Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 6, 2023
Colleges and universities generate vast amounts of data every day, spanning from the research findings of their scholars to the log-in times of their students to learning management systems. But institutions of higher learning have fallen behind businesses and government when it comes to putting this data to use, according to a new study in Science.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 6, 2023
Image: Tabitha Edson always knew she wanted to work in health sciences. She earned a nursing assistant certification in high school but decided not to pursue the field at Westminster College, a small private institution in Salt Lake City; she worried that it would limit her job opportunities when she graduated. Instead, she found herself drawn to public health, inspired by an introductory course in the subject required for both public health and nursing majors.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 6, 2023
Jeffrey Coleman Jeffrey Coleman has been named vice president for diversity, inclusion, and community engagement at Framingham State. He holds a bachelor’s degree in public policy studies from Trinity College, a master’s in counseling from Central Connecticut State University, and a Ph.D. in educational studies and cultural studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 6, 2023
The movement must not be written off as just politics or culture wars when in fact it’s a direct threat to everything higher education stands for, writes Michael Gavin. Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Brent Stirton/Staff/Getty Images News Image Caption: Insurrectionists clash with law enforcement as they try to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 6, 2023
Tanya Easton Tanya Easton has been appointed vice president of university advancement at Misericordia University. Easton holds a bachelor’s degree in English composition from Davis and Elkins College in Elkins, W.V., and a master’s and Ed.D. in higher education administration and leadership studies from West Virginia University.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
JANUARY 6, 2023
Arizona State University and Zoom have announced a new five-year partnership that will create a student-led development program at the tier-one research university. The Zoom Innovation Lab promises to give ASU students the opportunity to work with Zoom professionals and partners, gaining hands-on experience tackling major projects. Two of those projects are already underway, according to a university press release.
University Business
JANUARY 6, 2023
Innovation is alive and well on campus as R&D on campus is seeing increased investment by college and university leaders. Academic institutions spent $89.9 billion on research and development in math, science, engineering and other major fields during FY 2021, an increase of $3.4 billion from 2020, according to the latest data from the National Science Foundation.
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eLiterate
JANUARY 6, 2023
As with much of the venture capital world, EdTech venture funding has slowed to a trickle overall and is almost completely frozen in some areas, such as early-stage investments. Conventional wisdom seems to be that this state of affairs won’t last forever. Since the proximate causes of the situation are falling stock prices and high inflation, the investing environment should improve significantly during 2023 as inflation falls and the stock market begins to recover.
Terminalfour
JANUARY 6, 2023
For higher education professionals, there’s usually a cost associated with every aspect of a creative marketing campaign. But you have millions of free creative assets right at your fingertips. Here’s how to find them.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 6, 2023
Column: Intellectual Affairs The patient, an accomplished scholar of international reputation, presents with recurrent symptoms that suggest an underlying malady. Relevant behavior may be summarized briefly: While reading, he “yawns a lot and readily drifts off into sleep; he rubs his eyes and stretches his arms; turning his eyes away from the book, he stares at the wall and again goes back to read for a while; leafing through the pages, he looks curiously for the end of texts, he counts t
Ray Schroeder
JANUARY 6, 2023
Colby-Sawyer College has joined a growing number of small, private colleges in what’s called the tuition reset, which overhauls prices to reflect what most students actually pay after discounting through need-based and merit financial aid. The reset is part marketing move and part reality check. It is frank recognition among some lesser-known colleges that their prices are something of a feint.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 6, 2023
Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A freshman dormmate won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry nearly a decade ago. His book sold, according to the last count that I saw, 353 copies. Sure, there is at least one young contemporary poet, Amanda Gorman, whose name the educated public might recognize, along with such stalwarts as Maya Angelou, John Ashbery, and John Betjeman.
SRHE
JANUARY 6, 2023
by Kristina Gruzdeva. In 2022, the cost of living crisis meant communities across the UK had to adjust their behaviours and their spending. Many needed to learn to navigate within a complex energy market. Prospective university students were in a similar position, being expected to make a cost-conscious decision about their degree education with limited understanding of their options.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 6, 2023
Enrollment remains the biggest risk cited by colleges and universities for the fourth year in a row, according to the 2022 Top Risks Report from United Educators. Data security ranked second for the third consecutive year. Recruitment and hiring jumped from 14th place to third, and student mental health—broken out in the survey for the first time this year—ranked fifth.
University Business
JANUARY 6, 2023
“Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty, waning confidence, and declining enrollment, education leaders are facing monumental challenges.” Fortunately, higher education leaders can enter 2023 with ears ready to listen and words turned into action because that’s what students and families need the most. Qualtrics, an experience management company, recently released its “ 2023 Education Experience Trends ” report, which details the public’s perceptions of th
CAPD
JANUARY 6, 2023
MIT micro-internships connect alumni and students. By: Julie Fox | Jan. 5th 2023 | MIT Tech Review. “As the youngest of four girls, Rosalie Phillips ’21 looked up to her sisters, and everywhere they went, she went. As early as fifth grade, she recalls, she was joining her oldest sister at robotics meetings in the machine shop of a local college, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.” Learn more about Rosalie’s journey to product development with Milwaukee Tool and
Study and Go Abroad
JANUARY 6, 2023
So, you’re thinking of moving to the Netherlands to pursue higher education? – Lekker! You’ve been doing tons of research on study programs, transportation, the weather, and the quirky Dutch culture. However, the most important thing to consider when moving to the Netherlands is housing. Searching for a place to live that is available, well-located, and within your budget is tricky enough as it is.
CAPD
JANUARY 6, 2023
Bain and Company is excited to announce the application launch of two programs for first and second year undergraduate students! The Freshman Leadership Accelerator Program (FLA) is designed to provide key leadership development and casing skills to freshman undergraduate students who identify as Black, Hispanic/Latinx or Indigenous (Native American, Alaska Native, Inuit, Métis and First Nations).
Ray Schroeder
JANUARY 6, 2023
Three in 10 college transfer students are losing an alarming number of academic credits upon moving to a new institution, according to a study from UPCEA, an association of adult and continuing education units at colleges and universities, and StraighterLine. The findings come from a new survey examining students’ lived experiences and perceptions around transferring college credits.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 6, 2023
New details have emerged from the unsealing of an affidavit describing the evidence that led to the arrest of Bryan Kohberger, the 28-year-old Ph.D. student who is accused of brutally murdering four University of Idaho undergraduates in November. Idaho law dictated that the details not be released until Kohberger returned to the state to face murder charges, which he did Wednesday night.
University Business
JANUARY 6, 2023
Anne-Marie Jean-Louis is just getting started toward her bachelor’s degree in biology with the goal of eventually getting a graduate degree in neuroscience. That’s a long slog in the best of circumstances. And Jean-Louis is starting out at a community college with plans to transfer to a four-year university, making it likely to take even longer. On paper, starting at a community college is a great idea.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 6, 2023
Today on the Academic Minute : Huolin Xin, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine, examines how making batteries for electric vehicles can come with a human cost in poorer countries. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?
University Business
JANUARY 6, 2023
Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka has long called for investing in public education, and on Wednesday said the passage of a 2019 education funding reform bill often referred to as the Student Opportunity Act in her first year as president was among her “proudest accomplishments in this office.” The law committed $1.5 billion in additional funding over a seven-year period toward the state’s K-12 public schools.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 6, 2023
Making batteries for electric vehicles can come with a human cost in poorer countries. In today’s Academic Minute, Huolin Xin of the University of California, Irvine, discusses one way to change this. Xin is a professor of physics and astronomy at UC Irvine. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. Section: Academic Minute File: 01-06-23 UCI - A Better Battery for Electric Cars.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
JANUARY 6, 2023
There’s a common misconception that increased security often comes at the expense of productivity. This can seem especially true in higher education, where students can easily forget passwords for multiple applications, bringing learning to a halt and turning faculty into help desk technicians. While this may have been true in the past, Okta’s single sign-on software solution shatters the notion.
The Guardian Higher Education
JANUARY 6, 2023
Kennedy School allegedly bowed to donors unhappy with organisation accusing Israel of apartheid in occupied territories The dean of one the US’s leading schools of government blocked a position for the former head of Human Rights Watch (HRW) over his organisation’s criticism of Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians. The Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy offered Kenneth Roth a position as a senior fellow shortly after he retired as director of HRW in April after 29 ye
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 6, 2023
Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. Readers had some characteristically thoughtful responses to this week’s posts about doing DEI work without the label and about career ceilings. Thanks to everyone who took the time to write. A few highlights: For the DEI piece, one reader mentioned that her institution has established peer tutors in STEM classes called STEM guides.
University Business
JANUARY 6, 2023
As Gov. Ron DeSantis targets “trendy ideology” in higher education, his administration is asking state colleges and universities for information about resources they are putting into activities related to diversity, equity and inclusion, and critical race theory. State Rep. Angie Nixon, a Democrat from Jacksonville, blasted the directive in a Twitter post.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 6, 2023
The University of Texas at Austin fired Chris Beard as head men's basketball coach after he was arrested last month for domestic violence against his fiancee. Chris Del Conte, the athletic director, said: "The University of Texas has parted ways with Chris Beard. This has been a difficult situation that we've been diligently working through.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 6, 2023
Florida governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has asked Florida’s public colleges to report on the costs associated with diversity, equity and inclusion programs, The Tallahassee Democr a t reported. He asked last month, and his administration released the request Wednesday. The memo also asked institutions to include the number of positions and amount of funding dedicated to each program as well as how much of that cost is state funding.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 6, 2023
Image: With Republicans in the majority in the House of Representatives and oversight looming, the U.S. Education Department is planning to stay busy with another round of negotiated rule making. The docket for this year includes amending regulations on accreditation, state authorization, the definition of distance education, cash management and third-party servicers.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 6, 2023
Image: Two years ago today, a group of insurrectionists, whipped into a frenzy by former President Trump’s false rhetoric about a stolen election, waged an attack on the U.S. Capitol, seeking to subvert American democracy. During the course of that tumultuous day, Trump made several calls to legal counsel—including to Mark Martin, a former North Carolina Supreme Court justice, who was then dean of Regent University School of Law and an informal Trump adviser.
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