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Yale Internal Medicine Will Work to Increase Vaccination in Prison Populations

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While COVID-19 had a disproportionate impact on many marginalized communities, one of the hardest hit populations were incarcerated individuals. By March 2022, two years after the pandemic began its catastrophic spread across the United States, over 588,000 cases of Covid spread through the U.S. prison system. A prison’s close quarters quickly blossomed into infection hotspots, and so far over 3,000 incarcerated people have died from the virus.

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Tips for Successful Campus Visit For Parents and Students

Great College Advice

Get the Most from Campus Visits. As you plan the general goals of your campus visits , plan the logistics , take the tour , listen to the information session , and investigate the campus surroundings , keep in mind these few tips for making the visit as productive, successful, and fun as possible. Parent Tips for Campus Visits. Don’t ask too many questions, either in the information session or during the campus tour.

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How to Increase Scientific Literacy

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A recent correspondent shared a memorable quotation from the Nobel prizewinner Ernest Rutherford: “That which is not Physics is stamp collecting.” In other words, that which isn’t science is a trivial and inconsequential waste of time. Bored out of his mind by box checking introductory courses in the humanities, my correspondent wrote: “To many STEM students the truly “Great Books” were written by Physicists and Mathematicians.

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ACUHO-I Internship Series Part 4: Interviewing

Roompact

This post is one in a five part series on securing a summer internship in college housing and residence life through the ACUHO-I’s Housing Internship Program. It is written from the perspective of a former ACUHO-I Intern. The series will walk you through the process from beginning to end providing tips and tricks along the.

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Inspiring Tech Context

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It would likely not make sense for someone to repeatedly run sprints, do agility drills, and hoist their body into another person for no reason. It isn’t until the context of football and the opportunities that participation in the sport entails that it would make sense for those students who choose to play to engage in it. The context around football has been infused with value.

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If aliens contact humanity, who decides what we do next?

The Guardian Higher Education

Scientists setting up ‘post-detection hub’ in Scotland are concerned humans would react ‘like headless chickens’ The moment has been imagined a thousand times. As astronomers comb the cosmos with their powerful telescopes, they spot something that makes them gasp. Amid the feeble rays from distant galaxies lies a weak but persistent signal: a message from an advanced civilisation.

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U of California Grad Students Win Big Pay Increases

Confessions of a Community College Dean

University of California graduate student workers voted Friday to approve new contracts with substantial wage increases, ending a strike that started in early November, the Los Angeles Time s reported. For academic student employees, the contract will raise minimum pay from about $23,250 to about $34,000 for nine months of part-time work by Oct. 1, 2024.

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Ed Reed Set to Become Head Football Coach for Bethune-Cookman University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Football Hall of Famer Ed Reed will become Bethune-Cookman University’s head football coach after the school announced that it had agreed for him to step into the role, Yahoo Sports reported. Ed Reed “Bethune-Cookman University Athletics has entered an agreement in principle with Pro Football Hall of Famer Ed Reed to be its 16th head football coach,” according to the historically Black college and university (HBCU) in Florida.

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ResEdChat Ep #18: Matt Unger on What is a B-Corp and Why You Should Care

Roompact

In this episode of Roompact's ResEdChat, as 2022 comes to a close, we wanted to take a moment to talk with our Founder and President, Matt Unger, about the company's journey to becoming a certified B-Corp this past year.

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The 5 Trends in Website Design and Digital Marketing to Adopt or Drop in 2023

Terminalfour

The pivot for higher education marketing since 2020 has been significant, and the bar is set higher than ever before when it comes to the expectations of prospective students. Register for our free higher education webinar on Wednesday, January 25 to find out how to break through the noise.

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Proctor Receives NATA Safe Sports School Award

Proctor Academy

Proctor Academy is the recipient of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) Safe Sports School award for its Athletic Training program. The award champions safety and recognizes secondary schools that have met the recommended standards to improve safety in sports. The award reinforces the importance of providing the best level of care, injury prevention, and treatment.

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Dr. Art Pimentel Appointed President of Folsom Lake College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Art Pimentel will become president of Folsom Lake College, effective Jan. 9, 2023. Dr. Art Pimentel Most recently, Pimentel was president of Woodland Community College. Other positions he has held include Woodland City Council member; mayor of Woodland; Woodland Joint Unified School District board member; and chairman for the Yolo County Transportation District, Yolo-Solano Air Quality District, and the Cleaner Air Partnership of Sacramento.

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Juilliard Places Professor or Leave Amid Harassment Probe

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Juilliard School has placed a professor on leave and commissioned a new investigation of charges that he harassed students, The New York Times reported. A spokeswoman for the school said it had previously investigated the professor, Robert Beaser, who had been chair of the composition department. The spokeswoman did not say what those investigations found.

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A University is Not Just a Place

Higher Education Whisperer

Professor Gavin Moodie, University of Toronto, recently discussed the effects of a merger between the universities of Adelaide and South Australia. Professor Andrew Norton, Australian National University suggested urban participation rates in universities would decline if funding went to regional campuses. However, these analyses are focused on the physical location of university campuses, which.

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UK student housing reaching ‘crisis point’ as bad as 1970s, charity warns

The Guardian Higher Education

Growing numbers of students are experiencing hidden homelessness or accepting poor accommodation Student housing is reaching a “crisis point” not seen since the 1970s, when students slept in sports halls and their cars, and is set to worsen in the new year, a charity has warned. Since the start of the academic year, students at universities across the UK have complained of fierce competition for rooms in flatshares for the 2022 and 2023 academic years.

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President Biden Signs VETS Credit Act

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

President Joe Biden has signed into law the VETS Credit Act, a policy to ensure student veterans can easily transfer course credits to another institution should their school close or program abruptly end. President Joe Biden The legislation had passed the U.S. House 412-1 in May with bipartisan support and passed the U.S. Senate unanimously in December.

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The Proctor Fund: Supporting the Proctor Experience

Proctor Academy

Why have we committed our lives to working at Proctor? Why have our parents chosen to entrust their children to us as educators? Why did our students fall in love with this school in the first place? The answers to each of these questions find common ground in the unique way Proctor seeks to fulfill its mission: through relationships with each other.

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How You Pick Your College Could Cost You Lots (Mark Salisbury, TuitionFit*)

Higher Education Inquirer

[Editor's Note: Mark Salisbury will be appearing at the Future Trends Forum on Thursday, January 12, 2023, from 2-3 PM EST. To sign up as an audience member, visit the link at Students, families, colleges, and tuition - Shindig.com ] Upcoming Forum sessions – The Future Trends Forum (futureofeducation.us) No matter if it’s cars or candy bars, every marketplace has one thing in common.

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Jacob Seamans: Launching a Multicultural Recognition Calendar for Social Media

Ridgewater College

As Hanukah and Christmas pass, and we enter the third day of Kwanzaa (today is dedicated to the principle Ujima, or Collective Work and Responsibility), it is a good time to share with the Ridgewater community a project that has been in development for several months, and is the result of partnership between the Marketing and Communications team and the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI): a multicultural recognition calendar.

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Vassar President Dr. Elizabeth Bradley Awarded a 2023 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal for Scholarly Work in Public Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Vassar College President Dr. Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Bradley has been awarded a 2023 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, Yale University Graduate School’s highest alumni honor. Bradley was commended for her scholarly work in public health and her commitment to the health and well-being of local and global communities. Dr. Elizabeth 'Betsy' Bradley She is lauded for her efforts in hospital care quality and large-scale health system strengthening in the U.S. and abroad, having received the 2018 William B.

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Top 10 Posts of 2022: Reflecting on a Year of Impact

Proctor Academy

The magic at Proctor happens in a series of moments, one stacked upon another, building the momentum and excitement within the soul-filled community we get to experience each and every day. Walk with us through the Top 10 most read blog posts of 2022!

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‘It was chaos’: students on being priced out of the rental market

The Guardian Higher Education

UK students forced to live in neighbouring cities in university accommodation crisis Amber, a first-year psychology student, was looking forward to studying in Brighton because the seaside town is renowned for its social life. But by the time she had accepted her place, there were no more spaces in halls left, and private rentals were far out of her budget.

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Stability closer for school, ASU trustees assured - Ryan Anderson, Arkansas State Gazette

Ray Schroeder

Henderson State University continues its march back toward financial stability, Arkansas State University System President Chuck Welch said Friday. He said that recently completed audits showed "no audit findings" for Henderson. Welch made his remarks to the Arkansas State University System board of trustees, who met Friday in Little Rock. "When we took over Henderson, there were many unanswered questions about its overall financial well-being, budget, balance sheet and staffing levels," Welch s

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SHARON P. PITT

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sharon P. Pitt Sharon P. Pitt has been appointed Brown University’s vice president for information technology and chief information officer. Pitt served as vice president for information technologies and chief information officer at the University of Delaware. She earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and a Master of Architecture degree from Virginia Tech.

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How Colleges Can Help Close K-12 Achievement Gaps

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. I’ve gotten a fair amount of pushback on my piece on K-12 school reform and the failure of grade schools, middle schools, and high schools, to close achievement gaps. Those comments deserve a detailed response. As some of my correspondents have pointed out: 1. The standardized tests used to assess student learning don’t count toward students’ grades and may therefore provide inaccurate and misleading measures of student knowledge and skills. 2.

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Len Moore obituary

The Guardian Higher Education

My friend and former colleague Len Moore, who has died aged 89, was an industrial scientist turned academic who worked to create wider access to higher education. Born in Derby, he was the son of Leonard, a school caretaker, and Ethel Moore, a homemaker. Though he showed academic promise, his father made him leave Derby central school for boys at 15 to start life as a paint technician so that he could contribute to the family income.

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Higher-ed leaders say Burgum's budget is good starting point, but more dollars needed to avoid tuition hikes - Joe Banish, Grand Forks Herald

Ray Schroeder

State higher education leaders say while Gov. Doug Burgum's proposed higher education budget is a good start for the upcoming biennium, more funding will be needed to avoid future tuition hikes. The proposed budget, which would span from 2023-25, totals $683.1 million, a decrease of 0.5% from the previous biennium. According to Chancellor Mark Hagerott, Burgum’s proposed budget largely aligns with that of the North Dakota University System’s requests.

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Why Setting a Clear Vision Matters Most to DEIJ Progress Right Now

EAB

Explore EAB's infographic to see what 215+ higher ed leaders think are today’s biggest barriers to DEIJ strategy. Thanks for your interest! To access this content, please log in or register for a free guest account. Log In. Register. The post Why Setting a Clear Vision Matters Most to DEIJ Progress Right Now appeared first on EAB.

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How Might Elite Institutions Better Meet the Needs of Underserved Student Populations?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. You may have read that Georgetown University is launching an online part-time bachelor’s degree completion program in liberal studies in partnership with Coursera. Georgetown already offers an on-campus version of this program through its School of Continuing Education to a student body that consists of 62 percent students of color and 40 percent military-connected learners.

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Master’s Programs Continue To Grow

Gray Associates

Master's degree programs are seeing a surge in popularity, with a 3% increase in completions in the US in 2021. Discover the top disciplines driving this demand and the most popular programs among students. Find out how online and on-ground program completions compare and stay ahead of the curve with our comprehensive analysis.

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The Micro-Credentials Movement Has Arrived - Eric Lloyd, Chief Executive

Ray Schroeder

When companies as widely recognized and well established as Boeing, Walmart, and IBM start moving in a similar direction on something, it’s safe to say the idea has legs. In this case, companies are looking towards skills-based hiring in tandem with degree-based hiring. The idea here is for companies to remove “must-have” barriers around hiring—such as “must have an MBA” or “must have a four-year degree”—in favor of hiring for the skills they need in a specific candidate.

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Enabling Data to Solve the Enrollment Challenge 

Collegis Education Data Management

As the number of high school graduates who choose to enroll in college steadily declines (while costs and competition continue to rise), there is little wonder that shrinking enrollment is a looming concern for the higher education industry. Yet, marketing, enrollment and retention teams are expected to mitigate — or even reverse — these trends for their institution.

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Digital Nomads

Confessions of a Community College Dean

It’s "Best Of" Week on the Academic Minute. In our second most listened-to segment of the year, Rachael Woldoff, professor of sociology at West Virginia University, explored the world of digital nomads. Find out more about the Academic Minute here.

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Leadership Matters. Now More than Ever.

Gray Associates

Explore the challenges facing higher education and discover the keys to successful leadership in this thought-provoking blog by Melissa Morriss-Olson. From truth-telling and truth-seeking to building relationships and taking bold action, learn how the best leaders are navigating the rapidly changing landscape of higher education and making a difference for their institutions and students.

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Faculty Council applauds historic stipend boost - the Well, UNC

Ray Schroeder

Faculty Chair Mimi Chapman opened the Faculty Council’s Dec. 2 meeting by congratulating the graduate and professional student government and the faculty body on an official graduate student stipend increase , which begins in January. Combined with a fall increase, the new annual stipend for doctoral students is $20,000, reflecting a 25% jump. For master’s degree students the new stipend is up 37% to $16,000.

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Bible Verses To Ease You Into The New Year

PUC

New year, new classes, new schedule. It’s a fresh start for you- and that can be a stressful thought. If you ever start feeling overwhelmed, know that the Bible is filled with verses that can help through pressured times. Here are six Bible verses to help ease you into the new year.

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Cold Destroys Basketball Court at U Ark. Little Rock

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Freezing temperatures in Little Rock Little Rock led the water coil to rupture in the Jack Stephens Center, of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, resulting in the basketball court being covered by water, KATV News reported. Workers are trying to dry and repair the court. A double-header (of the women's and men's teams) planned for tonight has been moved to the Simmons Bank Arena, in North Little Rock.

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