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Four ways for career centers to engage students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Career readiness is a critical part of students’ postgraduate success in the workforce. The National Association of Colleges and Employers’ 2022 Student Survey found that graduating seniors who used career center services received more job offers on average, compared to their peers who did not. While the advantages of career services are clear, higher education professionals must implement effective modeling and teaching for their students to navigate career readiness.

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CUNY Colleges Receive $750,000 for Anti-Bigotry Strategies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The City University of New York (CUNY) colleges and the university’s central offices will see $750,000 distributed to support efforts seeking to address religious, racial, and ethnic bigotry at CUNY. Dr. Félix V. Matos Rodríguez “With our continued commitment to fight against bigotry, antisemitism, and hate of all kinds, our colleges are stepping up and have developed additional programming to address these incidents,” said Dr.

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Benefits of Integrating Service-Learning With Other High-Impact Practices

The Scholarly Teacher

By: Dawn M. Ford, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Jillian Saraney, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Key Statement: Service-learning projects designed by students can meet community needs while elevating student learning, engagement, and success by integrating high-impact practices (HIPs) and HIP elements. Keywords: Service-learning, public health, graduate education, community needs, student engagement, research, high-impact practices Introduction High-impact practices (HIPs) su

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Plagiarism catcher Turnitin announces ‘state-of-the-art’ AI writing detector

University Business

Does artificial intelligence have a place in the classroom? That’s yet to be decided as generative AI tools, namely ChatGPT, continue to rock the higher education sphere. What we do know is that efforts to curb cheating have steadily increased since its inception. OpenAI, the chatbot’s creator, launched its own AI-writing detector several weeks ago, yet it’s not 100% accurate, according to the company.

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Professor says he was barred from campus after Monsanto info request

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: A professor who frequently testifies against Monsanto Co. in lawsuits alleging harm from toxic environmental pollutants called PCBs says that after a Monsanto lawyer filed a records request with his university, the university barred him from campus and offered him a resignation deal. “That was the very first thing that they gave me,” said the professor, David Carpenter of the University at Albany, part of the State University of New York, regarding the resignation offer.

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Concealed Carry Bill for Public College Campuses Passes in West Virginia House of Delegates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A bill allowing people to carry concealed weapons at public college campuses in West Virginia passed by a landslide in the state's House of Delegates Feb. 21, NPR reported. This move sends the bill to West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, who has not made any public indication of whether he will sign it into law. As it stands now, the state prohibits carrying guns on public college and university campuses.

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How will we measure student success in the 2020s?

EAB

Blogs How will we measure student success in the 2020s? A review of how student success metrics have evolved over time—and where they might go in the future Before I studied student success, I studied evolutionary biology. I regularly get asked how the two things relate, and I often find myself applying evolutionary thinking to student success challenges.

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Report: Colleges face disincentives to improving transfer

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: A number of financial disincentives deter colleges from smoothly transferring students’ course credits from one institution to another, according to a new white paper by the Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board (PAB), a group of experts dedicated to transforming the transfer process. The paper, released Thursday, concludes that improving the transfer process has been hampered by short-term thinking by campus leaders concerned about how allowing credits to transfer into their instit

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Two Scholars are Building Diversity Initiative Database for All

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Academic Pipeline Exchange is an open access database charting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in businesses, organizations, and institutions of higher education across the nation. While the full database is only in its initial stages, Drs. Curtis Byrd and Rihana Mason are already working to turn their idea into a nationwide standard.

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Via Welcomes Dave Saben as Chief Executive Officer

Via's

Get to know Via’s new CEO: Dave Saben Dave Saben was raised in a family that placed a high value on small business and entrepreneurship. From a young age, he was interested in business. “My family’s dinner conversations often revolved around business ideas and strategies to improve their family’s business.” Over time, Dave’s curiosity and love for business led him to explore new areas, such as information technology, coding, and website building.

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Getting creative: How higher ed is finding solutions to post-pandemic problems

University Business

Drawing on its research and experience advising nearly 500 colleges and universities nationwide, Hanover Research has an inside line to higher ed and the major themes in which schools are entrenched. In the post-pandemic world, young adults are more skeptical about the traditional high-school-to-college funnel, noting its financial burden, lack of workforce focus and how bewildering it can be going in without a sense of belonging or real-life skills.

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Brain break items help college students study

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Rows of shelves containing everything from card games to coloring sheets, fidget toys to aromatherapy cards, line the Bellin College Student Success Center, encouraging students, staff and faculty to take a moment and reconnect in the middle of a busy day. The Wisconsin college’s “brain break” space provides tools for pausing and refocusing attention while drawing students closer to academic resources.

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New Tool to Measure DEI Efforts Introduced

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For institutions looking to measure their DEI efforts, the tool of choice has typically been campus climate assessments, surveys of groups like faculty or students that provide an aggregate picture of the impact of a college’s endeavors. But this doesn’t give schools a comprehensive picture of their efforts, or a direct sense of how developed they are.

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2022 Presidential Scholars Weigh in on the Importance of CTE

Ed.gov Blog

The U.S. Presidential Scholars Program was established in 1964, by executive order of the President, to recognize and honor our nation’s most distinguished graduating high school seniors. Max Aulwes, Alan Mo, and Sreeya Pittala are three of the 2022 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program recipients for excellence in Career and Technical Education (CTE).

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Black History Month – The Work and Importance of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA)

Clark Nesxen

As we celebrate Black History Month, I thought it would be important to share with everyone the work of the National Organization of Minority Architects. As current President of the Virginia Chapter ( VANOMA ), I wanted to use this post as an opportunity to communicate why this organization is important to me and our industry. Ian Vaughan, AIA, NOMA.

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New gallon drinking trend takes off at college campuses

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: The latest college drinking trend is as simple as it is potent: equal parts water and liquor, combined with some sort of sugary flavoring. And while some see the beverage as just another way to get drunk quickly, others consider the fad a safer alternative to drinking games of yore, such as Slap the Bag or Edward Fortyhands. Called a borg—short for “blackout rage gallon”—the beverages have been around since at least early 2020, when the first recipes for the concoc

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University of Texas System Board of Regents Suspends DEI Policies, Puts Them Under Scrutiny

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The University of Texas System’s board of regents has suspended all new policies promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and asked school leaders to report on their current DEI policies, citing that some practices have “strayed from the original intent,” The Texas Tribune reported. “Certain DEI efforts have strayed from the original intent to now imposing requirements and actions that, rightfully so, has raised the concerns of our policymakers around those efforts on campuses across our

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University Business: Getting Creative: How Higher Ed is Finding Solutions to Post-Pandemic Problems

Hanover Research

Drawing on its findings and experience advising nearly 500 colleges and universities nationwide, Hanover Research has an inside line to higher ed and the major themes in which schools are entrenched. The post University Business: Getting Creative: How Higher Ed is Finding Solutions to Post-Pandemic Problems appeared first on Hanover Research.

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Care as mattering

Teaching Matters Academic Support

In this extra post, Dr. Omar Kaissi shares an inspiring example of how he incorporated Mattering – ‘the feeling of being recognised and of importance to someone’, into his personal tutor practice to support the mental health and wellbeing of his international students. Dr.

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Stanford hikes tuition by 7%. Will other institutions follow?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Stanford University will raise undergraduate tuition by 7 percent for the upcoming academic year, citing inflation, which has squeezed institutions and consumers alike across the U.S. The move marks a significant jump from the 4 percent tuition increase Stanford’s Board of Trustees approved last year. Experts say Stanford is an outlier in the size of its tuition increase, though they expect numerous other institutions to raise sticker prices in the coming months.

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Colorado Bill Deducting Prison Time for Inmates Earning Academic Credentials Passes 61-1 in State House

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A bill to incentivize Colorado prisoners to pursue higher education passed 61-1 in the state House of Representatives, Colorado Politics reported. The bill still needs approval from the state Senate and governor. Rep. Matthew Martinez HB 1037 – Reps. Matthew Martinez and Rose Pugliese, and Sen. Julie Gonzales are prime bill sponsors – would deduct time off of an inmate’s sentence for earning an academic credential while incarcerated – six months for earning a certificate, one year for an associa

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ANU First Year Teaching Good Practice Guide

Higher Education Whisperer

Greetings from the Australian National University Center for Learning and Teaching, where Professor Maryanne Dever, ro Vice-Chancellor (Education & Digital) is launching the "ANU First Year Teaching Good Practice Guide". This complements the ANU Learning and Teaching Strategy. The Guide focuses on young people, but is applicable to helping those new to university of any age, and not so new.

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HCI, IaaS Help Universities Simplify Infrastructure Management

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Simplicity has been Fordham University’s game plan for the past decade. Since shifting its enterprise resource planning system from its New York campus to Amazon Web Services in 2012, the school has moved about 85 percent of its infrastructure to cloud services. “Like many higher education organizations, we were hosting it locally, taking care of all the data center needs for this system as well as the application, the upgrades, the maintenance, the disaster recovery,” says Anand Padmanabhan, vi

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A professor's job is endangered for teaching about race

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: An English professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University said his teaching contract has been put on hold after complaints about his instruction on race and racism. The professor, Samuel Joeckel, said in an email that the dean of his department and the university’s provost waited outside the class he was teaching last week to inform him of the news.

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Success Coaching and Online Platform Shown to Improve Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The road to completing a credential can be particularly challenging for minority male students, who may face systemic biases, a lack of financial resources, racism and microaggressions, and an absence of academic role models. The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated the trend. However, the Minority Male Success Initiative (MMSI), a three-year project from the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) and Watermark, an ed tech company, has offered a glimmer of hope: students who received

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Update on the Free Inquiry Rule

Ed.gov Blog

By Nassar H. Paydar, Assistant Secretary, Postsecondary Education In September 2021, the Department announced it was conducting a review of regulations related to First Amendment freedoms, including religious freedoms, which impose additional requirements on its higher education institutional grant recipients. The Department’s review of these regulations focused on ensuring several key elements, including First Amendment protections, Continue Reading The post Update on the Free Inquiry Rule appe

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ResEdChat Ep 22: Shigeo Iwamiya on Managing Career Transitions

Roompact

In this episode of the podcast, we welcome Shigeo to the show to reflect on his career in Residence Life and how he has navigated moving back and forth across the country as he's moved up in his profession. Shigeo shares insightful advice and genuine anecdotes from his life to help folks determine what is truly important as they make decisions about their next job.

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A small college needs $2.6M to survive. It's raised $178K

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Facing financial pressures, the King’s College made a recent appeal to donors for $2.6 million to meet immediate needs, warning that the small evangelical institution located in the heart of Wall Street is at risk of closure if it can’t quickly fundraise its way out of a dire situation. The deadline to raise the $2.6 million was Feb. 15.

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Rutgers Webinar Discusses Health Equity, Minority Health, and Medical Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The current state of health equity and medical education were key topics at a webinar on Tuesday sponsored by Rutgers University’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice. The Proctor Institute – housed in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Graduate School of Education – hosted the event in honor of Black History Month. Dr. Louis Sullivan The webinar, "Fireside Chat: A Half Century of Equity in Medicine," kicked off with a discussion with Dr.

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7 Carnival Celebrations Around the World

AIFS Abroad

Last Updated on February 21, 2023 by Cat Rogliano Carnival is one of the most exciting, vibrant festivals and celebrations around the world. It’s a time of joy, excitement, and letting go of inhibitions. From Brazil to Italy, people come together to celebrate this colorful festival in their unique way. Here are some of the most popular Carnival celebrations worldwide: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil When it comes to Carnival celebrations, Rio de Janeiro is a global icon.

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Anything Happening in Singapore or India in April?

Higher Education Whisperer

Singapore Fintech Festival, 2022 I will bein Singapore April 4 & 26 to 28, Goa 6 to 19, and Bengaluru 21 to 24. Anu education or computing events I can help with, while there? Any conferences or events I can attend, or anyone, I should visit? I get a bit bored looking at museums.

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Mentors should be gate openers, not gatekeepers (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Graduate pipeline programs were created to level the playing field by providing students from historically excluded populations with the resources to be competitive in pursuing their graduate degrees. In programs such as the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program , established in 1986 and as necessary today as ever, we mentor students in submission , accepting the ways higher education operates instead of demanding and creating a genuinely inclusive community.

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Prairie View A&M to Become First HBCU to Lead a National University Transportation Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) has been selected by the U.S. Department of Transportation to lead a national-tier University Transportation Center (UTC), making the school the first historically Black college or university (HBCU) to lead a national UTC. PVAMU – joined by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), and Texas A&M University – will lead the National Center for Infrastructure Transformation, which aims to focus

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How to Work with CBOs to Supercharge Your Recruiting Efforts

EAB

Podcast How to Work with CBOs to Supercharge Your Recruiting Efforts Episode 139. February 21, 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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Preparing Yourself for A Job Search in Residence Life (or Student Affairs… or Another Industry)

Roompact

In a previous post, I wrote about how a supervisor might assist in supporting their staff member(s) through the job search season. As we are now entering a new year, and with some hopeful reflections motivating our purposes, it seems only fitting to now address this phenomenon from the perspective of the candidate. I want.

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Study: Increased marijuana use on college campuses

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Opponents and proponents of legalizing marijuana have long debated whether prohibiting or decriminalizing it would lead to increased usage of the drug by young people. The jury may still be out on who’s right, although some studies have shown that recreational cannabis use increased by 20 percent in states that legalized it. Twenty-one states , along with Washington, D.C., and Guam, have legalized the sale, use and production of marijuana; 27 states have decriminalized it, and resea

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Former University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Dies at 67

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Former University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) Chancellor Dr. Rebecca Blank died Feb. 17 from pancreatic cancer at age 67. Dr. Rebecca Blank Blank stepped down from the role in 2022 to become the first female president of Northwestern University, was one of the longest-serving chancellors in recent UWM history, having led the school for almost 10 years.