Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2023
When Reagan Gonzalez began applying to law schools, she didn’t imagine that she would have to research the laws of the states to which she was thinking about moving. But this year’s wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and proposals— the American Civil Liberties Union is currently tracking 388 bills —wound up shaping her decision in ways that she didn’t anticipate.
The Scholarly Teacher
MARCH 15, 2023
Anne Marie Welsh , Doctoral Student, Gwynedd Mercy University Key Statement: Flipping case studies lets students practice critical thinking in real-world scenarios while also imparting knowledge required for licensure. Keywords: Critical Thinking, Applied Health, Case Study, Clinical Judgement Introduction There is an increased demand for new registered nurses (RNs) to make complex decisions (NCSBN, 2022).
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2023
The post-pandemic decline in U.S. college enrollment is a lingering concern for both educators and policy makers. College and university student enrollment is down for the third straight year, 7% lower than it was in 2019. At least some of the enrollment loss is due to misinformation and misconceptions about the relationship between employment and educational attainment.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 15, 2023
Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. That’s why Saleema, a young Afghan woman studying at University of the People , now presents as Madison from California in her online Principles of Business Management course. (All details except the student’s gender and institution have been changed to protect her identity.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2023
Women’s liberal arts institution Wellesley College students voted Mar. 14 to allow transgender men and nonbinary people assigned male at birth to be eligible for admission, The Washington Post reported. The nonbinding vote came after a recent debate between students and Wellesley’s administration – the latter has resisted such a change. Since 2015, Wellesley has allowed transgender women to apply for admission.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2023
Google’s most recent storage policy shift — limiting higher education institutions to 100 terabytes of stored data in Google Workspace for Education — has caused plenty of consternation and policy shifting in higher education. EdTech has covered these changes in depth, and I wrote about how universities could potentially respond to those storage restrictions back in December.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2023
Lauren Di Monte Lauren Di Monte has been appointed associate university librarian for research and learning at Yale University Library. Di Monte holds a bachelor’s degree in visual studies and a master’s in information from the University of Toronto and in interdisciplinary studies from York University in Toronto.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2023
Dr. John Karl Scholz will become president of The University of Oregon (UO), effective Jul. 1. Dr. John Karl Scholz Scholz is currently provost and the Nellie June Gray Professor of Economic Policy at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was previously UW–Madison’s dean of the College of Letters & Science and director of the Institute for Research on Poverty.
Campus Sonar
MARCH 15, 2023
It’s no secret that online spaces provide students with opportunities to connect to others and build community, but do you know how often that’s happening on your campus’s Reddit page? A quick peek at your page will often reveal questions, comments, and potential concerns—all right on a public page that anyone can see. Higher ed communicators are community builders, and understanding what happens on forums could help your campus grow a stronger real-world and digital community.
Roompact
MARCH 15, 2023
We’d like to introduce the Roompact Blogging Team for the upcoming year! Roompact hires bloggers to further increase our contributions to the field through the free dissemination of ideas and knowledge. Every year we refresh our blog team with a new cohort of writers. Earlier this spring, we did a search for part-time bloggers, professionals.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 15, 2023
Rather than positively providing them a self-directed space, it might instead be just one more thing an overworked student has to cope with, writes Sarabeth Grant. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Career Advice Teaching Today Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Paul Bradbury/ojo images/getty images Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?
Biola
MARCH 15, 2023
Personally, I believe one’s undergraduate years are well spent learning to ask good questions, carrying a countenance of curiosity about the world. One can wonder about practically anything: about oneself, that one strange thing your housemade.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 15, 2023
Image: A Valparaiso University plan to sell off artworks by Georgia O’Keeffe and others has led to strong opposition from some faculty members and students questioning the ethics of selling off prized and valuable parts of the university museum’s collection to pay for residence hall renovations. Gretchen Buggeln, a professor of art history and the humanities who serves on the collections committee for the Brauer Museum of Art on the campus of the Indiana institution, said it’s
University Business
MARCH 15, 2023
The University is the last Ivy League college to announce test-optional extensions through 2024. Harvard , Princeton and Dartmouth all extended their test-optional policy beyond the upcoming admissions cycle, and Columbia announced March 1 it would permanently switch to test-optional admissions. Penn and Yale have confirmed that they will be test-optional for the 2023-24 cycle, while Cornell has extended the policy through the next two cycles.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 15, 2023
Image: Keeping students engaged on campus and in the classroom can revolve around their sense of belonging. Jessica Gifford—founder and chief connection officer for ProjectConnect , a program designed to reduce loneliness—shared one solution for loneliness in a recent webinar hosted by the organization. A national spring 2022 survey from the American College Health Association and the National College Health Assessment found that 53 percent of students were positive for loneliness on
Hanover Research
MARCH 15, 2023
Both UDL and trauma-informed pedagogies document the importance of clarity (CAST, 2022; Hanover, 2019). Clarity provides predictability and structure, which mitigates student stress by keeping one calm and not taxing the nervous system. The post Faculty Focus: Three Strategies that Support Student Well-Being and Mental Health appeared first on Hanover Research.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 15, 2023
Image: Connecting students’ coursework to their future career is seen as an engagement tool and a necessity for career development. At the Georgia Institute of Technology, gathering data to evaluate how students view their own learning outcomes and how general education courses are targeting those outcomes required creative solutions. Sarah Wu, the academic assessment manager at the Office of Academic Effectiveness at Georgia Tech, shared the results of a feedback project her team orchestr
HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)
MARCH 15, 2023
How Important Are U.S. News Best Rankings? U.S. News & World Report released its first list of annual college rankings in 1983. Since then, prospective students (and their parents) have used the rankings as a guide for where to consider going to school. While the rankings can be a valuable tool, they’re also quite controversial in that they tend to favor prestigious schools where the student populations largely come from white, affluent families.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 15, 2023
More than 300 Princeton Theological Seminary students and alumni signed a letter to the institution’s president asking that a Board of Trustees member be removed for his ties to a prison telecommunications company. The letter, delivered Tuesday, also demands that the seminary adopt “deliberate and transparent policies on appointing and maintaining board members who reflect the anti-slavery theological commitments of the seminary.
The Guardian Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2023
Proposal also calls for gender neutral language at women’s college whose alumni include Hillary Clinton and Madeleine Albright Students at the famed Wellesley College for women voted this week to extend admission to trans men and non-binary students, though campus administrators have said there is “no plan” to immediately change school policy. In a non-binding election on Tuesday , students at the liberal arts college in Massachusetts voted to open admission to all non-binary and transgender stu
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 15, 2023
Yeshiva University has asked for personal information, such as tax returns and mental health records, from plaintiffs who are suing the university for refusing to recognize an LGBTQ student club, NY1 reported. The request is the latest in an ongoing legal saga between the university and the YU Pride Alliance. Some plaintiffs and state lawmakers have called the move an intimidation tactic.
Higher Education Whisperer
MARCH 15, 2023
On 4 Mar 2023 the Australian government announced a plan to acquire three US Virginia class nuclear-powered submarines from 2030, with modified UK Astute "AUKUS" class submarines built in Australia from 2040. Commentary on the announcement has pointed out that nuclear physics graduates will be needed to build, maintain, and operate the submarines.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 15, 2023
Lesley University’s Faculty Assembly says it has voted no confidence in university president Janet Steinmayer for the second time in roughly a year. This time, it says, it also voted no confidence in the university’s Board of Trustees. Grace Ferris, the assembly chair, said the university shared in January that it faces a $10 million deficit, and it seemed like the president and board were saying then that they needed to come up with a plan to fix this by March 1.
Teaching Matters Academic Communities
MARCH 15, 2023
In this blog post, Callum Paterson discusses how the academic representative system works and how the University community can best support student representatives. Callum is the Academic Engagement Coordinator in the Student Voice Team at the Students’ Association. This post is part of the Learning & Teaching Enhancement Theme: Student Voice.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 15, 2023
The University of Holy Cross, in Louisiana, will reduce the size of its faculty from 74 to 60 by 2026, 4WWL News reported. The university said most of those impacted by the change will be instructors of general studies. “As a result of these reductions, the University of Holy Cross is repositioning itself to more effectively address the growing demands of the workforce by aligning our academic programs to meet the needs of our community and beyond,” said Christopher Rholdon, vice pre
CU Work-Life Balance
MARCH 15, 2023
Decoding the complex ins and outs of health plan coverage, copays, out-of-pocket limits and more can be puzzling. That’s why Employee Services developed an on-demand resource, updated each year, to explain all your options in detail and take the suspense out of making your annual Open Enrollment decisions. The Basics of CU Health Care and Pretax Savings on-demand course will help you understand the features of each medical, dental and vision plan offered by the university.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 15, 2023
Education Corporation of America, which once owned a chain of for-profit colleges that closed en masse, has been ordered to pay a $28 million settlement related to the sudden closure. ECA shut down in 2018 but has been embroiled in a legal battle, with plaintiffs claiming the company breached its fiduciary duties by not allowing students to finish their degree programs, ultimately leaving them in the lurch.
Hanover Research
MARCH 15, 2023
Many higher education institutions are interested in expanding their grantseeking capacity and are including grant-funded research in their strategic plans. But building an institutional infrastructure for grantseeking is not enough. Colleges and universities must also cultivate individuals’ research expertise and nurture effective teams to deepen grant capabilities.
EAB
MARCH 15, 2023
Blogs Accelerate your strategic goals with a chief of staff: the latest trend in independent schools Our independent school partners often ask us about the latest developments in higher education operations and management, as university trends often foreshadow how independent schools will evolve in the not-so-distant future. The most progressive independent schools frequently adapt ideas from higher ed, which is what we’re seeing with the rise in the number of chief of staff roles.
University Business
MARCH 15, 2023
STAFFORD – A 2019 Southern Regional High School graduate, who is now a Princeton University student, has been charged with taking part in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to the Department of Justice. Larry Giberson, 21, of Stafford, was among the rioters who repeatedly engaged in violence against law enforcement officers who were stationed in the Lower West Terrace “tunnel” entrance of the Capitol, according to a statement from the Justice Department on Tuesday.
HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)
MARCH 15, 2023
Why Higher Ed Marketing Needs a Seat at the Table During Online Program Planning & Development While launching hundreds of online degree programs over the last decade, we at Archer Education have seen most colleges and universities consistently make the same mistake. During the program planning and development stage, stakeholders often fail to include marketing teams in their decision-making processes.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 15, 2023
A Princeton University student was charged Tuesday with civil disorder, a felony, and related misdemeanor offenses in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. A Justice Department announcement of the arrest said Larry F. Giberson Jr. “was among rioters who repeatedly engaged in violence against law enforcement officers guarding the Capitol in the Lower West Terrace tunnel entrance.
The Guardian Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2023
The disdain shown to us by Queen Mary University of London inspired me to redouble my efforts on the picket lines. Staff and students have had enough On 29 June 2022, all the staff at Queen Mary University of London, where I work, received an email from management. To our horror, they were threatening to withhold 100% of our pay for 21 days of both July and August, because we were participating in a marking boycott over pensions, pay, labour precarity, inequality and working conditions.
Ray Schroeder
MARCH 15, 2023
The United States Department of Education has announced five finalists in its Future Finder Challenge, a competition announced last September seeking digital tools to help adult learners navigate from education to careers. Each finalist will receive $50,000 to help develop a prototype as well as six months of "virtual accelerator" assistance to further develop their product, ED explained in a news announcement.
The Guardian Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2023
Unions and UCEA declare agreement ‘on terms of reference for detailed negotiations’ on pay and conditions University staff have made a breakthrough in their months-long dispute with employers during which lecturers have gone on strike, worked to rule and refused to cover for absent colleagues across the UK. A group of five higher education trade unions and the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) announced agreement “on terms of reference for detailed negotiations covering a re
Ray Schroeder
MARCH 15, 2023
Generative AI already creates lesson plans, grades assignments, advises students and answers learner questions. Much of the interesting work in the coming months will be to design interfaces to adapt the technology to actual work roles in both supportive and possibly in replacement modes. Generative AI already creates lesson plans, grades assignments, advises students, and answers learner questions.
ISA Journal
MARCH 15, 2023
Morgan Doherty is an ISA Athens alumna and current ISA/TEAN Global Ambassador at University of Massachusetts Amhurst…
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