Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

Over half of undergraduate students in the U.S. are the first in their family to attend an institution of higher learning. These first-generation students are likelier than their peers to be from minoritized backgrounds, to face economic challenges, and to juggle jobs and families in addition to school. And they may be less familiar with the “hidden curriculum”—the implicit norms and knowledge that help students navigate college life.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

Noticed any fantasy-inspired portrait posts showing up on your social media feeds lately? You might just be looking at artificial intelligence-generated content, a new development in the exponentially expanding world of AI tech that has emerged over the past few years. Platforms like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 2 allow users to input a text prompt, which creates an AI-generated image that may or may not accurately reflect what the user intended.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

Rhode Island College (RIC) will be requiring masks in classrooms for students and faculty when spring semester starts next week, given a slight surge in COVID-19 cases in Providence County, WJAR reported. Providence County is in the "high" category for community transmission, according to the CDC. "We believe this adjusted policy achieves the appropriate balance of safeguarding the health and wellbeing of our community while remaining practical and consistent," according to a statement on RIC we

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University Business

JANUARY 13, 2023

Female high school graduates are less prepared—and feel less informed—to confidently enter college or choose a career path, concludes the latest report from YouScience, the leading college and career readiness company. The report gathered information from 500 graduated students from the classes of 2019 to 2022 and asked them questions about their exposure to college readiness resources in high school and how confident they were in taking the next step.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

The mental health crisis affecting college students has become involved in stalled faculty contract negotiations at the University of Illinois Chicago, WBEZ Chicago reported. Union members of the UIC United Faculty’s 900 – threatening to strike – are asking for increased pay in part to compensate for larger workloads that they say result from students’ heightened mental health needs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

Image: China’s most prominent talent-recruitment program is still failing to lure “top” global scientists back to the country, a study has found. Established in 2010 as a key pillar of Beijing’s Thousand Talents Program, the Young Thousand Talents (YTT) initiative seeks to recruit science and technology experts from abroad, especially among Chinese expatriates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

Dr. Rema Vassar has been elected next board chair of Michigan State University’s Board of Trustees, making her the first Black woman to do so. Dr. Rema Vassar Vassar – along with ­­Dan Kelly , who was elected vice chair – will each serve a two-year term, ending January 2025. Dr. Stefan J. Fletcher will also become the board’s next secretary and chief of staff, effective Jan. 30.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

Contact : Maya Matthews Minter Phone : 703.385.2411 Email : Maya@DiverseEducation.com Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Magazine Profiles Top “40 and Under” Scholars FAIRFAX, VA — Diverse: Issues In Higher Education will kick off 2023 with its annual Emerging Scholars edition. The Jan. 19, 2023 edition will profile 15 “40 and Under” scholars throughout the country who are making their mark in the academy through teaching, research, and service.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

Image: In Amy Morgan’s vision, a group of undergraduates sit in a classroom, drawing, painting and making collages at their desks. The images they produce might run the gamut from abstract doodles to colorful narrative scenes. But this isn’t an art class; the students will be illustrating their moods as part of a new one-credit course at the University of Maryland, College Park, that Morgan developed to teach students basic emotional regulation skills.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

ChatGPT is capable of producing high-quality essays with minimal human input ChatGPT: what can the extraordinary artificial intelligence chatbot do? Lecturers at UK universities have been urged to review the way in which their courses are assessed amid concerns that students are already using a potent new AI tool capable of producing high-quality essays with minimal human input.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

Image: Belmont University, a private Christian institution in Nashville, Tenn., plans to break a long-standing tradition of only hiring Christian instructors by opening some faculty positions to Jewish candidates. University leaders recently announced they’re specifically recruiting Jewish faculty members to teach in three of its graduate programs, hopefully as early as this spring.

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College for Creative Study

JANUARY 13, 2023

The post Art Practice Alumnus Craig Nowak Talks About Creating Art with the Community Through Gesher Human Services’ Creative Expressions Program appeared first on College for Creative Studies.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. In addition to Decatur at the Museum of Natural History, Daniel Weiss at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Tony Marx at the New York Public Library; Karen Lawrence at the Huntington Library, Art Museum

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

Collegiate esports is a big deal on many campuses these days, with many schools offering programs ranging from competitive teams to full degrees in fields such as game design and broadcasting. And unlike most traditional sports, there is no barrier to entry for players based on their physical size or natural athleticism. Plus, both men and women can compete together on the same teams and within the same leagues.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

Given today’s demands, most colleges would benefit from higher-performing boards, writes Peter D. Eckel. But what is effective governance? And how do we know it when we see it? Editorial Tags: Career Advice Governance Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Flash vector/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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Biola

JANUARY 13, 2023

Why do we desire fresh starts and growth? The Bible shows us that we were created with a desire to learn and grow. In Genesis, God says to Adam and Eve, “be fruitful and multiply.” Jesus models learning from a young age as we see him listening and.

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JANUARY 13, 2023

The American Sociological Association said in a statement this week that it “strongly supports scholars, teachers and researchers who are committed to raising awareness about the impact of race and racism in American and global society. Unfortunately, many sociologists and sociology teachers are currently facing fear for their livelihoods and careers due to the suppression of discussions of race and structural racism.

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Ed.gov Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

Secretary Cardona has challenged us to not just refine the same strategies but to make the most of this once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform education. We have a clear challenge to reimagine our schools, and the Department is making investments in education innovation through programs like EIR and other federal grants. The Department recently announced $160.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

Three committee chairs in the New York State Senate are questioning Yeshiva University for accepting state funds as a secular institution, The New York Times reported. Yeshiva is currently fighting in court to refuse to recognize an LGBTQ organization. The university maintains that, as a religious institution, that is its right. But a letter from legislators notes that at least twice, Yeshiva has said it is a secular institution.

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Proctor Academy

JANUARY 13, 2023

This past week in Charleston Harbor, a group of Proctor folk gathered for the send off of the Harvey Gamage and Proctor’s Ocean Classroom program. Students from Proctor and the MET Schools in Providence, RI prepared over the course of the last two weeks to learn to be mariners and how to collaborate with each other while helping to run a tall ship for the next 65 days.

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JANUARY 13, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. Regular riders of public buses are familiar with the stop cord. It’s a cord or a bar, or sometimes a button, that any rider can pull/push at any time to stop the bus. The idea is that if there’s an emergency in the back, the driver might not know it right away. In the context of a bus, it makes a lot of sense.

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Ray Schroeder

JANUARY 13, 2023

Holy Names University, a 154-year-old Catholic institution in Oakland, California, that serves a large number of first-generation and low-income students, will shut down when its spring semester ends in May because of rising costs and falling enrollment, it announced Monday. Leaders decided in November 2021 that their best option for the future was finding a merger partner.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

A Texas appeals court ruled in favor of Texas Southern University this week in a case brought by an associate professor of justice studies, Guatam Nayer, who said that the institution discriminated and retaliated against him. A trial court previously denied the university summary judgment on Nayer’s claims, with the university arguing then that Nayer hadn’t exhausted administrative remedies and that Texas’s strong sovereign immunity doctrine applied.

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SRHE

JANUARY 13, 2023

by Lauren McAllister, Luke Ward, and Lauren Young. From left to right: Lauren Young, Lauren McAllister, and Luke Ward. As three lecturers who have taught on a postgraduate course for several years that covers topics around race, gender, identities, parenting, development, disabilities, mental health, wellbeing, and the associated experiences of managing these oppressive and regulatory discourses – we began to question how we can keep ourselves, and our students ‘safe’.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

The City University of New York system ended the last of its remedial math and English courses this fall, according to a press release sent Thursday. The classes have been replaced by corequisite courses, which offer credit and include extra academic supports. The move is the culmination of a remedial education reform effort at CUNY that started in 2016.

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eLiterate

JANUARY 13, 2023

I’ll be facilitating a webinar on Competency-Based Education (CBE) next Thursday as the culmination of a three-part series about the changing higher education landscape hosted by Open LMS. The first webinar was about the connections between higher ed and workforce learning. The second was about international education. In this third webinar, we’ll be talking about how support for CBE ties in to the prior two webinar themes.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

Blog: Call to Action: Marketing and Communications in Higher Education Before becoming a college president, I held a variety of communications, marketing and enrollment positions at different types of institutions. These roles allowed me to work across the institutions, and because I had to communicate clearly about things I originally knew little about, I was forced to dig into issues and understand them.

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Collegis Education Data Management

JANUARY 13, 2023

There is no shortage of data in higher education systems, but the challenge is that it’s often siloed across customer relationship management systems, student information systems, learning management systems, and marketing platforms. Schools are hungry for easy access to insights about the entire student journey so they can increase student retention, improve student outcomes, and boost enrollment.

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CAPD

JANUARY 13, 2023

McKinsey is actively recruiting candidates set to receive a PhD, post-doctorate, or MD degree in 2024. Application review for students graduating in 2023 has closed. Below is a list of events and programs where you can learn more about McKinsey APD recruiting. Consultant Panel & Recruiting Kick-off at MIT January 25 at 5:30 PM in 32-144 McKinsey & Company is among the most prestigious global Management Consulting firms in the world and a trusted advisor to many of the world’s most influe

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EAB

JANUARY 13, 2023

Blog. 4 key takeaways from an analysis of the U.K. IT labour market. The U.K. is facing a severe shortage of tech professionals as mounting job vacancies in tech exceed vacancies in any other labour area. A growing shortage of digital skills leaves few qualified candidates to fill these roles. What’s more, the HE sector is struggling to recruit tech talent due to competitive salaries and greater remote work flexibility outside of the sector.

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CAPD

JANUARY 13, 2023

Riccio Graduate Engineering Leadership Program IAP Workshop. January 31, 1-4 PM; Room 32-144. In this workshop, we will discuss non-technical skills that are critical for a successful PhD journey and professional career. Topics will focus on personal and interpersonal skills, including developing self-confidence, giving/receiving feedback, and managing conflict and stress.

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EAB

JANUARY 13, 2023

Resource. Modern Student Experience Diagnostic for Community Colleges. Modern student expectations are everchanging—can your community college keep up? Use this diagnostic to help you begin thinking holistically about how your community college can improve student outcomes by providing a more efficient, customized, and supportive path through the academic journey.

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CAPD

JANUARY 13, 2023

Tuesday, January 31, 2023, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm. E19-202 – Ford Building (E19). Register HERE. New year, new you! Have you resolved to make 2023 the year where you take control of your journey through graduate school and aim towards your career? Or, are you curious to see how you could make 2023 a year of intentional personal growth and professional development?

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University Business

JANUARY 13, 2023

The ballooning mental health crisis affecting college students across the country has become a focal point of stalled faculty contract negotiations at the University of Illinois Chicago. Faculty union members who are threatening to strike on Tuesday are asking for increased pay in part to compensate for larger workloads they say have resulted from their students’ heightened mental health needs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

Starting Out. Davenport University has started a campaign to raise $35 million. In the quiet phase of the campaign, it raised $23 million. Finishing Up. Elon University has raised $260 million in a campaign that started in 2019. The original goal was $250 million. Editorial Tags: Fund-Raising Is this diversity newsletter?: Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?

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University Business

JANUARY 13, 2023

The University of Florida is making sure its newly hired president, former Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, can dive into the job: It is spending $300,000 to build a new swimming pool behind the stately mansion where Sasse will live with his family, the school confirmed. Construction on the expensive addition to the 7,400-square-foot, four-bedroom mansion — provided to Sasse at no cost — started in November and is nearly complete, ahead of his first day as UF’s new president on campus next mont

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Ray Schroeder

JANUARY 13, 2023

The email went out to students at Knox College, a small liberal arts school in Illinois, on the evening of Dec. 12. A hacker group known as Hive had broken into the college’s computer system and gained access to student data, a common ransomware tactic. But this group had a new wrinkle for Knox students. “We have compromised your collage networks,” the email said, written in the kind of broken English common among international ransomware hackers.

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