Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

The power of collaboration and the importance of building paths for others to follow were topics , front and center , during the 2024 White House Summit on STEMM Equity and Excellence. Dr. Arati Prabhakar National Association of Counties During the May 1 event – hosted and livestreamed by the STEMM Opportunity Alliance (SOA) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) – leaders and pioneers across multiple industries gathered to speak about the ways in which they and their

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Great College Advice

MAY 1, 2024

Every year, thousands of students from Peru choose to study abroad. For those interested in pursuing an undergraduate or master’s degree, the United States of America is an excellent option. With so many incredible universities, you can find the right educational environment to meet your child’s unique aspirations and needs. However, applying to these programs can be daunting for those outside the US.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

Organizers with the Freedom to Learn (F2L) network and the Right to Learn (R2L) coalition are planning a rally May 3 in Washington, D.C. The annual Freedom to Learn DC Rally convenes at the Library of Congress, and participants will march to the U. S. Supreme Court to hear from a slate of speakers — students, educators, parents, artists, and leaders civil and human rights organizations like National Urban League President Marc Morial and Kimberlé Crenshaw, cofounder and executive director of Af

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Great College Advice

MAY 1, 2024

Cada año, miles de estudiantes de Perú eligen estudiar en el extranjero. Estados Unidos es una excelente opción para aquellas personas interesadas en cursar una licenciatura o maestría. Hay muchísimas universidades increíbles así que es muy probable que encuentres el entorno educativo adecuado que cumpla con las aspiraciones y las necesidades de tu hijo/a.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

On Jan. 15, Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, the Centennial Conference announced its creation of a three-year strategic diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) plan, uniting the conference’s 11 private, Division III institutions in a shared mission to make their athletics programs a place where all students, particularly those in marginalized populations, feel they belong.

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Great College Advice

MAY 1, 2024

Every year, thousands of students from Mexico choose to study abroad. For those interested in pursuing an undergraduate or master’s degree, the United States of America is an excellent option. With so many incredible universities, you can find the right educational environment to meet your child’s unique aspirations and needs. However, applying to these programs can be daunting for those outside the US.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

Dr. Tau Kadhi Tau Kadhi has been appointed to the Office of Graduate Studies at Alabama A&M University. He served as vice provost for institutional planning and quality at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. He holds a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics, a master’s in mathematics curriculum and instruction, and a master’s in applied mathematics, all from Prairie View A&M University, as well as an M.B.A. from Texas Southern University and a Ph.D. in mathematics curriculum and

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 1, 2024

A Full Campus Shutdown at a California State University Johanna Alonso Wed, 05/01/2024 - 03:00 AM Cal Poly Humboldt was the first to switch to online classes and lock its doors in response to a building occupation. The occupation is over, but the campus remains closed.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

In 2024, Wi-Fi celebrates its 25th birthday with a big announcement: the introduction of Wi-Fi 7. This new generation of Wi-Fi builds upon the existing features of Wi-Fi 6E but includes new components that improve efficiency and the user experience. What Wi-Fi 7 Brings to Higher Education Hybrid and online courses, robotics and virtual reality, and the sheer volume of users on a college campus all make reliable Wi-Fi critical.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 1, 2024

New AI Guidelines Aim to Help Research Libraries Lauren.Coffey@… Wed, 05/01/2024 - 03:00 AM The new list of seven principles support librarians increasingly bombarded with questions about artificial intelligence.

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AIFS Abroad

MAY 1, 2024

Doing a study abroad program can be a life-changing experience. Just ask Katie, a college student from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and an AIFS Abroad Alumni Ambassador who spent a spring semester studying in the Italian city of Florence. “Choosing to study abroad in Italy was by far one of the best decisions that I have ever made in my life.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 1, 2024

Outside Agitators at UT-Austin The University of Texas at Austin said late Tuesday that most of the people arrested after a campus protest on Monday "had no affiliation" with the university and that officers had confiscated guns, rocks and "steel-enforced wood planks.

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University Business

MAY 1, 2024

Employers are souring on Ivy League and Ivy-Plus institutions and have elected the next banner of institutions producing the highest-performing professionals, according to a new breakdown from Forbes. The 20 “new Ivies” educate students with an average 1482 SAT and 33 ACT score and generate graduates who are a better cultural and professional fit at the highest echelons of corporate society, wrote billionaire philanthropist John Arnold in a recent X (formerly Twitter post).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 1, 2024

An analysis of selective versus open-access institutions found that diversity gains made at the most selective U.S. colleges and universities were “marginal” even with race-conscious admissions practices, according to a new report by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce’s (CEW).

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Ray Schroeder

MAY 1, 2024

Last year, the Iowa Wesleyan Board of Trustees chairman said after 181 years Iowa Wesleyan University would turn its lights off. “The board is committed that we would not start a semester if we did not have the funds to complete it,” Bob Miller said in March 2023 press conference. “That is what has forced us to this decision today.” He did not return numerous requests for comment for this story.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 1, 2024

A Time for Leaders, Not Managers johnw@mcsweeneys.net Wed, 05/01/2024 - 03:00 AM Some positive and negative examples in the real world.

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Ray Schroeder

MAY 1, 2024

The University of Arizona has publicly announced the cuts to colleges and other academic units. The cuts are part of the program university leaders are putting in place to get the university out of its more than 50-million-dollar deficit. In an email to the campus community, interim CFO John Arnold and interim Provost Dr. Ron Marx said the cuts, which total about 4.4%, should put all academic units in the black for the upcoming fiscal year.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 1, 2024

The Department of Education has implemented a temporary fix to the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) that will allow students with parents or guardians who lack a social security number to complete the form, under secretary of education James Kvaal told reporters at a press briefing Tuesday.

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SRHE

MAY 1, 2024

Canbury Press 2024, 208pp. ISBN 9781914487217 (paperback), 9781914487224 (ebook) Review by Rob Cuthbert If you do research in higher education, this book might make you angry – but probably not for the reasons the author hopes. The blurb says: ”For more than a decade, the deteriorating state of the higher education sector in the UK has been known to insiders, but not to the public.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 1, 2024

This month’s episode of The Key podcast explores a vexing question: How might policy makers and college leaders go about showing that getting a postsecondary education pays off for later in life? The episode features a conversation with Zakiya Smith Ellis, a principal at the education policy consulting firm Education Counsel and former senior Obama education aide and secretary of education in New Jersey.

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Terminalfour

MAY 1, 2024

DIY content creation for higher education has never been easier. With a smartphone and basic, accessible tools, you can create high-quality video, audio, and visuals for your university. Here are 10 tools higher-ed marketing teams can use to strategize, organize, create, edit, and share content.

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University Business

MAY 1, 2024

As STEM drives innovation both inside the classroom and in the workplace, universities are building and renovating facilities curated to the student, professor and researcher experience. The goal is to attract and retain students and top-notch research talent in a highly competitive marketplace. Despite contending with tight budgets, many institutions are getting creative in their approach to interjecting campuses with impactful learning spaces.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 1, 2024

Institutions are increasingly focused on breaking down barriers to student success, not only within the classroom but across the student experience. Inside Higher Ed is pleased to publish a free compilation of 10 solutions-based articles on how various college and university initiatives are promoting student success across the realms of academics, wellness, campus life and career readiness.

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College Forward

MAY 1, 2024

Started in 2007 by ServeMinnesota, the InterCorps Council of Minnesota (ICC) aims to promote engagement, communication, collaboration, and education to empower AmeriCorps members in Minnesota. ICC is made up of current AmeriCorps members from many different service organizations across the state of Minnesota, including nonprofits focused on education and housing access, literacy initiatives, environmental protection, and counseling resources for substance use disorders.

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University Business

MAY 1, 2024

College leaders aired their frustration over the fall of affirmative action last summer, and admissions officers everywhere were predominantly against its erasure. While race-conscious admissions practices were touted to help colleges and universities increase the diversity of their incoming class sizes, their actual contribution was marginal at best, according to a new retrospective analysis by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW). “Much has been written a

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Parchment

MAY 1, 2024

The K-12 diploma process stands as an important culmination of a student’s learning journey. Yet traditional processes can be outdated and error-prone, demanding excessive time from school staff. As calls increase for digital transformation to streamline processes, principals are uniquely positioned to drive the shift toward modernized, digital diploma experiences.

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University Business

MAY 1, 2024

The City College of New York, part of the CUNY system, is moving to remote learning starting Wednesday following continued protests and the development of an encampment on the college’s campus, school officials said. NYPD officers entered the campus in large numbers late Tuesday night after receiving a request for assistance from City College to help clear the encampment of protesters.

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Knowledge Avatars College

MAY 1, 2024

Revolutionizing Knowledge Transfer through Trainable Bots Emiliano for E… Wed, 05/01/2024 - 14:51 In the realm of artificial intelligence (AI), advancements are happening at a pace that's almost too rapid to keep track of. One area that's receiving less attention - yet deserves our utmost focus - is the training of bots. The reality is, the majority of bots today are not designed to be trainable.

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University Business

MAY 1, 2024

Alabama A&M University leadership wants to buy soon-to-close Birmingham-Southern College, a move leadership says would help the growing college expand into one of its primary student markets and be a boon for the surrounding community. Based in Huntsville, Alabama A&M is the state’s largest historically Black college. It currently has its largest enrollment, 6,600 students, and freshman class, 2,000.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 1, 2024

Today on the Academic Minute: Gay Ivey, William E. Moran Distinguished Professor in Literacy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, explores why restricting the books children can read is a bad idea.

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Higher Education Whisperer

MAY 1, 2024

"The Secret Lecturer : What Really Goes on at University" (Anon, 2024), is a very annoying book. I would like to say, despite that, it makes some good points, but it doesn't. The book is innovative in that a UK academic, who wisely chooses to remain anonymous, has taken the sort of thing we might think, and in a lapse of judgement write in a Tweet, and set it all down in a book for people to buy.

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College for Creative Study

MAY 1, 2024

The post Color & Materials Design MA Student Rachel Barker Named Hagopian Rug Design Contest Winner appeared first on College for Creative Studies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

The Biden-Harris Administration approved more than $6.1 billion in automatic student loan relief to borrowers who enrolled at any Art Institute campus between Jan. 1, 2004, and Oct. 16, 2017. “For more than a decade, hundreds of thousands of hopeful students borrowed billions to attend The Art Institutes and got little but lies in return,” said U.S.

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Great College Advice

MAY 1, 2024

Do I need an internship for my college application? We get questions all the time: do I need an internship for my college application? It’s time to talk frankly about whether internships really are vital for our kids. And my basic answer? They are not at all vital. A good high school internship could be helpful. But a run-of-the-mill internship might not be helpful at all.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 1, 2024

Senate Republicans Press Cardona to Act Promptly to Combat Antisemitism Katherine Knott Wed, 05/01/2024 - 03:00 AM The lawmakers want the Education Department to take more forceful action, including withdrawing federal funds from institutions that aren’t addressing antisemitism on their campuses.

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University Business

MAY 1, 2024

After productive discussions between Brown University leaders and students who have held an encampment on the Brown campus since April 24, the parties reached an agreement that will end the encampment by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 30. The University agreed that five students will be invited to meet with five members of the Corporation of Brown University in May to present their arguments to divest Brown’s endowment from “companies enabling and profiting from the genocide in Gaza.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

We chose Yale and it chose us, but one party was betrayed “Oliver was arrested this morning. 13 students arrested,” Ella texted me at 8.27am, “No, 45.” “Are you awake? Should we go? I’m feeling paralyzed right now.” Grey Battle studies political science at Yale University. She grew up in Birmingham, Alabama Continue reading.

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