Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The burden of student loan debt limits future finances of graduates of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). As such, college education is not fulfilling the promise of being a great equalizer and closing wealth gaps, according to a recent report. Christelle Bamona HBCU graduates have an average debt of $32,373 after graduation, which is 19% higher than those at non-HBCUs. “ Paying from the Grave ” – by the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) – highlights the effects of systemic

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The higher education IT security landscape continues to evolve, with cybercriminals becoming more sophisticated and doing more damage than before. According to the CrowdStrike 2022 Global Threat Report, there was a 45 percent increase in interactive intrusion activity and more than 170 adversaries tracked in 2021 than in the year before. “Even the run of the mill attackers today have a pretty sophisticated toolset,” said Vice President Tina Thorstenson of CrowdStrike’s Industry Business Unit.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A recent report has found that certain degrees at Tennessee’s public colleges and universities are leaving students with higher debt than what they make annually , Main Street Nashville r eported. The Beacon Center of Tennessee reviewed data for graduates of 320 different undergraduate programs in the state. “This data allows us to objectively analyze programs and determine which ones provide opportunities to increase incomes and which ones will likely leave students with excessive debt and a sa

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A Challenge for Educators. Here is a bold statement. The world is going to hell in a handbasket. For many years now societies have been morphing from basically ethical, where doing the right thing guides all decisions, to one where the pursuit of self-interest and lack of caring about others is front and center. From a philosophical point of view, decisions and actions are often based on the utilitarian concept of “the ends justify the means.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Dr. Dara N. Byrne PHOTO COURTESY OF CUNY Becoming Dean of Macaulay Honors College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), enables Dr. Dara N. Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. “Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (pa

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Podcast. How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. Episode 126. November 1, 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Of all the things that shaped the career of longtime theater director Sheldon Epps, few rank as high as the time he spent as an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University. It was on the campus of the Pittsburgh-based school from 1969 to 1973 that Epps met three of the four actors with whom he would go on to start his first production company. While Epps says he was “lucky” to get accepted into Carnegie and ultimately form relationships that would lead to his first big break, getting through Car

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Karen Pearl Karen Pearl has been named interim vice president for communications at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. She served as the director of university media relations. Pearl earned a master’s from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a juris doctorate from the University of Connecticut School of Law.

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Roompact

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

You can’t scroll through LinkedIn or even TikTok nowadays without seeing articles or discussions about “quiet quitting” and “acting your wage.” By now, most people know what these terms mean and how they differ slightly, but ultimately both mean: “Do the job you were hired for and only during the hours, you’re being paid to.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The Dr. Melvin C. Terrell (MCT) Educational Foundation, Inc. has announced the 2022 cohort of MCT Scholars, recognizing 10 first-year graduate students in higher education or student affairs students at six institutions. The program is funded through a grant provided to the Dr. Melvin C. Terrell Educational Foundation by the Center for Advocacy and Philanthropy at the Educational Testing Service (ETS), the world’s largest private research and assessment organization.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Blogs. Want to improve your enrollment marketing campaign? You need a better content library. Recently, we brought our Enroll360 creative team together to showcase highlights from their marketing campaign work. It was inspiring and illuminating, but what struck me the most were the challenges that the team shared, many of which related to the collaborative nature of our creative process.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

On Monday, the University of Central Oklahoma’s 21st president, Patti Neuhold-Ravikumar, announced her plans to step down from the position in January of 2023. Her reason for leaving, she said in a news release, is to prioritize her marriage, which has been forced into long-distance mode for years. “My wife and I have lived half a country apart for more than five years,” she said. “Our commitment to each other’s success is what enabled us to live this way for so lon

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

by Peter Wolstencroft, Elizabeth Whitfield and Track Dinning. “The simple truth is that the average student leaves university with £45,800 of debt and if they have nothing to show for it then we have failed them” (Hansard, 2021). The speaker of these words was the then Minister for Higher and Further Education, Michelle Donelan and the sentiment underpins many of the current mechanisms used for assessing quality in English HE.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper made an announcement Tuesday involving higher education in the state. Gov. Cooper was joined by public higher education leaders for the announcement at Executive Mansion in downtown Raleigh to announce changes to the public university system. Through Executive Order 272, Gov. Cooper called for the formation of a commission on the future of public universities in the state.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

At least nine of 18 major-party candidates for governor in the U.S. South are in support of restricting classroom lessons about race and other topics in K-12 public schools, according to the Southern Education Foundation (SEF). Raymond C. Pierce “If we ban classroom lessons on these topics, especially with little or no evidence for doing so, we keep students from learning the nation’s full history and developing the critical thinking skills that come from a more accurate and complete presentatio

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University Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The University of Virginia , Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Norfolk State University are among the dozens of schools in the commonwealth that have changed their policies to relax admissions exams requirements. The test-optional trend is growing as more than 1,800 accredited, four-year colleges and universities nationally have committed to offering ACT/SAT optional or test-free testing policies for fall 2023 applicants, said Harry Feder, executive director of the National Center for Fair

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University Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Faculty and professional staff at the City Colleges of Chicago have reached a tentative agreement on a new union contract and called off their planned strike later this week. The workers represented by the Cook County Colleges Teachers Union had been in negotiations with City Colleges administrators for more than a year over pay, class sizes and other educational supports.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Here’s a question many higher ed leaders are probably not asking themselves: Does college make students “lose their common sense?” It may sound like a preposterous inquiry but, in fact, a majority of Republican voters surveyed agree that higher education is a detriment to a young person’s ability to act and think rationally. That gap in thinking is only one of the many ways that higher education—like so many other issues—is now dividing voters in America, according to the

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University Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A faculty no-confidence vote and student protests did not succeed in blocking Ben Sasse’s path to becoming the next president of the University of Florida. UF trustees voted unanimously Tuesday to approve the Republican senator from Nebraska as the new leader of the sprawling flagship. Sasse, who is expected to take the reins in early 2023, now awaits final approval from the state university system’s Board of Governors.

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