Great College Advice

JULY 5, 2023

Student to Faculty Ratios and Educational Quality When a client asked me the other day about the importance of student to faculty ratios, I got to thinking about other supposed indicators of educational quality. The other oft-cited statistic when visiting an admissions office is “average class size.” As with student-to-faculty ratios, the size of the classes at a college is assumed to reflect the quality and the intimacy of the educational experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 2, 2023

A new study finds that anti-LGBTQ+ policies are linked to depression in Black and Latinx youth in the United States. The study analyzed discriminatory policies, such as “Don’t Say Gay” laws and other indicators that may affect this group and found that LGBTQ+ Black and Latinx youth are more likely to be depressed than their peers in the most LGBTQ+ affirming states.

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Robert Kelchen

JULY 5, 2023

I joined Twitter back in February 2013, when I was in the final stages of completing my PhD at Wisconsin and looking for an academic job. Since then, I can’t emphasize enough how valuable Twitter has been to me professionally. I have made connections with wonderful people, started research collaborations, and disseminated my work to policymakers and journalists.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 4, 2023

A white woman reportedly said she wished she was Black because it would give her an easier career. The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians is an acclaimed meeting for female historians. It was founded in 1973, and its meetings attract a who’s who of women in the field of history. This year, a racially inflammatory comment by a senior faculty member in women’s history during an opening plenary session on Friday inflamed the meeting.

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Great College Advice

JULY 6, 2023

Write The Common App Essay Prompt 1 – Background, Identity, Interest, or Talent Common App Essay Prompt 1 reads like this: , “Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.” Essay Questions on the Common App How will you decide whether this is the right prompt for you to address on your Common Application essay?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

Chris V. Rey will become president of Barber-Scotia College, effective Jul. 17, the Independent Tribune reported. Chris V. Rey For 22 years, Rey served as part of the Army National Guard service. In the military, he worked to establish the first cyber brigade headquarters for the National Guard. He is also the international president of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., one of the U.S.’s oldest historically black fraternities.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

The possibilities for artificial intelligence may seem endless — and a little intimidating. But there are already ways that higher education institutions can take advantage of the AI revolution. The groundbreaking release of ChatGPT late last year brought generative AI to the forefront and led to countless opinions, surveys and news stories about how disruptive the tool could be for colleges and universities around the world.

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Great College Advice

JULY 1, 2023

College libraries are important centers of the campus. Ideally, we might want to think of the campus as the academic focal point of the campus. The repository of knowledge. The temple of wisdom. Or a place to store a bunch of stuff. Or a social center–with a nice coffee shop attached. In the 21st century, what is a college library for, anyway?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Sergio A. Gonzalez Institution:   Claremont Graduate University Graduate Program:   Ph.D., Higher Education and Student Affairs Education:   M.Ed., Postsecondary Administration and Student Affairs, University of Southern California; M.A., Applied Gender Studies, Claremont Graduate University B.A., Communication Studies, Manhattanville College Mentors:  Dr.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

Exascale computing has arrived, offering a new way to help solve some of the world’s most complex problems. The lightning-fast performance of an exascale computer (one quintillion operations per second; “exa” refers to the number’s 18 zeros) has potential in research spaces that require incredibly large amounts of computer processing power. The country’s first exascale computers include Frontier at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Aurora at Argonne National Laboratory and El Capitan at Lawrenc

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 6, 2023

Stanford University graduate student workers who teach and research have unionized, the new Stanford Graduate Workers Union announced Thursday. The National Labor Relations Board said Thursday that, “Of approximately 3,410 eligible voters, 1,639 voted for the union and 38 voted against. Parties have five business days to file objections to the election.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 3, 2023

All 24 Russell Group universities have reviewed their academic conduct policies and guidance UK universities have drawn up a set of guiding principles to ensure that students and staff are AI literate, as the sector struggles to adapt teaching and assessment methods to deal with the growing use of generative artificial intelligence. Vice-chancellors at the 24 Russell Group research-intensive universities have signed up to the code.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

Ocean County College’s (OCC) accreditation may be at risk, NJ.com reported. The New Jersey public community college was warned last week in a notice from its regional accrediting agency, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. According to the notice, there is insufficient evidence that the school is in compliance with Standard VII, the agency’s standard on governance, leadership, and administration.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

Continuous authentication is a tweak to traditional authentication methods, turning log-in-at-the-start authentication into more active monitoring. The usual goal is to reduce the security risk from stolen or borrowed credentials or malware-infected workstations. Here are five things to know about this authentication method. 1. What Is Continuous Authentication?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 4, 2023

A more inclusive definition of merit provides an opportunity for higher ed to reinvent itself after the Supreme Court’s damaging decision, Demetria D. Frank, Darrell D. Jackson and Jamila Jefferson-Jones write. Although the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard came as no surprise, its mandate to exclude the consideration of race in college admissions feels like a gut punch, especially to those of us who have been longtime advocates for educational equity.

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University Business

JULY 6, 2023

International student enrollment has largely recouped to pre-pandemic numbers , including at the graduate level , with students from India, China, Sub-Saharan Africa and Iran helping drive the way. Colleges and universities are discovering new technologies to capitalize on the significant influx of foreign-born students, but there might be no better tool than cold hard cash.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

The cautionary advice dispatched by his mentors when Dr. José Vargas-Muñiz was a college student dented his confidence and, on several occasions, tripped him up. Don’t let your hands fly the way so many Puerto Ricans like you do when they’re excited about something. In a professional setting, tell no one that you’re queer. Try to lose your island-inflected speech, they’d suggested.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 4, 2023

Team hope sale of block of rare ambergris, used by perfumers, will help victims of 2021 La Palma volcano When a sperm whale washed up dead on a beach in the Canary Island of La Palma no one imagined a valuable treasure was hidden in its entrails. Heavy seas and a rising tide made it difficult to carry out a postmortem, but Antonio Fernández Rodríguez, head of the institute of animal health and food security at the University of Las Palmas, was determined to find out why the whale had died.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 6, 2023

Goings on at U of Chicago, and happy retirement to Scott Jaschik. Before I get to the blog post I planned for today, I want to briefly acknowledge the impending retirement of Inside Higher Ed co-founder Scott Jaschik, who announced that he’ll be leaving the site at the end of this month to volunteer and travel.

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Roompact

JULY 7, 2023

What does the future of AI-based technology hold? We’re doing a little experiment, specifically with the AI chat-bot, ChatGPT. This post is part of a series where we ask ChatGPT interesting, unusual, or just plain fun questions related to residence life and college student housing. All answers were generated by the AI. At the end.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

Jay Gonzalez will become president of Curry College, effective Jul. 31, Milton Times reported. He will be the first Hispanic leader of the school. Jay Gonzalez Gonzalez is currently a partner at law firm Hinckley Allen. He previously has served as president and CEO of CeltiCare Health Plan of Massachusetts and New Hampshire Healthy Families; secretary of administration and finance for Massachusetts Gov.

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Higher Education Whisperer

JULY 2, 2023

Ruth Lewis, workshop facilitatorGreeting from the Australian Computer Society Canberra office, where I am taking part in an IEEE AI Ethics and Governance Workshop. Over the next few days we will be looking at ethics and technological development. Obviously AI is going feature prominently in this.

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Study and Go Abroad

JULY 4, 2023

QS Top Universities has recently released their 2024 world rankings. Find out where Canada stands and what schools made the top 10. It’s that time of year again! QS Top Universities has released their rankings for 2024’s top universities in the world ! This year, QS has implemented their largest-ever methodology for how they rank schools, with the new metrics of sustainability, employment outcomes, and international research network.

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University Business

JULY 4, 2023

Candidates are lining up for the 2024 presidential election, and as sparks begin to fly on the campaign trail, they’re bound to drive a new round of heated exchanges on our campuses, on our social media feeds and in our families. How can higher education leaders support their students and encourage civil discourse during this contentious election season?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

Although the U.S. Supreme Court struck down race-conscious admissions programs last week, it did not eliminate the consideration of race entirely. “Nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise,” wrote Chief Justice John G.

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Higher Education Today

JULY 6, 2023

By Tony Frank, Chancellor, Colorado State University System The fact that Colorado is among the top states in the country in the percentage of adults who have completed at least a bachelor’s degree is a great bragging point for educators and boosters of our communities. But it’s also misleading. The truth is that our state. Read more » The post Reimagining Higher Education: A New Campus in Colorado, Open to Everyone appeared first on Higher Education Today.

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Ed.gov Blog

JULY 6, 2023

Now that we’re in July, we’ve gone through Mental Health Awareness Month (May) and Pride Month (June). In these two months, we’ve seen so many examples of efforts around the country to support LGBTQI+ youth and provide these students with more access to high-quality mental health support. However, we don’t hear a lot about rural Continue Reading The post Finding Community | Mental Health for LGBTQI+ Students in Rural America appeared first on ED.gov Blog.

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JULY 4, 2023

The Supreme Court decision on affirmative action won’t change deeper reasons Asian Americans are disadvantaged in elite college admissions, Leelila Strogov writes. In a 6-to-3 ruling finding race-conscious admissions practices at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to be unconstitutional, the Supreme Court essentially ended affirmative action, upending the elite college admissions landscape.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 3, 2023

Dr. Kimberly Andrews Espy will become the first woman president of Wayne State University, effective Aug. 1. Dr. Kimberly Andrews Espy Espy – a licensed clinical psychologist – is currently provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). Previously, she was senior vice president for research at the University of Arizona; vice president for research and innovation and dean of the graduate school at the University of Oregon; and faculty at S

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Roompact

JULY 6, 2023

In this episode of Roompact's ResEdChat, Host Crystal lay speaks with Nate Armenta from Northern Arizona University about ways that college and university staff can support Native and Indigenous students and staff. Nate speaks on language, culture, land acknowledgments, and the importance of access to education for Native and Indigenous students.

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Higher Education Whisperer

JULY 4, 2023

King's College Chapel at Dusk, by Tom Worthington 1996Inger Mewburn, the Thesis Whisperer & ANU Director of Researcher Development, will be speaking on Learning to be Entrepreneurial, Monday 10 July at King's College, University of Cambridge. Professor Mewburn has been researching the the UK job market, looking at who needs research graduates.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 4, 2023

Jaime Warburton details six key tenets that can provide many educational benefits. I have a chronic autoimmune illness, an invisible disability, and my institution took its responsibility to the Americans With Disabilities Act seriously, so my COVID-related online teaching time was longer than that of most of my colleagues—I taught online from spring 2020 to spring 2022.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

A New College of Florida presidential search committee has approved a proposed $487,000-$868,000 pay range for its next president, WUSF reported. The move will now go to The New College Board of Trustees for approval. The school’s interim president, Richard Corcoran, a former Florida House speaker and state education commissioner, is being paid a base salary of $699,000.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 5, 2023

Project-based learning is powerful and potentially life-changing for learners, offering them the chance to experience deep and meaningful learning experiences while also building essential skills. This impact is even more powerful when the PBL experiences are designed and led by the students themselves. That is student-directed project-based learning.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 2, 2023

Group issues 12-point plan calling for stricter immigration rules for care workers, students and refugees Rishi Sunak is facing demands from “red wall” Conservative MPs to slash the number of overseas care workers, foreign students and refugees allowed into the UK in time for the next election. The MPs from the 2017 and 2019 intake, who call themselves the New Conservatives, have issued a 12-point plan to cut net migration to Britain from 606,000 to 240,000 before the end of 2024.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 6, 2023

Beth Godbee presents a number of tangible ways that academics can build a sense of what’s possible, structurally as well as individually. It’s rare that a day goes by in which burnout among academics doesn’t come up in personal conversations or news reports in some way. Regularly, I recognize feelings of burnout within myself, even as a white cis woman who left a faculty position and can set my own schedule.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Bloomfield College has merged with Montclair State University, effective Jul. 1. Bloomfield – it is the only four-year institution in New Jersey that is a predominantly Black institution, a Hispanic-serving institution, and a minority serving institution – will be renamed Bloomfield College of Montclair State University. The majority of the school’s faculty and staff (almost 90%) were offered employment by Montclair.

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