Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF), mental health nonprofit The Steve Fund, and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) are partnering for a national initiative to support mental health at Black colleges and universities. Dr. Michael L. Lomax The initiative, “Unapologetically Free: Centering Mental Health on Black College Campuses,” involves creating programming such as virtual workshops and a virtual student conference in April.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It is my privilege to serve alongside Alison Fields as co-editor of the Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, an international high-quality peer-reviewed academic journal. I also have a piece in this issue entitled ‘ Definitions of the Terms Open, Distance, and Flexible in the Context of Formal and Non-Formal Learning ‘ Issue 26 (2) of the Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning (JOFDL) is now available to the world.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Although students, job seekers, and career changers are optimistic about the growth of STEM jobs and believe that digital credentials are useful, many have low awareness of the opportunities that are available, according to a report commissioned by IBM and conducted by Morning Consult. The report revealed survey data taken at the end of 2022 from over 14,000 people at different phases of their career journeys across the world, in countries including the U.S., India, and Brazil.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Blog: Just Visiting In a recent Inside Higher Ed piece, Jeremy Weissman calls ChatGPT a “plague upon education,” analogizing it to COVID, saying that this plague “threatens our minds more than our bodies.” ChatGPT is a potential “calamity” with faculty “worried that the first cases of GPT may have popped up in their classrooms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Emory University and the College of the Muscogee Nation (CMN) in Oklahoma have partnered and received $2.4 million from The Mellon Foundation to help develop programs advancing Native and Indigenous Studies and the preservation of the Mvskoke language. Dr. Monte Randall This partnership aims to create collaborative learning communities and research initiatives connecting the two campuses, with the money going towards supporting CMN’s transition from a two-year to a four-year institution.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: A $10.9 million gift to Temple University from the estate of a graduate of the institution has particular resonance on the Philadelphia campus. The money will be targeted at students with physical disabilities at a university known for its strong track record in providing disability services. The late donor, a 1953 graduate, was a disabled student at a time when such services were not the norm on college campuses, but she thrived academically and built a successful career after graduating

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Starting salaries for college graduates with bachelor’s degrees in traditionally higher-paying disciplines are leveling off, according to a survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Employers that responded to NACE’s Winter 2023 Salary Survey are expecting to pay Class of 2023 graduates with bachelor’s degrees in engineering ($74,405) and math and sciences ($67,199) average salaries just 0.7% higher than projected last year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

After the COVID-19 pandemic forced an emergency switch to online learning, students have embraced the modality for its flexibility and convenience. This is particularly true of community college students, who are more likely than others to have jobs and family commitments that make coming to a campus tough. In a recent report by Bay View Analytics , 94% of community college students gave their online courses a passing grade, and 58% expressed a desire for more.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It can be way more than a blow-off class or a rush through the curriculum, writes Christopher Schaberg. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Career Advice Teaching Today Show on Jobs site: Image Source: bsquare/E+/Getty Images Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Civil Rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton traveled to Tallahassee on Wednesday to protest Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ attempts to "bring the state back to the pre-Civil Rights era by banning Black history from the classroom." Sharpton, president of the National Action Network and the host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation, took aim at DeSantis and the College Board that administer the exam.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: The Whittier College Board of Trustees was scheduled for a rare in-person meeting this Friday, after conducting most business virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic. But the meeting has since been moved online due to unspecified threats allegedly aimed at Whittier’s president. A state of the college address by President Linda Oubré will follow on Saturday, also to be delivered remotely—partly because of the alleged threats but also, she said, because it will allow her t

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Generation Hope , a non-profit focusing on student parents, will be opening applications for the third cohort of its FamilyU technical assistance program, which aims to help higher ed institutions strengthen student-parent success. The two-year program is designed to teach and coach schools on how to better serve their student-parent population and how to better collect data and track the parenting status of students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: Philanthropic giving to higher education increased by 12.5 percent last fiscal year to a total of $59.5 billion, the highest year-over-year increase since 2000, according to the latest Voluntary Support of Education survey from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. In fiscal 2021, giving rose 7 percent , and the previous year it declined slightly , by less than 1 percent.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This work was here before me, and this work will be here after I am gone. I will not let it break me. These are words I whisper to myself during my difficult moments. I love the work that I get to do in diversity, equity, and inclusion, but at times it can be exhausting. Difficult conversations, articulating my worth despite my credentials, demonstrating change, explaining the need for the work, and struggling to be comfortable in certain spaces.As an African American man with albinism, I have f

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Pensacola Christian College called off a concert by a renowned British a cappella group, hours before it was to take place, because one member of the group is gay. The college gave this statement for why it was canceling: pic.twitter.com/oIZIiPROuI — Pensacola Christian College (@ConnectPCC) February 14, 2023 The New York Times reported that two member of the King’s Singers ensemble are gay.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Energy and excitement filled the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, as over two thousand community college leaders, faculty, and staff gathered to share stories of access, equity, and inclusion at the 2023 Dream conference. The four-day event connects educators, both in and outside Achieving the Dream’s (ATD) network of over 300 community colleges, working to close attainment gaps.

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Campus Sonar

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Looking back on conversation topics and trends we’ve seen in our five+ years of industry research, we see lessons and insights you can use moving forward to make the most of yield season (or the recruitment process at large) and build a robust incoming class. Learn from What Your Audience Is Saying Listen to your admissions audiences and speak to their logistical and emotional needs as they go though the process.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Pamela Monaco Pamela Monaco has been appointed president of Ocean County College. She serves as vice president of academic and student affairs at Wilbur Wright College in Chicago. Monaco holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from George Washington University and master’s and doctoral degrees in English from The Catholic University of America.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: “A renowned researcher and administrator who is passionate about the success of students and faculty” is how University of Houston system chancellor Renu Khator described Diane Chase, who began her role this month as senior vice chancellor for academic affairs for the system and senior vice president for academic affairs and provost for the University of Houston.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Intelligent’s report exposing the extent to which college hopefuls lie on their applications has led many admissions officials to reflect on what they could do to promote better practices among potential students. When David Rettinger, an accomplished academic integrity researcher, discovered the report, he was “disappointed, but not even a little surprised.” In reports he conducted through the International Center for Academic Integrity , 70% of students admitted to some form

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Higher ed employees stay connected to their university networks from anywhere and everywhere, including their classrooms, offices, homes and throughout campus. That means IT departments need to be able to protect that network and those employees no matter where they are. A major piece of that defense is mobile threat detection, such as that provided by the BlackBerry® Cyber Suite, which helps secure the ubiquitous mobile devices that increasingly are targets for cyberattackers.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: At least half of college students aren’t getting sufficient sleep , even though many students report that this impacts their academic performance—in addition to their overall well-being. Seeking to help students supplement the recommended seven to nine hours of sleep per night, numerous institutions have developed what they are calling nap maps.

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Proctor Academy

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Yesterday was the second Head’s Day that I have been a part of at Proctor. Our students were informed the night before by an email and video that told them that they would be getting a much needed day to rest and kick back a little. At Proctor, and other schools like ours, we do get to breathe every now and then to unwind a little bit from the rigors of school.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Swiss biotech executive and philanthropist Ernesto Bertarelli has pledged $75 million to Harvard Medical School to advance scientific discovery and a “culture of entrepreneurship,” the university announced Tuesday. The gift will also allow HMS to move ahead with plans to convert the courtyard outside Building C—one of the five buildings forming the medical campus’s main quad—into a skylight-covered atrium.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It’s not just lecturers who are struggling with stress due to unrealistic workloads, says one reader Re the University and College Union’s dispute (Work-life balance as important as pay, says university staff union, 10 February ), there is always a focus on lecturers in articles about it. But the UCU is made up of more than lecturers. I am a burnt-out administrator, struggling to have my issues taken seriously by my university and by the country.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The University of Maine at Farmington is looking to “eliminate most” of its more than two dozen adjunct faculty members, according to an email the Bangor Daily News reported on. The newspaper said the last round of recent cuts already left the campus without a world languages department, a philosophy and religion department, and a women’s and gender studies department.

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Higher Education Whisperer

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Greetings from "An introduction to computational methods for economics and finance", at the Australian National University's Research School of Economics (CBE). This features Nobel Laureate Professor Thomas J. Sargent, of New York University and Professor John Stachurski, ANU. This is something of a masterclass in how to deliver modern classroom based teaching.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Blog: Call to Action: Marketing and Communications in Higher Education You are the president of an institution dealing with a crisis. Your instincts tell you a clarifying statement and potentially an apology are in order, as do members of your faculty, board, cabinet and student and alumni organizations. But others on your leadership team, or even outside consultants, advise you to stay mum.

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Proctor Academy

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

What do we do with our outrage? This is the question first year student Alice Ryan ‘26 was grappling with when she first learned about the executions of political dissidents in Iran.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Just what is a “creative spark” in the eyes of the law? In today’s Academic Minute, the University at Buffalo’s Mark Bartholomew explains. Bartholomew is a professor of law at the Buffalo School of Law. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. Section: Academic Minute File: 02-15-23 Buffalo - What Neuroscience Can Tell Us About the Law of Creativity.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

More than three years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, college and university administrators have only a few months left to allocate money made available by the federal government through the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund. The HEERF is an umbrella fund combining the billions of dollars offered to higher education institutions through three federal actions: the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act and the

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Hanover Research

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The district has completed district-wide data disaggregation through its partnership with Hanover Research, including perception survey data and five years of comprehensive academic data. The post TapInto: Summit Board of Education Swears in New Member, Recognizes National Merit Scholars appeared first on Hanover Research.

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CU Work-Life Balance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As the new year begins, CU faculty, staff and students will begin receiving critical documents needed to file their annual income tax returns. For certain international employees and students, this means receiving Forms W-2 and/or 1042-S from CU over the next month. Form W-2 is issued to any employee who receives taxable wages from CU. Form 1042-S is issued to resident and nonresident alien employees to report tax treaty exempt wages.

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CAPD

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The BCAP (BAMIT Community Advancement Program) Fund is sponsored by the Black Alumni of MIT (BAMIT) and offers financial support for community service projects that uplift under-served communities of color in ways that address disparities in areas such as architecture, cultural awareness, education, environment, health, STE(A)M, and urban planning.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

C haritable giving to colleges and universities totaled a record $59.5 billion in fiscal year 2022—representing a 12.5% increase, the largest bump in higher ed philanthropy in more than two decades, according to new data from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. It’s also the most, in dollar terms, that’s ever been given, even after adjusting for inflation.

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Hanover Research

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Three years into the pandemic, colleges and universities continue to adapt while making strategic decisions that are reshaping higher education for the long term. Institutions that stay current with evolving student and industry needs are position ed to not only survive but thrive in the years ahead. Download our report, 2023 Trends in Higher Education, to learn the top trends and bold ideas shaping higher education in 2023–24: Career-focused learning flourishes in modernized, stackable forma

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University Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

With students and faculty recently reporting a decline in student mental well-being, the effects are beginning to snowball. A new report from the academic publishing company Wiley has discovered that student aren’t as engaged with classwork. The report surveyed over 5,000 students and almost 2,500 college instructors and found that 53% of students are having trouble retaining class material, 55% of undergraduates are struggling to stay interested in their classes, and 66% of instructors fi

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