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Concealed Carry Bill for Public College Campuses Passes in West Virginia House of Delegates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A bill allowing people to carry concealed weapons at public college campuses in West Virginia passed by a landslide in the state's House of Delegates Feb. 21, NPR reported. This move sends the bill to West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, who has not made any public indication of whether he will sign it into law. As it stands now, the state prohibits carrying guns on public college and university campuses.

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Why higher ed needs to get on board with micro-credentials

University Business

A new study focusing on employers’ perspectives on micro-credentials reveals that while a strong majority of them believe it boosts a prospective hire’s value, not enough colleges and universities are capitalizing on it. More than 70% of respondents agreed that job applicants with non-degree or alternative credentials have increased the past two years and those hires helped their organization fill an existing skill gap (74%) and improved the quality of their workforce (73%).

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University of Texas System Board of Regents Suspends DEI Policies, Puts Them Under Scrutiny

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The University of Texas System’s board of regents has suspended all new policies promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and asked school leaders to report on their current DEI policies, citing that some practices have “strayed from the original intent,” The Texas Tribune reported. “Certain DEI efforts have strayed from the original intent to now imposing requirements and actions that, rightfully so, has raised the concerns of our policymakers around those efforts on campuses across our

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Study: Increased marijuana use on college campuses

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Opponents and proponents of legalizing marijuana have long debated whether prohibiting or decriminalizing it would lead to increased usage of the drug by young people. The jury may still be out on who’s right, although some studies have shown that recreational cannabis use increased by 20 percent in states that legalized it. Twenty-one states , along with Washington, D.C., and Guam, have legalized the sale, use and production of marijuana; 27 states have decriminalized it, and resea

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Colorado Bill Deducting Prison Time for Inmates Earning Academic Credentials Passes 61-1 in State House

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A bill to incentivize Colorado prisoners to pursue higher education passed 61-1 in the state House of Representatives, Colorado Politics reported. The bill still needs approval from the state Senate and governor. Rep. Matthew Martinez HB 1037 – Reps. Matthew Martinez and Rose Pugliese, and Sen. Julie Gonzales are prime bill sponsors – would deduct time off of an inmate’s sentence for earning an academic credential while incarcerated – six months for earning a certificate, one year for an associa

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Four ways for career centers to engage students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Career readiness is a critical part of students’ postgraduate success in the workforce. The National Association of Colleges and Employers’ 2022 Student Survey found that graduating seniors who used career center services received more job offers on average, compared to their peers who did not. While the advantages of career services are clear, higher education professionals must implement effective modeling and teaching for their students to navigate career readiness.

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Setting the Tone in DEI, Accessibility Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Following up plans for educational access and equity with actions has become the hallmark of Grand Valley State University, which has a statewide presence in Michigan. After the death of George Floyd in 2020, Dr. Philomena V. Mantella, president of Grand Valley State, issued and completed a 15-point plan for racial equity as a clear statement on providing foundational knowledge around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and emphasizing commitment to the university’s values.

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GLORIA OIKELOME

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Gloria Oikelome Gloria Oikelome has been appointed provost and vice president for academic affairs at Delaware Valley University. Oikelome received a bachelor’s degree in biology from Bethel University, a master’s in science education and cell & molecular biology from Long Island University, an Ed.D. in higher education administration from Immaculata University, and a Ph.D. in organizational leadership from Eastern University.

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Stanford hikes tuition by 7%. Will other institutions follow?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Stanford University will raise undergraduate tuition by 7 percent for the upcoming academic year, citing inflation, which has squeezed institutions and consumers alike across the U.S. The move marks a significant jump from the 4 percent tuition increase Stanford’s Board of Trustees approved last year. Experts say Stanford is an outlier in the size of its tuition increase, though they expect numerous other institutions to raise sticker prices in the coming months.

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University Business: Getting Creative: How Higher Ed is Finding Solutions to Post-Pandemic Problems

Hanover Research

Drawing on its findings and experience advising nearly 500 colleges and universities nationwide, Hanover Research has an inside line to higher ed and the major themes in which schools are entrenched. The post University Business: Getting Creative: How Higher Ed is Finding Solutions to Post-Pandemic Problems appeared first on Hanover Research.

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Tips for academics for writing effectively about numbers (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In our digital age, academics are having to include ever more numbers in papers and reports, and Martha B. Coven offers tips for using them most effectively. Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Editorial Tags: Career Advice Research Writing Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Erhui1979/digitalvision vectors/getty iamges Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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Via Welcomes Dave Saben as Chief Executive Officer

Via's

Get to know Via’s new CEO: Dave Saben Dave Saben was raised in a family that placed a high value on small business and entrepreneurship. From a young age, he was interested in business. “My family’s dinner conversations often revolved around business ideas and strategies to improve their family’s business.” Over time, Dave’s curiosity and love for business led him to explore new areas, such as information technology, coding, and website building.

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The 3 Criteria That Determine Whom I Interview for My “3 Questions” Series

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation Each week, I receive email messages from communications professionals asking if I’d be interested in including their clients in my “ 3 Questions ” series. Ninety-nine out of 100 times, I’d say the answer is no. In order to potentially generate some new Q&As and perhaps cut down on unproductive emails, I thought I’d share the criteria I use in deciding whom to interview.

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ResEdChat Ep 22: Shigeo Iwamiya on Managing Career Transitions

Roompact

In this episode of the podcast, we welcome Shigeo to the show to reflect on his career in Residence Life and how he has navigated moving back and forth across the country as he's moved up in his profession. Shigeo shares insightful advice and genuine anecdotes from his life to help folks determine what is truly important as they make decisions about their next job.

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A college widens faculty involvement in search for a president

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: In the perpetual tug-of-war between openness and confidentiality in searches for new college and university presidents, secrecy has been winning in a rout. Most recently, Florida passed a law exempting public college presidential searches from the state’s open records law, and Purdue University hired Mitch Daniels’s replacement on the same day the university announced its longtime president’s retirement.

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CCS Alumna Sydney James featured in upcoming American Masters series on PBS

College for Creative Study

The post CCS Alumna Sydney James featured in upcoming American Masters series on PBS appeared first on College for Creative Studies.

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Unpacking Financial Disincentives and Driving Beyond the Short-Term Reward Mind-Set

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Beyond Transfer Knowing there is no easy way to “fix transfer,” the Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board (PAB) seeks to tackle the complicated problems and hidden complexities associated with credit mobility and transfer. Financial disincentives—what they are, why they exist and how they impede progress on transfer and credit mobility—represent hidden complexities the PAB explores in its new paper released today.

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Proctor en Segovia: More Than Tourists

Proctor Academy

Each term Proctor en Segovia students live in Spain for more than two months, immersed in Spanish culture, language, and the rhythms of their host families. They exist in an in-between space; they are not quite local residents but are much more than tourists visiting for a day or two. By engaging with locals -- program directors, Spanish faculty, afternoon activity instructors, host families, teammates, and new friends --, they open themselves up to new perspectives and powerful learning experie

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Employers Are All In on Microcredentials, Survey Shows

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Ninety-five percent of employers see benefits in their employees accruing microcredentials, according to a new survey from Collegis Education and UPCEA, the association for college and university leaders in online and professional continuing education. Among the leaders surveyed from 500 organizations, 76 percent said pursuing microcredentials demonstrates an employee’s willingness to develop their skills, 63 percent said it shows initiative and 60 percent said it’s an easy way to co

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Warwick student with cancer wins payout after university denied extension request

The Guardian Higher Education

University accepts it did not make adjustments for her illness as a form of disability Warwick University has agreed to pay a student who is seriously ill with cancer £12,000 in damages for the “distress and inconvenience” caused by not allowing her to extend her course as a result of her health condition. Riham Sheble, an international postgraduate film and television studies student at Warwick was diagnosed with uterine sarcoma – a rare and aggressive form of cancer – in February 2021.

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Student Paper Calls on ASU to Unsubscribe From N.Y. ‘Times’

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Arizona State University’s student newspaper, State Press Magazine , called on the university to end its institutional subscription to The New York Times in solidarity with members of the LGBTQ+ community who have criticized the paper for publishing homophobic and transphobic content. On Feb. 15, a coalition of Times contributors wrote a letter to the newspaper condemning recent reporting in the paper that they described as damaging to the transgender community.

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Keir Starmer’s five missions reveal a man serious about being prime minister | Polly Toynbee

The Guardian Higher Education

We are seeing a leader emerge who doesn’t promise quick fixes, but is committed to the long-term revival of broken Britain Aside from being 28% ahead in the polls, a sure sign that a party is on the threshold of power, is its leader receiving a ferocious roasting on the BBC’s Today show. Keir Starmer, laying out his “ five missions ” covering the economy, the NHS, crime, the climate crisis and education, was stress-tested in that boxing ring on Thursday morning.

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Temple Grad Students Reject Deal to End Strike

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Temple University Graduate Students’ Association voted to reject a deal proposed by the administration to end the strike that began in late January. The margin wasn’t close: 92 percent voted to continue the strike (and 83 percent of eligible voters participated). The university has ended striking graduate student workers’ health coverage and, in what the American Federation of Teachers calls an “unprecedented” move, is demanding they pay tuition, too.

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Understanding the purpose and role of the CAA UAE in higher education

Creatrix Campus

Understanding the purpose and role of the CAA UAE in higher education editor Fri, 02/24/2023 - 01:27 Accreditation Management Header Menu White 1NoneFooter base 1Blog Style 1Right Mary Clotilda SuvinOff Introduction to CAA To colleges and universities that struggle to prove their learning and teaching caliber in the UAE region and to attract more students, the CAA or Commission for Academic Accreditation comes as bliss.

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Florida System Board Proposes Revised Posttenure Review

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The board overseeing Florida’s dozen four-year public universities proposed revised posttenure faculty review regulations Wednesday. In a news release, the State University System of Florida Board of Governors said individual university boards would have to amend their own policies to comply if the state-level board approves the proposals at its meeting next month.

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Turning Strategy into Action: Effective Approaches to Strategic Planning

Hanover Research

Learn how the strategic planning process and the structure of a strategic plan will set up your district for success when implementing strategic priorities and goals. During the webinar several districts share best practices and lessons learned while working with different departments in order to be successfully aligned in their action planning. Additionally, our panelists discuss their strategic planning efforts and the challenges they’ve experienced when planning and implementing their plans.

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UAlbany and Professor Who Goes Against Monsanto Come to Terms

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The professor who said the University at Albany barred him from campus and offered him a resignation deal after a Monsanto Co. lawyer filed a records request with the university says things are looking better now. David Carpenter said a vice chancellor of the State University of New York system, of which UAlbany is a part, took the initiative to set up what became a six-hour meeting among Carpenter, his attorney and representatives of UAlbany and the SUNY central administration.

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Verbal Sexual Harassment: What it is and How to Avoid it

Paradigm IQ

Verbal sexual harassment can happen anywhere, and the workplace is no exception. This behavior is a serious problem that affects individuals of all genders, sexual orientations, and backgrounds. Studies have found that a majority of women and half of all men have experienced some form of sexual harassment. Whether it be in-p.

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Move On From Leaning In

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Women still face divides in the workplace. In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Iowa’s Beth A. Livingston develops a way to combat this. Livingston is the Ralph L. Sheets Associate Professor of Industrial Relations at Iowa’s Tippie College of Business and faculty director of the Dore-Tippie Women’s Leadership program. A transcript of this podcast can be found here.

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FSA Details Data Security Requirements Taking Effect June 9

University Business

The U.S. Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid office recently published detailed information security requirements for higher education institutions that previously or currently service, administer, or aid in the administration of a Federal Student Aid program, noting that IHEs participating in FSA programs fall under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and must comply with its mandates by June 9, 2023.

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AASA – The Role of Resilience in Leadership and Culture

Hanover Research

Resilience is a popular concept, particularly in times of crisis such as the years during and following the COVID-19 pandemic. However, resilience is rarely defined and is often confused with complementary mindsets such as grit, perseverance, and self-efficacy.1 Additionally, educational leaders have been called on to display resilient leadership with limited tools into how to develop this leadership approach.

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For scandal-plagued for-profit colleges, no state is more welcoming than New York

University Business

ASA College seemed like Jacaly Muranelli’s ticket to a better life – and the government was helping her pay for it. And it wouldn’t cost her anything upfront, since New York State and the federal government had awarded her a significant amount of aid. But the dream didn’t last. In November , ASA College lost its accreditation after its accreditor said it had failed to provide “a quality student learning experience.

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The Polytechnics legacy – continuing to break down the academic/vocational divide in the twenty-first century

SRHE

by Kat Emms For two years Edge Foundation has been drawing together lessons from past education policies. Government is at risk of institutional amnesia for a variety of reasons, such as a high level of organisational churn ( Stark, 2018 ) and at Edge we believe it is essential that decision-making about future policy builds on and adapts evidenced best practice from the past, in order to avoid repeatedly falling into the same traps.

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‘This is our future’: UCF students join statewide student protest of DeSantis’ ‘dystopian’ education policies

University Business

Students at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, the state’s largest public university by enrollment, joined a statewide walkout on Thursday in protest of education policies and directives prioritized by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that critics say are having chilling effects. “We’re standing up against this,” said Olivia Solomon, a student organizer with UCF’s March for Our Lives chapter, who helped organize the UCF walkout Thursday.

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Draft of NHS workforce plan calls for doubling of medical school places

The Guardian Higher Education

Plan expected to be published next month could propose increasing places from 7,500 to 15,000 Britain could double the number of doctors and nurses it trains under NHS plans to tackle a deepening staffing crisis, according to reports. The proposal to increase the number of places in UK medical schools from 7,500 to 15,000 is contained in a draft of NHS England’s long-awaited workforce plan, which is expected to be published next month.

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Cuts and Stitches: What the Budget Statement Means For the CSU System - Sabeen Al-Khasib, the Pioneer

Ray Schroeder

As of the 2023 Spring semester, The California State University, East Bay’s STEM Lab laid off 25 of its workers — a 40% reduction in staff size — and removed a few previously offered subjects. Student, Learning Assistant, and STEM lab worker Kevin Conn expressed his views on the matter, stating, “They don’t value us as they would [value] a ‘non-student’ faculty member.

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A Winter Holiday in Switzerland Through a 35mm Lens 

ISA Journal

To begin my abroad experience, I backpacked through Switzerland before arriving in Florence, Italy for…