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Higher Education Can Connect Diverse Students to Lucrative, Technical Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Technical jobs are receiving fewer applications from younger generations. According to Handshake, a network of institutions and employers that helps connect students with early career opportunities, trade careers saw 49% fewer applications in 2022 than 2020. Applications for jobs like automotive technicians or respiratory therapists went from an average of 10 applications each to only five.

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What Text(s) Means Now

The Scholarly Teacher

Jason DeHart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Key Statement: “Text” in today’s classrooms can be a dynamic, multimodal, multimedia way to engage students with course content. Keywords: Literacy, Multimodality, Instructor Education. Introduction. At times, building a classroom environment around the activity of reading printed text might feel anachronistic.

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My 2023 “Tech Cleanse” Has Begun

Will Richardson

Goodbye Twitter. Goodbye Chrome. Neither was easy. I was there for early-Twitter, and it was love-hate from the beginning. I loved the ease, the networking, the linking, and, yes, the learning. I hated the fact that I knew blogging in the way that I’d been practicing it for about a decade at that point was done for. “Micro-blogging” didn’t leave space for deep thought, complex ideas, and extended attention.

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Academic experts offer advice on ChatGPT

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Ever since the chat bot ChatGPT burst into public view in late 2022, students, professors and administrators have been woozy from a chaotic cocktail of excitement, uncertainty and fear. The bot writes poems, sonnets and essays. It also serves as a convincing debate partner on a seemingly unlimited number of subjects. Given that the natural language model earned passing scores on the evidence and torts portion of the bar exam, among other feats, some in academe fret that the technology may

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Spaces of Belonging: Schools Look to Design to Help First-Gen Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over half of undergraduate students in the U.S. are the first in their family to attend an institution of higher learning. These first-generation students are likelier than their peers to be from minoritized backgrounds, to face economic challenges, and to juggle jobs and families in addition to school. And they may be less familiar with the “hidden curriculum”—the implicit norms and knowledge that help students navigate college life.

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What Is a Metaversity, and Should You Create One on Your Campus?

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

The stuff of science fiction isn’t nearly as far away as it once seemed. The speed of progress in tech continues to change higher education at a dramatic pace. Ideas that seemed far-fetched three years ago, like earning a four-year college degree solely by completing courses online and without ever meeting a professor in person, are now fairly common practice.

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Harvard Kennedy School condemned for denying fellowship to Israel critic

The Guardian Higher Education

ACLU and Pen America back former Human Rights Watch chief Kenneth Roth and say decision ‘raises serious questions’ Leading civil rights organisations have condemned Harvard Kennedy School’s denial of a position to the former head of Human Rights Watch over the organisation’s criticism of Israel. The American Civil Liberties Union called the refusal of a fellowship to Kenneth Roth “profoundly troubling”.

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Higher Ed Prepares to Celebrate the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Kelisha B. Graves remembers being a young student in public school, looking forward to the third Monday of every January as a day off. “Every King holiday is a day out of school, without intentional reflection,” said Graves. “At The King Center, we always say that the King holiday is a day on, not a day off. It’s a day of not just reflection but concrete action.

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How Can Generative AI Be Used in Higher Ed?

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Noticed any fantasy-inspired portrait posts showing up on your social media feeds lately? You might just be looking at artificial intelligence-generated content, a new development in the exponentially expanding world of AI tech that has emerged over the past few years. Platforms like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 2 allow users to input a text prompt, which creates an AI-generated image that may or may not accurately reflect what the user intended.

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Female students lag behind males in college readiness, concludes a national survey

University Business

Female high school graduates are less prepared—and feel less informed—to confidently enter college or choose a career path, concludes the latest report from YouScience, the leading college and career readiness company. The report gathered information from 500 graduated students from the classes of 2019 to 2022 and asked them questions about their exposure to college readiness resources in high school and how confident they were in taking the next step.

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Students should refuse remedial placements (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A growing number of community college systems, in California , Florida , Louisiana , Tennessee , Texas , New York City and elsewhere, have stopped requiring students to take remedial courses before they can enroll in college-level courses—the long-standing model for remedial education. With this policy change, states have lifted a significant barrier to college progress that affects millions of students and disproportionately impacts first-generation and low-income students and students of

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Despite Probation, Saint Augustine's University is Looking Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Even though Saint Augustine’s University (SAU) in Raleigh, NC has been placed on probation by the accrediting agency The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), SAU President Dr. Christine McPhail isn’t slowing down. Dr. Christine McPhail, president of Saint Augustine's University, “Nobody wants probation, but I’m a seasoned administrator with multiple decades of experience in the area,” said McPhail.

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Capacity Building for Shared Equity Leadership

Higher Education Today

By Jordan Harper, Natsumi Ueda, and Elizabeth Holcombe Join us for a webinar Jan. 31 to discuss our upcoming report on capacity building for Shared Equity Leadership. Register here. Over the past three years, the American Council on Education (ACE) and the University of Southern California (USC) have been working together to study new ways. Read more » The post Capacity Building for Shared Equity Leadership appeared first on Higher Education Today.

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Here is where all 50 state university systems rank on ROI—and why

University Business

When it comes to accelerating ROI for students on price and outcomes, an abundance of career-oriented majors and thriving technical colleges are essentials for campus leaders. A new analysis ranks the return on investment of all 50 state public university systems by comparing tuition and other financial factors to the increase in lifetime income that graduates earn from their degrees. “While some state college systems succeed in moving large numbers of students into the middle class, other

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Why bringing back the F is key to improving student success (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Teaching Today Faculty members today too rarely recognize a significant impediment to student success: students’ own refusal—not inability—to simply do the work, writes Louis Haas. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: teachinglearning Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Teaching Show on Jobs site: Image Source: IcemanJ/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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Emory Replaced Loans with Grants for Over 1,500 More Students Last Fall, University Announces

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

An additional 1,600-1,700 students at Emory University received grants and scholarships instead of loans in their financial aid packages this fall, the Atlanta-based institution announced recently, more than doubling the number of undergraduates expected to finish school with limited or no debt. The increase is due to the expansion of the university’s Emory Advantage program, which replaces loans with grants for students from low and middle-income families, to every student receiving need-based

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How to Design Spaces for Flexible Learning

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

College and university campuses have a dilemma: With hybrid and remote learning becoming common at most institutions, physical learning spaces are looking worse for wear as students debate the value of even attending classes in person. These days, stepping into a room filled with dozens of students facing forward and staring at a lecturing professor feels somewhat like attending a Zoom meeting in less comfortable clothes — and that’s far from the experience students are hoping for.

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Mental health remains the top concern for students

University Business

A new survey organized by the virtual health service provider TimelyMD has concluded that mental health ranks as students’ top stressor, the second consecutive survey to do so. The survey was completed by 1,200 students from various backgrounds. This is the second consecutive survey to cite mental health as college students’ biggest concern, this survey being marginally higher (50%) than the last survey (49%), which was conducted in August 2022.

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Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

An excellent and diverse faculty is vital to individual colleges and universities and to our communities, states, nation and globe. A diverse faculty brings diverse perspectives, and these diverse perspectives enhance teaching and advising, research and scholarship, clinical practice, and engagement with the community and world. Yet, at most U.S. colleges and universities, the faculty is less diverse than the students.

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Georgian Court University Boasts Women-Led Majority Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At Georgian Court University (GCU), women leaders are the norm. The private Roman Catholic university boasts a leadership of majority women, with women leading all four of the school's academic schools as deans. Dr. Janice Warner GCU’s four academic deans now are: Dr. Mary Chinery, d ean of the School of Arts and Sciences; Dr. Jennifer Edmonds, dean of the School of Business & Digital Media; Dr.

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Lecturers urged to review assessments in UK amid concerns over new AI tool

The Guardian Higher Education

ChatGPT is capable of producing high-quality essays with minimal human input ChatGPT: what can the extraordinary artificial intelligence chatbot do? Lecturers at UK universities have been urged to review the way in which their courses are assessed amid concerns that students are already using a potent new AI tool capable of producing high-quality essays with minimal human input.

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HBCUs are getting creative to meet growing student housing demand

University Business

Historically Black colleges and universities have been embroiled in a student housing crisis for decades. Now, some are getting creative to address the problem. Just in time for the fall 2023 semester, Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, will transform dozens of shipping containers into dorm rooms, forming a small residential community that will house 98 students, university Executive Vice President Jens Frederiksen told NBC News.

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Accused Idaho killer studied criminology. Is there a link?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Bryan Kohberger appeared at a courthouse in Latah County, Idaho, last Thursday to face murder charges for the brutal killings of four University of Idaho students in November. Just two months ago, the 28-year-old was enrolled at Washington State University at Pullman, 10 miles from the Moscow, Idaho, campus where the killings occurred, finishing up his first semester of a criminology Ph.D. program in which students debate the motives of criminals, among other things, and study how prosecu

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Helping Student Parents

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Ja’Bette Lozupone Title: Director of Student Affairs, Montgomery College Age: 41 Education: B.A., communications, Hood College; M.A., communications, Hood College; and D.O.L., organizational leadership, Hood College Career mentors: Dr. Olivia White, Hood College, and Margaret Latimer, Montgomery College Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “One thing that has been incredibly valuable to me has been deep trust in myself.

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ResEdChat Ep #19: Dr. Laura Arroyo on Black Student Mattering in Campus Housing

Roompact

In this episode of Roompact's ResEdChat, we speak with Laura about her dissertation work focusing on the issues impacting black student sense of mattering in residence life. She shares her experience researching this topic and advice for professionals to make progress in this area.

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6 ways leaders are rethinking their student affairs organizational charts in 2023

EAB

Blogs. 6 ways leaders are rethinking their student affairs organizational charts in 2023. Between a pandemic, a national racial reckoning, and increasing challenges to the higher education business model, student affairs leaders have spent the past few years looking for ways to innovate and collaborate more effectively across the cabinet. One avenue leaders have explored to do so is changing their org chart: moving units, combining units, or setting up dual reporting lines.

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My first chat with ChatGPT (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

After hearing about the artificial intelligence model ChatGPT and its potential impact on the teaching of writing, I decided to try it to get a feel for the algorithm and what it might offer students. These are some of the questions I asked and answers I received (edited for length), followed by some of my own thoughts on the experience. Q: Is it nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?

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Association for the Study of African American Life and History to Host Third Annual Black History Month Festival

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) will host a series of events as part of its Third Annual Black History Month Festival this year. The theme for this year is Black resistance. “Black Resistance has taken many forms throughout history. As the late Congressman John Lewis advised, ‘Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble,’” said ASALH officials.

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More than 70,000 staff at 150 UK universities to strike for 18 days

The Guardian Higher Education

Industrial action to take place in February and March in dispute over pay, conditions and pensions More than 70,000 staff at 150 universities across the UK will strike for 18 days between February and March in disputes over pay, conditions and pensions, it has been announced. The University and College Union (UCU) said the precise dates of the action will be confirmed next week.

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Art Practice Alumnus Craig Nowak Talks About Creating Art with the Community Through Gesher Human Services’ Creative Expressions Program

College for Creative Study

The post Art Practice Alumnus Craig Nowak Talks About Creating Art with the Community Through Gesher Human Services’ Creative Expressions Program appeared first on College for Creative Studies.

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Belmont plans to hire Jewish faculty for the first time

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Belmont University, a private Christian institution in Nashville, Tenn., plans to break a long-standing tradition of only hiring Christian instructors by opening some faculty positions to Jewish candidates. University leaders recently announced they’re specifically recruiting Jewish faculty members to teach in three of its graduate programs, hopefully as early as this spring.

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How Universities Can Support Undocumented Students as Federal Policies Continue to Threaten Them

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Immigrant high school students without citizenship or permanent residency in the U.S. are often told by high school counselors and colleges that they do not have many options for higher education. Known to many as Dreamers, DACA recipients, and undocumented students, it’s easy for them to slip through the cracks without getting the educational support or resources they deserve.

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Meet the people who took an evening class… and changed their life

The Guardian Higher Education

Whether you are stuck in a rut or have ambitions you’d still like to pursue, adult education gives you a second chance. Six people tell Michael Segalov how taking a course inspired them I studied biology in Iraq for my undergraduate degree and worked in a pathology lab. In my 20s, I fled the place where I was born and raised, when Islamic State were advancing.

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Why Institutions Need to Raise the Bar for Student Support

University Business

Colleges and universities are facing significant enrollment and retention headwinds, putting future sustainability and growth at risk. As students question the price tag and time commitment associated with attaining a degree, higher ed institutions need to raise the bar and provide next-level student support to survive in this new era of competition.

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New course teaches skills for tackling mental distress

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: In Amy Morgan’s vision, a group of undergraduates sit in a classroom, drawing, painting and making collages at their desks. The images they produce might run the gamut from abstract doodles to colorful narrative scenes. But this isn’t an art class; the students will be illustrating their moods as part of a new one-credit course at the University of Maryland, College Park, that Morgan developed to teach students basic emotional regulation skills.

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Passion and Perseverance

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Nathaniel Currie Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Clark Atlanta University Age: 40 Education: B.S., social work, Plymouth State University; Master of Social Work (MSW), Simmons University; and Doctor of Social Work (DSW), University of Pennsylvania Career mentors: Gary Bailey, Simmons University; Anthony Hill, Winthrop University; and Shonda Lawrence, Clark Atlanta University Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Do you, at this level, through this lens.

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Jewish students suffered antisemitic bullying within NUS, inquiry finds

The Guardian Higher Education

Independent investigation says union failed to protect members from hostile attacks within organisation The National Union of Students has failed to protect Jewish members and activists from hostile attacks within the organisation, according to an investigation that found “numerous instances” of antisemitism in the union over the last decade. The independent investigation found multiple examples of Jewish students having been subjected to antisemitic bullying and ostracisation within the NUS bec