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The end of in-person learning? Setting higher ed’s online goals for 2025

University Business

Higher education is undergoing a profound transformation, with online learning shifting from a temporary solution during the pandemic to a core component of many institutions long-term strategies. Students today read less than 15% of their assigned materials a concerning trend that demands a new approach to how learning content is delivered and consumed.

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Transforming Barriers into Assets: Prioritizing the Cultural Wealth of Black Students in STEM

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a first-generation Black graduate student attending a large PWI research one university, I recognized the importance of leveraging my cultural assets to persist Jason K. Segrest through my program. From mentors, professors, and members of my cohort, I realized that this journey is not meant to be traveled alone. Likewise, as a higher education professional, I have mentored and supported first-generation Black postsecondary STEM students who share similar life experiences, aspirations, challen

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My 2025 Higher Ed Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

I hope that everyone had a restful break and is excited to come back for what will undoubtedly be an eventful year in the world of higher education. This spring is going to be quite busy for me with three faculty searches, our once-a-decade academic program review, the most travel for presentations that I have had since before the start of the pandemic, and responding to a host of media and policymaker requests about what will be happening over the next few months.

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Raising the Bar for Better Retaining BIPOC Educators through Mentorship

Ed.gov Blog

By: Dr. Rudy Ruiz, Founder, Edifying Teachers As a young Latino who went from a low-income neighborhood on Milwaukees South Side to graduating with honors from Stanford, I didnt aim to make it out of the community, but to improve it. I completed an alternative teaching certification program to help change the odds for young Continue Reading The post Raising the Bar for Better Retaining BIPOC Educators through Mentorship appeared first on ED.gov Blog.

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Roompact is Hiring ResEdChat Podcast Hosts

Roompact

We’re hiring! If you or someone you know is a great conversationalist and interviewer, this might be for you. We’re hiring two new hosts for our ResEdChat podcast. The priority deadline for applications is February 28, 2025. Interviews will be rolling until positions are filled. See below for the position description. To apply, fill out.

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API Attacks: What Are They and How Can Universities Prepare?

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

The world of applications has been moving slowly but firmly toward a strong focus on users and their experience. Rather than make users dig through a hodgepodge of different applications with different user interfaces, designers and developers have worked hard to create unified experiences: web applications that look seamless, aimed at making end users more productive, reducing frustration and speeding their paths through even complicated tasks.

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Dartmouth Men's Basketball Team Stops Unionization Push

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Dartmouth College mens basketball team is dropping its historic bid to form a union, months after voting to do so.

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Roompact’s “Top 10” Most Popular Content of 2024

Roompact

Every year, Roompact puts out a ton of content on topics of interest to college student housing and residence life professionals. This year included nearly 200+ new posts, including 40+ new podcast episodes. Come take a look at our most viewed content of 2024. A number of our top ten blog posts came from the.

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Top 5 International Cities for Accounting Internships and Career Development

AIFS Abroad

Accounting is one of the most in-demand fields in todays job market. To stand out from your peers when searching for a top-notch accounting job in the future, its essential to have an internship on your resume that provides hands-on experience and expands your professional network. Experiencing an internship abroad is an excellent way to expand your global perspective and demonstrate to future job prospects that you can collaborate effectively with partners and clients from diverse backgrounds.

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Higher Education 2025 Predictions and 2024 Year in Review: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 240 with guest host Tom Netting and co-host Dr. Drumm McNaughton

The Change Leader, Inc.

In this 7th annual end-of-year episode of Changing Higher Ed, Dr. Drumm McNaughton swaps roles as our guest, while Tom Netting of TEN Government Strategies hosts the discussion. Together, they review McNaughton's higher education predictions for 2024 and share his insights into the challenges and opportunities awaiting higher education in 2025. What youll gain from listening to this podcast: Political Impact: Understand how the polarizing election year reshaped higher education and what legisla

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Virginia’s anti-hazing efforts helped shape national legislation signed by Biden

University Business

Virginias leadership in combating hazing on college campuses played a pivotal role in shaping national reforms after President Joe Biden signed the Stop Campus Hazing Act into law in his final days in office. The legislation aims to enhance student safety by requiring colleges and universities to report hazing incidents under the Clery Act and standardizes definitions for tracking hazing statistics across the country.

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Revitalizing Your ResLife Team After Winter Break

Roompact

Winter break provides a well-deserved respite for students and staff alike and, for some teams, a much-needed restart as you head into a new semester together. After the long break, RAs return with renewed energy but may feel disconnected from their team or uncertain about the semester ahead. Using the time set aside for Winter.

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Student Spotlight: Abby’s Fall Semester In Florence, Italy 

AIFS Abroad

Eager to follow in the footsteps of a college student who studied abroad in Italy ? We recently caught up with AIFS Abroad participant Abby from Chapman University who did a study abroad program in the historic city of Florence during fall semester. Read on to learn more about how Abbys experience in Florence with AIFS Abroad helped her expand her global perspective and advance her Environmental Science education.

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College Students Guide to Mental Health (ABC News)

Higher Education Inquirer

According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration , nearly one in three young adults 18 to 25 have experienced a mental illness. Psychologist Mia Nosanow joins GMA for more.

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A New Model for Lifelong Learning

University Business

Education for a Lifetime How one university turned a struggling enterprise into a $6 million lifelong learning powerhouse A decade ago, the University of South Floridas Continuing Education program was by all accounts a financial burden. Then part of USFs Innovative Education division, the unit was losing $60,000 a year. It seemed impossible to justify its existence at a time when higher education was focusing on workforce alignment and the employability of graduates.

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ResLife Needs To… Keep? Bulletin Boards: An Informative Outlet for Your Creative Staff Members

Roompact

Whether theyre corkboard, tackboard, or a completely different material, I dont think its an understatement to say that bulletin boards have been a mainstay in residence halls since their establishment on college campuses. In the days before social media and email, bulletin boards were one of the best ways to spread the word on events.

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Higher Ed 2024 Year in Review and 2025 Predictions: A Year of Change and Challenges

The Change Leader, Inc.

The higher education landscape in 2024 has been marked by significant upheaval and transformation some might say that it has been the most turbulent year in its history. We have seen political polarization, demographic challenges, and rapid technological advancements intersect, resulting in higher education institutions facing immense pressure to adapt.

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Five Strategies to Enhance Cloud Security in Higher Education in 2025

Creatrix Campus

Five Strategies to Enhance Cloud Security in Higher Education in 2025 editor Thu, 01/02/2025 - 23:52 The transition to cloud computing has revolutionized higher education by enabling enhanced collaboration, scalability, and flexibility. On the other hand, the cloud's ability to improve data security is a substantial advantage that is often overlooked.

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President’s corner: How a genuine student-first mentality propels Linda Livingstone

University Business

In the whirlwind of change occurring in college academics and athletics, Linda Livingstone has her hands full as president of Baylor University and board chair of the NCAA. As the nature of academic research changes at the R1 university, the world of transfer portals and name, image and likeness (NIL) deals have transformed college athletics. “It takes a community to do jobs like this,” the seven-year president says. “I have a family that understands the responsibilities I have

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From UCLA to Paris: Navigating the Classroom Abroad

ISA Journal

When I started my study abroad term in September, I had no idea what was in store for me. I had just finished my second year at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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What higher education trends were you reading about in 2024?

Terminalfour

What were the 10 most buzzworthy blog articles of the year 2024?From content creation hacks to game-changing digital transformation strategies, these must-reads reveal the top trends higher education marketers are diving into. Get inspired and level up your marketing game for 2025!

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ResLife Needs To Let Go: Room Condition Reports

Roompact

I hate them. I have always hated them. I hated them when I was an RA filling them out before resident move in. I hated them as an RD, needing to keep them on file and process them. I hated them as an Assistant Director, fielding appeals to the charges. Room Condition Reports are time.

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Community colleges gear up to train workers for America’s proposed manufacturing future

University Business

In the next decade, millions of manufacturers jobs will open up in the U.S. as workers retire. Meanwhile, the sector is also supposed to add more jobs with help from federal subsidies. But, by some current estimates, only half of those jobs will be filled. So where will the workers needed come from? Well, how about some two-year colleges like Cincinnati State?

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Cultivating STEM Classrooms of Belonging: BIPOC STEM Teacher Representation and Retention

Ed.gov Blog

By: Jailyn Jenkins, M. Ed, Manager of Resident Development, Innovation, and Coaching; Public Education & Business Coalition (PEBC) Equity. Inclusion. Belonging. Liberation. From a leadership perspective, how can we cultivate belonging? And what can be done when its fractured or missing altogether? In education, these topics spark ongoing conversations.

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Best Payout Nursing Programs

Higher Education Inquirer

While income and debt are not the only factors that should go into making college and major choices, folks can use this database, posted by Robert Kelchen , to find programs that may be of interest to them. The database of nearly 46,000 programs allows folks to filter through a variety of variables. As an example, here are the top nursing programs in terms of income-to-debt ratio.

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ResLife Needs To Let Go: Group RA Interview Processes

Roompact

The RA group process has been with us seemingly forever. But why? While group activities (such as group discussions, icebreakers, and team-building exercises) are meant to provide a sense of how potential RAs work in a team and engage with others, I don’t believe they are truly effective. They are contrived and artificial. How does.

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A western North Carolina college president looks back on a tumultuous semester

University Business

When Damian Fernndez first moved from Florida to Swannanoa, North Carolina, last year, he thought hed come to a “climate sanctuary.” For a while, Warren Wilson College was the weather safe haven Fernndez expected. The storms he initially saw as president of Warren Wilson College were nothing like the hurricanes he was used to navigating in St.

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Former President Jimmy Carter, Champion of Civil Rights and Education, Dead at 100

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and tireless advocate for civil rights and education equality, died earlier this week at his home in Plains, Georgia. Carter's presidency marked a significant turning point for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). In 1980, he signed Executive Order 12232, which established a federal program to strengthen and expand the capacity of HBCUs.

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Cambridge study aims to find out if dogs and their owners are on same wavelength

The Guardian Higher Education

Scientists to examine if humans and dogs brains synchronise when they interact in a way similar to parents and babies Standing patiently on a small fluffy rug, Calisto the flat-coated retriever is being fitted with some hi-tech headwear. But this is not a new craze in canine fashion: she is about to have her brainwaves recorded. Calisto is one of about 40 pet dogs from newfoundlands to Tibetan terriers taking part in a study to explore whether their brainwaves synchronise with those of their o

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ResLife Needs To Let Go: Student Staff/RAs Designing Educational Programs

Roompact

Something has always bothered me about the way we approach residential education programs. We have an immense opportunity to challenge and support our students to help them learn and grow while in college, and yet we seem to leave things up to chance. Why do we continue to have student staff design educational programming? I.

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Here are 6 promising higher ed predictions for 2025

University Business

The implications of President-elect Donald Trump regaining the helm of the Department of Education have catalyzed many predictions and fears of how higher education will fare in 2025. In the face of such uncertainty, college and university leaders may feel compelled to sit tight and assess the climate. “2025 is going to be a very interesting year to see what next step the industry needs to make,” says David Clark, managing director of higher education at BDO, a financial consulting f

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U.S. Finalizes New Rules For Distance Ed And College Prep Programs

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In a blow for immigration advocates, the Education Department decided against expanding some TRIO programs to undocumented students. Colleges will have to submit to the federal government new data on their distance education programs under a batch of new rules the Biden administration finalized Monday. The rules, which will take effect July 1, 2026, will likely be the presidents last package of new regulations for colleges and universities before Trump takes office Jan. 20.

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2025 Will Be Wild!

Higher Education Inquirer

2025 promises to be a disruptive year in higher education and society, not just in DC but across the US. While some now can see two demographic downturns, worsening climate conditions, and a Department of Education in transition, there are other less predictable and lesser-known trends and developments that we hope to cover at the Higher Education Inquirer.

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ResEdChat Ep 100: Podcasting Reflections with Crystal, Dustin, and Paul

Roompact

In this milestone 100th episode of show, hosts Paul, Dustin, and Crystal gather for a reflective roundtable discussion. They share candid insights about their podcasting journey, from navigating technical hiccups to learning from a diverse range of guests. Whether you're a podcasting newbie or a seasoned host, this episode is packed with practical advice and heartfelt anecdotes from behind the scenes.

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International Students and U.S. College Myths

University Business

Studying in the U.S. can be an exciting opportunity, but a few myths and misconceptions about American colleges may cause unnecessary hesitation among prospective international students. When Paraguay national Yamily Villalba Paredes arrived in the U.S. as an international student during the first Trump administration, for instance, she was concerned she may not be welcomed.

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Here are the 20 most lavishly lucrative athletic programs

University Business

Billion-dollar media deals have propelled SEC and Big Ten universities to the top of the most lucrative college athletic programs in the country, according to valuations by CNBC. The media network pulled valuations and annual revenue numbers from the Department of Education, the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics and a prolific NIL consultant to compile this list.

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Higher Education Must Champion Democracy, Not Surrender to Fascism (Henry Giroux)

Higher Education Inquirer

[Editor's note: This article first appeared in Truthout.] Critical education must become a key organizing principle to defeat the emerging authoritarianism in the US. For decades, neoliberalism has systematically attacked the welfare state, undermined public institutions and weakened the foundations of collective well-being. Shrouded in the alluring language of liberty, it transforms market principles into a dominant creed, insisting that every facet of life conform to the imperatives of profit