Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
The live chat function in Zoom classes helped students feel more comfortable, according to a recent University of Nevada, Las Vegas study. Dr. Rachael D. Robnett The study – published in the journal PLOS ONE – looked at anonymous chat summaries from Fall 2020 of 230 students in two introductory biology lecture courses with synchronous remote video instruction.
Dr. Josie Ahlquist
OCTOBER 17, 2022
That’s the tweet. The TLDR. The spoiler alert. What is the current state of student affairs marketing and communications? It is segmented, stretched, and misunderstood. For over 10 years, I have been supporting and strategizing marketing and communications across campus, especially in student affairs. During the spring of 2022, I began formally researching how the student affairs divisions within.
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Teaching & Learning in HigherEd
OCTOBER 15, 2022
I spoke by email with with Patrick W. Shannon, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Education, at Penn State, about his 2011 book Reading Wide Awake: Politics, Pedagogies, & Possibilities (New York, […].
eLiterate
OCTOBER 20, 2022
As I outlined recently in my “ e-Literate’s Changing Themes for Changing Times ” post, I am shifting my coverage somewhat. I’ll be developing and calling out tags I use for these themes so that you can go to an archive page on each one. This one will be listed under the “ changing-enrollment ” and “ future-of-academic-work ” tags.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
College Board has opened international registration for the new digital format of its SAT Suite of Assessments, a new step in the testing organization’s plans to turn the SAT into a digital assessment. Priscilla Rodriguez Starting 2023, all SAT exams outside of the U.S. will use the digital format, with the U.S. itself following suit in 2024. The company had announced its goal to move the SAT to digital in January 2022, aiming to increase ease of use.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
An incident response plan is a critical part of any cybersecurity portfolio, but plans need to be tested and practiced to be executed successfully. Cybersecurity incidents are dynamic situations, and finding out that your plan is incomplete or inflexible as an incident unfolds is not ideal. What Are Tabletop Exercises? Tabletop exercises are an opportunity to put an incident response plan through its paces and identify what works and what doesn’t.
Campus Sonar
OCTOBER 19, 2022
If you work on a small campus, chances are you’re a master at multitasking. Depending on the size of your campus, social media may be the responsibility of one person, or less than one, so it’s important to get the most out of everything you do. If that’s where you sit right now, we can help. Over the last five+ years of researching higher ed conversation, we’ve discovered small campuses have an amazing opportunity to differentiate themselves.
Student Affairs Connection brings together the best content for student affair professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
The latest data for fall 2022 enrollment shows the declines characteristic of the pandemic have begun to level off, but overall postsecondary enrollment is still on the decline, dropping by 1.1% since last fall. These are the latest numbers from 62% of institutions that report to the National Student Clearinghouse, an educational nonprofit organization which collects data and offers insights from 97% of all postsecondary institutions in the U.S.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Higher education IT professionals are heading to Denver for the 2022 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, the organization’s first in-person conference since 2019. This year, attendees have the option to attend in person or virtually. Held Oct. 25-28 at the Colorado Convention Center and online Nov. 2-3, EDUCAUSE will feature programming on higher education IT issues and offer opportunities to see innovative technology at work.
PUC
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Metta Spencer Fitzgerald Gibb is a biology student who dreams to be a professor at a medical school. Spencer is passionate about soccer and his favorite thing about being a part of the Pioneers family is being on the soccer team. What is your dream job?
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 20, 2022
In my time at Hope College, my experience with Residential Life has been the most impactful. Reflecting on my senior year, and the third year being a Resident Assistant, my path at Hope has been uniquely shaped because of my time in ResLife. The programming, values, and core mission of Residential Life at Hope College bring light to this campus and overall value to the college experience.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
California College of the Arts (CCA) will receive $4.7 million from four organizations to support diversity, equity, and innovation in the arts and design fields. Almost half of the total will come from architecture firm Gensler and the Gensler family. They have pledged $1 million each. That money will go toward creating the M. Arthur Gensler Jr. Center for Design Excellence at CCA.
The Humphrey Group
OCTOBER 20, 2022
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, business leaders sent virtually all their white-collar employees home to work remotely. People hunkered down and waited as they prepared to return to the office… in two weeks… in two months… in six months… in a year….
Teaching Matters Student Employment
OCTOBER 20, 2022
In this post, Helen Stringer, Assistant Director of the Careers Service at The University of Edinburgh, summarises key themes from the latest Advance HE review of employability literature, such as work-integrated learning and employment inequalities. This post is part of the Learning & Teaching Enhancement Series: Careers and Employability. Last year, Advance HE conducted a thorough […].
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 20, 2022
For an international student from Nigeria who moved six thousand miles to study at Hope College, the idea of leaving Michigan to go off campus might seem puzzling. However, once you understand the drive that propelled me across the Atlantic, you can appreciate why I wanted to experience more parts of the United States during my undergraduate education.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Before she earned a masters and a Ph.D., before she became a full professor and a dean, before she published the book that sums up her life's work and her life experience, Terah Venzant Chambers was shaking in a pew. It was Convocation Day at Carleton College in Minnesota, and Chambers, then a freshman, gazed around Skinner Memorial Chapel, with its high stone walls and stained-glass windows.
Credo Higher Ed
OCTOBER 20, 2022
The central purpose of today’s boards doesn’t differ much from what it’s been in the past. Board members are stewards of an organization’s mission and vision, tasked with ensuring that the college, university, or nonprofit’s current leaders and employees are successful in advancing each.
University Business
OCTOBER 20, 2022
As college students have come back to campus, most have returned to the conventional pursuit of the long-lauded bachelor’s degree, the prerequisite qualification since time immemorial to apply to nearly every job with a decent wage and reliable career path. But in 2022—at a time of record-high inflation and widespread labor shortages—what exactly does a bachelor’s degree, in and of itself, signify?
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 20, 2022
This past Saturday, Hope hosted its 88th annual Nykerk competition. Freshman and sophomore (a.k.a. even and odd year) girls competed in song, play, and oration, to take home the coveted Nykerk Cup. Those with keen eyes may have spotted me in the even year play as the totally tubular Jennifer Nicole-Heather Johnson, a student trapped in the Kruizenga Museum since 1986.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
The Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) has received a three-year, $1.56 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS). Jee Hang Lee For this FY 2022 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Employment & Training (E&T) National Partnership Grant , Seattle Jobs Initiative (SJI) and American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) will assist as partners.
SRHE
OCTOBER 20, 2022
by Rob Cuthbert. SRHE News is now 50 issues old, covering a momentous 12 years for higher education worldwide, but especially in the UK, and even more especially in England – an opportunity to reflect on what we thought and how we felt as it happened, and whether things seem different now. Since 2010 the UK has seen four general elections, four prime ministers, and in England nine Secretaries of State for Education, and seven ministers for higher education (two appointed twice).
NACADA
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Hello NACADA Community, As we wrap up our Meet your Planning Committee series , we wanted to recognize our amazing conference co-chairs who have led the 2022 annual conference planning committee. Meet Leah Panganiban from University of Washington and Matt Markin from California State University, San Bernardino. Both Conference Co-Chairs will share what they are looking forward to at this year’s 2022 Annual NACADA Conference.
Teaching Matters Academic Communities
OCTOBER 17, 2022
IMPS sports day attendees In this post, Apple Chew looks at the importance and practicalities of building staff-student communities, focusing on a sports day she co-organised with funding from the Student Partnership Agreement. More than 70 members of the IMPS community participated in the fun, morale-boosting event. Apple is a Molecular Plant Science PhD student.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching , is the winner of the Frederic W. Ness Book Award from The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). The annual award is given to a book that best illuminates the goals and practices of a contemporary liberal education. Dr. Jarvis R. Givens Author Dr. Jarvis R. Givens will be presented the award at AAC&U’s annual meeting Jan. 19, 2023.
Study and Go Abroad
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Participate in free webinars hosted between November 7 – December 15 to learn more about Bachelor, Master, PhD and PostDoc studies in Baden-Württemberg, in the German SouthWest. Hosted by Career Start BW , these webinars will help you get started in planning your studies and in launching your academic career. Get Started in Baden-Württemberg – start your academic career in the German Southwest.
Roompact
OCTOBER 18, 2022
This post is one in a series about integrating Restorative Practices into a model for residential learning. Start with the introduction as a primer and explore posts on other strategies you can utilize with a restorative lens. | Introduction | Roommate Agreements | Floor Meetings & Circles | Curriculum Development | Residential Curriculum | Intentional.
Teaching Matters Academic Communities
OCTOBER 17, 2022
In this post, Apple Chew looks at the importance and practicalities of building staff-student communities, focusing on a sports day she co-organised with funding from the Student Partnership Agreement. More than 70 members of the IMPS community participated in the fun, morale-boosting event. Apple is a Molecular Plant Science PhD student. This post is part of […].
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Virginia Tech has launched an initiative to improve access and affordability to the school for Virginia students. “A Virginia Tech education can be life-changing for graduates and their families and have a positive impact on their communities and the commonwealth,” said Dr. Tim Sands, president of Virginia Tech. “Making this experience more accessible and affordable, especially for those who are underrepresented and underserved, is a foundational part of our land-grant mission to provide a quali
EAB
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Podcast. Is Your School Doing Enough to Attract Transfers? Episode 124. October 18, 2022. 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. Kent State University’s Ted McKown joins EAB’s Allison Akalonu and Matt Sheldon to explore better ways to engage, recruit, and support incoming trans
Teaching Matters Academic Support
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Photo: Which way should we go? Preparing the best route to climb a mountain with the University of Edinburgh Hillwalking Club. Credit: Thomas Bak In this extra post, Thomas Bak and Brittany Blankinship, from the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, explore – through three ‘fallacies of comparison’ – how the tendency to judge ourselves against others can spark anxiety and hinder our learning with one another.
PUC
OCTOBER 17, 2022
BevenGreg Delos Reyes is going into his third year of being an RA and is the student dean of Newton Hall. He is a senior from Sacramento, majoring in health communication/pre-pharmacy, who describes that being an RA “is that it is a lifestyle”. From the start of his freshman year at PUC, his RAs left […].
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Title: President California State University, Fullerton Accustomed to breaking new ground, Dr. Mildred García was appointed as the seventh president of California State University, Fullerton last June. Previously, García served as president of CSU Dominguez Hills beginning in 2007, where she was the eleventh female president — and first Latina president — in the California State University system.
EAB
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Video. Building Trust with Latinx Students. A Conversation with College Greenlight Counselors. With college enrollment declining across the board, a greater number of schools are focusing their attention on growing student populations—including Latinx students. EAB’s recent roundtable gave undergraduate enrollment leaders the chance to learn more about this student population and how to better serve them through the college admissions process. -->. 0 %. of America’s Latinx college students enrol
Teaching Matters Academic Support
OCTOBER 17, 2022
In this extra post, Thomas Bak and Brittany Blankinship, from the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, explore – through three ‘fallacies of comparison’ – how the tendency to judge ourselves against others can spark anxiety and hinder our learning with one another. Learning together can be one of the best, most productive, and, […].
eLiterate
OCTOBER 17, 2022
I’m deeply saddened to tell you that Argos Education is winding down. The current venture funding market conditions proved too difficult for us to raise the money that we needed. Venture investments as a whole are down nearly 60% from their peak a year ago. Early-stage EdTech investments are practically non-existent with no change on the horizon.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 20, 2022
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has launched a nationwide get-out-the-vote bus tour in support of election candidates standing for lower costs, affordable healthcare, and public schools investments. Randi Weingarten As part of the “#AFTvotes—What Kids and Communities Need” tour, union members will rally at community events, such as book giveaways, roundtables, canvassing, and door knocking.
EAB
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Blogs. What can big consumer brands teach graduate and adult enrollment leaders? Brands seemingly know what I want the minute I decide it – sometimes even before! That’s because modern marketing leverages machine learning, advanced targeting, and deep consumer knowledge to personalize messages that drive greater engagement, stronger results, and seek to answer questions before they’re even asked.
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