EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

Many higher education leaders now see growing potential for generative artificial intelligence to elevate the academic experience for students and faculty, a relatively fast evolution from the initial uncertainty about the technology’s role in higher education. “This is an exciting time, but one characterized by rapid change,” says Brian Johnsrud, head of thought leadership and advocacy for education at Adobe.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

In some ways, 2020 seemed like it would be a watershed year for diversity officers. Given the spate of high-profile murders of Black Americans, we witnessed a surge of national empathy. In a short span of time, many college and university leaders within predominantly white institutions (PWIs) rushed to support DEI initiatives. Perhaps you recall the riotous clamor for “courageous” or “fierce conversations” — basically, a hunger for “real talk” about the perils of white supremacy and anti-Blackne

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 31, 2024

Facing pressure from conservative lawmakers, Missouri’s flagship university is disbanding its inclusion, diversity and equity division, undoing a keystone achievement of the 2015 campus protests over racial equity. The University of Missouri at Columbia is dissolving its Division for Inclusion, Diversity and Equity, leaders announced Tuesday morning, in an effort to pre-empt legislative action from conservative state lawmakers.

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Ed.gov Blog

JULY 29, 2024

By: Matt Nosanchuk, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategic Operations and Outreach, Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education All students deserve access to learning environments that are inclusive and free from discrimination and that nurture their intellect, wellbeing, and creativity, preparing them for success in school and beyond. Books have been the gateway to Continue Reading The post Book Bans Are Not Just Bad Policy; They Can Raise Civil Rights Issues appeared first on ED.g

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SRHE

JULY 19, 2024

by Inger Mewburn Hang out in any tearoom and you will hear complaints about work – that’s if there even is a tea room at the end of your open plan cubicle farm. Yet surprisingly little is known about the mundane, daily realities of academic work itself – despite the best efforts of many SRHE members. Understanding the source of academic work unhappiness is important: unhappy academics lead to unhappy students and stressed-out administrators.

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University Business

JULY 30, 2024

Employer interest in hiring MBA graduates is ticking up across the United States and the rest of the world due to how they’re preparing business leaders to manage today’s remote-work environment, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council. As of 2021, nearly twice the amount of employers believe recently graduated MBA earners can navigate the post-pandemic landscape better than experienced employees hired directly from the industry.

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Higher Education Whisperer

JULY 24, 2024

Greetings from "AI and Other Scientific Fables" at the ANU School of Cybernetics. We have tech storytellers exploring how AI is changing our lives. Note that the term "Cybernetics." is used in a more social was in this school, than the way the computing profession understands it, as being about technical control systems. The first reading was by Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker of "Campfire".

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 29, 2024

The publisher didn’t give authors any notice before selling access to its data to Microsoft for $10 million. The agreement could improve academic research, but it further entrenches the predatory nature of academic publishing, experts say. Academic researchers around the world are reeling from news announced in May that Informa, the parent company of academic publisher Taylor & Francis, has signed a $10 million data-access agreement with Microsoft.

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PUC

JULY 16, 2024

At 11 am on June 20, Abraham Garrido, PUC enrollment counselor and alum, summited Mt Whitney—the highest mountain in the contiguous United States, with an elevation of 14,505 feet. Along with his friends and recent PUC alums Bianca Le’Giu, Tyler Williams, and his brother Pablo Garrido, it took them exactly five and a half hours to make it to the top.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 26, 2024

Education secretary ‘to consider options’ including repeal of controversial powers introduced by last government UK politics live – latest updates Powers introduced by the Conservatives to protect freedom of speech in universities have been halted by the new government in a dramatic about-turn, paving the way for ministers to scrap the legislation. Only days before it was due to come into force, the education secretary said she had decided to “stop further commencement of the Higher Education (F

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University Business

JULY 10, 2024

Small- to mid-sized colleges that lack brand power are finding themselves at a deeper recruiting disadvantage than large state schools and high-profile private universities. Adelphi University in New York and others, however, are strengthening their pre-college summer programs to get prospective students on campus and enrolled in the fall semester. These summer programs provide high schoolers with a low-stakes environment to test drive a major in a campus setting.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JULY 31, 2024

Higher education institutions have been slower to adopt zero-trust principles than their peers in other industries, according to a new survey — findings that indicate colleges and universities are leaving themselves vulnerable to the continuing onslaught of cyberattacks. The 2024 CDW Cybersecurity Research Report polled IT professionals in education, government, private business and other fields to gauge how prepared organizations are to defend themselves.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 30, 2024

The majority of future good jobs will be accessible through bachelor’s degree pathways. That’s according to a new report by the Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. " The Future of Good Jobs: Projections through 2031 " reminds readers that higher education has a critical role to play in the future earnings of their students and the stability of the American economy.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 30, 2024

Black Sororities, Fraternities ‘Organizing Like Never Before’ Sara Weissman Tue, 07/30/2024 - 03:00 AM The organizations are mobilizing to get voters to the polls as their student and alumni members embrace Alpha Kappa Alpha member Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.

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PUC

JULY 24, 2024

From 2001-2006, Nathan Tasker was the flight center director for the aviation department at Pacific Union College. Now, after 18 years of being away, he returns to his old job. Nathan was born in Hamilton, New Zealand, but calls the remote town Port Augusta in the deserts of South Australia the closest thing to his hometown since he lived there for a decade in his adult years.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 22, 2024

Rosemary Fowler discovered the kaon particle during her doctoral research in 1948 but gave up PhD to have a family A trailblazing physicist who gave up her PhD 75 years ago to have a family has received an honorary doctorate from her former university. Rosemary Fowler, 98, discovered the kaon particle during her doctoral research under Cecil Powell at the University of Bristol in 1948, which contributed to his Nobel prize for physics in 1950.

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University Business

JULY 1, 2024

All around the world, people know John Denver’s 1971 blockbuster, “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” The hit’s popularity persuaded West Virginians to make it an official state song, and its first two words, “Almost Heaven,” became the state’s PR slogan. West Virginia University, the state’s flagship institution, performs the song at many of its events.

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Roompact

JULY 16, 2024

Or “We’re moving away from curriculum.” Every now and then I hear this phrase from a school and I find it strange. What does that even mean? WHAT DOES IT MEAN?! It’s almost like I don’t even understand it. As I pondered this question, I’ve come think it’s because I have a different understanding of.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

As institutions of higher education turn to AI machine learning and data-driven algorithms to make their work more efficient, a new study published in the American Educational Research Association (AERA) peer-reviewed journal , AERA Open , reminds administrators that algorithms can be racially biased. Dr. Denisa Gándara, assistant professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas at Austin and co-author of the study.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 23, 2024

Rosemary Admiral writes that her sense of belonging at her institution has been shattered. What does it mean to be charged with criminal trespassing on a campus where you work, teach, socialize, pray and generally spend way too much time?

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Higher Education Whisperer

JULY 24, 2024

Greetings from a panel on Cyber Security: Exposing the THE magic involved in product evaluation, at the Australian Computer Society in Canberra. This is timely with Friday's Microsoft Windows/CloudStrike outage. The discussion so far is focused on the Australian Information Security Evaluation Program (AISEP).

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 17, 2024

Social mobility experts welcome change in which students will instead be asked to answer three questions The years of sixth formers and their families agonising over personal statements for their university application forms will soon be a thing of the past, after the UK’s university admissions service announced they are to be dropped. Instead of a statement limited to 4,000 characters (including spaces), those applying for undergraduate places in 2026 through the Universities and Colleges Admis

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University Business

JULY 15, 2024

Many higher education marketing and enrollment management teams are on board with integrating AI into their everyday job functions, but timid leadership and a lack of resources are inhibiting widespread adoption and experimentation, a new report from UPCEA and EducationDynamics declares. The organizations surveyed over 120 professionals, finding respondents were optimistic about integrating emerging technologies, with 80% citing it would improve the marketing-to-enrollment pipeline and 62% belie

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Ed.gov Blog

JULY 19, 2024

By: Eliomar Santiago Rodriguez, Estudiante de Grado 12 de la Escuela Superior Vocacional Antonio Luchetti en Arecibo, Puerto Rico Soy estudiante de grado 12 del taller de Electricidad con Controladores Lógicos Programables (PLC, por sus siglas en inglés) y Energías Renovables en la Escuela Superior Vocacional Antonio Luchetti, en Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

The latest attack on efforts to support diversity comes in the form of a lawsuit targeting Northwestern University’s law school. The suit accuses the school’s faculty and administration of snubbing high-profile white male applicants. The 30-page complaint gets so many facts wrong that it is difficult to know where to begin. Since the plaintiffs decided to make the “high-demand, low-supply field” of tax law an example, I’d like to acknowledge one undeniably true statement: there are very few mino

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 23, 2024

GOP lawmakers, governors or boards in eight states have mandated new university centers focused on civics and “classical liberal education.” Critics call them beachheads for the ideological right. Florida’s creation appears to be the largest yet. In the summer of 2022, Florida newspapers reported on the strange appearance of $3 million in one-time funds from Florida’s GOP-controlled state Legislature for something called the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civics Education at the University of

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Roompact

JULY 15, 2024

With the arrival of August come preparations for the fall semester and the excitement of staff training. This is what you’ve been waiting for: getting connected with your staff and welcoming students as they make their way back to campus. When you consider the performance of your team, it will be helpful to view their.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 16, 2024

Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own Arash Abizadeh is a philosopher and the Angus professor of political science at McGill University, Canada If you’ve ever read an academic article, the chances are that you were unwittingly paying tribute to a vast profit-generating machine that exploits the free labour of researchers and siphons off public funds.

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University Business

JULY 29, 2024

Faculty learning communities (FLC) as an approach to improving pedagogy have their roots in 1979 when the first FLC was launched at Miami University by Dr. Milton D. Cox. FLCs have since expanded to include making teaching and learning visible efforts, like those at the University Colorado, Boulder, to professional learning communities, communities of practice, to its natural outgrowth as professional organizational development programs.

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Ed.gov Blog

JULY 30, 2024

By: Abigail Swisher, Rural Impact Fellow, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education Sam Smith – then a student at Daviess County High School in Owensboro, Kentucky – saw that his classmates were struggling in the wake of the pandemic, so when Kentucky Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman asked if Sam and his peers on the Commissioner’s Continue Reading The post How Students Helped Spur $40 million in Federal Investments in Mental Health Across Kentucky appeared first on ED.gov Blog.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

In 2018, Dr. Audrey Jaeger and Dr. Monique B. Colclough hatched an idea — what if they could develop professional learning environments easily accessible for all faculty in North Carolina’s community colleges, and what if that development could move the needle on student success? Dr. Audrey Jaeger, professor of community college education at North Carolina State University and director of the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 30, 2024

Most ‘Good Jobs’ Will Require a Bachelor’s Degree by 2030s kathryn.palmer… Tue, 07/30/2024 - 01:33 PM Despite public skepticism that a college degree isn’t worth the cost, projections show that a bachelor’s degree will significantly increase the odds of getting a good-paying job in the future.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2024

The recently released "Project 2025: The Conservative Promise" paints a dystopian picture of American higher education, overrun by a "woke" ideology that supposedly threatens our nation's very foundations. This document, a roadmap for the next conservative presidential administration, frames diversity and inclusion efforts as a coordinated attack on American values, advocating for a radical restructuring of federal education policy that would have devastating consequences for historically underr

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 31, 2024

The Ohio State University is launching a new mental health initiative to expand teletherapy services for nearly 70,000 students across its five campuses. Ryan Lovell "Our goal is to build upon a student experience that is not only free of stigma around mental health but where students feel supported and encouraged to seek help if they are experiencing mental health challenges," said Ryan Lovell, associate vice president for student health and well-being at The Ohio State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2024

Friday marked the 34th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a landmark civil rights law that unlocked opportunity for disabled people in many areas of public life, including in the workforce and higher education. As an educator and university president, I have seen firsthand the ADA’s transformative impact on our higher education systems — and how far we still must go before higher education is truly accessible and inclusive of learners from all backgrounds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2024

Paul Quinn College has received a $20 million gift from an anonymous donor. Dr. Michael J. Sorrell “The impact of this gift on our institution and our students, staff, faculty, and alumni cannot be overstated,” said Paul Quinn President Dr. Michael J. Sorrell. The private, faith-based, four-year, liberal arts-inspired institution was founded in 1872 by a group of African Methodist Episcopal Church preachers in Austin, Texas.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

For the past several years, the Dr. N. Joyce Payne Center for Social Justice (CSJ) has been bringing together crucial voices and perspectives to positively impact Black life in American society. And its impact on social issues has been dramatic, say scholars who add that the need for a social justice think tank, particularly with a focus on historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), is critically important.

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