Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

The rapid advance of artificial intelligence in the world of higher education has continued with the report that Harvard University has plans to use an AI chatbot as part of its introductory computer science course. The bot is designed to help students understand code and improve it, as well as to answer common basic questions, freeing up teaching assistants and professors to deal with more complex concerns.

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PUC

JULY 14, 2023

Pastor Arturo Lopez felt God calling him to serve after being baptized at the South San Francisco Latin-American SDA Church in 2009. He received his BA in theology from PUC and with nearly 13 years in ministry, Pastor Lopez is deeply grateful to God for orchestrating a plan for him to serve as a pastor.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Community colleges play a critical role, providing affordable and accessible education for diverse populations. According to the American Association of Community Colleges, our nation had over 1,000 public, tribal, and independent community colleges enrolling 10.2 million credit and non-credit students for the 2021-22 academic year; the need to retain top talent among faculty and staff continues to grow.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 14, 2023

Scott McLemee reviews Uncharted: How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research, and Experiences of Bias. Writing in The New York Times last month, Sara J. Winston, the coordinator of the photography program at Bard College, described the upheaval of having various unpleasant bodily sensations diagnosed as symptoms of multiple sclerosis. She soon began a course of treatment that sounds effective and encouraging, but the condition itself is chronic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Dr. Darrin Hartness, president of Davidson-Davie Community College, died Jul. 11, at age 54, the Winston-Salem Journal reported. Dr. Darrin L. Hartness The former superintendent of Davie County Schools died of cancer, according to his obituary. A longstanding education veteran, Hartness led a 27-year career in North Carolina K-12 schools. He spent time as superintendent of Mount Airy Schools and Davie County Schools.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Higher education institutions have been operating in the cloud for years, with most colleges and universities slowly incorporating multiple cloud solutions to support or enhance on-premises data centers. This creates the hybrid cloud, a blend of resources that gives IT departments increased control and visibility while also supporting the kinds of flexible learning environments students demand.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Lidadi Agbomi Lidadi Agbomi is beginning her doctoral program in bioengineering at Clemson University in August, but already has a CV filled with published research and presentations. Her participation in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) R25 research education program has provided her with opportunities to do extensive research as well as hone her skills in data analysis.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Chrissy Downwind Chrissy Downwind has been named vice president for American Indian student success at Bemidji State University and Northwest Technical College in Minnesota. Downwind holds a bachelor’s degree in Indian studies at Bemidji State University and a master’s in educational leadership from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota.

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Roompact

JULY 14, 2023

Roompact’s “Quick Tips” series highlights ideas and suggestions you can put into your practice as either a professional staff or student staff member working in residence life and education. Click to read more from the series. Living in a residence hall can be an exciting experience, but it also means sharing a living space with.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Multiple academic studies have demonstrated that encouraging children to pursue a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) career gives them a distinct business advantage later in life. For generations, STEM education has remained an integral approach to learning and development, helping students develop the critical thinking tools that are vital to an ever-evolving world.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Exclusive: Move penalises courses with a high proportion of working-class or minority ethnic students, critics say Rishi Sunak will force universities to limit the number of students taking “low-value” degrees in England, a measure which is most likely to hit working class and black, Asian and minority ethnic applicants. Courses will be capped that do not have a high proportion of graduates getting a professional job, going into postgraduate study or starting a business, the prime minister will

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Rebecca Hopkins Rebecca Hopkins has been named vice president of learning at Western Technical College in La Crosse, Wisconsin. She served as the college’s dean of academic excellence, education, and human services. Hopkins holds a bachelor’s degree in political science, a master’s in instruction, and a doctorate in educational leadership from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 14, 2023

Lawsuit Opposes Texas TikTok Ban for Restricting Academic Freedom Featured Image at Top of Article TikTok-GettyImages-1473985191.jpg Lauren.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Dana McPherson Dana McPherson has been appointed assistant vice president in the Office of University Communications at Howard University in Washington, D.C. McPherson holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in Tallahassee.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

High school students work hard to get into college. On top of the years of elementary and secondary education, they make time for in-person or virtual campus visits, complete arduous admission and scholarship applications and weigh the pros and cons of the schools that accept them before ultimately making what in many cases will be a life-altering decision on where to spend the next four or more years of their lives.

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University Business

JULY 14, 2023

The University says that the stolen data is from as far back as 2021, possibly earlier, meaning that graduates may have been impacted. The leak of this data is not the result of a direct breach of any systems operated or maintained by CSU but rather a compromise of the University’s service vendors, TIAA, National Student Clearinghouse, Corebridge Financial, Genworth Financial, Sunlife, and The Hartford.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Considering how long wireless technology has been widely available, most colleges and universities have probably already invested in some form of wireless networking for their students and staff. But older wireless technology was never designed to support the number of users found on a typical college campus. It’s still possible to network everyone, but it requires a lot of access points, layered channels and constant tuning — and even then, the network will likely have dead zones and experience

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University Business

JULY 14, 2023

A coalition representing faculty at Texas public universities is suing Gov. Greg Abbott and other officials over the state’s ban on TikTok on government-issued devices, effective next year. The ban, they say in the lawsuit, will prevent faculty members from using the platform to teach and conduct research in an academic capacity. The lawsuit was filed Thursday by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, a free speech advocacy group, on behalf of the Coalition for Independen

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Guardian analysis highlights how dependent sector has become on countries such as China and India One in every five pounds received by UK universities last year came from international students, according to Guardian analysis that reveals the scale of the sector’s growing dependence on overseas tuition fees for financial survival. With the annual dash to allocate university places for the next academic year about to begin, there are fears UK students could lose out to their overseas counterparts

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University Business

JULY 14, 2023

Colleges may be leaving a lot of money on the table if their website, today’s first point of contact for many tech-savvy students, falls below expectations, according to a new report by Modern Campus. The “2023 e-Expectations Trends Report ” surveyed more than 2,000 high school students to discover how they prefer to learn about colleges they might be interested in applying to.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 14, 2023

A federal suit filed by 11 former faculty members at Emporia State University charges that they lost their jobs because they had tenure, The Kansas Reflector reported.

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Ray Schroeder

JULY 14, 2023

More than 460,000 students at the 23 California State University campuses could see annual tuition increases in coming years — for the first time in nearly a decade. The CSU Board of Trustees’s Committee on Finance will weigh a proposal on Tuesday, July 11, that would implement 6% tuition hikes every year starting in the fall 2024 and ending in the spring 2029 semesters.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 14, 2023

The University of Minnesota is considering restricting public access to its Twin Cities campus, citing security concerns, Axios Twin Cities reported. If implemented, about 70 buildings currently accessible to the public would require a university ID card to enter.

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University Business

JULY 14, 2023

New Jersey announced almost $400 million for upgrades at colleges around the state this week, including big-ticket grants for a science building and labs at Montclair State, an engineering and biomedical research tower at Rowan University and an expansion of William Paterson University ‘s recreation center. In total, 31 public and private schools were awarded $395 million borrowed though state bond issues for projects that “will help enhance the postsecondary experience” for

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 14, 2023

Sometimes the examples tell the story. Sometimes articles crash into each other. This week Josh Kim’s review of Size and Jessica Blake’s piece on mergers within higher ed landed on the same day. They’re worth reading together.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Lawmakers, mental health experts, and advocates gathered recently to celebrate the milestone anniversary of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. Hosted at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the stakeholders discussed the work their organizations have done since the launch of 988 and what still needs to be done to ensure that every American can access the help they need. 988, formally a 10-digit number, provides free and confidential support with trained crisis counselors available 24 h

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 14, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute: Eric Gaze, senior lecturer in mathematics at Bowdoin College, discusses how challenging it can be to rate your own performance alongside that of peers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

M ore than 804,000 borrowers will have f ederal student loans automatically discharged in the following weeks, a total of $39 billion. Dr. Miguel Cardona The discharges come as part of fixes by the Biden-Harris Administration to give borrowers an accurate count of monthly payments qualifying toward forgiveness under income-driven repayment (IDR) plans.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 14, 2023

New Presidents or Provosts: Alvernia U, Broome CC, Moraine Valley CC, State U of New York–Oswego, Western Oregon U, Wor-Wic CC Doug Lederman Fri, 07/14/2023 - 03:00 AM

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

A women’s soccer coach at the Christian-affiliated Geneva College is saying she was fired last month after posting photos to social media advocating for the LGBTQ+ rights in the church, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. Kelsey Morrison said she was fired following a June meeting with Human Resources where officials said the posts – put on Morrison’s private Instagram story in April – opposed the school’s values.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 14, 2023

House Republicans are pledging to hold to account colleges and universities that don’t report foreign gifts and contracts totaling $250,000 or more, lawmakers on the higher education subcommittee said Thursday.

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University Business

JULY 14, 2023

In the heat of summer, the interplay of leadership positions filled and vacated has been relatively still. However, one hire whose responsibilities oversee nearly half a million students is creating a big splash. The California State University (CSU) system may have found its long-awaited leader with a proven track record of success. A pair of other colleges, both small and large, have found their presidents, too.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 14, 2023

House Republicans are planning to slash the Education Department’s budget by at least 15 percent, though Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee say the cuts are closer to 30 percent.

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Ray Schroeder

JULY 14, 2023

After repeated legislative failures, Pennsylvania state House members have left Harrisburg indefinitely without passing funding for the commonwealth’s state-related universities. Appropriations for Lincoln University, Penn State University, Temple University, and the University of Pittsburgh must pass the legislature by a two-thirds majority, a high bar in the state House, which Democrats control by a single vote.

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