Higher Education Whisperer
MAY 20, 2023
Daniel AldrichOn Friday I attended a performance of Lauren Gundersons play "Ada and the Engine" (first performed in 2015 as "Ada and the Memory Engine"). This was by the Glenbrook Players, in the Blue Mountains behind Sydney. Normally I would write of a play in my other blog, Net Traveller.
The Guardian Higher Education
MAY 20, 2023
Former employees at Houghton University say administrators claimed pronouns in signatures violated new school policy A New York Christian university terminated two employees for putting pronouns in their respective email signatures, these former workers allege, according to reports. Raegan Zelaya and Shua Wilmot, who were residence hall directors at Houghton University, said that administrators told them to take the words “she/her” and “he/him” off of their email signatures.
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Ray Schroeder
MAY 20, 2023
The average tuition discount at private nonprofit colleges once again hit a record high, according to a new National Association of College and University Business Officers study released this week. A NACUBO press release noted that “the awards were, on average, the largest yet.” The average institutional tuition discount rate was 56.2 percent for first-time, full-time freshmen for the 2022–23 academic year, and 50.9 percent for all undergraduates, according to early projections from NACUBO’s an
The Guardian Higher Education
MAY 20, 2023
Labour leader advised to create a fairer system in the form of maintenance grants Keir Starmer is being urged by shadow cabinet figures to replace tuition fees in England with a graduate tax, amid growing concern that the finances of universities are becoming unsustainable under the current system. An injection of cash in the form of maintenance grants to the poorest students is also backed by some of the Labour leader’s top team as a way of ensuring students are not put off by the increasing li
Ray Schroeder
MAY 20, 2023
It came in this exchange, which aired on Good Morning America: Jarvis: "You've got a fake image of the Pope, fake images of President Joe Biden. At some point, if those proliferate at a much greater scale, won't that confuse people about what the truth is?" Gates: "You're gonna have to say, 'Where did this come from?'" Jarvis: "And whose responsibility is that--each person's?
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