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A Collision of Two Pandemics in Higher Education

Credo Higher Ed

The COVID-19 world pandemic has created academic, social, and financial crises on our campuses and has quickly and dramatically changed the landscape of higher education. Educational leaders across the country are attempting to respond to these crises by determining safe and effective models for their educational systems. There is no doubt that COVID-19 has been one of the most deadly and disruptive viruses in over a century.

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Advancing Learning Through the Student Perspective: Introducing the Blackboard Student Advisory Council

Blackboard Higher Education

As members of the newly formed Blackboard Student Advisory Council, we’ll be expanding upon Blackboard’s ongoing commitment to student success by sharing our voices with the company as it plans and designs its software and solutions. We’ll play a critical role in ensuring the student perspective is incorporated into the company’s product planning and design.

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Higher Ed Enrollment Dashboards That Can Help Inform Recruitment Strategies

Collegis Education Data Management

At Collegis Education, data is in our DNA. It’s the foundation of everything we do. Higher education institutions have a mountain of data at their fingertips. But for many, the more data they have, the more challenging it can be to find meaning in it. It’s far too easy for patterns and insights to become hidden in the rows and columns of a daunting spreadsheet.

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Something solid when all is tumbling: The Student Counselling Service in the pandemic

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Photo credit: Cristina Gottardi, Unsplash CC0 In this post, Fingal Dorman, Counsellor at the University’s Student Counselling Service, reflects on the challenges of carrying on with his work from home and the importance of providing a solid space for students in particularly disquieting times… These times are unsettling. At a time when we have all been enclosed in our separate boxes, I’d like to give a window into what the Student Counselling Service looks like in this time: how we h

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Predicting the Future University Business Modelwith Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Gerry Czarnecki | Changing Higher Ed Podcast 063

The Change Leader, Inc.

This episode, which focuses on the future of higher education, features Gerry Czarnecki, who served on the National University System board for nearly three decades. He now is the system’s trustee emeritus. The future university business model podcast with Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Gerry Czarnecki on how COVID has accelerated the changes in higher ed.

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New Spotlight Series: Voices of Movers and Shakers

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Photo by Ellie Morag In this post, Johanna Holtan, Program Director of the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program, introduces the new Spotlight Series: Voices of Movers and Shakers that will feature writings by Mastercard Foundation Scholars on disruptive learning practices, transformational leadership, activism in and outside the classroom, and more… I’m very proud to launch a collaborative blog series between Teaching Matters and the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at Edinburgh.

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Líderes en Educación Superior confirman que la IA puede mejorar la Experiencia de los Estudiantes

Blackboard Higher Education

¿Puede la IA mejorar la forma en que las instituciones atienden a sus estudiantes? Una encuesta reciente realizada por Blackboard y la University Business reveló algunas ideas interesantes sobre el sentir de la educación superior con respecto a la inteligencia artificial. La encuesta consultó a miembros de educación superior en la University Business, incluyendo a 130 participantes quienes ocupan una variedad de cargos de alto nivel, incluidos CIO, CTO, líderes de inscripción y admisión, preside

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Improving Pandemic University Student Enrollment Managementwith Dr. Drumm McNaughton, Bill Conley, and Bob Massa | Changing Higher Ed Podcast 062

The Change Leader, Inc.

Driving Pandemic University Student Enrollment with Bill Conley and Bob Massa | Changing Higher Ed Podcast 062. This podcast will look at the pandemic, student enrollment, and the ripple effect that this can have on an institution. Today’s guests are Bill Conley and Bob Massa, co-founders of Enrollment Intelligence NOW.

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Writing for times like these: A new kind of pandemic pastoral care

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Photo credit: Callum Shaw, Unsplash CC0 In post, Dr Kitty Wheater the University’s Mindfulness Chaplain shares the genesis and purpose of the weekly MindLetter which offers mindfulness techniques and a suggested practice for the University of Edinburgh community as part of the Chaplaincy’s pastoral response to the COVID epidemic… When I lost my voice at the end of January following an infection, it was a spanner in the works for someone who runs the University Chaplaincy’s mind