Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A group of organizations is calling for the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to expand its collection of admissions data and disaggregate that data by race and ethnicity to address racial and ethnic gaps in bachelor’s degree attainment. Education Secretary Dr. Miguel Cardona In a Feb. 1 letter addressed to Education Secretary Dr. Miguel A. Cardona and Under Secretary James Kvaal, the group said that existing gaps could be exacerbated by a U.S.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Introducing a short guide entitled: “Writing Good Learning Outcomes and Objectives”, aimed at enhancing the learner experience through effective course design. Available at [link] The book has sections on the function and purpose of intended learning outcomes as well as guidance on how to write them with validation in mind. Sections explore the use of different educational taxonomies as well as some things to avoid, and the importance of context.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Mott Community College’s automotive department is reopening its student service garage to the public starting Feb. 13, giving drivers a low-cost option for auto repairs again, ABC12 News reported. The garage – it closed to the public in 2020 due to the pandemic – will cost $10 per vehicle per day for inspection, diagnosis, and repairs. And drivers only pay for the cost of installed parts.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Image: New data from the Lumina Foundation on college degree or credential attainment rates for U.S. adults show both good and bad news. The national share of working-age Americans who hold college degrees increased across racial and ethnic groups and rose in all states between 2019 and 2021. The share of adults with degrees or other post–high school credentials, such as workforce certificates, also grew.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has elected seven new directors and new board officers at its 2023 Annual Meeting, including Dr. Mary Ann Villarreal as chair of its Board of Directors. Dr. Mary Ann Villarreal Villarreal is currently the vice president for equity, diversity, and inclusion at the University of Utah. Other appointments include Dr.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In Scholaroo’s recent student financial aid index report, the scholarship-tracking service investigated the amount of money each state is allocating to its students through assistance programs. The report broke it down by each undergraduate student on average, by state. “Student Financial Aid is a key factor in making college more accessible and affordable for post-secondary students,” the report noted. “It helps them achieve their academic goals by alleviating the financ

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The College Board has released the official framework for its new AP African American studies course. Dr. Marvin T Chiles The release builds upon the pilot program that College Board released and implemented in select U.S. public high schools last year. “I have no issue with College Board putting African American Studies into practice in high schools,” said Dr.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

DeSantis’ conservative agenda for Florida’s New College of Florida made its first major move Tuesday by ousting sitting president Patricia Okker, replacing her with former education commissioner and GOP Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran. This move comes on the heels of DeSantis appointing six conservative trustees at the public university with the collective aim of revamping the school to emulate Hillsdale College, the private conservative religious “classical” colle

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Image: Against the backdrop of headlines blaring news about declining community college enrollments, one bright spot has emerged: community college students, faculty and administrators are broadly aligned in their enthusiasm for the digital transformation that has occurred at their institutions since the start of the pandemic. That’s the broad finding of a report , “The Digital Transformation of the Community College,” published today by Bay View Analytics.

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Ed.gov Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In the U.S., accountability and funding for school curriculum, buildings, and grounds primarily comes from state and local agencies. For this reason, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has limited authorities in the areas of school infrastructure, sustainability, environmental justice, and climate. Nevertheless, ED continues to think creatively about how it can spur action and Continue Reading The post ED Invites Organizations to Make School Infrastructure and Sustainability Commitments appea

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We should help students in our literature classes to transcend the too-common notion that “the film was funny but the book was not,” writes Douglas King. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty teachinglearning Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Career Advice Teaching Today Show on Jobs site: Image Source: shahfarshid/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

An increase in remote learning, more student and staff devices, and more physical bodies returning to campus all can stress a university’s IT infrastructure. In turn, higher education institutions are looking to incorporate more technology to provide the services students and staff are after, from dipping into the metaverse to enhancing video solutions.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

University leaders fear billions being lost as a result of battles within government over immigration policy Vice-chancellors fear billions of pounds could be lost because of new restrictions on international students, the result of internal government battles over immigration policy. University leaders have been briefed that No 10 may side with the Home Office in supporting restrictions on international students applying to UK universities that could amount to “an act of economic self-harm”, de

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eLiterate

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As I outlined recently in my “ e-Literate’s Changing Themes for Changing Times ” post, I am shifting my coverage somewhat. I’ll be developing and calling out tags I use for these themes so that you can go to an archive page on each one. This one will be listed under the “ AI/ML ” “ third-wave EdTech ,” and “ future of work ” tags. I’ve been fascinated by the rapid progression of ChatGPT article fads: Look at this weird thing that writes stuff!

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Ed.gov Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month provides a platform to showcase the Native American Career and Technical Education Program (NACTEP), Native Hawaiian Career and Technical Education Program (NHCTEP) and the Tribally Controlled Postsecondary Career and Technical Institutions Program (TCPCTIP) and their important role in building knowledge and skills in different fields for different communities.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Temple University graduate students began striking Tuesday for the first time in that union’s history, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Bethany Kosmicki, a member of the Temple University Graduate Students’ Association’s negotiating team, said in a news release that “Temple’s administration has repeatedly ignored our demands, refusing us fair pay, affordable dependent health care and increased parental leave.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Little prospect of breakthrough as strikes hit schools, trains, universities and border checks across country School and train strikes – latest news updates UK politics live – latest news updates Unions and the government appeared as far apart as ever, after Wednesday’s widespread strike action closed thousands of schools across England and Wales. Striking workers from participating unions held rallies in cities including Bristol, Brighton, Birmingham and London, as teachers, university staff, r

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Colleges and universities can commit their land or endowment funds to kick-start local affordable-housing efforts, according to a report released today by the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area. Students and employees of colleges in the Washington, D.C., region are part of an increasing percentage of the population facing “unsustainable rent burdens,” the report states.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It has been seven months since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a decision that ended nearly 50 years of federal abortion rights. NBC’s Joe Fryer has the story of how college students at various U.S. campuses are working to install vending machines to make emergency contraception more accessible. Read more on NBC News. The post College students install Plan B vending machines on campus appeared first on University Business.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A coalition of progressive education groups is today sending a letter to the Education Department asking it to collect and publicize: Data on applications and admits, disaggregated by race and ethnicity. (It currently disaggregates those data by gender. It only disaggregates enrollments by race/ethnicity.) Data on legacy applicants, admits and enrollments, disaggregated by race/ethnicity and by low-income status on enrollments.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday announced a package of major reforms to Florida’s higher education system, including tighter controls on faculty tenure, the establishment of “civics institutes” at three universities and prohibitions on diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Speaking at a news conference in Bradenton, the governor praised Florida’s ranking by U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Blog: Call to Action: Marketing and Communications in Higher Education Can artificial intelligence technology help you research content ideas? Yes. Develop copy for a news release or marketing email? Probably. How about a blog post on a complex research breakthrough, a compelling profile of a donor or engaging stories about successful alumni? Unlikely.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

After more than a year of unsuccessful negotiations, the union representing 750 graduate student teaching and research assistants at Temple University went on strike Tuesday, for the first time in the union’s history. Members are planning to picket around campus and hold a rally at 2:30 p.m. outside Charles Library before a scheduled board of trustees meeting, said Bethany Kosmicki, a member of the negotiating committee and past president of Temple University Graduate Students’ Association (TUGS

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The federal government has settled a lawsuit with Hunter College and a former Hunter professor alleging fraudulent use of grant funding from the National Institutes of Health between 2010 and 2018, according to a statement the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York released Monday. The lawsuit centered on Jeffrey Parsons-Hietikko, a former psychology professor who also led Hunter’s Center for HIV Educational Studies (CHEST), which he founded in 1996.

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CAPD

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Jan 25, 2023, Kathryn M. O’Neill for Slice of MIT “Indigenous philosophies, and Dakota philosophy in particular, [are] not well known or understood. And so, when I have the opportunity to talk to people about it through my artwork, I see that light bulb come on,” says multimedia artist Erin Genia SM ’19, who is Dakota, an enrolled member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A former postdoc at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was charged last year with sending an 803-page manifesto in which he threatened a mass shooting at UCLA as well as killing individual faculty members has been found by a judge to not be capable of standing trial, the Los Angeles Times reported. Matthew Harris is “presently suffering from a mental disease or defect rendering him incompetent to proceed,” wrote the judge.

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College for Creative Study

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The post Welcome to the Golden Age of Car Headlight Design appeared first on College for Creative Studies.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

HashtagHigherEd US is a dedicated forum for higher education marketing and communications professionals to come together and share best practices in communication, marketing and branding strategies in a crowded and dynamic landscape.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

For decades, Bay State College has welcomed students to classes in a swanky, marble-floored office building in downtown Boston. But only a trickle of students arrived for classes this week, following news that the college could lose its accreditation — and its ability to award degrees — by summer. Pedro, a 21-year-old nursing student who wanted to give only his first name, said he was devastated by the news.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The University of California, Berkeley, fired Teri McKeever, its women’s swimming coach on Tuesday, the Southern California News Group reported. The university, which interviewed 147 people and reviewed 1,700 documents, found “by a preponderance of the evidence that Coach McKeever discriminated against certain student-athletes, in certain instances, on the basis of race, national origin and disability.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The North Dakota State legislature is considering a new emergency bill, House Bill 1446, which was introduced on Jan. 18 and aims to overhaul the tenure process at two centers for higher learning within the state's university system. The bill, introduced by House Majority Leader Representative Mike Lefor, (R-Dickinson), seeks to create a pilot program focused on campus models currently in practice at Bismarck State College and Dickinson State University, with the goal of improving the tenure pro

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Simon Bull asks for discrimination against the state-educated to be outlawed, and other readers write on Oxbridge and Eton domination Like John Harris, I went from a comprehensive school to Oxbridge, and my experience was very similar to his (To understand the Zahawi story and Tory sleaze, look no further than Britain’s posh cliques, 29 January). The consequences of this for all in society are becoming increasingly clear.

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Missouri State

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Happy New Year! January means returning to school after the Winter Break, and it also means winter weather is in full swing. As we know, the first few months of the year are typically when the state of Missouri has most of its inclement weather for the season. As you are coming back to school and maybe even making plans for this semester, please be mindful of the dangers of traveling in winter conditions and check out these tips to stay safe and warm!

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute : Kathleen Lubey, professor of English at St. John’s University, in New York, takes a historical look at how pornography and its messaging have changed. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Campus Sonar

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

I had the pleasure of presenting a workshop at the 2022 AMA on “Combining Marketing and Communication for Long-Lasting Brand Impact” with all-star higher ed leaders Jenny Petty (University of Montana), Binti Harvey (Scripps College), and Teresa Valerio Parrot (TVP Communications). We showed campuses how they need both marketing and communications professionals to collaborate to achieve institutional goals.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Higher education has come to mean a great many things to the American people—a coming-of-age experience, a stepping-stone holding the promise to a better future, even validation that an individual “belongs” to an exclusive institution. But in a simple sense, it could be argued that it is designed to serve one of two primary purposes: either to advance knowledge, by means of research, or transfer knowledge, through an array of learning experiences.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

What does pornography tell us? In today’s Academic Minute, St. John’s University’s Kathleen Lubey examines this from a historical standpoint. Lubey is a professor of English at St. John’s, in New York, and author of What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest Since the Eighteenth Century ( Stanford University Press , 2022). A transcript of this podcast can be found here.

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