Sat.Feb 18, 2023 - Fri.Feb 24, 2023

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Teaching students to engage in constructive dialogue in class

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: While the college classroom has traditionally been a place where students and professors can gain new perspectives while engaging in conversation, many students feel uncomfortable expressing their views on controversial topics. In a February 2021 Student Voice survey from Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse, one in five students disagreed, at least somewhat, with the statement “I feel comfortable sharing my opinions in class.

Media 145
article thumbnail

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.

IT 306
article thumbnail

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.

More Trending

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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

DEI 279
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

DeSantis’ quest to conquer higher ed just got scarier

University Business

A new bill proposed by a Florida House Republican will grant Gov. Ron Desantis increased influence over Florida’s higher education system and mold school curriculum to better align it with what the state deems as a more historically justified picture of the United States. House bill 999 is the governor’s latest legislative effort to combat what he believes is higher education’s continued agenda “to impose ideological conformity, to try to promote political activism.”

DEI 105
article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

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.

DEI 279
article thumbnail

What is The Future of RAs? It’s Time To Break Up The Role

Roompact

This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, “What is the future of the RA role?” Guest Post by DJ Stroud, Professional Staff Member Resident Assistant. Resident Advisor. Community Mentor. Just like the entry-level professional roles in our field, the job titles for our live-in student staff members vary from institution to institution.

104
104
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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

Research 113
article thumbnail

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.

DEI 279
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

FIU Receives $6 Million to Improve Access to Mental Health Services in Miami-Dade County Public Schools

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Florida International University (FIU) has received $6 million to help improve access to mental health services for students in Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS). The five-year grant came through the U.S. Department of Education (ED) via the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and the Fiscal Year 2022 Omnibus Appropriations. The money will support the FIU/M-DCPS Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Fellowship (Project DIG), an effort to recruit and train more than 100 school-bas

article thumbnail

CCS Alumna Sydney James featured in upcoming American Masters series on PBS

College for Creative Study

The post CCS Alumna Sydney James featured in upcoming American Masters series on PBS appeared first on College for Creative Studies.

Alumni 98
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

How micro-internships prepare women for tech careers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: One organization is creating space at the tech industry’s table for undergraduates by providing short-term work experiences to equip them for summer internships and beyond. Employment in science, technology, engineering and math has grown over the years, with about 24 percent of the U.S.’s workforce in STEM in 2021, but only 18 percent of the field at that time identified as women, according to the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics.

article thumbnail

Hochul Proposes Nearly $7.5B for Higher Ed in FY24

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

New York State governor Kathy Hochul has released her budget proposal for the 2024 fiscal year, featuring almost $7.5 billion in higher ed spending—a 13% increase from this year’s spending and a 22% increase from the 2022 budget proposed by her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo. Dr. Tom Harnisch, vice president of government relations at the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association The funding was hailed by the chancellors of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the State University o

article thumbnail

How Innovation and Shared Governance Influence Turnaround SuccessThe National Louis University Story

The Change Leader, Inc.

Successfully reinventing a college or university into a truly innovative school after cutting a significant portion of programs sounds near impossible. However, the experiences at National Louis University (NLU), a four-campus private institution in Chicago, proved that presidents and other decision-makers can turn around an institution without having the complete buy-in of faculty and staff.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Report: Complaining to a higher ed accreditor is burdensome

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: The complaint processes at seven of the agencies charged with monitoring the quality of higher education institutions and holding them accountable are burdensome and seem designed to protect colleges, a new brief from the think tank New America argues. None of the policies reviewed in the brief meet New America’s criteria for an effective complaint process, the brief concluded.

article thumbnail

Dr. J. Luke Wood Appointed to California Racial Equity Commission

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. J. Luke Wood has been appointed to serve on the California Racial Equity Commission, the state's Senate Rules Committee. Wood will serve a two-year term. Dr. J. Luke Wood Wood is currently vice president for student affairs and campus diversity and chief diversity officer (CDO) at San Diego State University (SDSU). In the role, he led the creation of new cultural centers, such as the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Resource Center (APIDA), the Latinx Resource Center, the Native Resource

article thumbnail

Should accreditors help higher ed identify what’s good enough for them?: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 143 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Ralph Wolff

The Change Leader, Inc.

Changing Higher Ed Podcast 143 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Ralph Wolff: Should Accreditors Help Higher Ed Identify What’s Good Enough for Them? → View the podcast transcript Now more than ever, accreditation is essential in higher education. An increasingly high number of professional accrediting bodies touch and impact colleges and universities to the point where accreditors have the potential to lead or even stifle change in higher ed.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Higher ed and the military must collaborate (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the military draft and the birth of America’s all-volunteer force, and the golden anniversary comes at a time when the future of the volunteer military has never been more uncertain. In fiscal year 2022, the U.S. Army missed its recruitment target by a record 25 percent, or 15,000 soldiers. Even applications to the elite service academies—long insulated from social and economic pressures—declined in 2022, with those declines ra

article thumbnail

Dr. Sonya Christian Appointed First Woman and First South Asian Chancellor of California Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Sonya Christian has been selected to lead California Community Colleges, effective Jun. 1. She will be the first woman and the first person of South Asian heritage in the role. Dr. Sonya Christian Christian is chancellor of the Kern Community College District. “Dr. Christian is one of our nation’s most dynamic college leaders, with a demonstrated record of collaboration and results in the Central Valley,” said California Gov.