Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Family, it is time for a chat! Pull up a seat or make whatever adjustments that you need to make so that my brothers and I can rap with you. Over the last few days, we have seen countless opinions internal and external to the HBCU community regarding the exit of Coach Prime [Deion Sanders] from Jackson State University. There have been many opinions flying across Twitter, Facebook, and even national news stations like CNN.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Bitter controversy has recently swirled around California’s revised Mathematics Framework, a set of recommendations about how math should be taught in the state’s K-12 schools. At stake are hot-button issues involving equity, privilege, socioeconomic class and gender, ethnicity and race. There’s no disagreement about the need to improve math fluency and reduce performance gaps.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A growing body of research has shown that race-matched instruction—when teachers and learners come from the same background—is beneficial for students. College students have been shown to be likelier to pass courses with race-matched instructors, likelier to receive higher grades in those courses, and likelier to persist in school. Race-matched students were also more likely to take an additional class in that subject and to major in it.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The past two-and-a-half years have seen higher education embrace the boundless potential of technology in the classroom like never before. Digital collaboration is an invaluable part of most college courses, powerful networks connect students from every corner of campus and beyond, and once futuristic tools like virtual reality are enabling students and faculty to see the world in a whole new way.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Abby Kasowitz-Scheer Abby Kasowitz-Scheer has been named head of Syracuse University Libraries’ department of learning and academic engagement. Kasowitz-Scheer has a bachelor’s degree in English and American literature from Brandeis University as well as a Master of Library Sciences degree and a master’s in instructional design, development, and evaluation from Syracuse University.

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University Business

DECEMBER 22, 2022

College applications are up for fall 2023, the Common App’s latest numbers show, including underrepresented and first-generation students. Common App compared this year’s early application numbers to 2019 to avoid drawing comparisons to the application seasons upended by COVID. In short, more applicants applied to more institutions compared to the fall before the pandemic.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way higher education approaches educational technology, accelerating adoption of equipment and methods that previously had been slowly gaining traction. The use of immersive learning technology, like virtual, augmented and extended reality, is also on the rise. In an EdTech Twitter poll, 19 percent of respondents said immersive learning is most relevant to their 2023 technology plans.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Time and technology share one common trait: Both are constantly advancing, never staying in one place. With this in mind, EdTech: Focus on Higher Education invited leaders from across higher education to weigh in on emerging tech trends for the coming year.

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Roompact

DECEMBER 22, 2022

I was 18 when I moved into my freshman residence hall, and had you told me at the time that I wouldn’t be moving out of a residence hall until I was 26, I wouldn’t have been able to fathom what that meant. However, by my first year of grad school, my live-on status felt.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer The broken record of broken transfer seems to be on constant repeat in the higher education sector. Going back decades, many states, systems and institutions have enacted sweeping policy changes and invested significant resources in supporting transfer student success. Yet student outcomes have shown little improvement and appear to have even regressed during the pandemic.

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Ray Schroeder

DECEMBER 22, 2022

For those institutions adopting the Metaverse creating their own campus in the Metaversity, the Metaverse will have a huge impact on their eLearning programs. By giving the virtual learning environment (VLE) a more life-like feel bringing online learning environments to life, the Metaverse makes learning itself more engaging and experiential.

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Via's

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Via Makes Gathering Data “Simple and Straightforward,” Director Says. Jane Bjerklie-Barry “inherited a terrible platform” when she arrived at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH, to become Director of the Office of International Programs in September 2018. . “It was archaic and antiquated and awful,” she recalls. “I realized pretty quickly that it was going to be extremely burdensome.

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The Guardian Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Private university to pay £37,000 after missing multiple deadlines and creating ‘significant regulatory risk’ The University of Buckingham has been fined by England’s higher education regulator for missing multiple deadlines to publish its audited accounts, creating “a significant regulatory risk” in the event of financial failure. Officially opened by Margaret Thatcher as education secretary in 1976 – becoming the UK’s first private university since the first world war – Buckingham is the first

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Gray Associates

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Are you ready to dive into the latest trends in higher education? Despite gloomy headlines, our data analysis reveals the surprising growth of the industry, Discover the latest trends in enrollment, costs, budgets, competition, political headwinds, and see how graduate programs are outpacing undergraduate programs.

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University Business

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As college enrollment numbers continue to decline, small private schools are slashing tuition prices in an effort to entice more students to apply. “We know the price was scaring families away,” Lasell University President Michael Alexander said. Lasell University in Newton announced it is dropping its published tuition price by 33%, from $59,130 to $39,500 in 2022-23.

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Ray Schroeder

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Almost 1.1 million unique educational credentials exist in the U.S., according to a new tally mapping a sprawling web of certificates, badges, licenses, diplomas and the like — as well as who offers them. The count comes in a report released by the nonprofit Credential Engine, which is trying to improve the available information about learning and career pathways.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 22, 2022

An independent panel that studied the “dormzilla” proposed for the University of California, Santa Barbara, has concluded that the project, even as modified recently, represents a safety threat, the Los Angeles Times reported. It should undergo a “robust redesign” with more windows, ventilation and bedroom space, said the report.

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The Humphrey Group

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Pop quiz: which of these statements is true?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Former students are suing the University of Southern California over false rankings for its education school based on data submitted by the university to U.S. News & World Report , the Los Angeles Times reported. The class action suit was filed Tuesday. “People certainly paid a premium given how expensive the school is,” said Kristen Simplicio, a lawyer representing the students.

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Clark Nesxen

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Computational design has the power to transform the way we approach problems and design solutions. It involves codifying information and interactions between elements for a specific process, enabling professionals in fields like architecture and engineering to design and engineer buildings more efficiently, accurately, and effectively. But computational design isn't limited to these traditional applications.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

It has been a year of navigating the new normal on many fronts. Enrollment remained down at every level from community colleges to graduate schools, but much of academia showed its persistence and resilience. With the COVID-19 pandemic subsiding, colleges and universities have tried to bring students back to campus and provide fresh inspiration. Although the Omicron variant upended plans much of the winter, by spring, things had settled down.

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