website were provided a competitive discount on Apple products for one week of the year. But the discount failed to work. Because the student was a certificate holder and not a “degreed alumni,” according to USC Associate Senior Vice President of Alumni Relations Patrick E.

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Symplicity

AUGUST 16, 2023

College students with disabilities face unique challenges when it comes to finding employment. They must find a way to meet specific job qualifications, navigate whether to disclose their disability, overcoming initial biases of someone’s capabilities, along with barriers to access from transportation, work equipment, flexible work schedules, interviewing, and much more.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Grinnell College is launching a Department of African Diaspora Studies. “Part of Grinnell College’s mission is to help create citizens that go out to do wonderful things in terms of social justice and community,” said Dr. Stephanie Jones, an associate professor at Grinnell. “I think we’re living in a time right now of grave misinformation, of suppression of history, and of rolling back of civil and human rights, and we need to know how we got here.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 1, 2023

What is legacy admissions? Legacy admissions is a policy that grants preferences to the children of alumni. The policy has been particularly important in the Ivy League and other elite, private schools. The logic has been that children of alumni may be among the most eager applicants, as they have learned a lot about a school literally at their parent’s knee.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

AUGUST 14, 2023

In this extra post, Fiona Philippi and Maryna Zhenchenko reflect on the innovative hybrid summer school co-led by the Institute for Academic Development and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU) in Ukraine, which focused on supporting researchers with academic writing.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

AUGUST 14, 2023

Surveys play a pivotal role in assessment, allowing us to connect with a large number of students simultaneously to gain valuable insights into their needs, experiences, perspectives, and knowledge. When intentionally designed and utilized, surveys provide powerful data that can drive continuous improvement. However, we often overlook the fact that surveys are not just data-gathering tools; they also serve as a platform for real-time dialogue between students and educators, presenting an opportu

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University Business

AUGUST 24, 2023

The neatly dressed student sitting across from me was in her late teens, not a child and not yet an adult. Her voice was shaky, but her tone was strong. Her presence carried a confident resolve cultivated through years of playing competitive sports. However, Shelly did not come to discuss sports but instead to seek counsel as a survivor of collegiate sexual abuse.

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Higher Education Whisperer

AUGUST 24, 2023

David Kellermann from UNSWGreetings from the last day of EdutTech 2023 in Melbourne. The session is on new modalities, this includes on studios specifically design for online learning. David Kellermann from UNSW is talking on what to do with online students post pandemic. His definition of hybrid has every student online and in the room can communicate with each other.

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