Great College Advice

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Disclose Learning Differences on College Application…or Not? Nearly every week a student or two will ask me if they should disclose learning differences on the college application. Generally speaking, students don’t want to give a college any reason to generate any preconceived notions about them. Even though colleges have come a long way in terms of understanding and accommodating learning differences, most people don’t understand the varied range of learning disabilities, such as dyslexia, pro

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Category: Carpe Careers Dinuka Gunaratne and Punita Lumb provide strategies to help racially minoritized students replenish their social resource capital so as to navigate the challenges of grad school successfully. Section: Diversity Editorial Tags: Career Advice Graduate students Show on Jobs site: Image Source: SDI Productions/E+/getty images Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Multiple Authors: Dinuka Gunaratne Punita Lumb Is this diversity newsletter?

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Experiential Learning Depot

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

If you’ve been following along with my self-directed learning series, you know how fantastic it can be for both students and teachers. The desire is there to get students out of their seats and engaged in activities and learning experiences that they care about. How nice would it be to have a student come to you and say that they want to learn more about this or that?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

On Jan. 8, after almost three years of shutting itself off from the rest of the world as part of the country’s heavy-handed “zero-COVID” policy, China opened its borders and scrapped quarantine requirements for inbound travelers. For college admission recruiters in the U.S. and around the world, this means a long-awaited recruitment trip to China could become a reality soon, possibly as early as spring.

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College for Creative Study

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The post CCS alumnus named Higher Education Educator of the Year in West Virginia appeared first on College for Creative Studies.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Image: When Glynis Fitzgerald was named the College of Saint Mary’s first new president in 26 years last November, the Roman Catholic women’s college seemed to be set to continue the work of the outgoing president, who was widely credited with helping to grow enrollment and pull the Nebraska institution out of deep debt. Rick Jeffries, vice chair of the Saint Mary’s Board of Trustees, gushed about the selection of Fitzgerald on Twitter and described her as “a courageous,

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Proctor Academy

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This week has been one of my favorite weeks and here's why: Monday started with going to Tina’s house. We were instantly met with a warm smile and were welcomed into her lovely home. We got a tour of her vineyards, asked lots of questions, and watched her go through the process of producing wine.

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Higher Education Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Title: THE CUPA-HR 2022 Higher Education Employee Retention Survey: Focus on Supervisors Authors: Melissa Fuesting and Jennifer Schneider Source: College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) CUPA-HR has released a new report that provides insight into employee retention in the field of higher education. The report explores variables contributing to employee retention such as.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Image: Preparing for life after graduation can be a daunting task for students, but Barnard College’s peer career advisers program offers friendly faces and advice from fellow students. For over a decade, students have worked alongside staff at the college’s career center to provide professional development help for the larger campus community, part of a long-standing institutional tradition.

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Higher Education Whisperer

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Greetings from the ANU Centre for European Studies, where Dr Olesya Khromeychuk, is speaking on Choosing Freedom in Ukraine. In his introduction, His Excellency Vasyl Myroshnychenko, Ambassador of Ukraine, praised the role of "citizen ambassadors", to keep his nation in the spotlight.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

On the first day of class, many faculty will dedicate time to going over the course syllabus. This is often used as an opportunity to present the syllabus as a “contract” and to make course policies and penalties clear to students. But what if the syllabus were seen as a critical tool for student engagement and success and used as an opportunity to set the tone for a positive learning environment?

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

My friend and teacher Kenneth Fowler, who has died aged 88, was an eminent historian of the hundred years war, and a leading light in the teaching of history over more than three decades at Edinburgh University. Ken’s parents, Ronald and Ethel (nee McMahon), lived next door to the large grocer’s shop they kept at Clayton-le-Woods in Lancashire, and sent Ken and his older brother, David, later a successful businessman, to the local primary school, from where Ken went on to boarding school in Derb

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Eastern Washington University blocked a professor from using the university’s Twitter account for nearly a year because of his tweets critical of university spending on athletics, The Spokesman-Review reported. Larry Cebula, a history professor, was blocked. David Meany, director of communications and media relations, said Cebula’s tweets were defamatory.

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Experiential Learning Depot

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

A student-led learning classroom environment looks different than a traditional learning setting, including the teacher's role. ​But what does that look like? What does a student led classroom look like? Imagine you walk into a classroom or homeschool. You look around and see students spread out around the room. Some students are quietly lounging in bean bag chairs, reading, writing, or reflecting.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” – H.L. Mencken You’re in a leadership role on a campus that wants to do something you consider destructive, or ill-advised, or even illegal. What do you do? To some degree, it depends on your theory of your role.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

There are many things we can teach through books and lectures but giving students highly realistic, “hands-on” experience through a virtual world isn’t one of them. But that future is coming very soon, and it will revolutionize K-12 and higher education. Another educational VR experience I recently had was at Stanford University in the Virtual Human Interaction Lab run by Jeremy Bailenson.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Keylin Perez recently became the first Latina to be named Miss Coppin State University, and the reaction at the historically Black university has not been good, The Baltimore Banner reported. She says she has experienced extensive cyberbullying from Black students. “I knew that it would happen when I first decided to run. I knew it might take this route.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

A professor at Purdue University was taken into custody in connection with drug-related accusations and allegedly propositioning women. Sergey Macheret, 65, was arrested Wednesday after the Lafayette Police Department’s weeks-long investigation into several complaints of a “ suspicious male approaching women ,” according to Indianapolis news station Fox 59.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Three students at James Madison University, in Virginia, were killed when their car veered off a road in West Virginia and struck a tree last week, The Washington Post reported. Two other students suffered injuries and were hospitalized. All of the students involved were 19. “The loss our community has felt today is unthinkable,” President Jonathan Alger and other university officials said in a statement Friday.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Frustrated by low wages and new laws limiting what they can teach — and buoyed by President Joe Biden’s pro-union bent — campus workers across the country are moving with new urgency to organize. A historic strike at the University of California kicked things off in November. And the six-week standoff among 48,000 campus workers, a broader surge in labor strikes across industries, a depleted pandemic workforce and a friendlier atmosphere in Washington has culminated in a wave of uprisings.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Colorado State University has apologized on Twitter for an incident in which “a small group of individuals in our student section chanted ‘Russia’ at a student-athlete from Utah State, who is from the Ukraine [ sic ].” “On behalf of Colorado State, we apologize to the student-athlete and Utah State. This is a violation of our steadfast belief in the Mountain West Sportsmanship Policy and University Principles of Community,” said the university of the behavior

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Paradigm IQ

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Investing in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) isn’t only the right thing for companies to do, it has tangible business rewards. Well-executed DEI programs create a workplace culture where all individuals are valued, treated with respect, and have an equitable opportunity to succeed. This includes valuing different perspectives, backgrounds, experiences, and.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Enjoy this special 100th episode of the Innovating Together podcast where Inside Higher Ed co-founder Doug Lederman and University Innovation Alliance (UIA) CEO Bridget Burns will reflect on insights and lessons learned from the past two years of interviews with leaders across higher education, and Doug will turn the tables on Bridget to ask her a selection of fan-favorite questions VIEW PREVIOUS EPISODES >> Section: University Innovation Alliance Event's date: Monday, November 15, 20

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Higher Education Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Title: Postdoctoral Barriers to Success Source: National Postdoctoral Association Postdoctoral scholars, commonly referred to as “postdocs,” are relied on to fulfill over 70,000 critical research and scientific positions across academia, government, and industry in the U.S. In exchange for providing cutting-edge expertise and skills, postdocs are promised “mentored training” to make them more competitive and.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Image: Picture this: A student is working diligently in a class, understanding and engaging with the material—but not turning in assignments. The student’s rationale: “I’m never going to be good at time management.” It’s a story that educators have heard before—students expressing they’re stuck or caught in a fixed mind-set.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Hilbert College, a nonprofit Catholic institution in New York, is purchasing for-profit Valley College, which has four sites in Ohio and West Virginia. That makes for an unusual match. The four-year Roman Catholic nonprofit college in New York announced Wednesday that it would acquire Valley College, a for-profit career institution with four sites in Ohio and West Virginia.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Most of the best students in Alaska high schools leave the state for college. And a state scholarship designed to change that is not working, The Anchorage Daily News reported. The Alaska Performance Scholarship was first established in 2011 to keep the best students in the state for college. There are three tiers to the scholarship, the highest of which is $4,755 per year.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Cutting funding to Georgia’s public colleges and universities is not the solution. That’s what education leaders told lawmakers planning this year’s budget. "That's really going to hurt our smaller institutions and those that are declining in enrollment", says Georgia Public University leader. For the second year in a row, enrollment in Georgia's public college system has dropped.

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StudentAffairs.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We chat with Dr. Susan Komives. She is professor emerita from the student affairs graduate program at the University of Maryland, College Park where she taught for 25 years and was a VPSA at two institutions. Dr. Komives is past president of both ACPA and CAS and is the recipient of the life time achievement awards from ALE, ACPA, and NASPA. Background info on our guest plus a full transcript is available at studentaffairspodcast.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute : Kristen McHenry, assistant professor in the department of respiratory care at Boise State University, explores how the strains on health-care professionals are playing out in academe. 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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

When President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address from the House rostrum Tuesday, he is expected to discuss the economy, to talk about the war in Ukraine, and to make a case for his re-election. But the world of higher education will be listening carefully for what Biden may say about the many issues America’s colleges and universities are facing, several of which have assumed national prominence in recent months.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

King’s College, in New York City, is facing severe financial difficulties, Bloomberg reported. The Christian college is very small, with only a little more than 300 undergraduates. Bloomberg cited a letter from Stockwell Day, the interim president, to alumni. The letter said the college needs $2.6 million for “immediate financial needs.” If the college can raise the money, Day said, there are hopes for survival.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Oklahoma is the latest state to combat “indoctrination” in its state higher education system, requesting a detailed report from the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education of all expenditures related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) made over the past 10 years. Last week, Allison D. Garrett, chancellor of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, provided the state with a report of school spending history on DEI.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

It’s been a long road for those in health care over the last few years. In today’s Academic Minute, Boise State University’s Kristen McHenry examines the impact on those with other obligations as well. McHenry is an assistant professor in the department of respiratory care at Boise State. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. Section: Academic Minute File: 02-06-23 Boise - Burnout and Well-being Among Healthcare Faculty.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As a growing number of undergraduate students each year opt to enroll in computer science, it’s important to know which schools offer the best degrees in the field. The latest enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows that undergraduate enrollment in computer and information sciences was the only category of accredited programs to continually grow in the last five years without a single year of decline.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Republican leaders of the House and Senate education committees want Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to extend the comment period on the proposed changes to income-driven repayment regulations. The 30-day comment period will close Friday, Feb. 10, but the lawmakers want a 30-day extension. More than 8,500 comments have been submitted so far. “By extending the public comment period by at least 30 days, the American public has time to review what could very well be the most costly regulat

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Student debt in the United States is a heavily racialized issue. Minoritized students borrow more money and have a harder time repaying it. More than half of Black students have student debt balances that exceed their net worth, and nearly half owe more money than they initially borrowed four years after their graduation. “Debt works differently for Black and white families, period,” said Dr.

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